SICB 2012 Society Symposium: Poecilogony, polymorphism or polyphenism: a window on larval evolutionary transitions in marine invertebrates; Charleston, SC; Jan. 3-7, 2012

Poecilogony是在海洋无脊椎动物中观察到的一种现象，即一个物种能够产生两种不同的幼虫形式(必须摄食才能生长的小型自由游泳幼虫，以及从母亲提供的蛋黄中获取营养的大型孵化幼虫)。这些物种为阐明导致早期发育差异的细胞和遗传机制以及不同幼虫类型对种群的影响提供了机会。这些基金将支持2012年1月在南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿举行的综合与比较生物学学会年会上举行的诗学研讨会。演讲者将介绍利用种群遗传学、基因组学和转录学、发育生物学和生态学的前沿方法对诗歌物种进行的最新研究。其目的是促进这些研究人员之间的交流，并鼓励将跨学科的方法整合在一起的研究，以便更好地了解物种内部发育的差异。研讨会将影响11名不同发言者的研究生涯，其中包括9名女性(包括1名拉丁裔)和2名处于不同职业阶段的男性(终身教职教师、终身教职教师、2名博士后和3名研究生)，他们代表4个国家(加拿大、芬兰、巴拿马和美国)。他们所代表的机构也是多种多样的，有两个主要的本科学院(高露洁大学；阿卡迪亚大学)，几所研究型大学，以及一个政府机构(史密森学会)。研讨会的摘要将在学会网站上发表，研讨会的手稿将提交在《综合与比较生物学》杂志上发表。这些出版物将引起进化发育生物学家、无脊椎动物生物学家和其他科学家的广泛兴趣，他们有兴趣了解单个物种的相同基因组如何导致截然不同的幼虫。

Poecilogony is a phenomenon observed in marine invertebrates whereby a single species is capable of producing two different larval forms (small free-swimming larvae that have to feed to grow, as well as large brooded larvae that get their nutrition from yolk supplied by the mother). Such species provide the opportunity to elucidate the cellular and genetic mechanisms leading to differences in early development, as well as the consequences of different larval types for a population. These funds will support a symposium on poecilogony in January 2012 at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting in Charleston, SC. Speakers will present the most recent research on poecilogonous species that draws on cutting-edge approaches in population genetics, genomics & transcriptomics, developmental biology, and ecology. The aim is to foster communication among these researchers and encourage studies that integrate methods across disciplines so variations in development within a species can be better understood. The symposium will impact the research careers of the diverse group of 11 speakers, which comprises nine women (including one Latina) and two men at various career stages (tenured faculty, tenure-stream faculty, two postdocs, and three graduate students), representing four countries (Canada, Finland, Panama, and USA). The institutions they represent are also varied, with two primarily undergraduate colleges (Colgate University; Acadia University), several research universities, and a government agency (Smithsonian Institution). The abstracts from the symposium are published on the society website and symposium manuscripts will be submitted for publication in the journal, Integrative and Comparative Biology. These publications will be of wide interest to evolutionary developmental biologists, invertebrate biologists, and other scientists interested in understanding how the same genome in a single species can lead to very different larvae.