Support for the 2012 International Congress of Neuroethology

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求部分支持美国年轻研究人员-研究生，博士后研究员和助理教授-参加将于2012年8月5日至10日在马里兰大学帕克分校举行的第十届国际神经行为学大会（ICN）。会议的主题包括感觉处理和知觉、多感觉信号、运动和运动控制、行为内分泌学和行为的遗传控制。一些会议将重点介绍新技术，如动物群体中出现的复杂行为的自动分析和光遗传学。该计划旨在利用广泛的工具和技术（包括那些从物理学，数学，信号处理，分子生物学，基因组学，现场观察，心理物理学和神经生理学），并在脊椎动物和无脊椎动物的物种多样性中进行检查，在不同的分析水平（从生物物理学到现场行为）纳入脑功能的讨论。这些不同的方法被一个共同的基本目标联系在一起：发现自然生物问题的神经、计算和设计解决方案，这些解决方案一旦确定，就可以更容易地在其他物种中进行研究或在技术上实现。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests partial support for US young investigators -- graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and assistant professors -- to attend the 10th International Congress of Neuroethology (ICN), to be held on August 5-10, 2012, at the University of Maryland in College Park. Topics to be covered at the meeting include sensory processing and perception, multisensory signaling, locomotion and motor control, behavioral endocrinology, and genetic control of behavior. Some sessions will highlight new technologies, such as automated analysis of complex behaviors emerging in animal groups and optogenetics. The program is designed to incorporate discussion of brain function at different levels of analysis (from biophysics to field behavior) using a wide range of tools and techniques (including those drawn from physics, mathematics, signal processing, molecular biology, genomics, field observations, psychophysics, and neurophysiology) and examined in a diversity of species, both vertebrate and invertebrate. These different approaches are bound together by a common fundamental goal: to uncover neural, computational, and design solutions to natural biological problems that, once identified, can more easily pursued in other species or implemented technologically. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Support of this conference will increase knowledge of neural mechanisms of behavior and will help identify technological solutions to neural and behavioral problems. By providing networking and mentoring activities, the conference will promote education and career development of young investigators. By providing outreach, the conference will increase public understanding of science.