Symposium: PharmEcology Symposium: A Pharmacological Approach to Understanding Plant-Herbivore Interactions, to be held January 2-6, 2009 in Boston, MA.

研讨会：药物生态学研讨会：了解植物与草食动物相互作用的药理学方法，将于 2009 年 1 月 2 日至 6 日在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行。

• 批准号: 0827239
• 负责人: Jennifer Forbey
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Boise State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0827239&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Symposium; PharmEcology; Pharmacological; Approach; Understanding

This award will fund US and international participation in The PharmEcology Symposium: A pharmacological approach to understanding plant-herbivore interactions, held at the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting from January 3-6, 2009 in Boston, MA, USA. The symposium will bring together leaders interested in multi-disciplinary research at the interface of pharmacology and the physiological ecology of plant-herbivore interactions, termed PharmEcology. Scheduled talks and breakout sessions will identify current and novel approaches for collaborative research in three general areas: 1) The biochemical mechanisms herbivores utilize to tolerate plant chemical defenses; 2) The biological activity of plant chemical defenses; and 3) The genetic diversity associated with these two components. Understanding the biochemical and genetic mechanisms by which plants defend themselves and herbivores tolerate plant chemical defenses, will provide insight into the co-evolutionary arms race between plants and herbivores, explain foraging constraints and distribution of herbivores and reveal the mechanism of action of plant compounds. Discussions will result in submission of publication(s) in the Integrative and Comparative Biology Journal and grant proposals for future collaborative research. The symposium will provide undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students opportunities to establish networks with national and international leaders in ecology and pharmacology. While students will be recruited from speaker's labs and a pre-symposium course on PharmEcology offered at Boise State University (Fall 2008), participation is open to all students and will be widely advertised. Finally, the symposium will promote diversity by including participants of equal gender (50% female speakers), from a wide range of career stages (undergraduate, graduate, post-docs, junior and established faculty) and from a variety of countries (Australia, Austria, Great Britain, Japan, New Zealand, Uganda and USA) and disciplines (ecology, chemistry, physiology, evolutionary and behavioral biology and pharmacology).

该奖项将资助美国和国际参与的药物生态学研讨会：药理学的方法来了解植物草食动物的相互作用，在社会的综合和比较生物学会议于2009年1月3日至6日在波士顿，马萨诸塞州，美国举行。研讨会将汇集有兴趣在药理学和植物-食草动物相互作用的生理生态学的接口多学科研究的领导者，称为药学生态学。 预定的会谈和分组会议将确定当前和新的方法，在三个一般领域的合作研究：1）生物化学机制草食动物利用耐受植物化学防御; 2）植物化学防御的生物活性;和3）与这两个组件相关的遗传多样性。了解植物自我防御和食草动物耐受植物化学防御的生化和遗传机制，将有助于深入了解植物和食草动物之间的协同进化军备竞赛，解释觅食限制和食草动物的分布，并揭示植物化合物的作用机制。 讨论将导致在综合和比较生物学杂志上提交出版物，并为未来的合作研究提供资助。研讨会将为本科生、研究生和博士后学生提供与生态学和药理学领域的国家和国际领导人建立网络的机会。 虽然学生将从演讲者的实验室和博伊西州立大学（2008年秋季）提供的药物生态学研讨会前课程招募，但参与对所有学生开放，并将广泛宣传。 最后，研讨会将促进多样性，包括平等的性别参与者（50%女性发言人），来自广泛的职业阶段（本科生，研究生，博士后，初级和既定教师）和来自不同国家（澳大利亚，奥地利，英国，日本，新西兰，乌干达和美国）和学科（生态学，化学，生理学，进化和行为生物学和药理学）。