Symposium: Ecological Immunology: Recent Advances and Applications for Conservation Annual Health, to be held January 4-8, 2006, Orlando, Florida.

研讨会：生态免疫学：在保护和公共卫生方面的最新进展和应用马丁·维克尔斯基普林斯顿大学摘要过去十年来，生态免疫学一直是一个快速增长的领域，人们对野生动物免疫防御的成本和变化有了很多了解。这导致了对生活史进化、寄生虫介导的选择和交配偏好以及种群和社区层面的现象(如疾病传播模式和生物入侵)的新见解。这一领域的进一步进展有可能更好地了解宿主和寄生虫群落的模式和过程，包括新的传染病的出现和传播，这反过来可以使我们为保护生物多样性和人类健康做出更好的决定。“生态免疫学：保护和公共卫生的最新进展和应用”研讨会已被综合与比较生物学学会(SICB)选为2006年1月4日至8日在佛罗里达州奥兰多举行的年度会议上的全社会活动。这次研讨会的目标有三个：1)促进来自生态、免疫学、遗传学和医学领域的科学家之间的跨学科合作；2)打破研究不同分类组的研究人员之间的障碍；3)鼓励从事基础和应用研究的科学家探索两者之间的相互作用如何促进两者的进步。被邀请的演讲者将介绍广泛的主题和分类，包括自由放养鸟类免疫功能变异的生态相关性，海龟和珊瑚的免疫与疾病，免疫系统与内分泌系统和环境毒素的相互作用，以及主要组织相容性复合体(MHC)的分子进化。11名研讨会发言者包括来自代表性较低群体的个人，包括妇女(两名)、初级调查人员(四名)和少数族裔(一名)。除了促进不同研究人员之间的合作努力外，关于保护和公共卫生应用的研讨会的重点是推动与会者考虑和介绍他们的工作，考虑到这些基础研究可以为社会带来的好处。研讨会的会议记录将被汇总并作为一系列论文一起提交给一份发行量很大的期刊；SICB期刊《综合与比较生物学》的编辑已经表示有兴趣为这次研讨会制作一期特刊。

Symposium: ECOLOGICAL IMMUNOLOGY: RECENT ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION AND PUBLIC HEALTHMartin WikelskiPrinceton UniversityAbstractEco-immunology has been an area of rapid growth over the last decade, and much has been learned about the costs of and variation in immune defenses of wild animals. This has led to new insights into life history evolution, parasite-mediated selection and mating preferences, as well as population and community level phenomena such as disease transmission patterns and biological invasions. Further advances in this field have the potential to provide a better understanding of host and parasite community patterns and processes, including the emergence and spread of new infectious diseases, which could in turn allow us to make better decisions for preserving both biodiversity and human health. The symposium "Ecological Immunology: Recent Advances and Applications for Conservation and Public Health" has been selected by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) as a society-wide event at the 2006 annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, January 4-8th. The goals of this symposium are threefold: 1) Foster interdisciplinary collaborations between scientists from ecological, immunological, genetic, and medical fields; 2) break down barriers between researchers studying different taxonomic groups; and 3) encourage scientists engaged in basic and applied research to explore how cross-talk between the two could enhance the progress of both. The invited speakers will present on a broad range of topics and taxa, including ecological correlates of variation in immune function in free-ranging birds, immunity and disease in sea turtles and corals, the interaction of the immune system with the endocrine system and environmental toxins, and molecular evolution of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). The eleven symposium speakers include individuals from typically underrepresented groups, including women (two), beginning investigators (four), and racial minorities (one). In addition to fostering collaborative efforts among diverse researchers, the emphasis of the symposium on conservation and public health applications is meant to push participants to think about and present their work in light of the benefits such basic research can provide society. The proceedings of the symposium will be summarized and submitted together as a series of papers to a widely-distributed journal; the editors of SICB's journal, Integrative and Comparative Biology, have already expressed interest in producing a special issue dedicated to this symposium.