Ninth and Tenth Annual Meetings for the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology June 22-25, 2005 in Austin, TX and Pittsburgh, PA in 2006

本项目将为参加美国行为神经内分泌学会（SBN）第9届和第10届年会的学员提供支持。SBN的创始原则是对本科生，研究生和博士后的承诺。这些人是科学事业的未来，每年的SBN会议是加强他们的教育，奖励他们的努力，感谢他们的贡献，并使他们成为学术界的一部分的机会。SBN是一个多学科的国际学会，致力于促进激素、大脑和行为方面的研究和教育。一年一度的SBN会议汇集了来自许多领域的科学家，包括生理和发展心理学、行为生态学、动物行为学、时间生物学、精神神经内分泌学、神经科学、细胞和分子内分泌学、发育生物学和遗传学。特别是，该协会鼓励将细胞和分子概念整合到功能框架中。本项目资金将用于以下目的：(1)举办青年研究员研讨会，由八名最有才华的博士后和高级研究生在研讨会上发表演讲(他们是在竞赛中选出的，并将获得资助，以支付大部分（如果不是全部）参加会议的费用；(2)向展示海报的学生和博士后提供小额旅游奖励（也可通过竞赛选出）；(3)“见教授”午餐；(4)专业发展工作坊。会议上的演讲摘要和海报将发表在《激素与行为》杂志上，而数据的完整手稿则通常发表在各种专注于神经科学、内分泌学和/或行为的期刊上。

This Project will provide support for trainees at the 9th and 10th annual meetings of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN). A founding principle of the SBN is a commitment to undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows. These individuals are the future of scientific enterprise, and the annual SBN conference is an opportunity to enhance their education, reward their efforts, appreciate their contributions, and make them part of the academic community. The SBN is a multidisciplinary, international society that promotes research and education concerning hormones, the brain and behavior. The annual SBN conference brings together scientists from many fields, including physiological and developmental psychology, behavioral ecology, animal behavior, chronobiology, psychoneuroendocrinology, neuroscience, cellular and molecular endocrinology, developmental biology, and genetics. In particular, the society encourages the integration of cellular and molecular concepts into a functional framework. The funds from this project will be used for purposes including: (1) a Young Investigator's Symposium, in which eight of the most talented postdocs and senior graduate students will present talks (they were selected in a competition and will receive support to defray much if not all of their expenses in attending the meeting); (2) smaller travel awards to students and postdocs presenting posters (also selected by competition); (3) "meet-the-professor" lunches; and (4) a professional development workshop. The abstracts from talks and posters presented at the conference will be published in Hormones and Behavior, and full manuscripts from the data are then commonly published in a variety of journals focusing on neuroscience, endocrinology and/or behavior.