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

会议：鸟类应对环境挑战的机制理解的最新进展

• 批准号: 2336743
• 负责人: Alexander Gerson
• 金额: $ 1.48万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2336743&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Recent; advances; mechanistic; understanding

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.

该会议奖项为参加 2024 年 1 月综合与比较生物学学会 (SICB) 年会的研讨会和相关海报会议的参与者提供支持，该研讨会和相关海报会议旨在了解鸟类对环境挑战的反应。鸟类栖息在一些最变化和极端的环境中。地球，以及实验室和现场的最新进展，发现了使鸟类能够克服各种生理挑战的机制，包括超长距离飞行、炎热和寒冷、渗透挑战、低氧和免疫挑战。研讨会将促进对鸟类在充满挑战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，试图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。通过将来自不同职业阶段和背景的具有不同专业知识的生理学家（包括本科生和研究生）聚集到海报会议上，将确定共同主题，并讨论促进未来创新和合作的新方法。参与者将准备一篇综合性、前瞻性论文，发表在 SICB 期刊《综合与比较生物学》上。各个研讨会的报告也将在同一期期刊上发表和传播。鸟类是地球上分布最广泛的恒温动物之一，生活在多种恶劣的环境中。面对环境挑战，物种之间生存的基本原则可能是相似的，即使是应对截然不同的挑战。然而，潜在的机制、一系列生理反应以及对这些性状的选择有很大不同，而且它们从生态或进化角度的影响也可能有所不同。支持的研讨会的目标是强调鸟类对环境挑战做出反应的生理机制，并促进新发现与既定发现的综合，以便提供对该领域当前最新技术的深入了解，突出新发现工具，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人际网络、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成果。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，重点是促进女性参与科学。研讨会还包括一些更资深的鸟类研究人员，以发展和扩大演讲者之间的指导网络。此外，五名或更多本科生和研究生参与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，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，被认为值得支持以及更广泛的影响审查标准。