Symposium: Research Frontiers in Animal Behavior and Parasitism 2020

宿主行为和寄生是密不可分的。行为经常定义寄生虫传播动力学;同时，寄生虫可以在生态和进化时间内塑造复杂的宿主行为。该奖项支持参加将于2020年5月在美国佐治亚州雅典举行的动物行为和寄生虫学研究前沿会议。这次会议汇集了传染病生态学和动物行为学的专家，为期两天，将在这些重要研究领域的界面上定义新的研究前沿。四个主要的会议主题是：（一）社会行为和病原体感染之间的联系;（二）主机运动行为和病原体传播;（三）病原体驱动的主机和媒介行为的变化;和（四）行为防御机制和进化。 每一场会议都将邀请演讲者进行主题演讲，并由与会者进行简短的演讲。本次会议为资深研究人员和早期职业科学家之间的专业发展和未来合作提供了平台。组织者将管理一个科学网络活动，更多的高级会议与会者将与初级研究人员会面，讨论研究和专业发展问题。该会议特别鼓励学生参与，保持低注册费，从而使早期的职业研究人员参加，并满足该领域的领先科学家。早期职业研究人员将在塑造从会议发展的新兴观点方面发挥积极作用，以绘制该领域研究的前沿。会议还将包括早期职业研究人员，他们是编织动物行为未来（WFAB）社区的成员，这将有助于促进动物行为与传染病生态学和进化的整合。最后，在研讨会上讨论的观点将作为即将出版的关于动物行为和寄生虫的编辑卷的简短贡献。该项目由传染病生态学和进化计划共同资助（环境生物学部）和行为系统计划（综合有机系统）该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

Host behavior and parasitism are inextricably linked. Behavior frequently defines parasite transmission dynamics; at the same time, parasites can shape complex host behaviors in ecological and evolutionary time. This award supports participation in a conference on Research Frontiers in Animal Behavior and Parasitism, to be held in May 2020 in Athens, GA, USA. The conference brings together experts in infectious disease ecology and animal behavior for a two-day event that will define new frontiers of research at the interface of these important areas of study. Four major conference themes are: (i) links between social behavior and pathogen infection; (ii) host movement behavior and pathogen spread; (iii) pathogen-driven changes to host and vector behavior; and (iv) mechanisms and evolution of behavioral defenses. Each of these sessions will feature keynote talks from invited speakers, together with short contributed presentations from conference attendees.This conference provides a platform for professional development and future collaboration between established researchers and early career scientists. Organizers will administer a science networking event, where more senior conference attendees will meet with junior researchers to discuss research and professional development questions. The conference especially encourages student participation by keeping registration fees low, thus allowing early career researchers to participate and meet leading scientists in the field. Early career researchers will play an active role in shaping emerging perspectives that develop from the conference, to map out frontiers of research in the field. The conference will also include early career researchers who are members of the Weaving the Future of Animal Behavior (WFAB) community which will help foster the integration of ideas from animal behavior with infectious disease ecology and evolution. Finally, ideas emerging from discussion at the symposium will feature as short contributions to an upcoming edited volume on animal behavior and parasites.This project is being jointly funded by the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Program (Division of Environmental Biology) and the Behavioral Systems Program (Division of Integrative Organismal Systems).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.