Conference: 2022 Thalamocortical Interactions: Thalamic Architecture, Dynamics, and Function in Health and Disease GRC and GRS

会议：2022 丘脑皮质相互作用：健康和疾病中的丘脑结构、动力学和功能 GRC 和 GRS

• 批准号: 2150934
• 负责人: Judith Hirsch
• 金额: $ 2.48万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-15 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150934&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; 2022; Thalamocortical; Interactions; Thalamic

This award will provide support to US-based students and post-doctoral fellows and junior scientists to attend the 2022 Gordon Research Conference and Research seminar on Thalamocortical Interactions. This five-day meeting is the premier meeting that brings together researchers to present results and enagage in discussions on the cell and circuit properties of thalamocortical interactions, and build on these to explore their roles in cognition and behavior. This conference represents a rare opportunity for neuroscientists interested in thalamocortical interactions to exchange new results, hypotheses, and ideas at many levels, from cellular through systems to cognitive and clinical. This is especially timely because this field has been expanding significantly with the recent appreciation that the thalamus plays an ongoing and critical role in cortical functioning. 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 emphasis will be given to junior faculty. Finally, a concerted effort will be made to recruit scientists from under-represented groups.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 thalamocortical interactions across multiple sensory modalities, emphasizing the commonalities. 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 Gordon Conference will highlight exciting new developments that have implications both for a basic understanding of the emergent properties of neural circuits as well as pathologies that involve thalamocortical disruptions.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.

该奖项将为在美留学生、博士后研究员和初级科学家参加2022年戈登大脑皮质相互作用研究会议和研究研讨会提供支持。这次为期五天的会议是第一次会议，会议聚集了研究人员，介绍了关于丘脑皮质相互作用的细胞和回路属性的结果和讨论，并在此基础上探索它们在认知和行为中的作用。对于对丘脑皮质相互作用感兴趣的神经科学家来说，这次会议是一个难得的机会，他们可以在从细胞到系统再到认知和临床的多个层面上交流新的结果、假设和想法。这是特别及时的，因为这一领域一直在显着扩大，最近认识到丘脑在皮质功能中发挥着持续和关键的作用。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，它将帮助培养和激励下一代科学家，让学生和博士后研究员接触到令人兴奋的科学和科学家。其次，将特别重视初级教职员工。最后，将做出协调一致的努力，从代表性不足的群体中招募科学家。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，以及许多顶尖科学家的聚集，他们的研究跨越了多个感觉模式的丘脑皮质互动，强调了共性。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。通过最大限度地利用正式讨论和非正式互动，戈登会议将突出令人兴奋的新发展，这些发展对基本理解神经回路的紧急属性以及涉及丘脑皮质中断的病理都具有影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。