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

旅行：SICB 会议研讨会：鸟类和哺乳动物的日常麻木：最新进展以及我们如何推进该领域

基本信息

批准号：
2235558
负责人：
Liam McGuire
金额：
$ 1万
依托单位：
Texas Tech University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-09-01 至 2023-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2235558&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Travel SICB Conference Symposium Daily

项目摘要

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.

该奖项支持参加在综合与比较生物学学会(SICB)2023年1月年会上举办的研讨会的与会者的旅行费用，该研讨会的主题是：鸟类和哺乳动物的每日麻木：最近的进展和我们如何推进该领域？经历不可预测或能量稀缺条件的动物已经进化出各种策略来生存下来。一种这样的策略是使用麻木，通过降低动物的代谢率、心率和/或体温来最大限度地减少能量消耗。研讨会的重点是关于鸟类和哺乳动物日常麻木的最新研究，这一领域在过去十年中在动物类群中迅速发展和扩大。它将包括对日常麻木背后的遗传机制的研究，并将总结该领域尚未回答的主要问题。11位受邀的研讨会演讲者代表了不同的职业阶段，包括大多数职业生涯早期的科学家，他们使用许多不同的方法来研究全球鸟类和哺乳动物的麻木(从非洲、北美和南美洲、亚洲、欧洲和澳大利亚的孔雀和灵长类到蜂鸟和蝙蝠)。目前，对于可以用来测量不同类群之间的迟滞程度的通用度量标准，几乎没有达成共识，这次研讨会的一个目标是开发有用的度量标准来推动该领域的发展。研讨会的总体目标是分享最近的知识，并促进关于未来脊椎动物类群日常麻木研究的讨论。研讨会的结果将发表在SICB期刊《综合和比较生物学》上。每日麻木是一个不断增长的研究领域，部分原因是技术的进步(例如，越来越便携的呼吸测量、更高分辨率的热像仪、更小和更先进的生理数据记录仪)和分类范围的扩大。因此，世界各地的许多研究人员都开发了自己的方法来衡量和描述一系列物种的日常麻木使用情况，但研究哺乳动物麻木的人和研究鸟类麻木的人之间几乎没有相互作用。专题讨论会的目标是让初出茅庐的研究人员与更成熟的研究人员聚在一起，讨论该领域的最新进展和方法，并讨论在今后的工作中需要解决的知识差距。演讲者将介绍他们的研究，然后由演讲者和听众进行圆桌讨论。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木进化的遗传机制。还将讨论研究昏睡的一些更广泛的影响，包括对医学的潜在影响，包括通过诱导降温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。研讨会发言人将为SICB期刊《综合与比较生物学》的一期特刊撰写论文，其中将包括一篇面向未来的论文，内容是基于研讨会结束时的讨论，讨论该领域的统一原则和未来方向。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。