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）年会上的研讨会提供了部分支持，该研讨会题为“更大的图景：发展，生态学和进化关系中的有机体功能”。研讨会将集中讨论综合生物学中的一个基本问题：表型的发育稳定性和不稳定性与生命之树中的形态多样性模式之间有什么联系？研讨会将构成一个平台，以促进初级和高级职业科学家之间的对话和合作，进行关于个体发育，功能和表型进化的前沿研究。由于其多学科性质，SICB会议是研讨会的理想场所。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民族学生提供指导框架。通过对这些活动的明确评估，专题讨论会还将有助于建立一个模式，为代表人数不足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之一来探讨个体发育和形态多样性的问题。对于关键的解剖复合体（例如，摄食器、运动系统、感觉结构），个体发育过程中的形态学变化通常被解释为功能性的，并与它们对适应性的假定重要性相关联。在更大的时间尺度上，在这些复合体的形态转换检查通过字符的稳定性或突变性在分支。由于最适者生存的生物体必须经历个体发育的大小和形状的变化，因此可以预测，在不同的时间尺度上，从生活史到宏观进化，解决这种转变，将阐明有助于表型多样性的主要因素。 该研讨会将以综合和比较生物学中的当代问题以及用于研究它们的尖端工具为特色，从而为讨论功能形态学，进化和个体发生学研究的前沿领域创造一个平台。研讨会及其产品（至少有11篇同行评审的出版物，沿着补充数据，发表在《综合与比较生物学》杂志上）将有助于理解各种尺度下表征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.