Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society: Travel grants for junior investigators

视觉科学学会年会：为初级研究人员提供旅费补助

• 批准号: 10491491
• 负责人: GEOFFREY M BOYNTON
• 金额: $ 6万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10491491
• 关键词: 3-Dimensional; Address; Aging; American; Area; Attention; Award; Basic Science; Binocular Vision; Blindness; Clinical; Clinical Research; Coffee; Cognitive Science; Color; Complement; Computer Models; Computer Vision Systems; Development; Discipline; Disease; Educational workshop; Event; Exhibits; Exposure to; Eye Movements; Eye diseases; Face; Faculty; Feedback; Female; Florida; Funding; Future; Goals; Government; Grant; Health; Hour; Human; Individual; Industry; Institution; Island; Journals; Knowledge; Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer; Light; Medal; Mediation; Mentors; Modernization; Motion Perception; Music; National Eye Institute; Nature; Occupations; Ophthalmology; Participant; Perception; Perceptual learning; Population; Principal Investigator; Psychophysics; Publishing; Research; Research Personnel; Resort; Review Committee; Science; Scientist; Series; Students; Time; Training; Travel; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Vendor; Vision; Vision Disorders; Visual Illusions; Visual Pathways; Visual Perception; Visual Psychophysics; Work; base; career; career development; cost; design; early-career faculty; effective therapy; experience; face perception; fovea centralis; graduate student; interest; mathematical model; meetings; member; multisensory; neuroimaging; next generation; object recognition; peer; perceptual organization; posters; pre-doctoral; professor; programs; science and society; social; spatial vision; student conference; success; symposium; undergraduate student; vision science; visual coding; visual cognition; visual control; visual memory; visual neuroscience; visual processing; visual search

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Vision Sciences Society is a nonprofit membership organization of nearly 2000 scientists interested in the functional aspects of vision. VSS was founded in 2001 with the purpose of bringing together scientists from a broad range of disciplines including visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience, computational vision and visual cognition. The scientific content of the meetings reflects the breadth of topics and interconnected ideas and approaches in modern vision science, from visual coding to perception, recognition and the visual control of action, as well as recent developments in cognitive psychology, computer vision and neuroimaging. Since its founding, VSS has provided a forum and framework for communicating advances in vision science, and VSS has become a flagship conference for the field. The interdisciplinary nature of VSS is reflected in the deliberately diverse membership of the Board of Directors and Abstract Review Committee. Many of the faculty from institutions in the United States who attend VSS are principal investigators of National Eye Institute grants; hence, the research objectives of the programs of the National Institutes of Health and of the National Eye Institute are well-represented in the program planning and individual presentations. Over 60% of participants are predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees. Of these 55% are US citizens. VSS provides multiple career development opportunities: (1) the platform and poster presentations provide a forum for trainees to showcase their work and receive feedback, (2) career-development workshops cover topics such as “Getting that Faculty Job”, “Reviewing and Responding to Reviews”, “The Public Face of your Science”, “Careers in Industry and Government”, “Faculty Careers at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions”, and include panel discussions with journal editors, NIH and NSF grant officers, and academic and industry representatives, (3) a “Meet the Professors” event in which trainees meet in small groups with members of the VSS Board and other professors for free-wheeling, open-ended discussions, and (4) a partnership with ARVO to host a symposium series that exposes VSS attendees to advances in clinical research from ARVO members and ARVO attendees to advances in basic research from VSS members. VSS also provides many formal events and informal opportunities for networking with peers and senior colleagues in a comfortable and engaging setting. The large contingent of early-stage investigators at VSS is a sign of the strong health of the field and the opportunity VSS provides for advancing the field. Our goal is to facilitate access and participation for this next generation of vision scientists. VSS previously received a one-year R13 award to support the 2019 meeting by providing travel awards for postdoctoral trainees and early-career faculty. Based on the success and positive impact of this initial support, the purpose of this 5-year proposal is to provide 48 travel awards per year for early-career investigators to attend the 2020-2024 meetings, with the focus on attracting and supporting a diverse pool of undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, and pre-tenure faculty who demonstrate potential for future success as vision researchers and whose research findings will be presented at the meeting. Funds are also requested to offset the registration costs for undergraduate attendees in order to significantly expand access and participation at the conference for students first encountering the field of vision science.

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