Workshop on the Future of Evolutionary Biology

自1998年以来，每隔六年，进化生物学社区的成员都会召开会议，讨论该学科未来的研究方向。近年来，进化生物学以极快的速度发展。该学科现在充斥着比较基因组数据，在几个领域取得了重大的概念和经验进展。2011年6月，美国自然学家学会、系统生物学家学会和进化研究学会将举办为期两天的研讨会，讨论进化生物学的未来方向。研讨会的目标将是概述未来研究方向的重要领域，以及科学协会和整个领域如何采取行动推动此类研究。这次研讨会将是这种由社会赞助的活动的第一次，它将使进化研究界能够就评估和发展重点研究领域进行持续的对话。

At six year intervals since 1998, members of the evolutionary biology community have convened to discuss future research directions in the discipline. In recent years, evolutionary biology has grown at an enormously accelerating rate. The discipline is now awash in comparative genomic data, and major conceptual and empirical advances have been made in several areas. In June of 2011, the American Society of Naturalists, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Society for the Study of Evolution will hold a two-day workshop to discuss future directions in evolutionary biology. The goal of the workshop will be to outline important areas for future research directions, and how scientific societies and the field at large can act to advance such research. This workshop will be the first of such society-sponsored events that will allow an ongoing dialog within the evolutionary research community on the assessment and development of focal areas for research.