Meeting: Symposium Support for SICB 2014 stress and ornamentation

该奖项将支持科学家参加2014年在德克萨斯州奥斯汀举行的比较和综合生物学学会会议上的研讨会，重点是将细胞和生化机制与更广泛的观赏性状调查中的择偶和社会互动研究相结合。它将汇集专家的机制，连接条件，压力和装饰品（和武器）。 在过去的二十年里，关于观赏性状标志着动物状况的假设已经成为行为和进化生物学的一个重要范式。本次研讨会将整合从应激反应的生理学研究的见解，特别是有关内分泌控制，免疫系统，和氧化状态，与动物免疫的进化研究。通过召开一个关于进化和生理生态学中心主题的研讨会，将向参加SICB会议的众多研究生、本科生、博士后和教师提供信息。通过让早期职业科学家占据一半的演讲名额，包括女性占据的大部分名额，研讨会将促进一批有才华的美国科学家的发展。通过社交活动，学生将有机会与杰出的研究人员互动。

This award will support scientists to participate in a symposium at the 2014 meeting of theSociety of Comparative and Integrative Biology in Austin, Texas focused on unifying cellular and biochemical mechanisms with studies of mate choice and social interactions within the broader investigation of ornamental traits. It will bring together experts on the mechanisms that link condition, stress, and ornaments (and armaments). Over the past two decades, the hypothesis that ornamental traits signal the condition of animals has become a prominent paradigm in behavioral and evolutionary biology. This symposium wil integrate insights from physiological studies of stress response, particularly related to endocrine control, immune systems, and oxidative state, with evolutionary investigations of animal ornamentation. By convening a symposium on a central topic in evolutionary and physiological ecology, information will be made available to the numerous graduate students, undergrads, postdocs, and faculty who attend SICB meetings. By filling half of the presentation slots with early career scientists including a majority of slots filled by women, the symposium will promote the development of a talented group of U.S. scientists. Through social events, students will have a chance to interact with prominent researchers.