FASEB SRC Retinal Neurobiology & Visual Processing

摘要/摘要 这项申请要求为“视网膜神经生物学和视觉处理”会议提供部分资金， 由美国实验生物学学会联合会(FASE B)管理，将于2012年举行， 2014年和2016年。会议将于2012年在科罗拉多州的斯普林斯举行，这是#年的第11次会议。 这一系列非常成功的两年一次的会议为研究人员建立了一个独特的论坛 不同的背景来讨论视觉。会议的主要目标是汇聚来自 神经生物学、计算生物学和视觉研究的不同领域，讨论最新技术 技术，并应用创造性的科学思维，以了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的研究人员，他们 在整个会议期间进行广泛的互动，提供激动人心的、自由和活跃的思想交流。 这些会议的计划提供了对该领域最新研究的批判性回顾，及时解决 愿景社区高度关注的问题，并作为未来工作的路标。少校 2012年会议的议题是：1)细胞的命运、发育和再生2)可塑性、修复、 和正常和病变视网膜的替换，3)识别细胞的突触和视觉功能，4) 从视网膜外部到内部的信号传递的调制，5)信号动力学，6)视网膜的计算 和视觉系统，7)从视网膜到大脑皮层的视觉处理，以及8)其他感觉系统的经验教训。 此外，两个关于视网膜研究的计算工具箱和光学的互动研讨会 方法将被搁置。最后，两个特别会议的特点是从提交的作品中挑选出令人兴奋和及时的工作 来自初级同事的海报摘要。这些非常受欢迎的“数据闪电战”会议，在我们的每个 两个海报会议，为我们的24名初级同事提供机会介绍5分钟的概要 他们的海报展示。这确保了初级与会者积极参与会议，还 用来宣传海报中涵盖的一系列有趣的主题。2014年和 2016年的会议当然会在晚些时候设立，以利用最新的事态发展，但 涵盖不同主题的视觉加工和培养初中生敬业度的总体方案 调查人员将在未来的会议上继续调查。 从本申请中提出的计划和数据中可以看出，我们会议的一个独特目标 是为博士后和博士后实习生以及早期独立调查人员提供机会， 与彼此以及该领域的知名领导者见面并分享他们的想法。为此，我们的发言人 名单中包括相当数量的研究生、博士后研究员和年轻的研究人员。他们的 收录内容突出了令人兴奋的新话题，并促进了愿景研究社区的新成员。 通过这一战略，我们的会议为研究生提供了学习其他领域的机会 研究和探索博士后的可能性，并给博士后研究员一个宝贵的机会来证明 他们已经准备好担任初级教职。

Summary/Abstract 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.