Meeting: A Bigger Picture: Organismal Function at the Nexus of Development, Ecology, and Evolution; Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology; Portland, Oregon; January 2016

该奖项为2016年1月在俄勒冈州波特兰举行的综合与比较生物学学会(SICB)年度会议提供了部分支持，该会议的标题是“更大的图景：发展、生态和进化关系中的组织功能”。研讨会将聚焦于综合生物学中的一个基本问题：如何将表型的发育稳定性和不稳定性与生命之树上的形态多样性模式联系起来？研讨会将成为促进初级和高级职业科学家之间对话和合作的平台，这些科学家在表型的个体发生、功能和进化方面进行前沿研究。由于其跨学科性质，SICB会议是举办研讨会的理想场所。重要的是，研讨会将是第一次帮助招募美洲原住民本科生参加会议，并为这些首次参加会议的少数族裔学生提供指导框架。通过对这些活动的明确评估，研讨会还将有助于建立一种模式，为代表不足的群体的学生今后参加会议提供直接的智力和财政支持。比较解剖学家倾向于从两个角度中的一个来探讨个体起源和形态多样性的问题。对于关键的解剖复合体(例如，摄食装置、运动系统、感觉结构)，个体发育过程中的形态变化通常被解释为功能上的变化，并与它们对健康的假定重要性有关。在更大的时间尺度上，通过分支发生过程中特征的稳定性或可变性来检查这些复合体中的形态变化。由于最适合的生物体必须经历个体发育的大小和形状变化，据预测，从生活史到宏观进化，在不同的时间尺度上处理这种变化将阐明导致表型多样性的主要因素。研讨会将以综合和比较生物学的当代问题和用于研究这些问题的尖端工具为特色，从而创建一个讨论功能形态学、进化和个体遗传学研究前沿的平台。专题讨论会及其成果(至少有11份同行评议的出版物以及在《综合和比较生物学》期刊上发表的补充数据)将有助于理解不同尺度上表型多样性的模式和过程。

This award provides partial support for a symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in Portland, Oregon in January 2016 entitled, "A bigger picture: Organismal function at the nexus of development, ecology, and evolution." The symposium will focus on a fundamental question in integrative biology: What links the developmental stability and instability of phenotypes with the patterns of morphological diversity seen across the tree of life? The symposium will constitute a platform to foster dialogue and collaborations among junior and senior career scientists conducting cutting-edge research on the ontogeny, function, and evolution of phenotypes. Due to its multidisciplinary nature, the SICB meeting is an ideal venue for the symposium. Importantly, the symposium will be the first to help recruit Native American undergraduates to attend the meeting and to provide a mentoring framework for these first-time minority student attendees. Through an explicit assessment of these activities, the symposium will also aid in creating a model of direct intellectual and financial support for future conference participation by students of underrepresented groups. Comparative anatomists tend to approach the question of ontogenic and morphologic diversity from one of two perspectives. For key anatomical complexes (e.g., feeding apparatus, locomotor systems, sensory structures), morphological changes during ontogeny are often interpreted in functional terms and linked to their putative importance for fitness. Across larger time scales, morphological transformations in these complexes are examined through character stability or mutability during cladogenesis. Because the fittest organisms must pass through ontogenetic changes in size and shape, it is predicted that addressing such transformations at different time scales, from life histories to macroevolution, would illuminate major factors contributing to phenotypic diversity. The symposium will feature contemporary questions in integrative and comparative biology and the cutting-edge tools used to study them, hence creating a platform for discussion about the frontiers of functional morphology, evolutionary, and ontogenetic research. The symposium and its products (a minimum of 11 peer-reviewed publications, along with supplementary data, published in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology) will contribute to the understanding of the patterns and processes that characterize phenotypic diversity at various scales.