Symposium: Sensory Biomechanics, Winter, '09, Westin Waterfront Hotel in Boston, MA.

动物感知环境中的机械信号，做出各种各样的行为。这种能力是由感觉器官促进的，感觉器官将刺激转化为神经信号。要理解这是如何实现的，需要同时考虑信号的物理学和感觉器官的神经生物学。这项提议将支持一次研讨会，该研讨会展示了动物如何感知机械信息的物理学和生物学研究。受邀的演讲者将讨论动物环境中的机械信号，动物对这些信号的行为反应，以及感官器官如何检测信号。此外，投稿的演示文稿将展示整合了生物力学和感觉生物学的广泛研究。所有报告都将在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的2009年综合与比较生物学学会年会上进行，为期两天。本次研讨会将提供一个论坛，综合感官生物力学的指导原则，以及该领域最前沿的方法和发现。演讲者包括来自不同学科、不同职业水平的男性和女性，从研究生到杰出教授。除了提供一个科学论坛，这次研讨会还旨在促进年轻研究人员的职业生涯。

Animals sense mechanical signals in their environment for a wide variety of behaviors. This ability is facilitated by sensory organs that transform a stimulus into a nervous signal. Understanding how this is achieved requires a consideration of both the physics of the signals and the neurobiology of the sensory organs. This proposal will support a symposium that presents research on the physics and biology of how animals sense mechanical information. Invited speakers will discuss the mechanical signals in the environments of animals, the behavioral responses of animals to these signals, and how signals are detected by sensory organs. In addition, contributed presentations will showcase a breadth of research that integrates biomechanics and sensory biology. All presentations will be made during two days of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology in Boston, MA. This symposium will provide a forum for both the synthesis of governing principles of sensory biomechanics, as well as the approaches and findings at the cutting-edge of this field. The presenters include men and women from a diversity of disciplines at all career levels between graduate students to distinguished professors. In addition to providing a scientific forum, this symposium aims to promote the careers of young investigators.