FASEB SRC Retinal Neurobiology & Visual Processing

FASEB SRC 视网膜神经生物学

• 批准号: 8316891
• 负责人: Maureen A McCall
• 金额: $ 7.38万
• 依托单位: FEDERATION OF AMER SOC FOR EXPER BIOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8316891
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests partial funding for the conference on "Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing", administered by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), to be held in 2012, 2014, and 2016. The conference to be held in Steamboat Springs, Colorado in 2012 is the eleventh meeting in this series of highly successful biennial conferences that have established a unique forum for researchers with varied backgrounds to discuss vision. The primary goal of the meeting is to bring together participants from diverse areas of neurobiology, computational biology, and vision research to discuss state-of-the-art techniques and apply creative scientific thinking to understanding the neurobiological basis of retinal vision. Our 180 participants include both established and young investigators actively involved in retinal research, who interact extensively during the entire conference, providing a stimulating, free, and lively exchange of ideas. The programs of these conferences provide a critical review of recent research in the field, address timely questions that are of high interest to the vision community, and serve as a guidepost to future work. The major session topics for the 2012 meeting are: 1) Cell Fate, Development, and Regeneration 2) Plasticity, Repair, and Replacement in Normal and Diseased Retinas, 3) Synaptic and Visual Function in Identified Cells, 4) Modulation of Signal Transfer from Outer to Inner Retina, 5) Signaling Dynamics, 6) Computation in the Retina and Visual System, 7) Visual Processing from Retina to Cortex, and 8) Lessons from Other Sensory Systems. In addition, two interactive workshops on A Computational Toolbox for Retinal Research and on Optical Methods will be held. Finally, two special sessions feature exciting and timely work selected from submitted poster abstracts from junior colleagues. These highly popular "Data Blitz" sessions, held prior to each of our two poster sessions, provide an opportunity for 24 of our junior colleagues to present five-minute synopses of their poster presentations. This ensures active engagement of junior participants in the conference, and also serves to advertize the range of interesting topics covered in the posters. Detailed programs for the 2014 and 2016 meetings will of course be established later, to take advantage of the most recent developments, but the general scheme of covering diverse topics in visual processing and fostering engagement of junior investigators will continue at future conferences. As can be seen from the proposed program and data provided in this application, a unique goal of our meeting is to provide opportunities for pre- and postdoctoral trainees, as well as early-stage independent investigators, to meet and share their ideas with each other and with established leaders in the field. To this end, our speaker list includes a significant number of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and young investigators. Their inclusion highlights exciting new topics and promotes new members of the vision research community. Through this strategy, our conference offers opportunities for graduate students to learn about other areas of research and explore postdoctoral possibilities, and gives postdoctoral fellows a valuable chance to show that they are ready to assume junior faculty positions. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Diseases of the retina, the neural tissue that lines the back of the eye and sends information about the visual world to the rest of the brain, afflict a significan fraction of the population in the United States and the rest of the world. According to the National Eye Institute, more than 3 million Americans over the age of 40 suffer from serious visual impairment, about 1 million of whom are blind. More than 1.7 million in that same age group suffer from advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Diabetic retinopathy afflicts another 4 million. Still more are affected by blindness or visual impairments from childhood onward. Basic research into the function of the healthy retina and the effects of disease on visual processing is a crucial component of the research funded by the NEI in the ongoing fight to prevent blindness. Of critical importance in this endeavor is the open exchange of new research findings among the community of vision scientists. The FASEB conference on Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing is the premier meeting in the field of retinal biology and visual processing. This broadly focused, cutting-edge meeting attracts the best vision scientists from around the world and provides an intimate setting to maximize scientific interactions at the highest level. This conference has been held biennially over the past 20 years and has stimulated many collaborations resulting in novel work with high impact. This exciting trend will continue with the proposed programs for the 2012, 2014, and 2016. Diverse areas of retinal research will be explored, with specific plenary sessions in 2012 addressing: cell fate, development, and regeneration; plasticity, repair, and replacement in normal and diseased retinas; synaptic and visual function in identified cells; modulation of signal transfer from outerto inner retina; signaling dynamics; computation in the retina and visual system; visual processing from retina to cortex; and insights from neuroscience research in other sensory systems. Two additional sessions are devoted to informal, interactive workshops on computational methods for retinal research and on optical methods for studying the retina. We make a strong effort at this meeting to foster participation by young people in the field: a significant number of speakers in the plenary sessions are graduate students or postdoctoral fellows, and two morning sessions feature a "Data Blitz" in which very brief synopses are presented by our young investigators, introducing them to the entire group and advertising their posters in our two poster sessions.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请为“视网膜神经生物学和视觉处理”会议申请部分资金，该会议由美国实验生物学学会联合会（FASEB）管理，将于2012年、2014年和2016年举行。该会议将于2012年在科罗拉多州的蒸汽船泉举行，是这一系列非常成功的两年一次的会议中的第11次会议，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。会议的主要目标是将来自神经生物学、计算生物学和视觉研究不同领域的参与者聚集在一起，讨论最先进的技术，并应用创造性的科学思维来理解视网膜视觉的神经生物学基础。我们的180名参与者包括积极参与视网膜研究的成熟和年轻研究者，他们在整个会议期间广泛互动，提供了一个刺激，自由和活跃的思想交流。这些会议的节目提供了该领域最新研究的重要回顾，及时解决了视觉社区高度感兴趣的问题，并为未来的工作提供了指导。2012年会议的主要议题是：1)细胞的命运、发育和再生；2)正常和病变视网膜的可塑性、修复和替换；3)已鉴定细胞的突触和视觉功能；4)视网膜内外信号传递的调节；5)信号动力学；6)视网膜和视觉系统的计算；7)视网膜到皮层的视觉处理；8)来自其他感觉系统的经验。此外，还将举办两个关于视网膜研究计算工具箱和光学方法的互动研讨会。最后，两个特别会议将从初级同事提交的海报摘要中选出令人兴奋和及时的作品。这些非常受欢迎的“数据闪电战”会议在我们的两次海报会议之前举行，为我们的24位初级同事提供了一个机会，让他们对他们的海报演讲进行五分钟的概要介绍。这确保了年轻参与者积极参与会议，也有助于宣传海报中涵盖的有趣主题的范围。当然，2014年和2016年会议的详细计划将在稍后确定，以利用最新的发展，但涵盖视觉处理中不同主题和促进初级研究人员参与的总体计划将在未来的会议上继续进行。从本次申请中提出的方案和提供的数据可以看出，我们会议的一个独特目标是为博士前和博士后学员以及早期的独立研究者提供机会，让他们彼此见面，并与该领域的知名领导者分享他们的想法。为此，我们的演讲者名单包括大量的研究生，博士后研究员和年轻的研究人员。他们的加入突出了令人兴奋的新主题，并促进了视觉研究界的新成员。通过这一策略，我们的会议为研究生提供了了解其他研究领域和探索博士后可能性的机会，并为博士后提供了一个宝贵的机会来展示他们已经准备好担任初级教师职位。