International Congress of Neuroethology

描述（由申请人提供）：第七届国际神经行为学会议将于2004年8月9日至13日在丹麦尼堡召开。国际神经行为学大会（International Congress of Neuroethology， ICN）是国际神经行为学学会（International Society for Neuroethology， ISN）的科学会议，自1986年以来每三年举办一次。这些会议的重点是将不同的神经科学家聚集在一起，他们正在研究跨越广泛分类群（脊椎动物和无脊椎动物）的行为的神经基础。这次会议提供了一个出色的场所，汇集了具有广泛观点的国际科学家，但他们专注于对神经功能和疾病具有重要意义的常见基础科学问题。会议的主要主题是关于神经机制和复杂行为过程之间关系的基本问题。会议的主题包括感觉和运动加工，中枢整合过程，发展，突触传递和可塑性的基本过程，以及理解可塑性和行为的系统级方法。一个主要目标是促进对现代分子生物学技术如何影响神经行为学研究的惊人前景的考虑，并确定神经行为学可以增强行为的遗传和分子生物学研究的方法。同样，成像和认知神经心理学以及一般的行为神经科学的快速发展，为促进不同学科之间的杂交提供了及时的机会。会议的计划既代表了不同层次的分析（从生物物理学到行为学），也代表了不同的技术和方法（神经生理学、分子生物学、成像）。因此，总的来说，对美国科学家，尤其是年轻的研究人员来说，好处将是有机会接触到来自世界各地的前沿研究和技术。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds the Seventh International of Neuroethology, to be held are requested to help support Congress August 9-13, 2004 in Nyborg, Denmark. The International Congress of Neuroethology (ICN) serves as the scientific meeting of the International Society for Neuroethology (ISN), and has been held every three years since 1986. The focus of these meetings is to bring together diverse neuroscientists who are investigating the neural basis of behavior across a broad spectrum of taxa (both vertebrate and invertebrate). This meeting provides an outstanding venue to bring international scientists together who have a broad range of perspectives, but who focus on common basic-science questions that have important implications for neural function and disease. The major theme of the meeting regards basic questions pertaining to relationships between neural mechanisms and complex processes of behavior. Topics of the meeting include sensory and motor processing, central integrative processes, development, basic processes of synaptic transmission and plasticity, and systems-level approaches to understanding plasticity and behavior. A major goal is to promote consideration of how the spectacular promise of modem techniques of molecular biology can influence neuroethological studies, and to define ways in which neuroethology can enhance genetic and molecular biological studies of behavior. Likewise, rapid developments in imaging and cognitive neuropsychology, and in behavioral neuroscience in general, make for timely opportunities to promote crossfertilization between different disciplines. The program for the meeting represents both different levels of analysis (from biophysics to behavior), and also different techniques and approaches (neurophysiology, molecular biology, imaging). Thus, benefits to American scientists in general, and to young investigators in particular, will be the opportunity for exposure to cutting-edge research and techniques from around the World.