Symposium: Function and Evolution of Gastroenteropancreatic Hormones, January 6 - 10, 1999, in Denver, Colorado

胃肠胰系统的激素在调节动物的生长、发育和代谢中起着重要作用。本次研讨会将汇集来自分子生物学、细胞生物学和有机体生物学的科学家，对这一重要的化学介质在脊椎动物和无脊椎动物中的功能和进化进行综合研究。本次研讨会是为了纪念Erika Pisetskaya博士，名誉研究教授，她有着长期而杰出的职业生涯，在比较内分泌学和比较生理学/生物化学领域做出了巨大贡献。研讨会将有口头和海报两种形式。10位受邀演讲者将进行口头报告，而每位演讲者实验室的博士后研究员或研究生将展示海报，以鼓励年轻科学家的参与。本次研讨会的论文集将通过同行评议的方式发表在《美国动物学家》杂志上。Sheridan博士希望促进对这些化学介质在无脊椎动物和脊椎动物生物中的比较结构和功能的更广泛的讨论和综合合成。此外，肠胰腺系统激素的关系将在这些因素与其他系统激素的关系中讨论，将在这些因素与其他系统如中枢神经系统激素的关系中讨论。

9809909 Sheridan Hormones of the gastoenterpancreatic system play an important part in regulating the growth, development, and metabolism of animals. This symposium will bring together scientists fro molecular biology, cellular biology and organismal biology to provide an integrated synthesis of the function and evolution of this important group of chemical mediators in vertebrate and invertebrate organisms. This symposium is in honor of Dr. Erika Pisetskaya, Research Professor Emeritus, who has had a long and distinguished career and who has contributed so much to the fields of comparative endocrinology and comparative physiology/biochemistry. The symposium will have both oral and poster sessions. Ten invited speakers will deliver oral presentations while postdoctoral fellows or graduate students fro the laboratories of each of the speakers will present posters as a means to encourage the participation of young scientists. The proceedings from the proposed symposium will be published in the American Zoologist by a peer review process. Dr. Sheridan hopes to foster a broader discussion and integrated synthesis of the comparative structures and functions of these chemical mediators in invertebrate and vertebrate organisms. In addition, the relationship of the hormones of the enteropancreatic systems will be discussed in relationship of these factors and hormones in other systems will be discussed in relationship of these factors and hormones in other systems such as the central nervous system.