Workshop: Present and Future Theoretical Frameworks in Neuroscience

大脑计划的一个重要目标是开发新的神经技术，这些技术与最近开发的技术一起，将在未来几年提供大量的实验数据。潜在的大量数据和实验进展使得有必要开发适当的理论框架，这些理论框架可以跨越尺度，系统和物种，以构建和提出关键问题，促进我们对大脑功能的理解。该提案要求为组织神经科学当前和未来理论框架研讨会提供资金。研讨会将在德克萨斯州的圣安东尼奥举行。在此活动期间，基于讨论和工作组的互动形式将有助于确定关键的理论问题，并开发具有长期愿景的实验框架，以纳入新工具，其功能和数据，以促进神经科学的发展。这个为期多天的研讨会将汇集不同的科学家，年轻的教师和学员（研究生和博士后）的组合，沿着在各个领域领先的理论和实验神经科学家提供必要的“跨代”的观点，为拟议的活动产生持续的影响。预计这些讨论将指导实验和理论神经科学研究，以了解跨组织相互作用水平的大脑功能（例如，亚细胞、细胞、微电路、复杂网络）、尺度（空间、时间）和种类范围。来自全国各地的各种大学和研究机构的科学家的参与预计将为研讨会成功实现其目标提供必要的地理代表性和多样性，并为未来的努力招募最优秀的人才和想法。一个关键的传播平台将是制作一个播客，以确保讲习班上讨论的想法能够传播到更广泛的社区，并使讨论达到更普遍的参与水平。将努力确保代表性不足的少数民族成员参与神经科学和广泛传播的研讨会成果。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

One important goal of the Brain initiative has been the development of novel neurotechnologies, which together with the technologies that have been developed in the recent past will provide vast streams of experimental data in the coming years. The potential flood of data and experimental advances makes the need to develop the appropriate theoretical frameworks that spam across scales, systems and species imperative in order to frame and ask key questions that advance our understanding of brain function in action and in context. This proposal requests funds for the organization of the workshop on Present and Future Theoretical Frameworks in Neuroscience. The workshop will take place in San Antonio, TX. An interactive format based on discussions and working groups during this activity will help identify key theoretical questions and develop experimental frameworks with a long-term vision to incorporate new tools, their capabilities and the data they will produce to advance neuroscience. This multi-day workshop will bring together a diverse group of scientists, a mix of young faculty and trainees (graduate students and postdocs) along with leading theoretical and experimental neuroscientists in a variety of fields to provide the necessary "cross-generational" perspective for the proposed activities to have an impact that persists in time. The discussions are expected to guide experimental and theoretical neuroscience research towards the understanding of brain function across interacting levels of organization (e.g.,sub-cellular, cellular, microcircuit, complex networks), scales (spatial, time) and range of species. The participation of a scientists from a broad variety of universities and research institutes across the nation is expected to provide the necessary geographic representation and diversity for the workshop to succeed in its goals and recruit the best people and ideas for future endeavors. A key dissemination platform will be the production of a podcast to ensure the ideas discussed at the workshop reach the broader community and bring the discussion to a more general level of participation. Efforts will be made to secure the participation of members of underrepresented minorities in neuroscience and for the broad dissemination of the workshop outcomes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.