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

该奖项为参加研讨会的与会者提供旅费，该研讨会名为“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？”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的环境的动物进化出了各种生存策略。其中一种策略是使用冬眠，通过这种方法动物降低它们的代谢率、心率和/或体温，以尽量减少能量消耗。本次研讨会的重点是最近对鸟类和哺乳动物的日常冬眠的研究，这是一个在过去十年中迅速发展并迅速扩展到动物分类群的领域。它将包括对日常麻木的遗传机制的研究，并将总结该领域未解决的主要问题。11位受邀的研讨会演讲者代表了一系列职业阶段，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冬眠（从非洲、北美和南美、亚洲、欧洲和澳大利亚的蝙蝠和灵长类动物到蜂鸟和蝙蝠）。目前，很少有共识的共同指标，可以用来衡量跨分类群迟钝，和研讨会的目标是制定有用的指标，以推进该领域。研讨会的总体目标是分享最新的知识，并促进对脊椎动物分类群中日常冬眠的未来研究的讨论。研讨会的结果将在SICB期刊《综合与比较生物学》上发表。由于技术的进步（例如，越来越多的便携式呼吸测量仪，高分辨率热摄像机，更小更先进的生理数据记录仪）和分类范围的扩大，日常睡眠是一个不断发展的研究领域。因此，世界各地的许多研究人员都开发了自己的方法来测量和描述一系列物种的日常冬眠，但研究哺乳动物冬眠和研究鸟类冬眠的人之间很少有交流。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聚集在一起，讨论该领域的最新进展和方法，并讨论在未来工作中需要解决的知识差距。演讲者将介绍他们的研究，然后是演讲者和观众参加的圆桌讨论。未来的方向，研讨会将讨论包括使用基因组和转录组数据，以了解遗传机制背后的进化迟钝。还将讨论研究冬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体温降低，以及为潜在的太空旅行开发诱导冬眠。会议讲者将在SICB期刊《综合与比较生物学》特刊上发表论文，其中将包括一篇基于会议结束时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。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.