Conference: 2024 Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication Gordon Research Conference and Seminar

会议：2024年声学通讯的神经机制戈登研究会议暨研讨会

• 批准号: 2423414
• 负责人: Marc Schmidt
• 金额: $ 1.92万
• 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: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2423414&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; 2024; Neural; Mechanisms; Acoustic

The purpose of this project is to support a small meeting (~150 participants) organized by the Gordon Research Conference to discuss the neural mechanisms that underly acoustic, including vocal, communication. A primary focus of the meeting is on comparative and mechanistic approaches to the study of neural circuits that mediate interactive acoustic behavior across taxa that represent 800 million years of evolution. This approach to the study of the neural mechanisms underlying acoustic communication lends insight into general mechanisms of neural function and leads to the development of novel analytical and experimental approaches. The organizers aim to create an environment that generates conversations that will achieve a mechanistic and unifying understanding of the neural underpinnings of acoustic communication by uncovering broadly relevant algorithms. These exchanges will advance acoustic communication research by encouraging new ideas and collaborations, highlighting diversity in the field, and inspiring and mentoring the next generation of scientists. The request funds will be used to increase institutional diversity and support of early career investigators and students. The 2024 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) focused on the Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication (NMAC) will also include an associated Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) for pre- and postdoctoral trainees. The aim of the meeting is to assemble top researchers in the field to discuss their latest findings while also providing the opportunity for young investigators and graduate students to present their work alongside these established investigators. The format of this small meeting is optimized for discussions and debates and the 2024 NMAC has three specific aims: 1) To advance acoustic communication research by offering an environment that encourages questions and discussion, challenges current thinking, and provides opportunities for new collaborations; 2) to create a unique forum for interaction for researchers from a diversity of communication systems and break down boundaries between communities focused on different model systems, brain regions, research approaches; and 3) to educate new and early career investigators. There exists no meeting like the NMAC GRC for those interested in the neural circuits underlying communication. NMAC is therefore unique within the GRC family because it is focused on a behavior, rather than a brain region (e.g., cerebellum), a method (e.g., optogenetics), or a cellular process (e.g., neuroplasticity). The funds from this project will support a unique opportunity for a diverse gathering of top researchers in a highly interdisciplinary fashion to find new common ground concerning a critical and evolutionary ancient behavior whose production and perception is a fundamental feature of brain function.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.

该项目的目的是支持戈登研究会议组织的一次小型会议（约150名参与者），以讨论包括声音，交流在内的声学的神经机制。这次会议的主要重点是对介导8亿年进化的分类单元的互动声行为的神经回路的比较和机理方法。这种研究声学通信基础神经机制的方法可以深入了解神经功能的一般机制，并导致新的分析和实验方法的发展。组织者旨在创建一个环境，以产生对话，以实现机械性并统一的理解，以通过发现广泛相关的算法来对声学传播的神经基础。这些交流将通过鼓励新的思想和合作，突出该领域的多样性，并启发和指导下一代科学家来推动声学交流研究。该请求资金将用于增加机构多样性和早期职业研究人员和学生的支持。 2024年的戈登研究会议（GRC）重点介绍了声学传播的神经机制（NMAC），还将包括针对学前和博士后学员的相关戈登研究研讨会（GRS）。会议的目的是在该领域组装顶级研究人员，讨论他们的最新发现，同时还为年轻的研究人员和研究生提供了与这些知名研究人员一起展示其工作的机会。 这次小型会议的格式针对讨论和辩论进行了优化，而2024 NMAC具有三个具体目标：1）通过提供鼓励问题和讨论，挑战当前思维并为新协作提供机会的环境，以推动声学交流研究； 2）为研究人员创建一个独特的论坛，以从多种通信系统中的研究人员进行互动，并分解着专注于不同模型系统，大脑区域，研究方法的社区之间的界限； 3）教育新的和早期的职业调查员。对于那些对沟通潜在的神经回路感兴趣的人，没有像NMAC GRC那样的会议。因此，NMAC在GRC家族中是独一无二的，因为它专注于行为，而不是大脑区域（例如小脑），方法（例如，光遗传学）或细胞过程（例如，神经塑性）。该项目的资金将为高度跨学科的方式聚集的独特机会，以找到有关批判性和进化的古代行为的新共同基础，其生产和感知是大脑功能的基本特征。该奖项反映了NSF的立法任务，并通过基础的知识效果和广泛的范围来评估，并值得通过评估来进行评估。