Travel: SICB Conference Symposium: Daily Torpor Across Birds and Mammals: Recent Progress and How Do We Advance the Field

该奖项支持参加研讨会的旅行，鸟类和哺乳动物的日常麻木：最近的进展以及我们如何推进该领域？，在2023年1月的综合与比较生物学学会（SICB）年会上。经历不可预测或能源短缺条件的动物已经进化出各种各样的生存策略。其中一种策略是使用麻痹，通过这种策略，动物降低代谢率，心率和/或体温，以最大限度地减少能量消耗。研讨会的重点是最近对鸟类和哺乳动物日常休眠的研究，这一领域在过去十年中在动物分类群中迅速发展并迅速扩大。它将包括对日常麻木的遗传机制的研究，并将总结该领域的主要未回答的问题。11位受邀的研讨会发言人代表了一系列的职业生涯阶段，包括大多数早期职业科学家，并使用许多不同的方法来研究全球鸟类和哺乳动物的麻痹（从非洲，北美和南美，亚洲，欧洲和澳大利亚的tenrecs和灵长类动物到蜂鸟和蝙蝠）。目前，在可用于测量各个分类群的休眠的通用指标上几乎没有共识，研讨会的目标是开发有用的指标来推进该领域。研讨会的总体目标是分享最新的知识，并促进对未来研究的讨论，在日常休眠脊椎动物类群。研讨会的结果将通过在SICB杂志《综合和比较生物学》上发表来传播。日常麻木是一个不断发展的研究领域，部分原因是技术进步（例如，越来越便携的呼吸测量仪、更高分辨率的热成像相机、更小和更先进的生理数据记录器）和扩大的分类范围。因此，世界各地的许多研究人员已经开发出自己的方法来测量和描述一系列物种的日常休眠，但研究哺乳动物休眠的人和研究鸟类休眠的人之间很少有交叉对话。研讨会的目标是让早期职业研究人员与更成熟的研究人员一起讨论该领域的最新进展和方法，并讨论在未来工作中要解决的知识差距。发言者将介绍他们的研究，然后是一个圆桌讨论，涉及发言者和观众。研讨会将讨论的未来方向包括使用基因组和转录组数据来了解麻痹进化的遗传机制。还将讨论研究休眠的一些更广泛的影响，包括对医学的潜在影响，包括通过诱导冷却进行更安全的手术和安全的器官移植的诱导低温，以及为潜在的太空旅行开发诱导冬眠。研讨会的演讲者将为SICB杂志的特刊《综合与比较生物学》投稿，其中将包括一份基于研讨会结束时的讨论的关于该领域统一原则和未来方向的面向未来的论文。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而被认为值得支持。

This award supports travel for participants in a symposium, Daily torpor across birds and mammals: Recent progress and how do we advance the field?, at the January 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). Animals that experience unpredictable or energy-scarce conditions have evolved a variety of strategies to survive them. One such strategy is the use of torpor, by which animals lower their metabolic rates, heart rates, and/or body temperatures to minimize energy expenditure. The symposium focuses on recent research on daily torpor in birds and mammals, an area that has advanced quickly and expanded rapidly across animal taxa in the past decade. It will include research on the genetic mechanisms underlying daily torpor, and the main unanswered questions in the field will be summarized. The eleven invited symposium speakers represent a range of career stages, including a majority of early-career scientists, and use many different approaches to study torpor in birds and mammals globally (from tenrecs and primates to hummingbirds and bats, in Africa, North and South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia). Currently, there is very little consensus on common metrics that can be used to measure torpor across taxa, and a goal of the symposium is to develop useful metrics to advance the field. The symposium’s overall goal is to share recent knowledge and foster a discussion on future research on daily torpor across vertebrate taxa. Results from the symposium will be disseminated by publication in the SICB journal, Integrative and Comparative Biology.Daily torpor is a growing research field, due in part to technological advancements (e.g., increasingly portable respirometry, higher-resolution thermal cameras, smaller and more advanced physiological dataloggers) and expanded taxonomic scope. As a result, many researchers the world over have developed their own approaches to measure and describe the use of daily torpor in a range of species, but there has been little cross-talk between people who study mammal torpor and those who study bird torpor. The goal of the symposium is for early-career researchers to come together with more established researchers to discuss recent advances and approaches in the field and to discuss the gaps in knowledge to be addressed in future work. The speakers will present their research, followed by a round-table discussion involving the speakers and the audience. Future directions that the symposium will address include the use of genomic and transcriptomic data to understand the genetic mechanisms underlying the evolution of torpor. Some of the broader impacts of studying torpor will also be addressed, including the potential impact on medical science, including induced hypothermia for safer surgeries and safe organ transplant by induced cooling, as well as developing induced hibernation for potential space travel. The symposium speakers will contribute papers for a special issue of the SICB journal, Integrative and Comparative Biology, which will include a future-oriented paper about unifying principles and future directions in the field based on the discussion at the end of symposium.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.