Symposium number: 34

Title: ENDOCRINE BASES OF REPRODUCTION: MECHANISMS AND DIVERSITY

Principal organizer: Pierre Deviche
Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, Arizona 87287-4501, USA
email: deviche@asu.edu

Second organizer: Alistair Dawson
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Monks Wood, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 2LS, United Kingdom

First keynote speaker: Kazuyoshi Tsutsui
Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521, Japan
Title of first keynote paper: Discovery of gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone in a domesticated bird, and its mode of action and functional significance

Second keynote speaker: George Bentley
Department of Integrative Biology #3140, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA
Title of second keynote paper: Gonadotropin - inhibitory hormone in seasonally-breeding songbirds: form and function

Contributed talks

Symposium description: This symposium will review recent progress in our understanding of the mechanisms that control avian reproduction and their diversity. Day length plays a major role in the initiation and termination of avian reproductive cycles, but the mechanisms that mediate its role are not fully understood. Moreover, although the relative importance of photic vs. nonphotic information in the control of reproduction varies among species, we know little about the integration of nonphotic information by neuroendocrine systems or its transduction into physiological changes.
The symposium will present new methods and approaches to address these issues. It will combine presentations by researchers investigating reproduction in various species and integrate analyses at multiple levels, from whole organisms in their natural environment to laboratory studies at the molecular level. The information emerging will be of particular interest to researchers involved in biodiversity, the effects of endocrine disruptors and global climate change at individual and population levels, behaviour, ecological constraints on reproduction, environmental control of ontogenic development, and avian husbandry.

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