MEETING: Keeping Time during Animal Evolution: Conservation and Innovation of the Circadian Clock, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB); Jan. 3-7 2013, SF, CA

日常和季节性信号，如变化的光照水平，是重要的环境信号，有助于调节不同生物体的行为、生理和生殖。生物钟是生物体对这些环境信号做出反应的内部分子途径。这项提案将支持将在加利福尼亚州旧金山举行的综合与比较生物学学会2013年1月年会上举行的题为“在动物进化中保持时间：昼夜节律的保护和创新”的研讨会。本次研讨会将重点介绍海绵、蛇形动物、昆虫和脊椎动物等不同动物对生物钟的研究现状。研讨会的总体目标是利用一系列有机体模型和方法将研究人员聚集在一起，对动物生态学和进化论中的生物钟发展一个综合的理解，并促进合作项目的讨论，以推动这一领域的未来。这次研讨会将包括11位发言者的口头陈述，他们致力于介绍与生物钟相关的新颖、综合的研究。这些演讲者包括1名博士后、1名助理教授、3名副教授和6名全职教授。此外，该奖项将为3名研究生参加补充课程提供部分资金。学生旅行资金将积极针对代表性不足的群体成员。发言者中有三位是女性，两位是国际专家(英国、德国)。对于国内发言者，代表的机构分布在美国各地，分别代表大学(6名发言者)和研究机构(3名发言者)。演讲者的集合代表了将动物昼夜生物学的不同研究小组聚集在一起的第一次重大努力，重点是这个关键信号网络的进化和生态。这次研讨会将与新的研究人员，包括学生和早期职业教师，创造一个在这一领域的领导者的协同。本次研讨会的摘要将发布在SICB的网站上，并专门开发了一个页面来突出本次研讨会(http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2013/symposia/index.php).所有研讨会参与者将提交稿件，在学会期刊《综合与比较生物学》(http://www.sicb.org/publications/icb.php3)，)上发表，该期刊可通过电子方式获得，并被包括NCBI/PUBMED在内的许多数据库索引。这一卷的出版物将作为新数据以及综合结果和理论的集合，以推动比较昼夜生物学领域走向未来。

Daily and seasonal cues, such as changing light levels, are important environmental signals that help to regulate behavior, physiology and reproduction in diverse organisms. Circadian clocks are internal molecular pathways that allow organisms to respond to these environmental cues. This proposal will support a symposium titled "Keeping Time during Animal Evolution: Conservation and Innovation of the Circadian Clock" at the January 2013 Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology to be held in San Francisco, California. This symposium will highlight current research related to the circadian clock from diverse animals, including sponges, cnidarians, insects, and vertebrates. The overall aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers utilizing a range of organismal models and approaches, to develop an integrative understanding of the circadian clock in animal ecology, and evolution and to foster discussions for collaborative projects to propel this field into the future. This symposium will include oral presentations by 11 speakers who have committed to presenting novel, integrative research related to the circadian clock. These speakers include 1 postdoc, 1 assistant professor, 3 associate professors, and 6 full professors. Additionally, this award will provide partial funding for participation of 3 graduate students in a complementary session. The student travel funds will be targeted aggressively toward members of underrepresented groups. Three of the speakers are women and two are international experts (England, Germany). For domestic speakers, the institutions represented are located throughout the United States and represent universities (6 speakers) and research institutions (3 speakers). The collection of speakers represents the first major effort to bring together a diverse panel of researchers in animal circadian biology, with a focus on the evolution and ecology of this critical signaling network. This symposium will create a synergism of leaders in this field with new researchers, both students and early career faculty. The abstracts from this symposium will be published on the SICB website with a dedicated page developed to highlight this symposium (http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2013/symposia/index.php). All symposium participants will submit manuscripts for publication in the society's journal, Integrative and Comparative Biology (http://www.sicb.org/publications/icb.php3), which is available electronically and indexed by many databases including NCBI/Pubmed. This volume of publications will serve as a collection of novel data as well as synthesized results and theory to propel the field of comparative circadian biology into the future.