American Genetic Association Symposium: The Genetics and Genomics of Environmental Change

在地球生命的整个历史上，环境变化一直是所有生物体面临的一个持续挑战。从两极到赤道，从季节到季节，从白天到夜晚观察到的惊人的环境变化，满足了使有机体能够生存和繁殖的生理和进化适应。近年来，人们对人类如何在地球上施加环境变化以及有机体如何应对这种变化越来越感兴趣和担忧。2009年美国遗传学会年度研讨会的目标是聚集进化遗传学和环境变化领域的领先研究人员，讨论这两个领域之间的当前问题和前景。应用进化逻辑和基因组技术解决环境变化中的新问题将是研讨会的一个主要主题。进化、种群和数量遗传学领域的主要研究人员将讨论这些领域如何与气候变化的生态学和地质学观点相结合。2009年研讨会将在布朗大学举行，并要求提供资金，使研究生和博士后研究员能够参加。如果没有来自不同背景的年轻研究人员的健康代表，这次研讨会的长期影响将会减弱。此外，基因组科学的快速发展正在开启一系列可以用非模式生物解决的问题；其中可能会成为未来环境变化的关键指示物种。最后，研讨会是高度综合性的，将把遗传学家、进化生物学家、古生物学家、生态学家、地质学家和环境科学家聚集在一起，打造一个广泛的新综合体。

Environmental change has been a constant challenge for all organisms throughout the history of life on earth. The striking environmental variation observed from the poles to the equator, from season to season, and from day to night has been met by both physiological and evolutionary adaptations that enable organisms to survive and reproduce. In recent years there has been growing interest and concern over how humans are imposing environmental change on the planet, and how organisms are responding to that change. The goal of the 2009 American Genetic Association Annual Symposium is to bring together leading researchers in the fields of evolutionary genetics and environmental change to discuss current problems and prospects at the interface between these two areas. The application of evolutionary logic and genomic technologies to the new problems in environmental change will be a major theme of the Symposium. Leading researchers in evolutionary, population, and quantitative genetics will discuss how these fields integrate with ecological and geological perspectives on climate change. The 2009 Symposium will be held at Brown University, and funds are requested to enable the participation of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Without a healthy representation of younger researchers from diverse backgrounds, the long term impact of this Symposium will be diminished. In addition, rapid advances in genome sciences are opening a wide range of questions that can be addressed with non-model organisms; may of these will serve as critical indicator species of environmental change in the future. Finally, the Symposium is highly integrative and will bring together geneticists, evolutionary biologists, paleontologists, ecologists, geologists and environmental scientists to forge a broad new synthesis.