Dear colleagues, We (the Editor and Associate of Integrative and Comparative Biology) invite you to the first annual Editor’s Challenge, a 1-day workshop at the Society for integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meeting in San Francisco on January 3, 2018.
The challenge this year is to define stress. In spring of 2017, we polled the SICB membership and other scientists (via ECOLOG-L) for definitions of stress. We’ve compiled those definitions and will make them available soon. This workshop will bring together scientists responding to that poll, as well as others, with the goal of synthesizing what stress means in organismal biology. We think this year is a particularly good time to hold this workshop, given that several symposia at the meeting will address stress: http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2018/symposia/endocrine.php http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2018/symposia/mitochondrial.php http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2018/symposia/urban.php We seek to discuss and define stress broadly, so we hope to attract participants from various taxonomic and conceptual backgrounds. The books below give an example of the many ways biologists have defined stress to date. 1. Evolutionary Genetics and Environmental Stress. 1991. AA Hoffmann and PA Parsons, Oxford Scientific Publications. 2. Tempests, Predators, Poxes and People. 2016. LM Romero and JW Wingfield, Oxford UP. 3. Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. 2004. RM Sapolsky. Henry Holt and Co. 4. Environmental Stress, Adaptation and Evolution. 2013. R. Biljsma and V. Loeschcke, Springer Basel. 5. Stress in Health and Disease. 1976. H. Selye. Butterworths. 6. Bacterial Stress Responses. 2011. G Storz and R. Hengge. 7. Stress response syndromes: PTSD, grief, and adjustment disorders, 3rd ed. 1997. Horowitz, M. J. Jason Aronson. The workshop itself will proceed as follows (8:30AM – 4:30 PM): 1. A few speakers will give 10-minute talks on their definitions of stress. Those guests are: Anna Ahn https://www.hmc.edu/biology/faculty-staff/anna-n-ahn/ Julian Ayroles http://www.ayroleslab.com Fran Bonier http://post.queensu.ca/~bonierf/ Marco del Guidice https://marcodg.net/ Kristy Kroeker http://kristy-kroeker.squarespace.com Andrew Whitehead https://whiteheadresearch.wordpress.com 2. In between each 10-minute talk, the floor will be open for 10-minutes to engage the speakers or the audience on related topics; 3. Following all talks and lunch, all participants will work in small groups to discuss stress; 4. Aspects of these discussions will eventually be transformed into synthetic papers, which will be reviewed for publication in Integrative and Comparative Biology. ***We do not have funds to cover participation or travel, but the workshop takes place on the first day of the meeting (i.e., the day of the first plenary, not the main sessions).*** If you are interested, please provide the following information at this SurveyMonkey link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KXGTF3C , which will expire on 12/01/17: i. name ii. affilitation iii. email iv. career stage v. why interested? vi.willingness to lead or co-author a paper emerging from workshop? If you have questions, please direct those towards Conor Taff (cc...@cornell.edu) or Cedric Zimmer (c...@cornell.edu). Lastly, we hope to be as inclusive as possible, but recognize that the meeting space is limited and that conversations will be most constructive in modest-sized groups. We might not be able to welcome all respondents. On behalf of the Associate Editors and myself, thanks for considering joining us! Marty Lynn B. Martin Professor Editor, Integrative and Comparative Biology Department of Integrative Biology University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue, SCA 110 Tampa, FL 33620 813-974-0157 lbmar...@usf.edu Lab website: http://organismalbiology.weebly.com Google scholar page: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W7gGhjYAAAAJ
