SICB Symposium: Frontiers of Integrative Biology: A Symposium Honoring George A. Bartholomew, January 5-9, 2004

本次研讨会将于2004年1月在路易斯安那州新奥尔良举行的综合与比较生物学学会年会上举行。这次研讨会得到了SICB许多部门的广泛支持，并被选为本次会议仅有的三个SICB范围内研讨会之一。研讨会有三个主要目标：1.突出综合生物学的令人兴奋的新方向和新的应用；2.突出仍处于职业生涯早期和中期的杰出的综合生物学家；3.纪念综合生物学的奠基人乔治·A·巴塞洛缪。主要演讲者将是乔治·A·巴塞洛缪奖的前十名获奖者。自1993年以来，该奖项每年颁发给比较生理学、比较生物化学或功能生物学相关领域的杰出青年研究员。所有的演讲者都相对年轻，但他们都已经积累了非凡的成就(10位演讲者中有两位获得了麦克阿瑟奖)。此外，威廉·R·道森(巴塞洛缪的第一个学生)将介绍乔治·巴塞洛缪作为研究人员和导师的历史。一个特别的专题将是乔治·A·巴塞洛缪，他将结束研讨会，并讨论从综合生物学生涯中获得的经验教训的主题。这些选题是为了阐明当代综合生物学研究的三个重要和活跃的领域：1.探索形态学、生物力学和神经生物学之间的相互作用；2.整合比较生理学、内分泌学和行为生态学；3.整合功能生物学、生态学和保育。因此，研讨会将有助于鼓励综合生物学和功能生物学的新兴研究优势和应用。这次研讨会将是新奥尔良会议的中心议题。这将增加人们对生物学综合方法的力量以及对保护生物学等领域的新应用的日益兴奋。通过邀请年轻的研究人员参加，组织者希望激励研究生和博士后追求综合生物学领域的职业生涯并扩大该领域。此外，它还将使新一代生物学家有机会与两位综合生物学领域的开创性人物和导师(巴塞洛缪和道森)见面和交谈。最后，本次研讨会的所有报告都将发表在《综合与比较生物学》杂志上，因此国际观众将有机会接触到会议记录。

This symposium will be held at the January 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, in New Orleans, Louisiana. This symposium has broad support from many divisions of SICB, and was selected as one of only three SICB-wide symposia for this meeting. The symposium has three major goals: 1. Highlight exciting new directions in, and new applications of, integrative biology; 2. Feature outstanding integrative biologists who are still early to mid-career; and 3. Honor George A. Bartholomew, a founding figure in integrative biology. The primary speakers will be the first ten winners of the George A. Bartholomew Award. Since 1993, this award has been given annually to a Distinguished Young Investigator in Comparative Physiology, Comparative Biochemistry, or Related Fields of Functional Biology. All speakers are relatively young, but all have already amassed an extraordinary record of accomplishments (two of the 10 have won MacArthur Awards). In addition, William R. Dawson (Bartholomew's first student) will provide an historical introduction to George Bartholomew as a researcher and mentor. A special feature will be George A. Bartholomew, who will conclude the symposium and take on the topic of lessons gained from a career in integrative biology. The topics have been carefully selected to elucidate three important and active areas of contemporary research in integrative biology: 1. exploring the interplay among morphology, biomechanics, and neurobiology, 2. integrating comparative physiology, endocrinology, and behavioral ecology, and 3. integrating functional biology, ecology, and conservation. Thus the symposium will help encourage emerging research strengths in, and applications of integrative and functional biology. This symposium will be the centerpiece of the New Orleans meeting. It will add to the growing excitement over the power of integrative approaches to biology as well as new applications to areas such as conservation biology. By featuring young investigators, the organizers hope to inspire graduate students and postdocs to pursue careers in and expand the field of integrative biology. Moreover, it will give several new generations of biologists an opportunity to meet and talk with two seminal figures and mentors in integrative biology (Bartholomew and Dawson). Finally, all presentations in this symposium will be published in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology, and thus an international audience will have access to the proceedings.