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

会议：更大的图景：发展、生态和进化之间的有机体功能；

• 批准号: 1539880
• 负责人: Sharlene Santana
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1539880&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Meeting; Bigger; Picture; Organismal; Function

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.

该奖项为2016年1月在俄勒冈州波特兰的综合和比较生物学学会（SICB）年会上为研讨会提供了部分支持，题为“更大的局面：发展，生态和进化纽带的有机功能”。 该研讨会将重点关注综合生物学中的一个基本问题：是什么联系了表型的发展稳定性和不稳定性与整个生命树中看到的形态多样性的模式？该研讨会将构成一个平台，以促进对话和高级职业科学家之间对表型的本体发育，功能和演变进行尖端的研究。由于其多学科性质，SICB会议是研讨会的理想场所。重要的是，该研讨会将是第一个帮助招募美国原住民大学生参加会议并为这些首次少数少数学生参加者提供指导框架的活动。通过对这些活动的明确评估，研讨会还将有助于创建直接智力和财政支持的模型，以对代表人数不足的学生的未来会议参与。 比较解剖学家倾向于从两个角度之一处理个体和形态学多样性的问题。对于关键的解剖复合物（例如，喂养设备，运动系统，感觉结构），通常以功能术语来解释本体发育过程中的形态变化，并与它们对适应性的假定重要性有关。在较大的时间尺度上，这些复合物中的形态转化是通过特征稳定性或cladogenogeny期间的可突变性检查的。因为最适量的生物必须通过大小和形状的个体发生变化，所以可以预测，从生活史到宏观进化，在不同的时间尺度上解决此类转换，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以及用于研究它们的尖端工具的当代问题，从而为讨论功能形态，进化论和个体遗传学研究的边界创建平台。研讨会及其产品（至少11个经过同行评审的出版物以及补充数据，发表在《综合和比较生物学》杂志上）将有助于理解表征各种规模的表型多样性的模式和过程。