2012 Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology Gordon Research Conference & Gordon Rese

描述（由申请人提供）：近年来，在理解神经回路发育、突触可塑性、神经干细胞生物学和脑疾病方面取得了重大进展。戈登研究会议（GRC）的目标是促进全球神经科学家的互动，以揭开大脑功能的神秘面纱。 并解释大脑紊乱的原因会议将汇集在神经元极性，电路组装和功能，可塑性机制，行为的分子基础，再生神经科学和大脑疾病的分子和细胞基础的最前沿工作的神经科学家，让他们深入讨论该领域最新进展的各个方面，并刺激神经科学研究的新方向。它还将促进包括美国，亚洲和欧洲在内的不同地理区域的神经科学家之间的互动，并促进跨学科和国际合作，以更好地了解复杂的神经疾病。此外，它将促进和培养下一代神经科学家。这将通过为学生，博士后研究员和初级教师提供简短的谈话，并提供一个互动论坛，让他们在谈话和海报会议和社交时间。创新的方法包括为学生和博士后研究员保留前两个问题，“会见演讲者”计划，以及一张幻灯片/一分钟的海报介绍“快照”。最后，2012年香港GRC会议将提供第一个戈登研究研讨会（GRS）的分子和细胞神经生物学，只有学生和博士后研究员和他们邀请的主题演讲者参加。会议将促进全球神经科学家的互动，建立或初级，以揭开大脑功能在多个层面和解释大脑疾病的原因。我们预计，与会者将对神经科学的进展及其对神经和精神疾病的转化价值有新的认识，并为进一步探索和合作提供强大的平台。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Recent years have witnessed significant progress in understanding neural circuit development, synaptic plasticity, neural stem cell biology, and brain disorders. The goal of the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology is to facilitate the interaction of global neuroscientists to demystify brain function and explicate the causes of brain disorders. The meeting will bring together neuroscientists working at the forefront of the molecular and cellular basis of neuronal polarity, circuitry assembly and function, mechanisms of plasticity, molecular basis of behavior, regenerative neuroscience, and brain disorders, to allow them to discuss in depth all aspects of the most recent advances in the field and to stimulate new directions in neuroscience research. It will also facilitate the interaction among neuroscientists in different geographic regions including US, Asia and Europe and to promote interdisciplinary and international collaborations for better understand of complex neural disorders. Moreover, it will promote and foster the next generation of neuroscientists. This will be accomplished by offering short talks to students, post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty members and providing an interactive forum to engage them during talk and poster sessions, and social hours. Innovative approaches include reserving first two questions for students and postdoctoral fellows, "meet the speakers" program, and one-slide/one-minute "snapshots" of poster introduction. Finally, the 2012 Hong Kong GRC meeting will offer the first Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology that is attended only by students and post-doctoral fellows and a keynote speaker invited by them. The meeting will facilitate the interaction of global neuroscientists, established or junior, to demystify brain function at multiple levels and explicate the causes of brain disorders. We anticipate that attendees will leave with a newfound understanding of the progress in neurosciences and its translational values for neurological and mental disorders, together with a strong platform for further exploration and collaboration.