Symposium: Neuroecology: Neural Mechanisms of Sensory and Motor Processes that Mediate Ecologically Relevant Behaviors, January 3-7, 2016, Portland, Oregon

该奖项将为博士后研究员和初级科学家提供支持，以参加2016年综合与比较生物学学会年会上的神经生态学研讨会。本次研讨会的目标是汇集跨职业阶段的领先研究人员，讨论理解如何将自然环境中的行为神经基础与自然刺激联系起来的挑战和下一步。这些主题将涵盖多个分析尺度，从分子和细胞水平到行为和生态学。18名受邀发言者确认出席会议，他们是根据对该领域的创造性贡献和促进富有成果的讨论的能力而选出的。本次会议的成果将有可能指导未来的发展，以了解介导生态相关行为的感觉和运动过程的神经机制。本次会议的智力价值来自于其规模小，促进了与会者之间的互动，以及许多研究横跨神经生物学，动物行为和生态学的顶级科学家的集会。它涵盖了各种各样的实验系统，并专注于特殊活动或承诺的领域。这种结合导致了富有成效的比较分析，提出了关于基本机制的新问题，并往往导致新的合作。该奖项的成果将包括作为更大会议的一部分的研讨会，学生和博士后学者的口头演讲，一个分组会议，以综合神经科学，动物行为和生态学的想法，并出版研讨会论文集。该奖项也将有助于培养这一跨学科领域的新一代科学家。

This award will provide support to post-doctoral fellows and junior scientists to attend a symposium on Neuroecology at the 2016 Annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The goal of this symposium is to bring together leading researchers across career stages to discuss the challenges and next steps in understanding how to link neural bases of behavior in natural settings and to natural stimuli. The topics will cover multiple scales of analysis, from molecular and cellular levels up to behavior and ecology. Eighteen invited speakers, chosen based on their creative contributions to the field and their ability to promote fruitful discussions, have confirmed their attendance. The results presented at the meeting will have the potential to guide future developments in understanding the neural mechanisms of sensory and motor processes that mediate ecolologically relevant behaviors.The intellectual merit of this meeting derives from its small size, which promotes interactions between participants, and the assembly of many top scientists whose research spans neurobiology, animal behavior and ecology. It spans a wide variety of experimental systems and focuses on areas of exceptional activity or promise. This combination leads to fruitful comparative analyses, raises new questions about underlying mechanisms and often leads to new collaborations. The outcomes of the award will include a symposium as part of the larger meeting, oral presentations by students and postdoctoral scholars, a breakout session to synthesize ideas in neuroscience, animal behavior and ecology and publication of the symposium proceedings. This award will also be instrumental in training a new generation of scientists in this interdisciplinary field.