Symposium: Stress - Is it More Than a Disease? A Comparative Look at Stress and Adaptation, to be held January 3-7, 2001, Chicago, IL

神经和内分泌系统在生物体应对环境压力方面起着至关重要的作用。最近对非哺乳动物物种的研究发现，它们对压力的反应具有适应性特征，这与目前主要基于实验动物的观点——压力是一种紊乱——不太相符。本次研讨会首次汇集了专门研究哺乳动物和非哺乳动物应激过程中化学信号的科学家。研讨会将涵盖无脊椎动物和脊椎动物应激反应的系统发育多样性，反应机制如何显示特定适应性的比较方面，以及应激反应如何在发育，繁殖，免疫功能和行为中发挥作用的整合。研讨会本身采取了从分子到行为的综合方法，涵盖了广泛的生物体，是一个类似的广泛的综合比较生物学学会的卫星会议。论文将由研究生、博士后和高级研究人员提交，论文集将在国际期刊上发表。本次研讨会将对动物生理学、神经科学和行为学等广泛感兴趣的话题提供独特的视角，而年轻科学家接触这些观点以及与该领域领导者的互动将对他们的职业生涯产生影响。

The nervous and endocrine systems play a critical role in allowing organisms to cope with environmental stressors. Recent studies on non-mammalian species have identified responses to stress that have adaptive features that do not fit readily into current views, largely based on laboratory animals, that stress is a disorder. This symposium brings together for the first time scientists specifically working on chemical signaling during stress in mammalian and non-mammalian animals. The symposium will cover the phylogenetic diversity of the stress response in invertebrates and vertebrates, the comparative aspects of how mechanisms for responses show specific adaptations, and the integration of how stress responses function in development, reproduction, immune function, and behavior. The symposium itself takes an integrative approach from molecules to behavior, over a wide range of organisms, and is a satellite meeting to the similarly broad Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology. Papers will be presented by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, as well as senior researchers, and the proceedings will be published an international journal. This symposium will have an impact by giving a unique perspective on a topic of broad interest to animal physiology as well as to neuroscience and behavior, and the exposure of young scientists to these ideas and to interactions with leaders in the field will have an impact on their careers.