Meeting: When Predators Attack: Sensing and Motion in Predator-Prey Interactions; January 3-7, 2013, San Francisco, CA

捕食是动物之间最基本的相互作用。它在塑造生态群落方面发挥着至关重要的作用，并对物种的生存、生长和繁殖产生直接影响。尽管有大量关于捕食生态学的研究，但动物的感觉和运动系统如何决定捕食攻击的结果尚不清楚。通过使用尖端技术，研究人员直到最近才使这成为一个易于处理的研究领域。 本次研讨会的目的是突出最近的发现，是推进我们的理解如何感觉运动动力学影响捕食者与猎物的相互作用。研讨会将汇集关于动物（如蝙蝠，昆虫，鱼类，甲壳类动物），运动模式（如游泳，飞行，跳跃）和感觉系统（如机械感受，视觉，化学感受，回声定位）的多样性的介绍，以深入了解这一新兴领域的统一主题。 更广泛的影响：研讨会的结构旨在促进来自不同领域，地理区域和职业水平的生物学家之间的交流。会谈将于2013年1月3日至7日在加利福尼亚州旧金山弗朗西斯科举行的综合与比较生物学学会（SICB）年会的与会者开放。应邀与会者包括三名妇女、三名助理教授、三名学生发言人、两名来自非学术机构的研究人员和四名国际与会者。此外，学生和博士后研究人员将有机会在补充会议上发表演讲。会议议程可在网上查阅（sicb.org/meetings/2013/symposia/predator.php），与会者将为2013年出版的《综合与比较生物学》杂志（icb.oxfordjournals.org）投稿。由于其支持和鼓励学生参与的优秀历史，SICB是吸引年轻研究人员参与这一主题的理想场所，并鼓励回答有关介导捕食者-猎物相互作用的感觉-运动动力学的突出问题所需的综合研究方法类型。

Predation is a fundamental interaction between animals. It plays an essential role in shaping ecological communities and has direct consequences for the survival, growth and reproduction of species. Despite a vast body of research on the ecology of predation, it is not clear how the sensory and locomotor systems of animals determine the outcome of a predatory attack. Through the use of cutting-edge techniques, investigators have only recently made this a tractable area of research. The goal of this symposium is to highlight recent findings that are advancing our understanding of how sensory-motor dynamics affect predator-prey interactions. The symposium will bring together presentations on a diversity of animals (e.g. bats, insects, fishes, crustaceans), locomotory modes (e.g. swimming, flying, jumping) and sensory systems (e.g. mechanoreception, vision, chemoreception, echolocation), to provide insight into the unifying themes of this emerging field. Broader Impacts: The structure of the symposium is designed to facilitate exchange between biologists from different fields, geographical areas and career levels. The talks will be open to attendees of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in San Francisco, CA on January 3-7, 2013. Invited participants include three women, three assistant professors, three student speakers, two researchers from non-academic institutions and four international participants. In addition, students and postdoctoral researchers will have the opportunity to contribute presentations in a complementary session. The meeting agenda is available online (sicb.org/meetings/2013/symposia/predator.php) and participants will contribute to a published volume of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology (icb.oxfordjournals.org) in 2013. Due to its excellent history of supporting and encouraging student participation, SICB is an ideal venue for engaging young investigators in this topic and encouraging the types of integrative research approaches needed to answer outstanding questions about the sensory-motor dynamics that mediate predator-prey interactions.