Meeting: 13th International Congress of Neuroethology, Brisbane, Australia, July 15 through July 20, 2018

该奖项将为美国的学生和博士后研究员和初级科学家提供支持，以参加2018年国际神经行为学大会。这个为期五天的会议被认为是神经行为学的主要中型会议，汇集了优秀的高级和初级科学家，讨论该领域的最新进展。来自神经行为学许多领域的特邀演讲者将展示他们关于动物大脑活动如何引起自然行为的发现。比较方法是神经行为学的核心，有助于识别大脑组织的共同原则，以及检测增强行为表现的机制，然后可以通过计算或技术实现。该会议的特色会议将展示生物解决方案如何为生物启发机器人，智能机器和神经建模的新概念和技术进步提供信息。会议上提出的结果将有可能指导多个领域的未来发展，包括具有相当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其规模小，促进了参与者之间的互动，以及许多研究范围涵盖神经生物学，工程学和神经病理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。通过最大化正式讨论和非正式互动，神经行为学国际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。关于更广泛的影响，这次会议将以多种方式使更大的社区受益。首先，它将通过让学生和博士后接触令人兴奋的科学和科学家，帮助培养和激励下一代科学家。第二，将为初级研究人员组织正式和非正式的指导会议，帮助他们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。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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。

This award will provide support to US-based students and post-doctoral fellows and junior scientists to attend the 2018 International Congress on Neuroethology. This five-day 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 comparative approach that is at the heart of neuroethology, facilitates the identification of common principles of brain organization as well as detecting mechanisms that enhance behavioral performance, which can then be implemented computationally or technologically. The meeting features 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 neuropathology. 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 International Conference on Neuroethology 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, mentoring sessions, both formal and informal, will be organized for the benefit of junior researchers to help them make informed choices about scientific careers in academia and beyond. Finally, a concerted effort will be made to recruit scientists from under-represented groups.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.