Gordon Research Conference on Neuroethology

描述：(申请者提供)：动物对其 环境，在情况允许的情况下适当改变它们的行为。 神经科学的前沿领域之一是理解行为是如何 它们背后的神经回路会随着经验或在不同的情况下发生变化 条件。重要的是，不同的物种，甚至是近亲物种，都显示出 学习和记忆的能力和策略不同，找到不同的刺激 以不同的方式指导行为、编码和组织信息。 在本次戈登神经行为学研究会议上：神经和行为 可塑性(8月18日至23日，英国牛津大学)我们将集中讨论问题 例如：可塑性的细胞和分子机制是否在 脊椎动物和无脊椎动物？如果是这样的话，普遍的细胞机制能解释 物种特有的行为可塑性模式的多样性？我们希望 将神经生物学家聚集在一起，使用从行为学到 分子，并研究各种生物体来解决这些问题。 与会者将包括研究卓有成效的神经行为学的科学家 具有可塑性成分的范例，如鸣禽的鸣唱学习， 猫头鹰双耳定位、嗅觉辨别和空间定位 在蜜蜂身上。田鼠和其他啮齿动物的父母行为，突触和行为 海懒和章鱼的可塑性，以及科学家利用 分子/遗传方法在果蝇、线虫和 老鼠。我们的目标是广泛的智力和技术上的交叉受精。 在这两个传统之间。

DESCRIPTION: (provided by applicant): Animals respond adaptively to their environments, altering their behaviors appropriately as circumstances warrant. One of the forefront areas in Neuroscience is understanding how behaviors, and the neural circuits underlying them, change with experience or under different conditions. Importantly, different species, even closely related species, show varying capacities and strategies for leaning and memory, find different stimuli salient for directing behavior and encode and organize information differently. In this Gordon Research Conference on Neuroethology: neural and behavioral plasticity (Aug. 18-23, Oxford University, England) we will focus on questions such as: Are the cellular and molecular mechanisms of plasticity conserved among vertebrates and invertebrates? If so, can universal cellular mechanisms explain the diversity of species-specific patterns of behavioral plasticity? We wish to bring together neurobiologists using a range of tools from the behavioral to the molecular, and studying a variety of organisms to address these questions. Participants will include scientists studying fruitful neuroethological paradigms with a plasticity component, such as song-learning in song birds, binaural localization in owls, olfactory discrimination and spatial localization in bees. Parental behavior in voles and other rodents, synaptic and behavioral plasticity in sea-slugs and octopus, along with scientists utilizing molecular/genetic approaches in species such as fruit flies, nematode worms, and mice. Our goal is for broad intellectual and technical cross-fertilization between these two traditions.