MEETING: Keeping Time during Animal Evolution: Conservation and Innovation of the Circadian Clock, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB); Jan. 3-7 2013, SF, CA

日常和季节性线索，如变化的光照水平，是重要的环境信号，有助于调节不同生物体的行为，生理和繁殖。生物钟是一种内部分子通路，允许生物体对这些环境线索做出反应。该提案将支持将于2013年1月在加州州弗朗西斯科举行的综合与比较生物学学会年会上举行的题为“在动物进化过程中保持时间：生物钟的保护和创新”的研讨会。 本次研讨会将重点介绍目前与生物钟相关的研究，包括海绵，刺胞动物，昆虫和脊椎动物。研讨会的总体目标是利用一系列生物模型和方法将研究人员聚集在一起，对动物生态学和进化中的生物钟进行综合理解，并促进合作项目的讨论，以推动这一领域的未来。 本次研讨会将包括11位发言者的口头报告，他们致力于介绍与生物钟相关的新颖的综合研究。 这些演讲者包括1名博士后，1名助理教授，3名副教授和6名正教授。 此外，该奖项将为3名研究生参加补充会议提供部分资金。 学生旅行基金将积极针对代表性不足的群体。 发言者中有三位是妇女，两位是国际专家（英国、德国）。 对于国内演讲者，所代表的机构位于美国各地，代表大学（6位演讲者）和研究机构（3位演讲者）。 演讲者的集合代表了第一次将动物昼夜节律生物学的不同研究小组聚集在一起的重大努力，重点是这个关键信号网络的进化和生态学。 本次研讨会将创造一个协同作用的领导者在这一领域与新的研究人员，无论是学生和早期职业教师。 这次专题讨论会的摘要将在统计信息局网站上发表，并专门为突出这次专题讨论会开发了一个网页（http：//www.sicb.org/meetings/2013/symposia/index.php）。 所有研讨会与会者将提交手稿，供在学会的期刊《综合和比较生物学》（http：//www.sicb.org/publications/icb.php3）上发表，该期刊可通过电子方式获得，并被包括NCBI/Pubmed在内的许多数据库索引。 这卷出版物将作为一个新的数据集合，以及综合的结果和理论，以推动比较昼夜节律生物学领域的未来。

Daily and seasonal cues, such as changing light levels, are important environmental signals that help to regulate behavior, physiology and reproduction in diverse organisms. Circadian clocks are internal molecular pathways that allow organisms to respond to these environmental cues. This proposal will support a symposium titled "Keeping Time during Animal Evolution: Conservation and Innovation of the Circadian Clock" at the January 2013 Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology to be held in San Francisco, California. This symposium will highlight current research related to the circadian clock from diverse animals, including sponges, cnidarians, insects, and vertebrates. The overall aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers utilizing a range of organismal models and approaches, to develop an integrative understanding of the circadian clock in animal ecology, and evolution and to foster discussions for collaborative projects to propel this field into the future. This symposium will include oral presentations by 11 speakers who have committed to presenting novel, integrative research related to the circadian clock. These speakers include 1 postdoc, 1 assistant professor, 3 associate professors, and 6 full professors. Additionally, this award will provide partial funding for participation of 3 graduate students in a complementary session. The student travel funds will be targeted aggressively toward members of underrepresented groups. Three of the speakers are women and two are international experts (England, Germany). For domestic speakers, the institutions represented are located throughout the United States and represent universities (6 speakers) and research institutions (3 speakers). The collection of speakers represents the first major effort to bring together a diverse panel of researchers in animal circadian biology, with a focus on the evolution and ecology of this critical signaling network. This symposium will create a synergism of leaders in this field with new researchers, both students and early career faculty. The abstracts from this symposium will be published on the SICB website with a dedicated page developed to highlight this symposium (http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2013/symposia/index.php). All symposium participants will submit manuscripts for publication in the society's journal, Integrative and Comparative Biology (http://www.sicb.org/publications/icb.php3), which is available electronically and indexed by many databases including NCBI/Pubmed. This volume of publications will serve as a collection of novel data as well as synthesized results and theory to propel the field of comparative circadian biology into the future.