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

项目摘要/摘要 视觉科学学会是一个非营利性的成员组织，有近2000名科学家对 视觉的功能方面。VSS成立于2001年，目的是将来自世界各地的科学家聚集在一起 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 认知力。会议的科学内容反映了议题的广度和相互关联的想法，以及 现代视觉科学中的方法，从视觉编码到感知、识别和视觉控制 行动，以及认知心理学、计算机视觉和神经成像的最新发展。因为它的 VSS创立以来，为交流视觉科学的进展提供了一个论坛和框架，以及VSS 已经成为该领域的旗舰会议。VSS的跨学科性质反映在 董事会和抽象审查委员会成员故意多元化。许多教职员工 来自参加VSS的美国机构的是国家眼科研究所的首席研究员 因此，国家卫生研究院和国家卫生研究院项目的研究目标 眼科研究所在项目策划和个人陈述中都有很好的代表性。超过60%的 学员为博士后和博士后实习生。其中55%是美国公民。VSS提供多个 职业发展机会：(1)平台和海报演示为学员提供了一个论坛，让他们 展示他们的工作并收到反馈，(2)职业发展研讨会涵盖的主题包括 《教师工作》、《审查和回应评论》、《你的科学的公众面孔》、《职业生涯》 行业和政府“，”主要是本科院校的教师职业“，并包括小组 与期刊编辑、NIH和NSF赠款官员以及学术和行业代表进行讨论，(3)a “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 教授们自由、开放的讨论，以及(4)与Arvo合作主办研讨会 向VSS与会者展示来自ARVO成员和ARVO的临床研究进展的系列 来自VSS成员的基础研究进展的与会者。VSS还提供许多正式活动和 在舒适和吸引人的环境中与同事和资深同事建立联系的非正式机会。 VSS的一大批早期调查人员是该领域和 机遇VSS为推动这一领域的发展提供了机会。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之前获得了为期一年的R13奖励，以支持2019年的会议 为博士后实习生和职业早期教师提供旅行奖励。基于成功和积极的 由于这一初步支持的影响，这项为期5年的提案的目的是每年为以下人员提供48项旅行奖励 职业生涯早期调查人员参加2020-2024年会议，重点是吸引和支持 不同的本科生和研究生、博士后实习生和终身教职前的教师 展示未来作为视觉研究人员取得成功的潜力，并将展示其研究成果 在会议上。还要求提供资金来抵消本科生的报名费，以便 为首次接触到以下领域的学生提供更多机会和参与会议 视觉科学。

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.