5th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, April 27-May 1, 2011, Cancun, Mexico

神经工程是将电子和光子技术、计算机科学、物理、化学、数学等多个工程学科与细胞、分子、认知和行为神经科学相结合，以了解神经系统生物学的组织原理和潜在机制，研究自然界中神经系统的行为动力学和复杂性的一门新兴学科。为了突出这一新兴学科，第五届国际IEEE EMBS神经工程会议将于2011年4月27日至5月1日在墨西哥坎昆举行。这个项目将支持研究生和博士后参加这次会议。这次会议的目的是突出神经和认知工程的进展，这是一个将分子、细胞、系统、认知和行为神经科学与工程、物理、化学、数学和计算机科学联系起来的新兴领域。神经工程大会进一步促进了神经科学家、化学家、工程师、计算机科学家和数学家之间的神经工程研究和教育。除了大会上的主题演讲、全体会议、平台和海报会议外，还将有一个小组讨论在迅速增长的跨学科神经工程领域取得职业生涯所面临的挑战，从被聘为团队的一部分，到找到令人兴奋的新研究机会，一直到成为团队领导者，以及在组织团队和选择成员时寻找什么。将讨论国际和美国国内研究生学习和研究的职业选择，以及国际研究人员和学生之间的合作。

1005984AkayNeural engineering is an emerging discipline which coalesces multiple engineering disciplines including electronic and photonic technologies, computer science, physics, chemistry, mathematics with cellular, molecular, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience to understand the organizational principles and underlying mechanisms of the biology of neural systems and to study the behavior dynamics and complexity of neural systems in nature. To highlight this emerging discipline, the 5th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering will be held in Cancun, Mexico from April 27 through May 1, 2011. This project will support the travel of graduate students and postdocs to this meeting.The objective of this conference is to highlight progress in Neural and Cognitive Engineering, an emerging field bridging molecular, cellular, systems, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience with engineering, physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science. The neural engineering conference further stimulates neural engineering research and education among neuroscientists, chemists, engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians.In addition to the keynote, plenary, platform and poster sessions at the conference, there will be a panel to focus on the challenges of making a career in the rapidly growing, interdisciplinary fields of neural engineering, from being hired as part of a team and finding exciting new research opportunities, all the way up to becoming a team leader and what to look for when organizing that team and choosing its members. Career options will be discussed for graduate studies and research internationally as well as within the U.S. and for collaboration among researchers and students internationally.