Conference on New Studies of Neurobehavioral Evolution; Washington, DC; June 25-28 2010

研究专门机构、行为和驱动它们的大脑进化的科学家，需要知道越来越多和越来越多的样本和数据，以及如何获得它们。为了促进这一学习，正在举行一次会议，研究人员和学生将分享有关世界标本和数据资源的信息，特别是那些没有得到很好宣传的资源。研究人员将展示了解大脑和相关行为的最新技术，以及使用新技术获得的新颖且经常令人惊讶的发现，这些新技术包括大脑扫描、基因结构和表达分析、标记和生理活性分子的细胞内和细胞间传输、化石研究、电生理探针、编程观察和记录野生自然环境中的个人和社会行为，以及图像和数字信息的数字捕获和传播。一代又一代的工人，包括新学生和权威机构之间的个人互动机会，将对他们所有人的工作产生持久的好处。这一影响将通过在现有的档案出版物《纽约科学院年鉴》中出版而进一步扩大，该出版物可在世界上大多数主要图书馆以及因特网上查阅。会议记录将成为学生、科学家、学校、工业和公共知识的主要参考来源，以获取关于大脑、身体结构和行为的专业化之间的关系的信息和新的研究方法，这些专业化不仅使人能够在特定环境中生存，而且越来越多地通过动物和人类居民的行为来管理环境本身。

Scientists who study the evolution of specialized bodies, behaviors, and the brains that drive them, need to know about ever increasing numbers and varieties of specimens and data that are becoming available, and how to gain access to them. To promote this learning, a conference is being held where researchers and students will share information about world resources of specimens and data, especially those that are not well publicized. Investigators will exhibit the latest in technology for learning about brains and related behaviors, along with novel and often surprising findings, obtained using new techniques including brain scans, analyses of gene structure and expression, intracellular and intercellular transport of markers and physiologically active molecules, studies of fossils, electrophysiological probes, programmed observing and recording individual and social behaviors in wild natural surroundings, and digital capture and dissemination of images and numerical information. This opportunity for personal interactions among generations of workers, including new students and established authorities, will have lasting benefits for the work of all of them. The impact will be further spread by the publication of the Conference Proceedings in an established archival publication, the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, available in most of the major libraries of the world as well as on the Internet. The Conference Proceedings will be a major reference source for students, scientists, schools, industry, and public knowledge, for information about, and new means of studying, the relationships among the specializations of brains, bodily structures, and behaviors that enable, not only survival in particular environments, but, increasingly, the managing of environments themselves through the behaviors of their animal and human inhabitants.