Conference: International Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, August 5-9 in Madrid, Spain

会议：行为神经内分泌学会国际会议，8 月 5 日至 9 日在西班牙马德里举行

• 批准号: 0083517
• 负责人: Jill Schneider
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: Lehigh University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-01 至 2001-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0083517&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; International; Meeting; Society; Behavioral

This grant will be used to pay student travel expenses to the annual conference of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) in August 2000. The SBN fosters research and education concerning how hormones act on the brain and body to influence behavior. SBN is unique in its attention to student members. For example, last year's annual SBN meeting drew136 student attendees, 85 competitors in the student poster competition, and 42 competitors for the student travel awards. Students typically have limited financial resources, and thus, we set membership dues at $10, and consistently provide affordable accommodations. This year's annual meeting in Madrid, Spain will offer special opportunities to travel abroad and to interact with a diverse group of distinguished scientists. The momentum we generated in student participation might have been dampened by the prohibitive cost of transatlantic travel, had we not received this travel grant.Research presented at the SBN conference has impact on clinical treatments as well as on environmental awareness. For example, the hormonal changes of menopause and those associated with stressful experiences are associated with a loss of memory and learning ability. Members of SBN are studying the effects of the ovarian hormone, estrogen, and adrenal hormones on the specific brain cells that influence learning and memory. Other members of SBN are studying the effects of hormones secreted by plants such as soy. Ingested plant hormones impair fertility or even reverse the sex of animals, including people. These are just two of the many examples of hormonal effects on behavior that SBN members seek to understand. While most of science reduces these phenomena to the cellular and molecular level, SBN members seeks to integrate cellular and molecular concepts into a functional framework that is relevant for the whole animal in its environment.

该补助金将用于支付学生参加2000年8月行为神经内分泌学会（SBN）年会的旅费。 SBN促进关于激素如何作用于大脑和身体以影响行为的研究和教育。 SBN在关注学生成员方面是独一无二的。 例如，去年的SBN年会吸引了136名学生参加，85名学生参加了学生海报比赛，42名学生参加了学生旅行奖。 学生通常有有限的财政资源，因此，我们设置会费为10美元，并一贯提供负担得起的住宿。 今年在西班牙马德里举行的年会将提供出国旅行和与各种杰出科学家交流的特别机会。我们在学生参与产生的势头可能已经抑制了跨大西洋旅行的高昂成本，如果我们没有收到这笔旅费补助金。在SBN会议上提出的研究对临床治疗以及对环境意识的影响。 例如，更年期的荷尔蒙变化以及与压力经历相关的荷尔蒙变化与记忆力和学习能力的丧失有关。 SBN的成员正在研究卵巢激素、雌激素和肾上腺激素对影响学习和记忆的特定脑细胞的影响。 SBN的其他成员正在研究大豆等植物分泌的激素的影响。 摄入的植物激素会损害生育能力，甚至逆转动物的性别，包括人。 这些只是SBN成员试图了解的激素对行为影响的许多例子中的两个。 虽然大多数科学将这些现象减少到细胞和分子水平，但SBN成员试图将细胞和分子概念整合到与整个动物环境相关的功能框架中。