Dear colleagues - 

We are pleased to announce the opening of abstract submission to the Session 5 
of the International Coral Reef Society meeting in Hawaii, 2016 (ICRS2016): 
"Acclimatization and Adaptation in Reef Organisms”. 

The session's subject is very broad as you will see from the session's summary 
below. We are looking forward to exciting cross-disciplinary discussions.

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Deadline:
Abstracts are due by midnight, Central Standard Time USA / 06:00 Greenwich Mean 
Time (GMT), January 15, 2016.

Abstract Submission:
https://sgmeet.com/icrs2016/abstractinfo.asp

Abstract Guidelines:
https://www.sgmeet.com/icrs2016/abstract_guide.asp

see you in Hawaii!

Lead Organizers:
Mikhail Matz, University of Texas at Austin, m...@utexas.edu 
Iliana Baums, Pennsylvania State University, ba...@psu.edu 
Hollie Putnam, University of Hawaii, hput...@hawaii.edu 
Manuel Aranda Lastra, KAUST, manuel.ara...@kaust.edu.sa 

Co-Chairs:
Timothy Ravasi, KAUST, timothy.rav...@kaust.edu.sa
Line K. Bay, AIMS, l....@aims.gov.au 
Sarah W. Davies, UNC Chapel Hill, davie...@gmail.com 
Sylvain Forêt, ANU, sylvain.fo...@anu.edu.au  
John Parkinson, PSU, jparkin...@psu.edu
Roberto Iglesias Prieto, UNAM, igles...@cmarl.unam.mx
Carly D. Kenkel, AIMS, c.ken...@aims.gov.au

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ICRS 2016,  Session 5
Acclimatization and Adaptation in Reef Organisms
#ac/ad

The ability of reef organisms to undergo acclimatization and adaptation (Ac/Ad) 
is the major determinant of the resilience of reef communities in response to 
local human impacts and global climate change. Still, the rates and mechanisms 
of Ac/Ad in reef organisms remain largely unknown. This session will showcase 
multi-disciplinary research aimed to fill this knowledge gap through 
experimental studies demonstrating ecological and physiological Ac/Ad, 
mechanistic understanding of these processes, and theoretical or modeling work 
on their role in reef resilience, as well as discussions of its practical 
applications in reef management. 

Experimental evidence of Ac/Ad can be any demonstration that populations match 
their traits to their local environment and could be based on common garden 
experiments, reciprocal transplantation, demonstration of selection for 
fitness-related traits, historical shifts in physiology, morphology and 
geographical range. 

Mechanisms of Ac/Ad primarily include the following: 
- behavioral mechanisms (habitat preference during recruitment, mate choice to 
maintain ecological specialization), 
- intra-generational acclimatization (physiological and gene expression 
plasticity, modification of the prokaryotic and eukaryotic symbiont communities 
depending on the environment, epigenetics), 
- genetic adaptation (genomic evidence of local selection, restricted gene flow 
due to environmental disparity, genetic variation in fitness-related traits),
- non-genetic transgenerational adaptation (heritable epigenetic modification, 
adjustments of the prokaryotic and eukaryotic symbiont communities, or other 
mechanisms). 

Studies of changes in the interactions among closely interacting organism 
(symbionts), e.g. due to range shifts are also appropriate. 

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