Breaking Boundaries for Evolutionary Synthesis: An Interactive and Integrative Symposium Linking Crustacean and Insect Physiology- West Palm Beach, Florida; January, 2015

昆虫和甲壳类动物分别是陆地和水生系统中关键的、占主导地位的动物群体(按生物量和物种数量计算)。昆虫和甲壳类在历史上被归为节肢动物门的不同分类类别，多年来一直被认为是与昆虫最接近的近亲。新的遗传数据清楚地表明，昆虫和其他六足动物嵌套在节肢动物树内的甲壳类动物中，被称为泛甲壳纲。这一新的进化理解提供了智力动力，以启动进化生理学的新焦点，旨在了解盘藻纲动物的共性和进化趋势。该奖项将支持2015年1月在佛罗里达州西棕榈滩举行的综合与比较生物学学会会议上旨在促进跨分类群和学科的合成合作的新型研讨会。在这次研讨会上，主要研究昆虫或甲壳类动物的研究人员将在他们的演讲和手稿上共同努力。此外，每个研究人员将在他们的演讲和手稿中讨论一组共同的焦点、综合问题。听众参与将是研讨会和研讨会后研讨会的重点。一些参与者，包括受训者，甚至可能因为他们的参与而对手稿做出贡献。这种明确整合的研讨会方法在SICB是新颖的，有望激励进一步的创新，促进跨学科综合。此外，该奖项将支持对大量不同的初级调查人员和受训人员进行指导和科学发展。

Insects and crustaceans represent critical, dominant animal groups (by biomass and species number) in terrestrial and aquatic systems, respectively. Insects and crustaceans were historically grouped under separate taxonomic classes under the Phylum Arthropoda, and for many years it was thought that myriapods might be the closest relatives to insects. New genetic data have made it clear that insects and other hexapods are nested within the crustaceans within the arthropod tree as a clade termed the Pancrustacea. This new evolutionary understanding provides the intellectual motivation to initiate a new focus in evolutionary physiology aimed at understanding commonalities and evolutionary trends in the Pancrustacea. This award will support a new type of symposium designed to promote synthetic collaborations across taxa and disciplines at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting at West Palm Beach, Florida, January 2015. In this symposium, researchers who work primarily on insects or crustaceans will work together on both their talks and manuscripts. In addition, each researcher will address a common set of focal, integrative questions in their talks and manuscripts. Audience participation will be a focus of the symposium and a post-seminar workshop. Some participants, including the trainees, may even contribute to the manuscripts as a result of their participation. This explicitly integrative approach to a symposium is novel at SICB and will hopefully galvanize further innovations that promote interdisciplinary synthesis. In addition, this award will support mentoring and scientific development of a large number of diverse junior investigators and trainees.