International Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology; Amherst, Massachusetts, June 26-30, 2002

行为神经内分泌学会（SBN）成立于1995年，是一个相当年轻的学会，预计将有300人参加第六届年会。SBN在其会议和杂志（激素和行为）中独特地强调了细胞和分子概念的多学科整合到一个涉及大脑、行为、发育、进化和社会行为生态学的功能框架中。这种将激素与许多行为领域联系起来的集中，包括现场和实验室方法，使这次焦点会议与该领域的其他会议不同。会议组织者备受尊敬，经验丰富，主题及时，除了科学讲座外，还为学生和学员计划了“生存技能”，“与教授见面”午餐，“替代职业”和海报会议，奖品扩大到包括本科生作品。会议结果将通过《激素与行为》的特别增刊进行传播。SBN会议强烈强调引进学生（研究生和本科生，占总会员的1/3）和博士后，以便与已建立的研究人员进行跨学科互动。本次会议在神经内分泌学和行为神经科学领域的潜在影响很大，因为重点讨论塑造了未来的工作，发展新的跨学科合作的潜力，以及对年轻研究者的职业发展至关重要的可能的互动和介绍。来自NSF的资助对于帮助学生、博士后和年轻研究人员参加，以及对于一些目前不是社会成员的职业发展研讨会演讲者来说是很重要的。

The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) is fairly young (founded 1995), and expects attendance of around 300 at this sixth Annual Meeting. The SBN, in its meetings and its journal (Hormones & Behavior) uniquely emphasizes multidisciplinary integration of cellular and molecular concepts into a functional framework involving the brain, behavior, development, evolution and the ecology of social behavior. This concentration linking hormones to many areas of behavior, including both field and laboratory approaches, makes this focal meeting different from other meetings in the field. The conference organizers are highly regarded and experienced, the topics are timely, and in addition to scientific talks there are particular sessions planned for students and trainees on 'survival skills', 'meet-the-professor' lunches, 'alternative careers' and poster sessions with awards expanded to include undergraduate work. Dissemination of the conference findings will be through a special supplemental issue of Hormones & Behavior. The SBN meetings strongly emphasize bringing in students (graduate and undergraduate, representing 1/3 of the total membership) and postdocs for interdisciplinary interactions with established investigators. The potential impact of this conference is high in the fields of neuroendocrinology and behavioral neuroscience, because of the focused discussions shaping future work, the potential to develop new cross-disciplinary collaborations, and the likely interactions and introductions essential to career development of young investigators. Funding from NSF is important to help students, postdocs, and young researchers attend, and for some career development workshop speakers who are not currently society members.