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

研究动物行为的科学家提出了一些问题，即个体和动物群体为什么以及如何做出这样的行为。对动物行为的研究对于理解大脑、神经系统、基因和荷尔蒙在影响个体及其所在群体行为方面的作用非常重要。对动物行为的理解对于保护和理解动物如何应对不断变化的世界也很重要。这次会议将汇聚各种研究动物行为的科学家，他们将使用各种方法讨论动物行为领域综合研究的未来。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订阅源将被实时呈现，公众也可以在开放获取的期刊上获得。在丁伯根关于动物行为研究中的分析水平的开创性出版物发表50周年之际，在生物水平上整合神经、遗传、生理、生态和进化行为研究的努力获得了新的突出地位。这些对动物行为的综合研究受到多种因素的推动，包括新技术和分析方法，以及这些进步越来越容易应用于实地研究。研讨会的主要目标将是定义“综合”对今天的动物行为意味着什么。这次会议主要关注三个领域：基因、大脑和生理学。它将包括广泛研究动物行为的参与者，他们使用遗传学、基因组学、表观遗传学、神经生物学、神经内分泌、免疫生态学、营养学和其他生理学方法。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，从而将通常不互动的科学家群体聚集在一起。由于2014年ABS会议紧随本研讨会之后，将在会上介绍讨论摘要。白皮书将向任何人免费提供，我们将以开放获取的格式发布本次会议的白皮书。会议时间还将专门讨论这些学科招募任职人数不足的少数群体的问题。

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.