MEETING: Evolutionary Endocrinology: Hormones as Mediators of Evolutionary Phenomena (SICB Symposium, January 5, 2016 in Portland, OR)

会议：进化内分泌学：激素作为进化现象的中介（SICB 研讨会，2016 年 1 月 5 日在俄勒冈州波特兰市）

• 批准号: 1539936
• 负责人: Robert Cox
• 金额: $ 1.47万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1539936&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MEETING; Evolutionary; Endocrinology; Hormones; Mediators

This conference will bring together leading experts to explore the importance of hormones in evolutionary research. A central goal of modern biology is to understand the complex networks through which genes are translated into organisms. Historically, the field of endocrinology has played a large part in this endeavor by discovering the many pathways through which hormones regulate the behavior, development, and physiology of organisms. In parallel, the field of evolutionary biology has developed the statistical tools for predicting how both genes and organisms evolve in response to selection, as well as a variety of experimental techniques for testing these predictions. Yet, evolutionary biologists have rarely sought to incorporate hormones and endocrine pathways into evolutionary theory, and most endocrinologists still focus on a handful of "model organisms," providing relatively little evolutionary context for their mechanistic studies. With the increasing availability of genomic data from non-model species and the relative ease with which "next-generation" sequencing technologies now permit scientists to assess the roles of hormones in coordinating the expression of thousands of genes, these fields are ripe for synthesis under the emerging framework of Evolutionary Endocrinology. Held at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, this conference will bring together endocrinologists and evolutionary biologists to explore the many roles of hormones in mediating phenomena that are at the forefront of modern evolutionary research. It will establish SICB as the home for this emerging field while leveraging this society's diverse network of Divisions with complementary views (Comparative Endocrinology, Ecology & Evolution, Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Animal Behavior). The award will support symposium speakers who encompass a diverse mix of genders, career stages, focal species, endocrine pathways, and evolutionary phenomena. It will also support a complementary session by a similarly diverse lineup of students, postdocs and early career scientists, along with online resources and networking events designed to foster collaboration between these young investigators and established leaders in the field. Participants will each contribute a peer-reviewed article to a special issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology. Conference organizers will provide a synthetic overview and prospectus piece designed to identify and develop actionable strategies for a synthetic field of Evolutionary Endocrinology to emerge as a foundation for training the next generation of integrative scientists.

这次会议将汇集领先的专家，以探讨激素在进化研究中的重要性。现代生物学的一个核心目标是了解将基因转化为生物的复杂网络。从历史上看，内分泌学领域通过发现激素调节生物体的行为，发育和生理学的许多途径，在这项工作中发挥了很大作用。同时，进化生物学领域已经开发了统计工具，用于预测基因和生物如何响应选择的基因和生物以及测试这些预测的各种实验技术。然而，进化生物学家很少试图将激素和内分泌途径纳入进化论，大多数内分泌学家仍然专注于少数“模型生物”，为其机械研究提供了相对较少的进化环境。随着来自非模型物种的基因组数据的可用性不断增加，现在“下一代”测序技术的相对简化现在允许科学家评估激素在协调数千个基因表达中的作用，这些领域是在进化内分泌学的出现框架下进行同步的成熟。在综合和比较生物学学会的年度会议上，该会议将汇集内分泌学家和进化生物学家，以探索激素在中介现象中的许多作用，这些现象是现代进化研究的最前沿。它将建立SICB作为这个新兴领域的家园，同时利用该社会的各种分歧网络（比较内分泌学，生态与进化，进化发展生物学，动物行为）。该奖项将支持座谈会的演讲者，这些演讲者涵盖了各种性别，职业阶段，焦点，内分泌途径和进化现象的混合。它还将支持类似多样化的学生，博士后和早期职业科学家的互补会议，以及在线资源和网络活动，旨在促进这些年轻的调查员与该领域成熟的领导者之间的合作。参与者每个人都会为综合生物学和比较生物学的特刊撰写一篇经过同行评审的文章。会议组织者将提供综合概述和招股说明书文章，旨在识别和制定进化内分泌学领域的合成领域的可行策略，以成为培训下一代综合科学家的基础。

项目成果

Sex steroids as mediators of phenotypic integration, genetic correlations, and evolutionary transitions

• DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2019.110668
• 发表时间: 2020-02-15
• 期刊: MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY
• 影响因子: 4.1
• 作者: Cox, Robert M.