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

该奖项将为参加综合与比较生物学学会2016年年会神经生态学研讨会的博士后研究员和初级科学家提供支持。本次研讨会的目标是将不同职业阶段的顶尖研究人员聚集在一起，讨论在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方面的挑战和下一步行动。这些主题将涵盖从分子和细胞水平到行为和生态的多个分析尺度。18位受邀发言者是根据他们对实地的创造性贡献和推动富有成果的讨论的能力挑选出来的，他们已确认出席。会议上提出的结果将有可能指导未来在理解调节生态相关行为的感觉和运动过程的神经机制方面的发展。这次会议的智力优势来自于它的规模小，促进了参与者之间的互动，以及聚集了许多顶尖科学家，他们的研究跨越神经生物学、动物行为和生态学。它跨越了各种各样的实验系统，并专注于特别活跃或有希望的领域。这种结合导致了卓有成效的比较分析，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报告，综合神经科学、动物行为和生态学思想的分组会议，以及研讨会会议记录的出版。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.