SYMPOSIUM: "Osmoregulation: An Integrated Approach, to be held at the annual conferences of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, January 4-8, 2000 in Atlanta, GA

该研讨会将于2000年1月4日至8日在综合与比较生物学学会年会上发表，讨论生物应对渗透压力的机制。水生和陆生生物会遇到外部和内部液体中盐成分的变化，这种变化可能会改变酶的功能和细胞的形状。这些渗透挑战是由分子、细胞和有机体水平上的一系列调节反应来满足的。来自欧洲、加拿大和美国的12位演讲人将对细菌、酵母、植物和动物的渗透调节机制的现状进行总结。分子生物学、细胞成像和遥感技术将应用于离子调节、体积调节和细胞表面调节等问题。研讨会将考虑从蛋白质分子水平到整个生物体行为的整体问题，在充分多样的生物体中开始识别模式。据PIs所知，这次研讨会是第一次尝试这样的综合。

The symposium, to be presented at the annual conference of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, January 4-8, 2000, will address the mechanisms by which living things cope with osmotic stress. Aquatic and terrestrial organisms encounter changes in the salt composition of external and internal fluids that may alter the function of enzymes and the shape of cells. These osmotic challenges are met by a repertoire of regulatory responses at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels. The twelve speakers in the symposium, drawn from Europe, Canada, and the United States, will summarize the current state of knowledge of osmoregulatory mechanisms in bacteria, yeast, plants, and animals. Techniques of molecular biology, cell imaging, and remote sensing will be described as they apply to questions to ion regulation, volume regulation, and cell surface regulation. The symposium will consider the overall question from the level of protein molecules to whole organism behavior, in a sufficient variety of organims to begin to recognize patterns. To the PIs knowledge, this symposium represents the first time that such a synthesis has been attempted.