2010 Genes & Behavior

2010 基因

• 批准号: 7798414
• 负责人: DAVID F CLAYTON
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-15 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7798414
• 关键词: Affect; Animal Behavior; Attention; Behavior; Behavioral; Behavioral Model; Biology; Brain; Complex; Consultations; Discipline; Ecology; Equilibrium; Evolution; Fees; Funding; Funding Applicant; Gender; Genes; Genetic; Genetic Models; Genomics; Goals; Health; Human; Invertebrates; Knowledge; Laboratories; Life Style; Link; Mental disorders; Mentorship; Modeling; Molecular Biology; Molecular Genetics; Neurobiology; Organism; Participant; Physiology; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Prevention; Process; Research; Research Personnel; Scientist; Substance abuse problem; System; Techniques; Travel; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; base; behavioral genomics; experience; graduate student; heart disease risk; interest; member; preference; professor; public health relevance; symposium; trait

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds are requested to help support the Fourth Gordon Research Conference on Genes and Behavior (March 14-18, 2010) and the associated Gordon Research Seminar (March 13-14), both to be held at Ventura, CA. Funds received from NIH would be used to support registration fee and/or travel support for participants, including but not limited to post docs and/or graduate students. The Conference and Seminar will focus on topics at the interface of animal behavior, neurobiology, genetics, molecular biology, ecology and evolutionary biology and will emphasize the theme of integration: integration across organismal models (invertebrates to humans), experimental contexts (field vs laboratory), timescales (physiology vs evolution), and levels of analysis (gene, brain, organismal behavior, populations and ecologies). All of the invited speakers and discussion leaders are highly regarded experts in their fields, and they were selected by the Conference Chair in consultation with an advisory group of a dozen experienced scientists representing the range of interests above. Special attention has been given to achieving gender balance and to include experts from the diverse disciplines that must be represented to achieve a broadly based understanding of the influences of genes on behavior. The associated Gordon Research Seminar is being organized by and for graduate students and postdocs, with mentorship from a core of senior participants in the main Conference, with the goal of nurturing and preparing junior scientists so they can participate more actively and effectively in the main GRC. The specific objectives of the combined conference and seminar may be summarized: 1) To provide a forum for the latest research linking genes to behavior; 2) To bring together researchers working primarily on model behavioral systems, chosen to answer general questions in behavior, with those working on behavior in model genetic systems, chosen for their genetic tractability; 3) To promote transfer of molecular genetic and genomic techniques from model genetic systems to model behavioral systems; 4) To expand the range of behavioral questions being asked in model genetic organisms; and 5) To identify both gaps in knowledge that hinder the integration of genomics and behavioral biology and links that could enhance this integration. Preference (for attending the conference) will be given to members of under-represented groups and junior colleagues (graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and new assistant professors). PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: One of the major challenges of the post-genomic era is to understand the genetic basis of complex traits, especially behavior. Understanding the relationships between genes and behavior will be key for advancing in the prevention and treatment of mental illnesses and for illuminating behavioral processes important to human health, including life-style decisions affecting the risk of heart disease or substance abuse. This conference will promote progress towards this understanding by bringing together both experts and trainees working with a variety of organismal models, human populations and technical approaches.

描述（由申请人提供）：请求资金帮助支持第四届戈登基因与行为研究会议（2010 年 3 月 14 日至 18 日）和相关的戈登研究研讨会（3 月 13 日至 14 日），两者均将在加利福尼亚州文图拉举行。从 NIH 收到的资金将用于支持参与者的注册费和/或旅行支持，包括但不限于博士后和/或研究生。会议和研讨会将重点讨论动物行为、神经生物学、遗传学、分子生物学、生态学和进化生物学等交叉领域的主题，并将强调整合的主题：跨有机体模型（无脊椎动物到人类）、实验背景（现场与实验室）、时间尺度（生理学与进化）以及分析水平（基因、大脑、有机行为、种群和进化）的整合。 生态）。所有受邀演讲者和讨论主持人都是各自领域备受推崇的专家，由会议主席与代表上述利益范围的十几位经验丰富的科学家组成的咨询小组协商后选出。我们特别关注实现性别平衡，并吸收来自不同学科的专家，这些专家必须有代表，才能对基因对行为的影响有广泛的了解。相关的戈登研究研讨会是由研究生和博士后组织的，并由主会议资深参与者的核心指导，目的是培养和准备初级科学家，使他们能够更积极、更有效地参与主 GRC。合并会议和研讨会的具体目标可以概括为： 1）为基因与行为联系的最新研究提供论坛； 2）将主要研究模型行为系统的研究人员聚集在一起，选择回答行为中的一般问题，与研究模型遗传系统行为的研究人员一起选择，因为它们的遗传易处理性； 3）促进分子遗传学和基因组技术从模型遗传系统向模型行为系统的转移； 4) 扩大模型遗传生物提出的行为问题的范围； 5) 找出阻碍基因组学和行为生物学整合的知识差距以及可以增强这种整合的联系。将优先考虑（参加会议）代表性不足的团体成员和初级同事（研究生、博士后助理和新任助理教授）。 公共卫生相关性：后基因组时代的主要挑战之一是了解复杂性状（尤其是行为）的遗传基础。了解基因和行为之间的关系对于推进精神疾病的预防和治疗以及阐明对人类健康重要的行为过程（包括影响心脏病或药物滥用风险的生活方式决策）至关重要。本次会议将通过汇集研究各种有机模型、人群和技术方法的专家和学员来促进这一理解的进展。