Breaking Boundaries for Evolutionary Synthesis: An Interactive and Integrative Symposium Linking Crustacean and Insect Physiology- West Palm Beach, Florida; January, 2015

昆虫和甲壳类动物分别代表陆地和水生系统中的关键和主要动物群体（按生物量和物种数量）。昆虫和甲壳类动物在历史上被归类在节肢动物门下的不同分类学类别中，多年来人们认为多足动物可能是昆虫最接近的亲属。新的遗传数据已经清楚地表明，昆虫和其他六足动物是在节肢动物树内的甲壳类动物中嵌套的，作为一个分支称为Pancrustacea。这一新的进化理解提供了智力动机，以启动一个新的重点，旨在了解的共性和进化趋势的甲壳纲的进化生理学。 该奖项将支持一种新型的专题讨论会，旨在促进在西棕榈滩，佛罗里达，2015年1月的综合和比较生物学会议上跨分类群和学科的合成合作。 在这次研讨会上，主要研究昆虫或甲壳类动物的研究人员将共同完成他们的演讲和手稿。此外，每个研究人员将在他们的谈话和手稿中解决一组共同的焦点，综合问题。观众参与将是专题讨论会和研讨会后讲习班的重点。 一些参与者，包括受训人员，甚至可能因参与而对手稿作出贡献。这种明确的综合性方法的专题讨论会是新的SICB，并有望激发进一步的创新，促进跨学科的综合。此外，该奖项将支持大量不同的初级调查员和学员的指导和科学发展。

Insects and crustaceans represent critical, dominant animal groups (by biomass and species number) in terrestrial and aquatic systems, respectively. Insects and crustaceans were historically grouped under separate taxonomic classes under the Phylum Arthropoda, and for many years it was thought that myriapods might be the closest relatives to insects. New genetic data have made it clear that insects and other hexapods are nested within the crustaceans within the arthropod tree as a clade termed the Pancrustacea. This new evolutionary understanding provides the intellectual motivation to initiate a new focus in evolutionary physiology aimed at understanding commonalities and evolutionary trends in the Pancrustacea. This award will support a new type of symposium designed to promote synthetic collaborations across taxa and disciplines at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting at West Palm Beach, Florida, January 2015. In this symposium, researchers who work primarily on insects or crustaceans will work together on both their talks and manuscripts. In addition, each researcher will address a common set of focal, integrative questions in their talks and manuscripts. Audience participation will be a focus of the symposium and a post-seminar workshop. Some participants, including the trainees, may even contribute to the manuscripts as a result of their participation. This explicitly integrative approach to a symposium is novel at SICB and will hopefully galvanize further innovations that promote interdisciplinary synthesis. In addition, this award will support mentoring and scientific development of a large number of diverse junior investigators and trainees.