Symposium: Evolution of mechanisms controlling timing of breeding in animals; SCIB Annual Meeting January 3-7, 2009 Boston, MA

研讨会：控制动物繁殖时间的机制的演变；

• 批准号: 0852392
• 负责人: Thomas Coombs-Hahn
• 金额: $ 0.96万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 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: 2008-12-01 至 2009-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0852392&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Symposium; Evolution; mechanisms; controlling; timing

This symposium at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) focuses on how animals coordinate reproduction with a changing environment. Recently, significant advances have been made in unraveling the physiological and molecular mechanisms that form the basis of the reproductive machinery in mammals and birds. Further, new studies in evolutionary ecology are pinpointing the reproductive phenotypes on which selection acts to produce individuals that breed at optimal times of year in different habitats. The goal of the symposium is to meld these two fields, reproductive physiology /environmental endocrinology on the one hand, and evolutionary ecology on the other, so as to enhance progress in our understanding of the evolution of reproductive mechanisms. This symposium will unite at one venue international experts working on reproductive physiology and molecular endocrinology together with those working in evolutionary ecology and life history to integrate these historically separate fields. It will also serve to unite researchers working on diverse vertebrate taxa, which will stimulate exchange of ideas across taxonomic groups that often are approached in quite different ways. Consequently, the symposium will facilitate progress in the field of integrative biology generally, and will specifically enhance our understanding of both basic (e.g., evolutionary) and applied (e.g., conservation) implications of the mechanisms by which animals adjust their annual cycles to variable environmental conditions. SICB is heavily student-oriented, and the annual meeting is attended by many graduate students, undergraduates, and even some high school students. The meeting is also attended by representatives of the media, and the society provides press releases regarding presentations of significance to the general public. The content of this symposium has particular import for understanding how animal populations are likely to be affected by human-induced environment modification, a topic of ever-increasing general public interest, and will consequently provide rich opportunities for communicating with the general public about how basic science furthers applied goals. The list of presenters includes several young investigators and women, as well as a balanced complement of domestic and international researchers.

综合与比较生物学学会（SICB）的这次研讨会重点讨论了动物如何在不断变化的环境中协调繁殖。最近，在揭示哺乳动物和鸟类生殖机制的生理和分子机制方面取得了重大进展。此外，进化生态学的新研究正在确定生殖表型，选择作用于产生在不同栖息地的一年中最佳时间繁殖的个体。研讨会的目的是融合生殖生理学/环境内分泌学和进化生态学这两个领域，以提高我们对生殖机制进化的理解。本次研讨会将在一个地点联合生殖生理学和分子内分泌学工作的国际专家，以及那些在进化生态学和生命史工作的人，以整合这些历史上独立的领域。它还将有助于团结研究不同脊椎动物分类群的研究人员，这将促进经常以完全不同的方式处理的分类群体之间的思想交流。因此，研讨会将促进综合生物学领域的进展，特别是将加强我们对两个基本（例如，进化的）和应用的（例如，保护）的机制，动物调整其年度周期，以可变的环境条件的影响。SICB是以学生为导向的，每年的会议都有许多研究生，本科生，甚至一些高中生参加。媒体代表也出席了会议，协会就对公众具有重要意义的演讲提供新闻稿。本次研讨会的内容对于理解动物种群如何可能受到人类引起的环境改造的影响具有特别重要的意义，这是一个日益引起公众兴趣的话题，因此将为与公众交流基础科学如何促进应用目标提供丰富的机会。演讲者名单包括几名年轻的研究人员和妇女，以及国内和国际研究人员的平衡补充。