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与综合生物学学会会议上的研讨会，该研讨会的重点是在更广泛的观赏性状研究中，将细胞和生化机制与配偶选择和社会互动研究统一起来。它将汇集将条件、压力和装饰品(以及武器)联系起来的机制方面的专家。在过去的二十年里，装饰性特征是动物状况的信号这一假设已经成为行为和进化生物学中的一个重要范例。本次研讨会将结合应激反应的生理学研究，特别是与内分泌控制、免疫系统和氧化状态相关的研究，与动物装饰的进化研究相结合。通过召开一次关于进化和生理生态学的中心主题的研讨会，将向参加SICB会议的众多研究生、本科生、博士后和教职员工提供信息。通过用早期职业科学家填补一半的演讲名额，包括大部分由女性填补的空缺，研讨会将促进一批有才华的美国科学家的发展。通过社会活动，学生们将有机会与知名研究人员互动。

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.