Meeting: Vertebrate Land Invasions: Past, Present, and Future; A Symposium for the Annual SICB Meeting in San Francisco, CA

会议：脊椎动物陆地入侵：过去、现在和未来；

• 批准号: 1237547
• 负责人: Shi-Tong Hsieh
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237547&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Meeting; Vertebrate; Land; Invasions; Past

This award supports the symposium, "Vertebrate Land Invasions: Past, Present, and Future," to be held at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology annual conference on 3-7 January 2013, in San Francisco, California. The transition from water to land was a major evolutionary event in vertebrate history that precipitated a sudden explosion of species diversity. This transition was met by numerous challenges for movement, support, respiration, osmoregulation, and sensory perception. Recent fossil finds and popular accounts of their discoveries have increased public appreciation for the significance of the Paleozoic land invasion. Furthermore, building evidence for the effects of global climate change on environmental conditions has also stimulated greater interest in understanding organism-environment interactions. This symposium will bring together eleven scientists at all career stages (graduate students, postdocs, and assistant, associate, and full professors) to highlight their research in paleontology, physiology, behavior, biomechanics, and robotics. Topics are organized to synthesize a broad body of knowledge about water-land transitions in the distant past and among current living species. In addition, junior scientists (undergraduate, graduate, and postdocs) have been invited to participate in Complementary Sessions, in which they will present relevant work in oral or poster formats The program for this symposium and its complementary sessions are designed to motivate conversations and collaborations that would be difficult to begin otherwise, generating new directions for work in this important area. This also provides an opportunity for new investigators to participate in a prominent venue and receive feedback from authorities on the topic. Presentations by these researchers will reach out to a wide audience through the publication of articles in Integrative and Comparative Biology and promotion by SICB through the symposium website (http://sicb.org/meetings/2013/symposia/index.php) and the Public Affairs Committee.

该奖项支持研讨会，“脊椎动物土地入侵：过去，现在和未来，”将在社会上举行的综合和比较生物学年会3-7 2013年1月，在旧金山弗朗西斯科，加州。从水到陆地的过渡是脊椎动物历史上的一个重大进化事件，它促成了物种多样性的突然爆发。这一转变在运动、支撑、呼吸、呼吸调节和感官知觉方面遇到了许多挑战。最近的化石发现和对它们的发现的流行描述增加了公众对古生代陆地入侵的重要性的认识。此外，建立全球气候变化对环境条件影响的证据也激发了人们对理解生物体与环境相互作用的更大兴趣。本次研讨会将汇集11名科学家在所有职业阶段（研究生，博士后，助理，副教授和正教授），以突出他们在古生物学，生理学，行为，生物力学和机器人技术的研究。主题的组织是为了综合有关遥远的过去和当前生物物种之间的水-陆过渡的广泛知识。此外，初级科学家（本科生、研究生和博士后）还被邀请参加补充会议，他们将以口头或海报形式展示相关工作。本次研讨会及其补充会议的计划旨在激发对话和合作，否则很难开始，为这一重要领域的工作制定新的方向。这也为新的调查人员提供了一个机会，使他们能够参加一个重要的会议，并从当局那里获得关于这一专题的反馈意见。这些研究人员的演讲将通过在《综合和比较生物学》上发表文章以及由统计研究所通过专题讨论会网站（http：//sicb.org/meetings/2013/symposia/index.php）和公共事务委员会进行宣传，向广大受众进行宣传。