2005 Neuroethology Gordon Research Conferences

2005 年神经行为学戈登研究会议

• 批准号: 0451541
• 负责人: Nicholas Strausfeld
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-05-01 至 2006-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0451541&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2005; Neuroethology; Gordon; Research; Conferences

This Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Neuroethology emphasizes the need for descriptions of behaviors, their underlying neural mechanisms, and ecological constraints to be described in a language comprehensible across disparate science and engineering communities. Understanding gene selection of behavioral traits within populations is of major concern to those investigating the development of behaviors and brain circuitry. Computational strategies describing complex interactions and genetic manipulations provide new insights into neuronal pathways mediating behaviors. The study of motor actions and behavior inspires engineers to develop innovative biomimetic tools. These exciting avenues into neuroethological research are major themes of this conference. Inclusion of underrepresented minorities is a requirement of the GRC Organization. Specific steps are being taken to include Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities. Advertising to ensure the strong participation by women and minorities will be strenuously pursued by the Chair and the two vice Co-Chairs, one of whom is a woman. Announcements target membership of the Association of Women in Science and Women in Neuroscience. Graduate students are being targeted by direct contact with predoctoral programs that recruit trainees through the Minority Access to Research Careers Program. At the last GRC on Neuroethology, 35% of the participants were women and 10% under-represented minority groups, attesting to this type of outreach. In this 2005 Conference 20 of the 44 speakers/session leaders will be women, a significant increase over past conferences. Estimates from the previous two conferences shows underrepresented minority trainees increasing to 15% of conferees. Concerted efforts to recruit attendance of Hispanic and African American ensures that during participant selection minority participants will be selected. It should be stressed that, as in the two previous GRC Conferences on Neuroethology, when the attendees are selected from the pool of applicants, principles of affirmative action with respect to minority groups, women, and junior scientists will be used as criteria. The dormitories, dining facilities, and poster-viewing/discussion facilities of Magdelen College, the conference venue, are accessible to persons with disabilities, as is the Lecture Theater. As in previous conferences, in the event of there being sufficient funds underrepresented minorities are considered first when assigning travel reimbursements to trainees.This GRC is designed to Promote and Develop Teaching Skills. The Conference Chair is also Chair of the University of Arizona's Center for Insect Science (CIS) Interdisciplinary Graduate Program and Co-Director of the Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching [PERT], a program specifically aimed at underrepresented minorities. He is committed to challenging teachers at all levels with emergent ideas and findings. While GRCs emphasize developments in basic research, attention given to the interdisciplinary nature of the field and the intense debate characterizing GRCs are of major long-term benefit to conferees in their role as present and future University teachers. Another goal of this GRC is to enhance Infrastructure for Research and Education through Interdisciplinary Collaboration. This GRC on Neuroethology uniquely brings together those working in Ecology, Population Genetics, Animal Behavior, Brain Sciences, Engineering, and Computer Sciences. The Conference will foster an intense atmosphere of intellectual exploration leading to long term collaborations at many levels. Such collaborations, and translational research arising from them will support, amongst others, development of neuromorphic circuits and systems for robotic exploration, remote sensing, and prosthetics.

戈登神经行为学研究会议（GRC）强调需要用一种不同科学和工程社区都能理解的语言来描述行为、其潜在的神经机制和生态约束。了解人群中行为特征的基因选择是研究行为和脑回路发展的主要关注点。描述复杂相互作用和遗传操作的计算策略为神经通路介导行为提供了新的见解。对运动动作和行为的研究激励工程师开发创新的仿生工具。这些令人兴奋的神经行为学研究途径是本次会议的主要主题。包括代表性不足的少数民族是GRC组织的要求。正在采取具体步骤纳入妇女、少数民族和残疾人。主席和两位副联合主席（其中一位为妇女）将努力宣传确保妇女和少数民族的大力参与。公告针对女性科学协会和女性神经科学协会的成员。研究生通过少数族裔研究职业项目直接接触博士预科项目，招收实习生。在最近一次神经行为学GRC上，35%的参与者是女性，10%的少数群体代表不足，证明了这种类型的外展。在2005年的会议上，44位发言人/会议负责人中有20位将是女性，比以往的会议有显著增加。前两次会议的估计显示，未被充分代表的少数族裔学员增加到与会者的15%。共同努力招收西班牙裔和非洲裔美国人参加，确保在选择参与者时选择少数民族参与者。应该强调的是，正如前两次GRC神经行为学会议一样，当与会者从申请人中选择时，将以少数群体，妇女和初级科学家的平权行动原则为标准。马德伦学院的宿舍、餐饮设施、海报观看/讨论设施（会议场地）和演讲厅都对残疾人开放。同前几次会议一样，在资金充足的情况下，在向受训人员报销旅费时首先考虑人数不足的少数民族。该GRC旨在促进和发展教学技能。会议主席也是亚利桑那大学昆虫科学中心（CIS）跨学科研究生项目的主席，以及研究和教学博士后卓越项目（PERT）的联合主任，该项目专门针对代表性不足的少数民族。他致力于用新兴的想法和发现挑战各级教师。虽然GRCs强调基础研究的发展，但对该领域跨学科性质的关注和GRCs特征的激烈辩论对作为现在和未来大学教师的与会者具有重大的长期利益。该GRC的另一个目标是通过跨学科合作加强研究和教育的基础设施。神经行为学GRC汇集了生态学、种群遗传学、动物行为学、脑科学、工程学和计算机科学领域的研究人员。会议将营造一种智力探索的热烈气氛，从而在许多层面上进行长期合作。这种合作以及由此产生的转化研究将支持机器人探索、遥感和假肢的神经形态电路和系统的发展。