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

该奖项将资助美国和国际参与于2009年1月3日至6日在美国马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的综合与比较生物学学会会议上举行的药理学研讨会：了解植物-草食动物相互作用的药理学方法。研讨会将汇集对药理学和植物-食草动物相互作用的生理生态学界面的多学科研究感兴趣的领导人，称为药理学。预定的讲座和分组会议将在三个一般领域确定当前和新的合作研究方法：1)草食动物利用生物化学机制来耐受植物化学防御；2)植物化学防御的生物活性；3)与这两个成分相关的遗传多样性。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共同进化军备竞赛，解释食草动物的觅食限制和分布，揭示植物化合物的作用机制。讨论将导致在《综合与比较生物学杂志》上提交出版物，并为未来的合作研究提出资助建议。研讨会将为本科生、研究生和博士后提供机会，与生态学和药理学领域的国内外领导者建立联系。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）提供的药理学研讨会前课程中招募，但所有学生都可以参加，并将广泛宣传。最后，研讨会将促进多样性，包括性别平等的参与者（50%的女性演讲者），来自不同的职业阶段（本科，研究生，博士后，初级和现有教师），来自不同的国家（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）。

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).