Symposium & Workshop: Shaking, dripping and drinking: surface-tension phenomena in organismal biology, SICB Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 3-7, 2014

综合比较生物学学会(SICB)2014年会议上的专题讨论会和相关研讨会将鼓励生物生物学的研究人员了解和利用涉及水面流动的最新实验、计算和理论进展。这种流动既普遍又多样，涉及鸟类和蜜蜂的饮水、鲸虫的足迹、植物中木质部的流动、雨滴对动物的影响以及通过雨滴影响传播疾病。这种流动背后的基本物理原理为解释依赖它们的动植物的适应提供了一个统一的框架。这次研讨会将为理解生物系统中的表面张力现象提供一个亟需的统一物理框架。演讲者将向听众广泛了解在这一领域中使用的成功的数学和生物技术，如比例定律、描述水面的微积分，以及扫描电子显微镜、使用粘土的表面造型和高速摄像。该工作坊为生物学专业的学生提供了一个学习流体力学新工具的机会。结果将通过在期刊上发表两篇文章来传播。第一篇文章将展望综合和比较生物学中毛细管生物学领域的未来，正如研讨会上的专家发言者所看到的那样。第二篇文章将是可视化研讨会的概要，它将讨论通过实验和模拟产生的流动可视化的生成、演示和解释。研讨会的重点将是利用视觉图像超越生物学和数学科学之间的语言障碍，并向公众传播科学。

The symposium and associated workshop at the 2014 Meeting of the Society of Integrative Comparative Biology (SICB) will encourage investigators in organismal biology to understand and employ recent experimental, computational and theoretical advances in flows involving water surfaces. Such flows are both ubiquitous and diverse, involving the drinking of birds and bees, the footprints of whale flukes, the flow of xylem in plants, raindrop impacts on animals, and disease transmission through raindrop impacts. The fundamental physical principles underlying such flows provide a unifying framework to interpret the adaptations of the animals and plants that rely upon them. The symposium will provide a much-needed unifying physical framework to understand surface-tension phenomena in biological systems. The speakers will provide the audience with a broad understanding of successful mathematical and biological techniques used in this area, such as scaling laws, calculus for describing water surfaces, as well as scanning electron microscopy, surface moulding using clay, and high-speed videography. The workshop provides an opportunity for biology students to learn new tools from fluid mechanics. Results will be disseminated through publication of a pair of journal articles. The first article will be a view of the future of the field of capillary biology in Integrative and Comparative Biology, as seen by the expert speakers in the symposium. The second article will be a synopsis of the Visualization Workshop, which will discuss the generation, presentation, and interpretation of flow visualization generated from experiments and simulation. The workshop will focus on the use of visual imagery to transcend the language barriers between biology and the mathematical sciences, and to disseminate science to the public.