US - South America Workshop: Intraspecific variation and social systems: Explaining variation based on neuroendocrine and genetic mechanisms; Santiago, Chile, August, 2009.

Loren D.路易斯安那大学门罗分校0901045：丹尼尔T。Blumstein，加州大学洛杉矶分校智利合作奖将支持一个关于种内变异和社会系统的研讨会。 该活动将于2009年8月在智利天主教大学举行。 讲习班将由门罗路易斯安那大学的Loren Hayes博士、加州大学洛杉矶分校的丹尼尔·布卢姆斯坦博士以及智利天主教大学的Rodrigo Vasquez博士和Luis Ebensperger博士组织。 这次会议将作为一个论坛，研究人员讨论新的思维方式的机制，导致动物社会系统中的物种变异。 该研讨会将促进行为生态学，内分泌学，遗传学和神经生物学领域的跨学科专家组之间的交流。 将特别强调研究生和初级研究人员的参与。 该研讨会的一个主要目标是计划开发一个社会变化的机械健全模型，旨在预测种内栖息地变化对社会群体生活和交配系统表达的影响。 具体来说，本次研讨会将扩大现有的社会群体形成和维持的生态模型的范围。

Abstract0901056: Loren D. Hayes, The University of Louisiana at Monroe0901045: Daniel T. Blumstein, UCLAThis U.S.-Chile collaborative award will support a workshop on intraspecific variation and social systems. The event will be held in August 2009 at the Universidad Católica de Chile. The workshop will be organized by Dr. Loren Hayes of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, Dr. Daniel Blumstein of UCLA, and Dr. Rodrigo Vasquez and Dr. Luis Ebensperger from the Universidad Católica de Chile. The meeting will serve as a forum for researchers to discuss new ways of thinking about mechanisms that lead to instraspecific variation in animal social systems. The workshop will foster communication between an interdisciplinary group of experts in the fields of behavioral ecology, endocrinology, genetics, and neurobiology. Particular emphasis will be placed on the participation of graduate students and junior researchers. A key objective of the workshop is to plan the development of a mechanistically-sound model of social variation, with an aim to predict the effect of intraspecific habitat variation on the expression of social group living and mating systems. Specifically this workshop will expand the scope of existing ecological models for social group formation and maintenance.