Meeting: Vertebrate Land Invasions: Past, Present, and Future; A Symposium for the Annual SICB Meeting in San Francisco, CA

该奖项支持将于2013年1月3日至7日在加州旧金山举行的综合与比较生物学学会年会上举行的题为“脊椎动物土地入侵：过去、现在和未来”的研讨会。从水到陆地的过渡是脊椎动物历史上的一个重大进化事件，它促成了物种多样性的突然爆发。这种转变在运动、支持、呼吸、渗透调节和感官知觉方面遇到了许多挑战。最近发现的化石和对这些发现的通俗叙述，增加了公众对古生代陆地入侵的重要性的认识。此外，为全球气候变化对环境条件的影响建立证据也激发了人们对理解生物-环境相互作用的更大兴趣。本次研讨会将汇集11位处于不同职业阶段的科学家（研究生、博士后、助理、副教授和正教授），重点介绍他们在古生物学、生理学、行为学、生物力学和机器人技术方面的研究。主题的组织是为了综合一个广泛的知识体系，在遥远的过去和目前的生活物种之间的水-陆过渡。此外，青年科学家（本科生、研究生和博士后）被邀请参加补充会议，他们将以口头或海报的形式展示相关工作。本次研讨会及其补充会议的计划旨在激发否则难以开始的对话和合作，为这一重要领域的工作提供新的方向。这也为新的调查人员提供了一个机会，让他们参加一个重要的场所，并从有关当局那里获得关于该主题的反馈。这些研究人员的报告将通过在《综合与比较生物学》杂志上发表文章，并由SICB通过研讨会网站（http://sicb.org/meetings/2013/symposia/index.php）和公共事务委员会进行推广，以吸引广大读者。

This award supports the symposium, "Vertebrate Land Invasions: Past, Present, and Future," to be held at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology annual conference on 3-7 January 2013, in San Francisco, California. The transition from water to land was a major evolutionary event in vertebrate history that precipitated a sudden explosion of species diversity. This transition was met by numerous challenges for movement, support, respiration, osmoregulation, and sensory perception. Recent fossil finds and popular accounts of their discoveries have increased public appreciation for the significance of the Paleozoic land invasion. Furthermore, building evidence for the effects of global climate change on environmental conditions has also stimulated greater interest in understanding organism-environment interactions. This symposium will bring together eleven scientists at all career stages (graduate students, postdocs, and assistant, associate, and full professors) to highlight their research in paleontology, physiology, behavior, biomechanics, and robotics. Topics are organized to synthesize a broad body of knowledge about water-land transitions in the distant past and among current living species. In addition, junior scientists (undergraduate, graduate, and postdocs) have been invited to participate in Complementary Sessions, in which they will present relevant work in oral or poster formats The program for this symposium and its complementary sessions are designed to motivate conversations and collaborations that would be difficult to begin otherwise, generating new directions for work in this important area. This also provides an opportunity for new investigators to participate in a prominent venue and receive feedback from authorities on the topic. Presentations by these researchers will reach out to a wide audience through the publication of articles in Integrative and Comparative Biology and promotion by SICB through the symposium website (http://sicb.org/meetings/2013/symposia/index.php) and the Public Affairs Committee.