FASEB Summer Conference on Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing

FASEB 视网膜神经生物学和视觉处理夏季会议

• 批准号: 7539745
• 负责人: PETER D LUKASIEWICZ
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: FEDERATION OF AMER SOC FOR EXPER BIOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7539745
• 关键词: Address; Amacrine Cells; American; Area; Arts; Behavioral; Biology; Communities; Computational Biology; Computer information processing; Data; Development; Educational workshop; Faculty; Funding; Future; Gap Junctions; Goals; Ion Channel; Ions; Learning; Neurobiology; Numbers; Optics; Participant; Positioning Attribute; Postdoctoral Fellow; Process; Research; Research Personnel; Retina; Retinal; Running; Scientist; Series; Signal Pathway; Societies; Students; Techniques; Testing; Vision; Vision research; Work; base; interest; member; posters; pre-doctoral; programs; retinal adaptation; ribbon synapse; symposium; visual process; visual processing

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for partial funding for the conference on "Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing", run by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), to be held in Snowmass, CO from July 20-25, 2008. This is the ninth in a series of popular 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 biology and vision research with the goal of applying state-of-the-art techniques to understanding the neurobiological basis of retinal vision. Another unique goal of this meeting is to provide opportunities for predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees to meet and share their ideas with established investigators. The proposed conference program addresses timely questions that are of high interest to the vision community. The major session topics will be: 1) machinery and function of ribbon synapses, 2) gap junctions and retinal function, 3) the development of retinal mosaics, 4) central processing of retinal inputs, 5) functions of retinal amacrine cells, 6) the diversity of retinal signaling pathways, 7) ions, ion channels and retinal function, 8) adaptation and retinal information processing. There will be a ninth talk session featuring exciting and timely work, drawn from the poster submissions. In addition a workshop on "assessing the healthy and diseased retina with behavioral, electrophysiological and optical testing" is planned. Finally, there will an opening night "data blitz" and two poster sessions. Approximately 200 participants will attend, drawn from scientists actively involved in retinal research, with the goal of stimulating a free and lively exchange of ideas. The speakers include a significant number of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and young investigators highlighting exciting new topics and promoting new members of the vision research community. The conference offers opportunities for graduate students to learn about postdoctoral positions and for postdoctoral fellows to explore junior faculty positions. The conference provides a critical review of recent research and a guidepost to future research.

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份申请，为“视网膜神经生物学和视觉处理”会议提供部分资金，该会议由美国实验生物学学会联合会（FASEB）主办，将于2008年7月20日至25日在科罗拉多州斯诺马斯举行。这是一系列受欢迎的两年一度的会议中的第九次，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视觉。参与者来自神经生物学，计算生物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视网膜视觉的神经生物学基础。本次会议的另一个独特的目标是为博士前和博士后学员提供机会，以满足和分享他们的想法与既定的研究人员。拟议的会议计划解决了视觉社区高度感兴趣的及时问题。主要会议主题将是：1）带状突触的机制和功能，2）缝隙连接和视网膜功能，3）视网膜马赛克的发展，4）视网膜输入的中央处理，5）视网膜无长突细胞的功能，6）视网膜信号通路的多样性，7）离子，离子通道和视网膜功能，8）适应和视网膜信息处理。将有一个第九次谈话会议具有令人兴奋的和及时的工作，从海报提交绘制。此外，还计划举办一个关于“通过行为、电生理和光学测试评估健康和患病视网膜”的讲习班。最后，将有一个开幕之夜“数据闪电战”和两个海报会议。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。演讲者包括大量的研究生，博士后研究员和年轻的研究人员，他们强调了令人兴奋的新课题，并促进了视觉研究界的新成员。会议为研究生提供了了解博士后职位的机会，也为博士后研究员提供了探索初级教师职位的机会。会议对最近的研究进行了批判性的回顾，并为未来的研究提供了指导。