FASEB Summer Research Conference on Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing

FASEB 视网膜神经生物学和视觉处理夏季研究会议

• 批准号: 8004284
• 负责人: Maureen A McCall
• 金额: $ 5.58万
• 依托单位: FEDERATION OF AMER SOC FOR EXPER BIOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8004284
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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 Saxtons River, VT July 11-16, 2010. This is the tenth 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 170 participants include both established and young investigators actively involved in retinal research and who historically interact, providing a stimulating, free and lively exchange of ideas. The proposed program provides a critical review of recent research in the field, addresses timely questions that are of high interest to the vision community and serve as a guidepost to future work. The major session topics that will be present in plenary sessions are: 1) Development and Cell Fate, 2) Circuit Remodeling in Response to Disease, 3) Ribbon Synapses, 4) Plasticity of Visual Signaling, 5) Metabotropic Signaling Dynamics, 6) Information Flow In and Out of the Retina, 7) Synaptic and Circuit Mechanisms in the Inner Retina, and 8) Lessons from Other Sensory Systems. An interactive workshop on Analytical Techniques for Retinal Research is planned. Finally, a ninth session features exciting and timely work selected from submitted poster abstracts from junior colleagues. To advertise our two poster sessions and involve our younger participants from the outset, the first morning session features a "Data Blitz" in which 20 of our junior colleagues provide five-minute synopses of their poster presentations. 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 post-doctoral 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 our 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 significant 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. 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 retina 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 program at the 2010 conference, to be held July 11-16 in Saxtons River, Vermont. Diverse areas of retinal research will be explored, with specific plenary sessions addressing: development of retina circuitry; circuitry remodeling in response to disease; the functional importance of specialized synaptic connections between retinal neurons; activity dependent changes in retinal circuitry and visual signaling; the dynamics of intracellular signaling pathways triggered by the neurotransmitter glutamate; the information content of signals sent from retinal neurons through the optic nerve to the rest of the brain; circuit processing in the inner part of the retinal network; and insights from neuroscience research in other sensory systems. One afternoon is devoted to an informal, interactive workshop on analytical techniques for retinal research. 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 an entire oral session features their exciting and timely work, which is drawn from poster session abstracts. In addition, the first morning session features a "Data Blitz" wherein very brief synopses are presented by our young investigators, introducing them to the entire group and advertising their posters and our two poster sessions.

摘要/摘要本申请为“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2010年7月11日至16日在佛蒙特州萨克斯顿河举行。这是这一系列非常成功的两年一次的会议的第十次会议，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视觉。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170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，他们历来相互作用，提供了一个刺激，自由和活跃的思想交流。该计划对该领域的最新研究进行了批判性回顾，及时解决了视力社区高度感兴趣的问题，并为未来的工作提供了指导。全体会议的主要议题是：1)发育和细胞命运，2)疾病反应中的电路重塑，3)带状突触，4)视觉信号的可塑性，5)代谢信号动力学，6)视网膜内外的信息流，7)视网膜内的突触和电路机制，8)来自其他感觉系统的经验。计划举办一个关于视网膜研究分析技术的互动式讲习班。最后，第九届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。为了宣传我们的两个海报会议，并让我们的年轻参与者从一开始就参与进来，第一个上午的会议以“数据闪电战”为特色，由我们的20名年轻同事提供5分钟的海报简报。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，并促进了我们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。