Meeting: New frontiers for the integrative study of animal behavior, New York Genome Center, New York, NY, August 6-9, 2014

会议：动物行为综合研究的新前沿，纽约基因组中心，纽约州纽约市，2014 年 8 月 6-9 日

• 批准号: 1439985
• 负责人: Dustin Rubenstein
• 金额: $ 7.36万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1439985&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Meeting; New; frontiers; integrative; study

Scientists who study animal behavior ask questions about why and how individuals and groups of animals behave as they do. Studies of animal behavior are important for understanding the role of the brain, the nervous system, genes and hormones in influencing actions of individuals and the groups that they are in. An understanding of animal behavior is also important for conservation and understanding how animals respond to our changing world. This meeting will bring together a wide variety of scientists who study animal behavior using a wide range of approaches to discuss the future of integrative studies in the field of animal behavior. Ideas developed at this meeting are likely to have far reaching societal benefits to address complex problems. Blog posts and a Twitter feed of the meeting will be presented in real time and also available to the public as well as publications in open access journals.At the 50th anniversary of Tinbergen's seminal publication on levels of analysis in studies of animal behavior, efforts to integrate neural, genetic, physiological, ecological, and evolutionary studies of behavior at the organismal level are gaining new prominence. These integrative studies of animal behavior are being facilitated by multiple factors, including new technologies and analytical procedures, as well as the increasing ease of application of these advances to field studies. The primary goal of the workshop will be to define what "integrative" means for animal behavior today. There are three primary areas of focus for this meeting: genes, brains, and physiology. It will include participants who broadly study animal behavior using genetic, genomic, epigenetic, neurobiological, neuroendocrine, immune-ecological, nutritional, and other physiological approaches. It will also include researchers developing emerging technologies and statistical advances that will allow for the next generation of integrative behavior studies thus bringing together groups of scientists that don't typically interact. As the 2014 ABS meeting immediately follows this workshop, a summary of the discussion will be presented there. The white paper will be freely available to anyone and we publish the paper from this meeting in open access format. Time at the meeting will also be devoted to discuss underrepresented minority recruitment to these disciplines.

研究动物行为的科学家们会问一些问题，比如为什么动物个体和动物群体会有这样的行为，以及它们是如何行为的。动物行为的研究对于理解大脑、神经系统、基因和激素在影响个体和群体行为中的作用非常重要。对动物行为的理解对于保护和理解动物如何应对我们不断变化的世界也很重要。 这次会议将汇集各种各样的科学家谁研究动物行为使用广泛的方法来讨论在动物行为领域的综合研究的未来。在这次会议上提出的想法可能会对解决复杂问题产生深远的社会效益。会议的博客帖子和Twitter提要将以真实的时间呈现，并向公众以及开放获取期刊上的出版物提供。在丁伯根关于动物行为研究的分析水平的开创性出版50周年之际，在生物体水平上整合神经，遗传，生理，生态和进化行为研究的努力正在获得新的突出地位。这些动物行为的综合研究受到多种因素的促进，包括新技术和分析程序，以及这些进展越来越容易应用于实地研究。研讨会的主要目标将是定义什么是“综合”今天的动物行为意味着什么。这次会议的重点有三个主要领域：基因、大脑和生理学。它将包括使用遗传学，基因组学，表观遗传学，神经生物学，神经内分泌学，免疫生态学，营养学和其他生理学方法广泛研究动物行为的参与者。它还将包括开发新兴技术和统计进步的研究人员，这些技术和统计进步将允许下一代综合行为研究，从而将通常不相互作用的科学家群体聚集在一起。由于2014年澳大利亚统计局会议紧接着本次研讨会，将在会上介绍讨论摘要。这份白色论文将免费提供给任何人，我们将以开放获取的格式发布本次会议的论文。会议还将专门讨论这些学科中代表性不足的少数群体的征聘问题。