Symposium: PharmEcology Symposium: A Pharmacological Approach to Understanding Plant-Herbivore Interactions, to be held January 2-6, 2009 in Boston, MA.

该奖项将资助美国和国际参加药物生态学研讨会：了解植物-草食动物相互作用的药理学方法，该研讨会于2009年1月3-6日在美国马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的综合与比较生物学学会会议上举行。研讨会将汇集对药理学和植物-草食动物相互作用的生理生态学(称为药物生态学)的多学科研究感兴趣的领导人。预定的会谈和分组会议将在三个一般领域确定当前和新的合作研究方法：1)草食动物利用来耐受植物化学防御的生化机制；2)植物化学防御的生物活性；以及3)与这两个成分相关的遗传多样性。了解植物自我防御和食草动物耐受植物化学防御的生化和遗传机制，将有助于深入了解植物和食草动物之间的共同进化军备竞赛，解释食草动物的觅食限制和分布，并揭示植物化合物的作用机制。讨论的结果将是在综合与比较生物学杂志上提交论文(S)，并为未来的合作研究提供建议。研讨会将为本科生、研究生和博士后学生提供与国内和国际生态学和药理学领域的领导者建立网络的机会。虽然学生将从演讲者实验室和博伊西州立大学提供的药物生态学研讨会前课程(2008年秋季)招募，但参与是向所有学生开放的，并将广泛宣传。最后，研讨会将促进多样性，包括来自不同职业阶段(本科生、研究生、博士后、初级和正式教员)以及来自不同国家(澳大利亚、奥地利、英国、日本、新西兰、乌干达和美国)和学科(生态学、化学、生理学、进化和行为生物学和药理学)的平等性别(50%的女性发言者)的与会者。

This award will fund US and international participation in The PharmEcology Symposium: A pharmacological approach to understanding plant-herbivore interactions, held at the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting from January 3-6, 2009 in Boston, MA, USA. The symposium will bring together leaders interested in multi-disciplinary research at the interface of pharmacology and the physiological ecology of plant-herbivore interactions, termed PharmEcology. Scheduled talks and breakout sessions will identify current and novel approaches for collaborative research in three general areas: 1) The biochemical mechanisms herbivores utilize to tolerate plant chemical defenses; 2) The biological activity of plant chemical defenses; and 3) The genetic diversity associated with these two components. Understanding the biochemical and genetic mechanisms by which plants defend themselves and herbivores tolerate plant chemical defenses, will provide insight into the co-evolutionary arms race between plants and herbivores, explain foraging constraints and distribution of herbivores and reveal the mechanism of action of plant compounds. Discussions will result in submission of publication(s) in the Integrative and Comparative Biology Journal and grant proposals for future collaborative research. The symposium will provide undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students opportunities to establish networks with national and international leaders in ecology and pharmacology. While students will be recruited from speaker's labs and a pre-symposium course on PharmEcology offered at Boise State University (Fall 2008), participation is open to all students and will be widely advertised. Finally, the symposium will promote diversity by including participants of equal gender (50% female speakers), from a wide range of career stages (undergraduate, graduate, post-docs, junior and established faculty) and from a variety of countries (Australia, Austria, Great Britain, Japan, New Zealand, Uganda and USA) and disciplines (ecology, chemistry, physiology, evolutionary and behavioral biology and pharmacology).