Meeting: Allometry, Scaling and Ontogeny of Form; A Symposium for the Annual, SICB meeting, Tampa, FL January 2019

会议：形式的异速生长、尺度和个体发育；

• 批准号: 1839392
• 负责人: Herman Nijhout
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Duke 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: 2018-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1839392&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Meeting; Allometry; Scaling; Ontogeny; Form

The symposium "Allometry, Scaling and Ontogeny of Form" will showcase a talented and diverse group of researchers examining the developmental and evolutionary causes of morphological size and shape relationships across a variety of animals and plants. Differences in the relative sizes and shapes of body parts are among the most distinguishing features that define species, and understanding how these differences come about is of compelling interest to the study of developmental and evolutionary biology. This symposium will be held in Tampa, Florida, in January 2019, at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The symposium will provide a platform to facilitate conversation between junior and senior career scientists and will foster novel integrative collaborations between evolutionary biologists, developmental biologists, and physiologists. The symposium will feature the state-of-the-art investigation of morphological allometry, showcasing cutting-edge tools and a diverse array of study systems. By bringing together researchers specializing in diverse species, ranging from insects to mammals and plants, with participants of diverse technical expertise and research emphases, the symposium and its publications will contribute to a deeper understanding of allometry by providing an integrative synthesis of evolutionary and developmental phenomena. The mix of attendees will allow early career people to interact closely with more senior ones, and, in particular, it will place graduate students in a position to develop professional networks and connect with potential scientific mentors. Until recently, the study of allometry was mostly descriptive, and consisted of a diversity of methods for fitting regressions to bivariate or multivariate morphometric data. During the past decade, researchers have been developing methods to extract biological information from allometric data that could be used to deduce the underlying mechanisms that gave rise to the allometry. In addition, an increasing effort has gone into understanding the kinetics of growth and the regulatory mechanisms that control growth of the body and its component parts. Although there is general agreement about the new goals for the study of allometry (understanding underlying mechanisms and how those evolve to produce different morphologies), progress is hindered by lack of coordination among the different approaches. This stems from the fact that different investigators arrived at the problem from different disciplines (genetics, cell biology, evolution, development, comparative morphology, statistics), armed with different technical and conceptual approaches. The time is now right for a rapid and coordinated push to take understanding of the causes and consequences of allometry to a wholly new level, by integrating this diverse body of information about genetic, cellular, and physiological mechanisms of growth and morphogenesis into a new research program that embraces diversity of approach. In order to do this diverse practitioners must interact with each other. That is the main purpose of the symposium: to forge new functional, conceptual, and collaborative connections among established and novice practitioners selected to represent a diversity of perspectives. Symposium papers and a synthetic overview paper will be disseminated by publication in the journal, Integrative and Comparative Biology.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.

专题讨论会"异速生长，缩放和个体发育的形式"将展示一个有才华的和多样化的研究人员研究的发展和进化的原因形态大小和形状的关系在各种动物和植物。身体各部分的相对大小和形状的差异是定义物种的最显著特征之一，了解这些差异是如何产生的，对发育和进化生物学的研究具有极大的兴趣。本次研讨会将于2019年1月在佛罗里达的坦帕举行，届时将在综合与比较生物学学会年会上举行。研讨会将提供一个平台，以促进初级和高级职业科学家之间的对话，并将促进进化生物学家，发育生物学家和生理学家之间的新的综合合作。研讨会将以形态异速生长的最新研究为特色，展示尖端工具和各种研究系统。通过汇集专门研究不同物种的研究人员，从昆虫到哺乳动物和植物，以及不同技术专长和研究重点的参与者，研讨会及其出版物将通过提供进化和发展现象的综合综合，有助于更深入地了解异速生长。与会者的组合将使早期职业人士与更资深的人密切互动，特别是，它将使研究生能够发展专业网络并与潜在的科学导师联系。直到最近，异速生长的研究主要是描述性的，并包括多种方法来拟合回归到二元或多元形态测量数据。在过去的十年中，研究人员一直在开发从异速生长数据中提取生物信息的方法，这些信息可用于推断引起异速生长的潜在机制。此外，越来越多的努力已经进入了解生长的动力学和控制身体及其组成部分的生长的调节机制。虽然人们普遍同意异速生长研究的新目标（了解潜在的机制以及这些机制如何演变为产生不同的形态），但由于不同方法之间缺乏协调，进展受到阻碍。这是因为不同的研究者从不同的学科（遗传学、细胞生物学、进化、发育、比较形态学、统计学）出发，用不同的技术和概念方法来解决这个问题。现在是时候进行快速和协调的推动，将异速生长的原因和后果的理解提升到一个全新的水平，通过将这种关于遗传，细胞和生长和形态发生的生理机制的多样性信息整合到一个新的研究计划中，包括方法的多样性。为了做到这一点，不同的从业人员必须相互交流。这就是研讨会的主要目的：在代表不同观点的既有从业者和新从业者之间建立新的功能、概念和协作联系。研讨会论文和综合综述论文将通过在《综合与比较生物学》杂志上发表来传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来获得支持。