First Meeting of the North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology (NASCE)

将于2011年7月在密歇根大学举办两次国际科学会议：北美比较内分泌学会成立大会（NASCE 2011）和第七届两栖类和爬行类动物内分泌学和神经生物学国际研讨会（ISAREN 2011）。NASCE是2010年成立的一个新的科学协会，旨在促进激素和激素作用的比较研究。这包括进化，环境（包括内分泌干扰物），一般和生物医学内分泌学/神经内分泌学的主题。ISAREN成立于1992年，旨在促进两栖动物和爬行动物的内分泌学和神经生物学研究。NASCE 2011和ISAREN 2011会议将振兴和加强北美比较内分泌学领域，汇集来自不同领域和背景的学生，年轻的研究人员和学员，交流思想，建立和加强合作。我们促进科学领域的多样性以及会议计划中科学主题的多样性，我们为传统上在科学领域代表性不足的团体提供重要机会参加会议。会议摘要将发表在开放获取期刊Frontiers in Endocrinology上，全体讲座和选定的研讨会演讲将发表在General and Comparative Endocrinology杂志上。这将使这些介绍能够向科学界广泛传播。

Two international scientific meetings will be supported at the University of Michigan in July, 2011: the inaugural meeting of the North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology (NASCE 2011), and the 7th International Symposium on Amphibian and Reptilian Endocrinology and Neurobiology (ISAREN 2011). The NASCE is a new scientific society formed in 2010 with the purpose of promoting the comparative study of hormones and hormone action. This includes topics in evolutionary, environmental (including endocrine disrupters), general and biomedical endocrinology/neuroendocrinology. The ISAREN was formed in 1992 to promote the study of the endocrinology and neurobiology of amphibians and reptiles. The NASCE 2011 and ISAREN 2011 meetings will revitalize and strengthen the field of comparative endocrinology in North America by bringing together students, young investigators, and trainees from diverse areas and backgrounds to exchange ideas and to establish and strengthen collaborations. We promote diversity in our field of science as well as diversity of scientific topics in the meeting program, and we provide significant opportunities for groups traditionally underrepresented in science to attend the meeting. Meeting abstracts will be published in the open access journal Frontiers in Endocrinology, and the plenary lectures and selected symposium presentations will be published in the journal General and Comparative Endocrinology. This will allow for the presentations to be widely disseminated to the scientific community.