Meeting: Evolutionary Impacts of Seasonality; a Symposium for the Annual Meeting of SICB, New Orleans, LA, Jan 4-8 2017

非技术：季节的变化驱动着全球的生物节律，从每年的繁殖季节，到作物种植和收获，再到经济。因此，对季节性生物的破坏将对人类健康和福祉产生严重影响。了解生物体对季节性的反应是生理学、生态学和行为学研究的主要目标。我们建议举办一次研讨会，汇集这些领域的观点，特别关注对过去和未来季节性变化的进化反应。跨越子学科的综合研究已被证明能够带来变革性的发现，而狭隘的研究无法做到这一点。拟议的研讨会将通过汇集从植物到哺乳动物等各个领域的研究人员来促进这种综合研究，综合目前关于生物季节性的知识状况，并确定跨领域异花授粉的重要知识差距和机会。技术方面：本次研讨会将于2017年1月在美国新奥尔良举行的综合与比较生物学学会（SICB）年会上举行，并将为SICB期刊《综合与比较生物学》（ICB）撰写稿件。在会议之前，组织者将远程协调一组参与者起草一份综合评论论文。在会议期间，与会者将介绍他们自己的研究，并在主办的研讨会上继续起草综合论文。该讲习班还将有助于促进新的跨学科研究。最后，参与者将在ICB的特刊上与评论论文一起发表他们的个人研究。

Non Technical: Changing of the seasons drives biological rhythms across the globe, from annual breeding seasons, to crop planting and harvest, to economics. Thus, disruptions to seasonal biology will have serious impacts on human health and well-being. Understanding how organisms respond to seasonality is a major goal of research spanning physiology, ecology, and behavior. We propose a symposium bringing together perspectives from each of these fields, with a particular focus on evolutionary responses to past and future changes in seasonality. Integrative research spanning sub disciplines has proven to deliver transformative discoveries in a way that narrowly focused research cannot. The proposed symposium will facilitate such integrative research by bringing together researchers from across fields, working on organisms ranging from plants to mammals, to synthesize the current state of knowledge on biological seasonality and to identify important gaps in knowledge and opportunities for cross-pollination across fields.Technical: The symposium will be hosted at the January 2017 annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in New Orleans, USA, and will produce manuscripts for an issue of the SICB journal Integrative and Comparative Biology (ICB). Prior to the conference, the organizers will remotely coordinate the drafting of a synthetic review paper by a group of participants. During the meeting, participants will present their own research and continue drafting the synthesis paper during a hosted workshop. This workshop will also serve to facilitate new, cross-disciplinary research. Finally, participants will publish their individual research alongside the review paper in a special issue of ICB.