International Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology; Amherst, Massachusetts, June 26-30, 2002

行为神经内分泌学会（SBN）是相当年轻的（成立于1995年），预计在第六届年会上约有300人出席。 SBN在其会议和期刊（激素行为）中强调将细胞和分子概念整合到涉及大脑，行为，发育，进化和社会行为生态学的功能框架中。 这种将激素与许多行为领域联系起来的浓度，包括现场和实验室方法，使得这次焦点会议不同于该领域的其他会议。 会议组织者高度重视和经验丰富，主题是及时的，除了科学讲座，还有为学生和实习生计划的“生存技能”，“会见教授”午餐，“替代职业”和海报会议，奖项扩大到包括本科生工作。 会议结果的传播将通过激素行为的特别补充问题。 SBN会议强烈强调引入学生（研究生和本科生，占总成员的1/3）和博士后与既定的研究人员进行跨学科的互动。 本次会议的潜在影响是高在神经内分泌学和行为神经科学领域，因为重点讨论塑造未来的工作，发展新的跨学科合作的潜力，以及可能的互动和介绍年轻的研究人员的职业发展至关重要。来自NSF的资金对于帮助学生，博士后和年轻研究人员参加以及一些目前不是社会成员的职业发展研讨会发言人非常重要。

The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) is fairly young (founded 1995), and expects attendance of around 300 at this sixth Annual Meeting. The SBN, in its meetings and its journal (Hormones & Behavior) uniquely emphasizes multidisciplinary integration of cellular and molecular concepts into a functional framework involving the brain, behavior, development, evolution and the ecology of social behavior. This concentration linking hormones to many areas of behavior, including both field and laboratory approaches, makes this focal meeting different from other meetings in the field. The conference organizers are highly regarded and experienced, the topics are timely, and in addition to scientific talks there are particular sessions planned for students and trainees on 'survival skills', 'meet-the-professor' lunches, 'alternative careers' and poster sessions with awards expanded to include undergraduate work. Dissemination of the conference findings will be through a special supplemental issue of Hormones & Behavior. The SBN meetings strongly emphasize bringing in students (graduate and undergraduate, representing 1/3 of the total membership) and postdocs for interdisciplinary interactions with established investigators. The potential impact of this conference is high in the fields of neuroendocrinology and behavioral neuroscience, because of the focused discussions shaping future work, the potential to develop new cross-disciplinary collaborations, and the likely interactions and introductions essential to career development of young investigators. Funding from NSF is important to help students, postdocs, and young researchers attend, and for some career development workshop speakers who are not currently society members.