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Meeting: Multifunctional structures and multistructural functions: Functional coupling and integration in the evolution of biomechanical systems, January 3-7, 2019 in Tampa Florida

会议：多功能结构和多结构功能：生物力学系统演化中的功能耦合和集成，2019 年 1 月 3 日至 7 日在佛罗里达州坦帕举行

基本信息

批准号：
1832822
负责人：
Luz Patricia Hernandez
金额：
$ 1.49万
依托单位：
George Washington University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-09-15 至 2019-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832822&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Meeting Multifunctional structures multistructural functions

项目摘要

This award will support participants in a symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in January 2019. This symposium will bring together a diverse group of biologists that study the evolution of morphology and its function. In particular, the speakers will discuss the study of behaviors that require coordination of many structures (e.g., feeding and locomotion) and organisms that use the same structures across multiple behaviors. This multi-component coordination (referred to as integration) is common in organisms but, due to limitations in data acquisition and analytical tools, is typically not addressed. This symposium will foster improved understanding of how integration influences the ecology and evolution of organisms by promoting discussion among speakers who are at the forefront of addressing hypotheses of integration, leveraging new tools in evolutionary statistics and biomechanical analysis. The speakers are diverse in terms of research topic, career stage, gender, ethnicity, and type of institution. Each speaker will publish an article in Integrative and Comparative Biology to provide a resource for future researchers interested in these ideas. This issue will also highlight complimentary presentations submitted by students and early career researchers. Open dialogue among participants, including a panel discussion, has been built into the program, and student social media representatives will convey ideas and questions to those who are unable to attend the symposium, including the public. As increasing use of genomic tools informs scientists about genetic control of phenotype, understanding of patterns and processes driving evolution of complex phenotypes, such as those inherent in many biomechanical systems, lags behind. Functional morphologists and organismal biologists strive to understand how organisms persist and flourish in a given environment. However, the parts of an organism often interact in complex ways to affect function, survival, and evolution. For example, some structural elements can be redundant relative to function, organisms may use such elements differently across contexts, or organisms may use the same anatomical element to perform multiple functions. These interactions are typically considered constraints on the ability to adapt and evolve, but they may also facilitate evolution if they allow multiple parts to change simultaneously in a way that favors survival. These emergent properties of form-function relationships should be of considerable interest to comparative biologists, but the field has been constrained by the broad scope of these questions that require potentially complex methodologies. This symposium aims to reconcile and unify this integrative organismal perspective, provide inspiration for new methodological approaches, and generate new hypotheses that can stimulate future studies of structural and functional complexity.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项将支持参加2019年1月综合与比较生物学学会年会的研讨会。这次研讨会将汇集一个不同的生物学家群体，研究形态的演变及其功能。特别是，演讲者将讨论需要协调许多结构的行为的研究（例如，进食和运动）以及在多种行为中使用相同结构的生物体。这种多组分协调（称为整合）在生物体中很常见，但由于数据采集和分析工具的限制，通常不会得到解决。本次研讨会将促进更好地了解整合如何影响生态和生物体的进化，促进谁是在解决整合假说的最前沿发言者之间的讨论，利用进化统计和生物力学分析的新工具。演讲者在研究主题、职业阶段、性别、种族和机构类型方面各不相同。每位演讲者将在《综合与比较生物学》上发表一篇文章，为未来对这些想法感兴趣的研究人员提供资源。本期还将重点介绍学生和早期职业研究人员提交的免费演讲。参与者之间的公开对话，包括小组讨论，已被纳入该计划，学生社交媒体代表将向那些无法参加研讨会的人（包括公众）传达想法和问题。随着越来越多地使用基因组工具告知科学家关于表型的遗传控制，对驱动复杂表型进化的模式和过程的理解，例如许多生物力学系统中固有的那些，落后了。功能形态学家和有机生物学家致力于了解有机体如何在给定的环境中生存和繁荣。然而，生物体的各个部分往往以复杂的方式相互作用，影响功能、生存和进化。例如，一些结构元素相对于功能可能是冗余的，生物体可以在不同的环境中使用这些元素，或者生物体可以使用相同的解剖元素来执行多种功能。这些相互作用通常被认为是对适应和进化能力的限制，但如果它们允许多个部分以有利于生存的方式同时变化，它们也可能促进进化。这些新兴的性质的形式-功能关系应该是相当大的兴趣比较生物学家，但该领域一直受到这些问题的广泛范围，需要潜在的复杂的方法。本次研讨会旨在调和和统一这一综合性有机体的观点，为新的方法论方法提供灵感，并产生新的假设，可以刺激未来的研究结构和功能的复杂性。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的，通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。