Meeting: SICB 2014 Adaptation or developmental constraint? Uniting evolutionary theory and empirical studies of phenotypic plasticity in Austin, TX.

会议：SICB 2014 适应还是发展限制？

• 批准号: 1344255
• 负责人: Haruka Wada
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 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: 2013-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1344255&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Meeting; SICB; 2014; Adaptation; developmental

On every set of genes in every individual (the genotype), the environment exerts its influence to shape observable traits (or phenotypes); this is phenotypic plasticity. Recently, the field of phenotypic plasticity has been split into two subfields: the first is a focus for evolutionary biologists whose goal is to understand how phenotypic plasticity evolved over time, and the other is a focus for physiologists whose goal is to identify the physiological mechanisms underlying the gene-environment interaction. This symposium has three goals aimed at bridging these two subfields. First, the meeting will bring together researchers from the two subfields who otherwise do not cross paths to discuss how their respective theoretical framework can be tested experimentally and how empirical data from one group can give insights to the other. This will help advance our understanding of the costs, benefits, and limitations of phenotypic plasticity and to identify future direction of this field. The second goal is to foster interaction and future collaboration between researchers from the two subfields to bring new approaches and define new directions. The third goal is to encourage participation from early career scientists (e.g., undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers) and scientists from underrepresented groups to provide them with an opportunity to receive feedback from senior scientists and identify future mentors. The sequence of talks, alternating between evolutionary biologists and physiologists, and inclusion of designated time for questions and discussion are designed to further cross-disciplinary interactions. Abstracts from all the talks and posters will be publicly available, and papers from the symposium talks will be published in the Integrative and Comparative Biology journal to ensure the dissemination of the symposium.

在每个个体的每一组基因（基因型）上，环境都会施加其影响来塑造可观察到的特征（或表型）;这就是表型可塑性。最近，表型可塑性的领域已被分为两个子领域：第一个是进化生物学家的重点，其目标是了解表型可塑性如何随着时间的推移而演变，另一个是生理学家的重点，其目标是确定基因-环境相互作用的生理机制。本次研讨会有三个目标，旨在弥合这两个子领域。 首先，会议将汇集来自两个子领域的研究人员，否则他们不会交叉路径，讨论如何通过实验测试他们各自的理论框架，以及如何从一组的经验数据可以给另一个洞察力。这将有助于推进我们对表型可塑性的成本，效益和局限性的理解，并确定该领域的未来发展方向。第二个目标是促进这两个子领域的研究人员之间的互动和未来的合作，以带来新的方法，并确定新的方向。第三个目标是鼓励早期职业科学家的参与（例如，在这方面，我们将与来自未得到充分代表的群体的科学家（本科生、研究生和博士后研究人员）和科学家开展合作，为他们提供机会，从资深科学家那里获得反馈意见，并确定未来的导师。讲座的顺序，进化生物学家和生理学家之间的交替，并包括指定的时间进行问题和讨论，旨在进一步跨学科的互动。所有演讲和海报的摘要将公开提供，研讨会演讲的论文将发表在《综合与比较生物学》杂志上，以确保研讨会的传播。