Conference: International Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, August 5-9 in Madrid, Spain

这笔补助金将用于支付学生参加2000年8月举行的行为神经内分泌学会年会的旅费。SBN促进了关于荷尔蒙如何作用于大脑和身体以影响行为的研究和教育。SBN的独特之处在于它对学生成员的关注。例如，去年的SBN年会吸引了136名学生参加，85名学生海报大赛的参赛者，以及42名学生旅行奖的参赛者。学生通常财力有限，因此，我们将会费定为10美元，并始终如一地提供负担得起的住宿。今年在西班牙马德里举行的年度会议将提供出国旅行的特殊机会，并与不同的杰出科学家群体互动。如果我们没有获得这一旅行许可，我们在学生参与方面产生的势头可能会受到跨大西洋旅行高昂费用的抑制。在SBN会议上公布的研究对临床治疗和环境意识都有影响。例如，更年期的荷尔蒙变化以及与紧张经历相关的荷尔蒙变化与记忆力和学习能力的丧失有关。SBN的成员正在研究卵巢激素、雌激素和肾上腺激素对影响学习和记忆的特定脑细胞的影响。SBN的其他成员正在研究大豆等植物分泌的激素的影响。摄入植物荷尔蒙会损害动物的生育能力，甚至逆转动物的性别，包括人类。这只是SBN成员试图了解的荷尔蒙对行为影响的众多例子中的两个。虽然大多数科学将这些现象简化为细胞和分子水平，但SBN成员寻求将细胞和分子概念整合到与环境中的整个动物相关的功能框架中。

This grant will be used to pay student travel expenses to the annual conference of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) in August 2000. The SBN fosters research and education concerning how hormones act on the brain and body to influence behavior. SBN is unique in its attention to student members. For example, last year's annual SBN meeting drew136 student attendees, 85 competitors in the student poster competition, and 42 competitors for the student travel awards. Students typically have limited financial resources, and thus, we set membership dues at $10, and consistently provide affordable accommodations. This year's annual meeting in Madrid, Spain will offer special opportunities to travel abroad and to interact with a diverse group of distinguished scientists. The momentum we generated in student participation might have been dampened by the prohibitive cost of transatlantic travel, had we not received this travel grant.Research presented at the SBN conference has impact on clinical treatments as well as on environmental awareness. For example, the hormonal changes of menopause and those associated with stressful experiences are associated with a loss of memory and learning ability. Members of SBN are studying the effects of the ovarian hormone, estrogen, and adrenal hormones on the specific brain cells that influence learning and memory. Other members of SBN are studying the effects of hormones secreted by plants such as soy. Ingested plant hormones impair fertility or even reverse the sex of animals, including people. These are just two of the many examples of hormonal effects on behavior that SBN members seek to understand. While most of science reduces these phenomena to the cellular and molecular level, SBN members seeks to integrate cellular and molecular concepts into a functional framework that is relevant for the whole animal in its environment.