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

这次会议将汇集领先的专家，探讨激素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翻译成生物体的复杂网络。从历史上看，内分泌学领域通过发现激素调节生物体的行为、发育和生理的许多途径，在这奋进发挥了很大作用。与此同时，进化生物学领域已经开发出了预测基因和生物体如何响应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“模式生物”，为他们的机制研究提供相对较少的进化背景。随着越来越多的非模式物种的基因组数据的可用性和“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，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综合。在综合与比较生物学学会年会上举行，这次会议将汇集内分泌学家和进化生物学家，探讨激素在调节现代进化研究前沿现象中的许多作用。它将建立SICB作为这个新兴领域的家园，同时利用这个社会的多样化网络部门与互补的观点（比较内分泌学，生态进化，进化发育生物学，动物行为）。该奖项将支持研讨会发言人，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多样化组合。它还将支持一个由学生，博士后和早期职业科学家组成的类似多元化阵容的补充会议，沿着在线资源和网络活动，旨在促进这些年轻的研究人员和该领域的既定领导者之间的合作。每个参与者将贡献一个同行评审的文章，综合和比较生物学的特刊。会议组织者将提供一个综合概述和招股说明书，旨在确定和制定进化内分泌学合成领域的可操作策略，以作为培养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.