International Meeting on Evolutionary and Contemporary Biology of Elasmobranchs; Rome, Italy, July 1988

该奖项将支持一个关于板鳃鱼类进化生物学的国际会议。包括鲨鱼、鳐鱼和黄貂鱼在内的板鳃目动物构成了一个重要的脊椎动物群体，大约在3.5亿年前从它们的姐妹群体全头类动物中分化出来，它们保留了许多形态特征，几乎没有变化。因此，弹性分支代表了一个尚未开发的模型系统，可以用来研究许多重要的生物和进化过程。这次国际会议由俄亥俄医学院的William C. Hamlett教授和意大利那不勒斯动物学站的Bruno Tota教授共同组织，将为研究这一脊椎动物群体的科学家提供一个机会，展示最近的研究成果，交流信息并规划未来的研究和合作方向。会议将集中讨论三个领域：1)生殖，2)神经科学，3)系统生物学/生理学。重点将放在利用当代科学技术的研究以及将相关研究结果置于进化背景下的研究上。

This award will support an international meeting on the evolutionary biology of elasmobranch fishes. The elasmobranchs, which include the sharks, skates and stingrays, constitute an important vertebrate group that, having diverged some 350 million years ago from their sister group the holocephalans, have conserved many of their morphological characteristics with very little change. As such, the elasmobranchs represent an under exploited model system that may be employed to investigate many important biological and evolutionary processes. This international meeting, organized by Prof. William C. Hamlett of the Medical College of Ohio together with Prof. Bruno Tota of the Naples Zoological Station in Naples, Italy, will provide an opportunity for scientists working with this vertebrate group to present recent research findings, exchange information and plan future directions for research and collaboration. The meeting will focus on three areas: 1) reproduction, 2) neuroscience, and 3) systems biology/ physiology. Emphasis will be on research utilizing contemporary scientific techniques as well as studies that place relevant research results in an evolutionary context.