Conference on Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份申请书，为2006年7月15日至20日在加利福尼亚州印第安威尔斯举行的美国实验生物学协会联合会（FASEB）主持的“视网膜神经生物学和视觉处理”会议提供部分资金。这将是一系列备受推崇的两年一次的会议中的第八次，这些会议为具有不同背景的研究人员建立了一个独特的论坛来讨论愿景。参与者来自神经生物学，计算神经科学，眼科学和视觉研究的许多领域，目的是应用最先进的技术来理解健康和患病视网膜视觉的神经生物学基础。本次会议的第二个目标是为研究生和博士后学生提供机会，以满足既定的研究人员分享他们的想法，并了解更多关于博士后职位和初级教师职位。拟议的会议计划解决了视觉社区当前高度感兴趣的问题。主要会议主题将是：1）杆和锥突触信号的新见解，2）双极细胞视觉输出的形成机制，3）视网膜发育中的神经元可塑性，4）探索视觉处理的神经代码5）外部视网膜的反馈电路，6）视网膜疾病的转化研究和模型7）。视网膜中的非视觉光转导和8）形成视网膜输出的新抑制机制。此外，还将举行第九次演讲，重点介绍提交的摘要中的最佳作品。此外，将有两个海报会议和视网膜功能的数学和计算模型研讨会。大约200名与会者将参加，他们来自积极参与视网膜研究的科学家，目的是促进自由和活跃的思想交流。演讲者将包括大量的研究生和博士后研究员。这既突出了令人兴奋的新课题，也促进了视觉研究社区的新成员。会议为最近的前沿研究的批判性审查提供了一个特殊的环境，并成为未来研究的路标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for partial funding for the conference on "Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing", held under the auspices of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) in Indian Wells, CA from July 15-20, 2006. This will be the eighth in a series of highly-regarded, biennial conferences that have established a unique forum for researchers with varied backgrounds to discuss vision. The participants are drawn from many areas of neurobiology, computational neuroscience, ophthalmology and vision research with the goal of applying state-of-the-art techniques to understanding the neurobiological basis of vision in healthy and diseased retinas. A second goal of this conference is to provide opportunities for graduate and postdoctoral students to meet with established investigators to share their ideas and learn more about postdoctoral positions and junior faculty positions. The proposed conference program addresses questions that are of high current interest to the vision community. The major session topics will be: 1) new insights into rod and cone synaptic signaling, 2) mechanisms shaping the visual output of bipolar cells, 3) neuronal plasticity in retinal development, 4) exploring the neural code of visual processing 5) feedback circuitry in outer retina, 6), translational research and models of retinal disease 7). non-visual phototransduction in the retina and 8) novel inhibitory mechanisms that shape the retinal output. There will also be a ninth talk session highlighting the best work from the submitted abstracts. In addition, there will be two poster sessions and a workshop on mathematical and computational models of retinal function. Approximately 200 participants will attend, drawn from scientists actively involved in retinal research and with the goal of stimulating a free and lively exchange of ideas. The speakers will include a large number of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. This both highlights exciting new topics and also promotes new members of the vision research community. The conference provides a exceptional environment for the critical review of recent, cutting edge research and serves as a guidepost to future research.