Meeting: Allometry, Scaling and Ontogeny of Form; A Symposium for the Annual, SICB meeting, Tampa, FL January 2019

“形态的异速生长、伸缩和个体发育”研讨会将展示一群才华横溢的、多样化的研究人员，他们研究各种动物和植物的形态大小和形状关系的发育和进化原因。身体各部分的相对大小和形状的差异是定义物种的最明显的特征之一，了解这些差异是如何产生的，对发育和进化生物学的研究具有极大的兴趣。本次研讨会将于2019年1月在佛罗里达州坦帕市举行，届时将举行综合与比较生物学学会年会。研讨会将提供一个平台，促进初级和高级职业科学家之间的对话，并将促进进化生物学家、发育生物学家和生理学家之间新颖的综合合作。研讨会将以形态异速生长的最新研究为特色，展示尖端工具和各种研究系统。通过汇聚专门研究从昆虫到哺乳动物和植物等不同物种的研究人员，以及不同技术专长和研究重点的参与者，研讨会及其出版物将提供进化和发育现象的综合综合，从而有助于加深对异速生长的理解。参与者的组合将允许早期职业人士与更资深的人进行密切互动，特别是它将使研究生能够发展专业网络，并与潜在的科学导师建立联系。直到最近，异速生长的研究大多是描述性的，包括对双变量或多变量形态测量数据进行回归的各种方法。在过去的十年里，研究人员一直在开发从异速生长数据中提取生物信息的方法，这些信息可以用来推断导致异速生长的潜在机制。此外，在了解生长动力学和控制身体及其组成部分生长的调节机制方面也做出了越来越多的努力。尽管人们普遍同意异速生长研究的新目标(了解潜在的机制以及这些机制如何演变成不同的形态)，但由于不同方法之间缺乏协调，进展受到阻碍。这是因为不同的研究人员从不同的学科(遗传学、细胞生物学、进化论、发育、比较形态学、统计学)来研究这个问题，采用了不同的技术和概念方法。现在是时候迅速和协调地推动将对异速生长的原因和后果的理解提高到一个全新的水平，通过将关于生长和形态发生的遗传、细胞和生理机制的各种信息整合到一个新的研究计划中，该计划采用多样化的方法。为了做到这一点，不同的从业者必须相互互动。这就是研讨会的主要目的：在被选中代表不同观点的现有从业者和新手从业者之间建立新的功能、概念和协作联系。研讨会论文和综合综述论文将在《综合与比较生物学》杂志上发表。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The symposium "Allometry, Scaling and Ontogeny of Form" will showcase a talented and diverse group of researchers examining the developmental and evolutionary causes of morphological size and shape relationships across a variety of animals and plants. Differences in the relative sizes and shapes of body parts are among the most distinguishing features that define species, and understanding how these differences come about is of compelling interest to the study of developmental and evolutionary biology. This symposium will be held in Tampa, Florida, in January 2019, at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The symposium will provide a platform to facilitate conversation between junior and senior career scientists and will foster novel integrative collaborations between evolutionary biologists, developmental biologists, and physiologists. The symposium will feature the state-of-the-art investigation of morphological allometry, showcasing cutting-edge tools and a diverse array of study systems. By bringing together researchers specializing in diverse species, ranging from insects to mammals and plants, with participants of diverse technical expertise and research emphases, the symposium and its publications will contribute to a deeper understanding of allometry by providing an integrative synthesis of evolutionary and developmental phenomena. The mix of attendees will allow early career people to interact closely with more senior ones, and, in particular, it will place graduate students in a position to develop professional networks and connect with potential scientific mentors. Until recently, the study of allometry was mostly descriptive, and consisted of a diversity of methods for fitting regressions to bivariate or multivariate morphometric data. During the past decade, researchers have been developing methods to extract biological information from allometric data that could be used to deduce the underlying mechanisms that gave rise to the allometry. In addition, an increasing effort has gone into understanding the kinetics of growth and the regulatory mechanisms that control growth of the body and its component parts. Although there is general agreement about the new goals for the study of allometry (understanding underlying mechanisms and how those evolve to produce different morphologies), progress is hindered by lack of coordination among the different approaches. This stems from the fact that different investigators arrived at the problem from different disciplines (genetics, cell biology, evolution, development, comparative morphology, statistics), armed with different technical and conceptual approaches. The time is now right for a rapid and coordinated push to take understanding of the causes and consequences of allometry to a wholly new level, by integrating this diverse body of information about genetic, cellular, and physiological mechanisms of growth and morphogenesis into a new research program that embraces diversity of approach. In order to do this diverse practitioners must interact with each other. That is the main purpose of the symposium: to forge new functional, conceptual, and collaborative connections among established and novice practitioners selected to represent a diversity of perspectives. Symposium papers and a synthetic overview paper will be disseminated by publication in the journal, Integrative and Comparative Biology.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.