Conference: Recent advances in the mechanistic understanding of avian responses to environmental challenges

该会议奖支持参加研讨会和相关海报会议的参与者了解鸟类对环境挑战的反应，在2024年1月的综合和比较生物学学会（SICB）年会上。鸟类栖息在地球上一些最多变和极端的环境中，最近在实验室和野外的进展已经发现了使鸟类能够克服各种生理挑战的机制，包括极端长距离飞行，热和冷，渗透挑战，低氧和免疫挑战。研讨会将推进对鸟类在具有挑战性的环境中生存的生理策略的集体理解，并促进参与者之间的讨论，以建立新的和加强现有的联系，找到共同的主题，并讨论该领域的未来方向。通过汇集来自不同职业阶段和背景的不同专业知识的生理学家，包括海报会议中的本科生和研究生，将确定共同的主题，并讨论促进未来创新和合作的新方法。参与者将准备一份综合性的前瞻性论文，发表在SICB杂志《综合与比较生物学》上。个别研讨会的报告也将在同一期刊上发表和传播。鸟类是地球上分布最广泛的恒温动物之一，生活在许多类型的不适宜居住的环境中。在面对环境挑战时，即使是在应对非常不同的挑战时，物种之间的生存基本原则也是相似的。然而，这些特征的潜在机制、生理反应套件和选择显著不同，它们从生态或进化角度的影响和影响也可能不同。支持研讨会的目标是突出鸟类对环境挑战的反应的生理机制，并促进新发现与已有发现的综合，以提供对该领域当前技术水平的知情理解，突出新工具，并确定未来的研究机会和合作。此外，COVID-19大流行的众多持久影响之一是，早期职业研究人员没有那么多机会建立网络，发展专业关系，或以最大限度地接触研究界的方式展示他们的研究。因此，研讨会特别强调了早期职业科学家正在进行的出色研究，重点是促进妇女参与科学。研讨会还包括一些更高级的鸟类研究人员，以发展和扩大演讲者之间的指导网络。此外，五名或五名以上的本科生和研究生参加补充海报会议将为在校学生提供建立重要专业关系的机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This conference award supports participants in a symposium and associated poster session on understanding avian responses to environmental challenges, at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in January 2024. Birds inhabit some of the most variable and extreme environments on the planet, and recent advances in the lab and field have led to discoveries about the mechanisms that enable birds to overcome physiological challenges of all kinds, including extreme long-distance flight, heat and cold, osmotic challenges, low oxygen, and immune challenges. The symposium will advance the collective understanding of the physiological strategies that birds use to survive in challenging environments, and to promote discussion among the participants in an attempt to establish new and strengthen existing connections, find common themes, and discuss future directions in the field. By bringing together physiologists with disparate expertise from various career stages and backgrounds, including undergraduate and graduate students in the poster session, common themes will be identified and new approaches that promote future innovation and collaborations will be discussed. Participants will prepare a synthetic, forward-looking paper to be published in the SICB journal, Integrative and Comparative Biology. The individual symposium presentations will also be published and disseminated in the same journal issue.Birds are among the most widely distributed endotherms on the planet, living in many types of inhospitable environments. In the face of environmental challenges, the basic principles that allow for survival can be similar among species, even in response to very different challenges. However, the underlying mechanisms, suite of physiological responses, and selection on those traits differ significantly, and their influence and impact from an ecological or evolutionary perspective can vary as well. It is the goal of the supported symposium to highlight physiological mechanisms underlying avian responses to environmental challenges and to facilitate the synthesis of new discoveries with established findings in order to provide an informed understanding of the current state of the art in the field, to highlight new tools, and to identify future research opportunities and collaborations. Furthermore, one of the many enduring impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is that early-career researchers have not had as many opportunities to network, develop professional relationships, or present their research in a way that maximizes exposure to the research community. Therefore, the symposium specifically highlights the excellent research being conducted by early-career scientists, with an emphasis on promoting women in science. The symposium also includes a number of more senior avian researchers to develop and broaden mentoring networks among the speakers. In addition, the participation of five or more undergraduate and graduate students in a complementary poster session will provide current students the opportunity to build important professional relationships.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.