8th International Congress for Neuroethology, July 22-27, 2007 in Vancouver, B. C., Canada.

神经行为学研究的目标是根据单个神经元和网络的活动来解释自然行为，并探索行为的发育和进化方面。该项目将支持将于2007年7月22日至27日在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华举行的第八届国际神经行为学大会。这次会议将汇集神经学家，他们正在研究广泛的分类群(脊椎动物和无脊椎动物)行为的神经基础，从而强调用比较的方法来阐明共同和/或独特的机制。会议的科学计划将包括全体演讲者、青年研究人员奖获得者的演讲、专题研讨会、海报会议(约500张海报)、数据闪电战(临时)演示和小型科学聚会，以促进特定焦点小组的讨论。该项目代表了不同层次的分析(从生物物理学到行为学)，也代表了不同的技术和方法(神经生理学、分子生物学、基因组学、成像)。除了科学内容之外，这次会议的重要目标是促进初级研究人员，特别是女性和少数族裔科学家参与神经行为学的科学研究，并促进所有出席会议的人之间的思想交流。这种会议形式鼓励学生、初级科学家和高级调查人员之间的混合，因此起到了重要的指导作用。会议的非正式气氛也有利于产生新奇和创造性的想法，并提出新的假设和检验它们的方法。所有与会者都是会议的积极参与者，并鼓励初级科学家和学生参加整个星期的正式和非正式讨论。NSF将通过为学生参加和参与提供注册和旅行支持来加强这次会议的培训方面，使本科生和研究生都更容易参加这次会议。

The goals of neuroethological research are to explain natural behaviors in terms of the activity of individual neurons and networks, and to explore developmental and evolutionary aspects of behavior. This project will support the Eighth International Congress of Neuroethology, to be held July 22-27, 2007 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. This meeting will bring together neuroscientists who are investigating the neural basis of behavior across a broad spectrum of taxa (both vertebrate and invertebrate), thereby emphasizing a comparative approach to elucidate common and/or distinctive mechanisms. The scientific program of the meeting will include plenary speakers, talks by recipients of Young Investigator Awards, topical symposia, poster sessions (ca. 500 posters), data blitz (ad hoc) presentations, and small scientific gatherings to facilitate discussion within specific focus groups. The program represents different levels of analysis (from biophysics to behavior), and also different techniques and approaches (neurophysiology, molecular biology, genomics, imaging). Beyond the scientific content, important goals of this meeting are to promote scientific engagement in neuroethology for junior investigators, and in particular women and minority scientists, and to stimulate cross-fertilization of ideas among all who attend the conference. The meeting format encourages mixing between students, junior scientists and senior-level investigators, and thus serves an important mentoring function. The informal ambience of the meeting is also conducive to generating novel and creative ideas, and to suggesting new hypotheses and ways to test them. All attendees are active participants in the meeting, and junior scientists and students are encouraged to participate in both formal and informal discussions throughout the week. NSF will enhance the training aspects of this meeting by providing registration and travel support for students to attend and participate, making this meeting more accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students.