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
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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.

项目概要/摘要 视觉科学协会是一个非营利性会员组织，由近 2000 名对视觉感兴趣的科学家组成。 视觉的功能方面。 VSS 成立于 2001 年，旨在汇集来自不同领域的科学家 广泛的学科，包括视觉心理物理学、视觉神经科学、计算视觉和视觉 认识。会议的科学内容反映了主题的广度和相互关联的想法 现代视觉科学的方法，从视觉编码到感知、识别和视觉控制 行动，以及认知心理学、计算机视觉和神经影像学的最新发展。由于其 VSS 成立以来，为交流视觉科学的进步提供了一个论坛和框架，并且 VSS 已成为该领域的旗舰会议。 VSS 的跨学科性质体现在 董事会和摘要审查委员会的成员故意多样化。许多教职员工 来自参加 VSS 的美国机构的都是国家眼科研究所的主要研究人员 补助金；因此，美国国立卫生研究院和美国国立卫生研究院的计划的研究目标 眼科研究所在项目规划和个人演讲中都有很好的代表。超过60%的 参与者是博士前和博士后实习生。其中 55% 是美国公民。 VSS提供多种 职业发展机会：（1）平台和海报展示为学员提供了一个交流的平台 展示他们的工作并接收反馈，(2) 职业发展研讨会涵盖诸如“获得 那份教职工作”、“审查和回应审查”、“你的科学的公众形象”、“职业生涯” 工业和政府”、“主要本科院校的教师职业”，并包括小组 与期刊编辑、NIH 和 NSF 资助官员以及学术和行业代表进行讨论，(3) “与教授见面”活动，学员以小组形式与 VSS 董事会成员和其他人员会面 教授进行自由、开放式的讨论，以及 (4) 与 ARVO 合作举办研讨会 系列让 VSS 与会者了解 ARVO 成员和 ARVO 的临床研究进展 参加者了解 VSS 成员的基础研究进展。 VSS还提供许多正式活动和 在舒适且有吸引力的环境中与同事和资深同事建立联系的非正式机会。 VSS 拥有大量早期研究人员，这是该领域健康发展的标志，也是该领域健康发展的标志。 VSS 为推进该领域提供了机会。我们的目标是促进下一步的访问和参与 一代视觉科学家。 VSS 此前获得了为期一年的 R13 奖项，以支持 2019 年会议 为博士后实习生和早期职业教师提供旅行奖励。基于成功和积极 考虑到这一初步支持的影响，这项为期 5 年的提案的目的是每年提供 48 份旅行奖励 早期职业调查员参加 2020-2024 年会议，重点是吸引和支持 多元化的本科生和研究生、博士后实习生以及终身教职人员 展示作为视觉研究人员未来成功的潜力，其研究成果将被展示 在会议上。还需要资金来抵消本科生的注册费用，以便 显着扩大首次接触该领域的学生参加会议的机会和参与 视觉科学。