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

该奖项将支持博士后和初级科学家参加综合与比较生物学学会2016年年会的神经生态学研讨会。本次研讨会的目的是将不同职业阶段的顶尖研究人员聚集在一起，讨论如何在自然环境和自然刺激下将行为的神经基础联系起来的挑战和下一步。主题将涵盖多个尺度的分析，从分子和细胞水平到行为和生态学。根据他们对该领域的创造性贡献和促进富有成果的讨论的能力选出的18位应邀发言者已确认出席。会议上提出的结果将有可能指导未来发展，以理解介导生态相关行为的感觉和运动过程的神经机制。这个会议的学术价值来自于它的小规模，它促进了参与者之间的互动，并聚集了许多研究领域涵盖神经生物学、动物行为和生态学的顶级科学家。它涵盖了各种各样的实验系统，并专注于特殊活动或有希望的领域。这种结合导致了富有成效的比较分析，提出了关于潜在机制的新问题，并经常导致新的合作。该奖项的结果将包括一个研讨会，作为更大会议的一部分，学生和博士后学者的口头报告，一个综合神经科学，动物行为和生态学思想的分组会议，以及研讨会论文集的出版。该奖项还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.