The biennial meetings of the NASCE and its journal, General and Comparative Endocrinology provide essential forums for the communication and exchange of discoveries and ideas in the field of comparative endocrinology. Comparative endocrinologists work across disciplinary boundaries, from molecular to ecological. Members of the NASCE conduct basic research in diverse areas of the life sciences, such as the development of alternative animal model systems for discovery of novel hormones and hormone-signaling pathways; the discovery of new pharmaceuticals to treat human disease; the design of hormonally-based strategies for pest control; the development of sensitive, representative and high-throughput endocrine-screening assays for endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs); the analysis of the impact of global climatic change on animal populations; the elucidation of pathways and mechanisms of evolution through the study of endocrine genes and structures; and the development of improved strategies for the production of animal protein to feed the world’s growing human population.

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