Zebrafish in Comparative Context: A Symposium

描述（由申请人提供）：研究斑马鱼发育和遗传学的科学家，作为一个模型系统，很少与比较生物学家和鱼类学家的更大群体互动。拟议会议的主要目标是将这些小组聚集在一起，促进可能开辟跨学科研究新途径的互动和交流。研讨会和相关活动（论文和海报会议）将于2006年1月在佛罗里达州奥兰多举行的综合与比较生物学学会（SICB）年会上举行，为期两天。研讨会涵盖鱼类生物学的广泛主题，包括系统学、基因组学、发育遗传学、神经生物学和行为学。14位受邀演讲者包括研究人员，他们利用最新的斑马鱼和其他硬骨鱼的基因组序列来了解鱼类和基因组进化的基本方面。其他人则专注于鱼类的比较研究，或者是更传统的斑马鱼发育生物学家，他们试图了解斑马鱼的骨骼和神经系统是如何形成的。所有这些人都是因为他们对比较生物学感兴趣而被选中的。演讲者包括许多初级研究人员，鼓励研究生和博士后参加并展示海报。研讨会论文将作为《实验动物学杂志-分子与发育进化》的特刊发表。这将是重要的第一步，使大量关于斑马鱼的发育和遗传信息更容易被比较生物学社区获取，以及教育斑马鱼研究人员了解他们的生物体与其他动物的关系。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Scientists working on the development and genetics of zebrafish, as a model system, have very few interactions with the greater communities of comparative biologists and ichthyologists. The major goal of the proposed meeting is to bring these groups together and to foster interactions and exchanges that may open up new avenues of interdisciplinary research. The symposium and associated activities (contributed paper and poster sessions) will take place over two days at the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in January 2006 in Orlando, Florida. The symposium covers a broad range of topics in fish biology, including systematics, genomics, developmental genetics, neurobiology, and behavior. The fourteen invited speakers include researchers, using newly available genome sequences for zebrafish and other teleosts to understand fundamental aspects offish and genome evolution. Others focus on comparative studies in fish or are more traditional zebrafish developmental biologists trying to understand how the skeleton and nervous system form. All of these have been chosen for their interest in comparative biology. The selection of speakers includes many junior investigators, and both graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will be encouraged to attend and present posters. Symposium papers will be published as a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Zoology - Molecular and Developmental Evolution. This will be an important first step in making the vast amount of developmental and genetic information about zebrafish more accessible to the comparative biology community, as well as educating zebrafish researchers as to the relationship of their organism to other animals.