THE DYNAMIC BRAIN: MOLECULES MATHEMATICS AND THE MIND

描述（申请人的摘要）：资金要求，以帮助支持 该会议旨在促进脑科学的综合研究。的 会议将包括来自大脑各个领域的杰出研究人员 研究从跨学科的角度讨论大脑功能的主要问题 perspective.会议将涵盖（第1部分）感官系统的可塑性; 从突触到系统层次的时间动力学 3)记忆，最后（第4节）神经元和 认知.这次会议的一个新颖之处是真诚地试图弥合问题 从基本的细胞和分子机制， 他们在整个器官水平上的运作。每场会议的主持人将 负责应对挑战，解决所提出的根本问题， 的演讲者。希望这次会议确定的倡议 将促进新的跨学科研究，这将加速我们的 了解正常和异常的大脑功能。此外，我们希望 促进使用跨学科方法研究最重要的 大脑功能的挑战性方面，无论是对目前的研究界， 以及那些将来成为领导者的人。最后，通过邀请和 支持少数民族学生参加会议，我们希望增加他们的 外地代表。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract): Funds are requested to help support a meeting that is designed to promote integrated research in brain science. The conference will include prominent researchers from various fields of brain research to discuss major issues in brain function from an interdisciplinary perspective. The meeting will cover (Session 1) Plasticity of Sensory Systems; (Session 2) Temporal Dynamics from the Synaptic to the Systems Level; (Session 3) Memory, and finally (Session 4) the Relationships between Neurons and Cognition. A novel aspect of the meeting is a sincere attempt to bridge issues of brain function from the fundamental cellular and molecular mechanisms to their operation at the whole-organ level. Facilitators in every session will be charged with pursuing the challenges to solving the fundamental issues raised by the speakers. It is hoped that the initiatives identified by this meeting will catalyze novel interdisciplinary studies that will accelerate our understanding of normal and abnormal brain function. In addition, we hope to promote the idea of using interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the most challenging aspects of brain function, both to the current research community and to those who will become leaders in the future. Finally, by inviting and supporting minority students to the conference, we hope to increase their representation in the field.