The symposium will take place on Friday, 10 August 2001, from 8 AM to noon. This is an open meeting of the society, at which we anticipate attendance by a cross-section of members, from students to senior scientists. We have invited Martin Feder and Steven Hand of SICB to the symposium to lead the participation of the animal ecophysiologists. Martin Feder is past-president and Steven Hand is Chair of the Division of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry.
Section on Physiological Ecology
Vincent P.Gutschick, Dept. of Biology, New Mexico State Univ.
vince@nmsu.edu 505-646-5661 FAX 505-646-5665
Arnold J. Bloom, Dept. of Vegetable Crops, Univ. of California, Davis
ajbloom@ucdavis.edu 530-752-1743 FAX 530-752-9659
Plant and animal ecophysiology have diverged markedly in the last decade, with little remaining contact. Nonetheless, in recent informal meetings, physiological ecologists within ESA and their counterparts in the Society for Integrative and Comparative Physiology (SICB) have identified many concepts, evolutionary questions, and methods to share between the two groups. Martin Feder of SICB has organized a symposium on connections in plant and animal physiology - signalling, stress tolerance, and more - for the January, 2001 SICB meeting. The symposium we describe here is the reciprocal effort by ESA to bring the groups together. Speaking here are active researchers who address simultaneously plant and animal or microbial physiology in important ecological questions. We begin with a round-robin comparison of plant and animal interactions, as in parasitisms. Herbivory is a major link between animal and plant ecophysiology, which the next three speakers address this from varied perspectives. We then extend the connections to additional kingdoms of microbes and also to the molecular mechanisms. In closing, all the organisms are viewed within the global climate system that conditions all their interactions.
8:00 am - GUTSCHICK, Vincent. Introduction: How did animal and plant ecophysiology get separated, and how are we gaining from reconnecting?
8:05 am - FEDER, Martin. The view from animal ecological and evolutionary physiology: what we stand to gain.
8:10 am - PRESS, Malcolm. What we learn comparing plant, animal, and microbial symbionts of plants
8:40 am - HARTLEY, Susan. Plant chemistry and herbivory, or, Why is the world green?
9:10 am - APPEL, Heidi. Convergent use of polyphenols by insects and plants
9:40 am - Discussion (Steven Hand)
9:50 am - BREAK
10:00 am - STRAUSS, Sharon. Tolerance and resistance in plants: Which traits are important, what is the evidence of costs, and are there trade-offs?
10:30 am - BOSTOCK, Richard. Commonality of pathways of resistance to pathogens and herbivores
11:00 am - PORTER, Warren. Climate, plants, and animals: interactions on landscapes, with applications to ecological theory and conservation practice
11:30 am - BLOOM, Arnold and FEDER, Martin. Synthesis
Malcolm Press, Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield
m.c.press@sheffield.ac.uk (+44) (0) 114 222 4111/4374
FAX (+44) (0)114 222 0002
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/aps/staffmcp.html
Heidi Appel, Dept. of Biology, Pennsylvania State University
hma2@psu.edu (1) 814-863-3380 FAX (1) 814-863-4439
http://www.personal.psu.edu/hma2/
Susan Hartley, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex
S.E.Hartley@biols.susx.ac.uk (+44) (0) 1 273 510 198
Warren Porter, Dept. of Zoology, University of Wisconsin
wporter@vms2.macc.wisc.edu or wporter@mhub.zoology.wisc.edu
608-262-1719 or -0029
http://www.wisc.edu/zoology/faculty/fac/Por/Por.html
Sharon Strauss, Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis
systrauss@ucdavis.edu (1) 530-752-8415
http://www.dbs.ucdavis.edu/centers/faculty/popbio/?SStrauss
Richard Bostock, Dept. of Plant Pathology/Microbiology Graduate Group, University of California, Davis
rmbostock@ucdavis.edu (1) 530-752-0308 or -4269
http://www.dbs.ucdavis.edu/faculty/mic/?RBostock
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