MEETING: Evolutionary Endocrinology: Hormones as Mediators of Evolutionary Phenomena (SICB Symposium, January 5, 2016 in Portland, OR)

本次会议将汇集顶尖专家，共同探讨荷尔蒙在进化研究中的重要性。现代生物学的一个中心目标是了解基因被转化为生物体的复杂网络。从历史上看，内分泌学领域通过发现激素调节生物体行为、发育和生理的许多途径，在这一努力中发挥了很大作用。同时，进化生物学领域已经开发了用于预测基因和生物体如何随着选择而进化的统计工具，以及用于测试这些预测的各种实验技术。然而，进化生物学家很少试图将激素和内分泌途径纳入进化理论，大多数内分泌学家仍然专注于少数几个“模式生物”，为他们的机械论研究提供了相对较少的进化背景。随着来自非模式物种的基因组数据的日益可获得性，以及“下一代”测序技术现在允许科学家评估激素在协调数千个基因表达中的作用的相对容易程度，这些领域已经成熟，可以在进化内分泌学的新兴框架下进行合成。在综合与比较生物学学会年会上举行的这次会议将汇集内分泌学家和进化生物学家，探讨激素在调节处于现代进化研究前沿的现象中的许多作用。它将使SICB成为这一新兴领域的发源地，同时利用该社会具有互补观点(比较内分泌学、生态学和进化论、进化发育生物学、动物行为)的不同部门网络。该奖项将支持研讨会演讲者，他们涵盖了性别、职业阶段、焦点物种、内分泌途径和进化现象的不同组合。它还将支持由同样多样化的学生、博士后和早期职业科学家组成的阵容的补充会议，以及旨在促进这些年轻研究人员与该领域知名领导人之间合作的在线资源和网络活动。参与者每人将在《综合与比较生物学》特刊上发表一篇同行评议的文章。会议组织者将提供一份综合概述和招股说明书，旨在确定和开发可操作的战略，使进化内分泌学的综合领域成为培训下一代综合科学家的基础。

This conference will bring together leading experts to explore the importance of hormones in evolutionary research. A central goal of modern biology is to understand the complex networks through which genes are translated into organisms. Historically, the field of endocrinology has played a large part in this endeavor by discovering the many pathways through which hormones regulate the behavior, development, and physiology of organisms. In parallel, the field of evolutionary biology has developed the statistical tools for predicting how both genes and organisms evolve in response to selection, as well as a variety of experimental techniques for testing these predictions. Yet, evolutionary biologists have rarely sought to incorporate hormones and endocrine pathways into evolutionary theory, and most endocrinologists still focus on a handful of "model organisms," providing relatively little evolutionary context for their mechanistic studies. With the increasing availability of genomic data from non-model species and the relative ease with which "next-generation" sequencing technologies now permit scientists to assess the roles of hormones in coordinating the expression of thousands of genes, these fields are ripe for synthesis under the emerging framework of Evolutionary Endocrinology. Held at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, this conference will bring together endocrinologists and evolutionary biologists to explore the many roles of hormones in mediating phenomena that are at the forefront of modern evolutionary research. It will establish SICB as the home for this emerging field while leveraging this society's diverse network of Divisions with complementary views (Comparative Endocrinology, Ecology & Evolution, Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Animal Behavior). The award will support symposium speakers who encompass a diverse mix of genders, career stages, focal species, endocrine pathways, and evolutionary phenomena. It will also support a complementary session by a similarly diverse lineup of students, postdocs and early career scientists, along with online resources and networking events designed to foster collaboration between these young investigators and established leaders in the field. Participants will each contribute a peer-reviewed article to a special issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology. Conference organizers will provide a synthetic overview and prospectus piece designed to identify and develop actionable strategies for a synthetic field of Evolutionary Endocrinology to emerge as a foundation for training the next generation of integrative scientists.