Key Innovations in Animal Systematics and Evolution: An SICB Symposium in Phoenix, AZ, January 5, 2007

这笔赠款的资金有助于在2007年1月在亚利桑那州凤凰城举行的综合和比较生物学学会会议上举办一个专题讨论会。 这次研讨会的题目是动物进化中的关键转变。该研讨会汇集了领先的分子和有机生物学家的不同群体，讨论有关动物形态进化的当前争议。 由于过去研究动物生命进化的方法多种多样，研讨会将试图整合从分子和有机体角度讨论的动物形态主题。 在这种情况下，关于导致动物形式难以置信的多样性的关键转变的想法可以通过两种生物学方法进行讨论和整合。 预计这次研讨会中这些逾期的讨论将在一段时间内形成后生动物进化中关键转变的未来研究。

Funding from this grant helps implement a symposium at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meetings in Phoenix Arizona in January, 2007. The title of the symposium is Key Transitions in Animal Evolution. The symposium brings together a diverse group of leading molecular and organismal biologists to discuss current controversies concerning the evolution of animal form. Because of the diversity of approaches used in the past to examine the evolution of animal life, the symposium will attempt to integrate topics on animal form that have been addressed from molecular and organismal perspectives. In this context, ideas about the key transitions that have led to the incredible diversity of animal forms can be discussed and integrated by both approaches to biology. It is expected that these overdue discussions in this symposium will shape future research on key transitions in metazoan evolution for some time.