Congratulations to Christine Madliger from our lab in publishing the lead article in the first 2016 issue of Conservation Physiology. Christine’s review summarizes key positive advances within the field of Conservation Physiology and is based upon the roundtable discussion she organized last January at her Conservation Physiology symposium held at the 2015 SICB conference. This particular review is important and a big step forward for the field as the paper emphasizes a shift from what Conservation Physiology can do in theory, to detailing key advances and using those to determine where the field should concentrate efforts next. All in all a very important paper. Well done Christine!