2012 CSHL Neuronal Circuits Conference

描述(申请人提供)：本提案寻求对2012年3月在冷泉港实验室举行的“神经元回路：从结构到功能”会议的支持。会议将召集该领域的领导者，以及初级教师、博士后研究员和研究生，讨论在各种生物体和系统的神经元回路水平上分析神经系统结构和功能的最新进展。神经元回路中的计算可能是生物学中尚未解决的主要问题，它提供了基因和行为之间缺失的联系。我们认为，如此重大的问题需要致力于不同生物体和系统的科学家共同努力。创造这样的协同作用是启动这一一年两次的会议系列的动机。到目前为止，这是一个在社区会议中久负盛名、备受推崇的会议，具有不同寻常的物种间味道，重点放在电路结构和功能上。就其本质而言，会议上提出的研究是高度跨学科的，因为它汇集了来自一系列量化学科的实验学家、理论家、工程师和研究人员。会议将包括关于视觉处理、化学感觉、运动、学习和记忆、先天行为和先进技术的会议。每期会议将由该领域的一位顶尖科学家主持。口头陈述将由一组杰出的特邀演讲者以及从会议组织者提交的摘要中挑选出来。选定的演讲者将包括研究生、博士后研究员和初级教职员工，旨在最大限度地纳入年轻研究人员。特别重要的是两个海报会议，许多与会者可以在有利于非正式讨论的气氛中介绍他们的工作。会议规模适中，我们预计将有大约250人参加，其中绝大多数人将展示海报或发表演讲。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks support for the meeting on "Neuronal Circuits: from Structure to Function" to be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory March, 2012. The meeting will assemble leaders in the field, together with junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, to discuss the latest advances that analyze structure and function of nervous systems on the level of neuronal circuits in a variety of organisms and systems. Computation in neuronal circuits is perhaps the major unresolved problem in biology and provides a missing link between genes and behavior. We believe that the problem of such magnitude requires joint efforts among scientists working on different organisms and systems. Creating such synergy served as a motivation for starting this biannual meeting series. By now, this is a well-established and highly regarded in the community meeting, which has an unusual inter-species flavor and focus on circuit structure and function. By its very nature, research presented in the meeting is highly interdisciplinary as it brings together experimentalists, theorists, engineers and researchers from a range of quantitative disciplines. The meeting will include sessions on visual processing, chemosensation, locomotion, learning and memory, innate behavior and advanced techniques. Each session will be chaired by a leading scientist in the field. Oral presentations will be given be a group of distinguished invited speakers as well as selected from submitted abstracts by the meeting organizers. Selected speakers will include graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty aiming for maximal inclusion of young investigators. Of special importance are the two poster sessions, where many participants can present their work in an atmosphere conducive to informal discussion. The meeting will be of moderate size and we expect about 250 people to attend, the vast majority of whom will be presenting a poster or talk.