SICB symposium: Psychoneuroimmunology Meets Integrative Biology. January 3-7, 2009. Boston, MA

SICB 研讨会：心理神经免疫学遇上综合生物学。

• 批准号: 0849163
• 负责人: Lynn Martin
• 金额: $ 1.95万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0849163&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SICB; symposium; Psychoneuroimmunology; Meets; Integrative

The endocrine, immune and nervous systems help animals adjust their behavior to survive challenging conditions. Historically, these systems were studied independently but now they are recognized as an integrated network, which explain how stress can increase chances of sickness in many species. Most work in this new field, psychoneuroimmunology, or PNI, has focused on improvement of human health, but many discoveries might reconcile basic biological problems such as why animals reduce activity when they get sick. Reduced activity, as well as reduced food intake, increased sleep, and lack of interest in pleasurable stimuli, comprise a suite of sickness behaviors that may serve to redirect an animal's priorities towards survival of infection. The goals of the symposium are two-fold. First, PNI researchers will be brought together with comparative physiologists to begin generating frameworks for testing some of the above ideas. PNI researchers tend to be lab-based and work on domesticated rodents whereas comparative physiologists often work on wild animals in the field. Results of these interactions will be disseminated to the public and broader scientific community through the SICB website and papers in the primary scientific literature. Second, the symposium will represent an excellent training experience for students, especially underrepresented groups. Interactions at the symposium will connect promising new scientists to potential mentors. Also, historically underrepresented students will be highlighted in the symposium, as at least three of six trainees funded to attend and present their data will be women or minorities.

内分泌、免疫和神经系统帮助动物调整行为，以在具有挑战性的条件下生存。在历史上，这些系统是独立研究的，但现在它们被认为是一个综合网络，这解释了压力如何会增加许多物种的患病几率。在这一新领域，心理神经免疫学(PNI)的大部分工作都集中在改善人类健康上，但许多发现可能会解决基本的生物学问题，比如为什么动物生病时活动减少。活动减少，食物摄入量减少，睡眠增加，对愉悦的刺激缺乏兴趣，这些都构成了一系列疾病行为，这些行为可能会改变动物的优先事项，使其能够在感染后存活。研讨会的目标有两个。首先，PNI的研究人员将与比较生理学家一起开始生成测试上述一些想法的框架。PNI的研究人员倾向于以实验室为基础，研究驯化的啮齿动物，而比较生理学家经常在野外研究野生动物。这些互动的结果将通过SICB网站和主要科学文献中的论文向公众和更广泛的科学界传播。第二，研讨会将为学生，特别是代表不足的群体提供一次极好的培训经验。研讨会上的互动将把有前途的新科学家与潜在的导师联系起来。此外，研讨会还将强调历史上代表性不足的学生，因为六名受训人员中至少有三名是女性或少数族裔。