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

该奖项支持将于2013年1月3日至7日在加利福尼亚州旧金山举行的综合与比较生物学学会年会上举行的研讨会--“脊椎动物陆地入侵：过去、现在和未来”。从水到陆地的转变是脊椎动物历史上的一个重大进化事件，导致了物种多样性的突然爆发。这一转变在运动、支持、呼吸、渗透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他们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了解生物与环境相互作用的更大兴趣。这次研讨会将汇集11名处于各个职业阶段的科学家(研究生、博士后、助理、副教授和全职教授)，以突出他们在古生物学、生理学、行为学、生物力学和机器人学方面的研究。组织主题是为了综合关于遥远过去和现在物种之间水-陆转变的广泛知识。此外，初级科学家(本科生、研究生和博士后)被邀请参加补充会议，在补充会议中，他们将以口头或海报的形式介绍相关工作。本次研讨会及其补充会议的计划旨在促进对话和合作，否则很难开始，为这一重要领域的工作创造新的方向。这也为新的调查人员提供了一个机会，可以在一个突出的地点参加，并接受当局对这一专题的反馈。这些研究人员的演讲将通过发表关于综合和比较生物学的文章，并由SICB通过研讨会网站(http://sicb.org/meetings/2013/symposia/index.php)和公共事务委员会进行宣传，接触到广泛的受众。

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.