Colleagues, As most of you know, we are attempting to begin a Division of Disease Ecology and Ecological Immunology within the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). To do so, we must obtain signatures from 25 current SICB members. If you're supportive of this goal, please sign this petition so that we may provide it to the SICB leadership. We agreed in an earlier survey that the discipline would take the name above, although it may need to change contingent on feedback from the rest of SICB. Once signatures are provided, SICB leadership should act quickly to decide whether this new discipline is possible. Initial queries indicated strong support. Thanks, Marty Lynn B. Martin University of South Florida Integrative Biology