International Congress of Neuroethology, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 30 - April 3, 2016

该奖项将资助美国学生、博士后和青年科学家参加2016年国际神经行为学大会。本次会议被认为是神经行为学领域的主要中型会议，汇集了杰出的高级和初级科学家，讨论该领域的最新进展。来自神经行为学多个领域的受邀演讲者将展示他们关于动物大脑活动如何产生自然行为的发现。会议的特色会议将展示生物解决方案如何为仿生机器人、智能机器和神经建模的新概念和技术进步提供信息。会议上展示的结果将有可能指导多个领域的未来发展，包括具有可观社会效益的工程系统的神经启发设计。这次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、工程学和神经行为学的顶级科学家。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。通过最大化正式讨论和非正式互动，会议将突出神经行为学和神经生物学工程方法的令人兴奋的新发展。就更广泛的影响而言，这次会议将以多种方式使更大的社区受益。首先，通过让学生和博士后接触激动人心的科学和科学家，它将有助于培养和激励下一代科学家。第二，将组织特别的指导会议，帮助初级研究人员对学术界和其他领域的科学职业做出明智的选择。最后，将作出协调一致的努力，从代表性不足的群体中招募科学家。

This award will provide support to US-based students and post-doctoral fellows and junior scientists to attend the 2016 International Congress on Neuroethology. This conference is recognized as the major, mid-size meeting in Neuroethology, bringing together outstanding senior and junior scientists for discussions of the recent advances in the field. Invited speakers across many areas of neuroethology, will present their findings on how the activity of animal brains give rise to natural behaviors. The meeting feature sessions that will showcase how biological solutions inform new conceptual and technological advances in bio-inspired robotics, smart machines and neural modeling. The results presented at the meeting will have the potential to guide future developments in multiple areas, including neurally inspired design of engineered systems that will have considerable societal benefits.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, engineering and neuroethology. 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. By maximizing both formal discussion and informal interactions, the meeting will highlight exciting new developments in neuroethology and engineering approaches in neurobiology. With respect to broader impacts, this meeting will benefit the larger community in multiple ways. First, it will help train and inspire the next generation of scientists, by exposing students and postdoctoral fellows to exciting science and scientists. Second, special mentoring sessions will be organized to help junior researchers make informed choices about scientific careers in academia and beyond. Finally, a concerted effort will be made to recruit scientists from under-represented groups.