Conference: Visual System Development 2008 Gordon Research Conference, August 10-15, 2008, Salve Regina, Rhode Island

罗斯湖Cagan，Mount Sinai School of MedicineIOS-0834010视觉系统开发2008年戈登研究会议在所有主要的感官中，视觉可能是最有形的：人类和大多数其他动物都是视觉主导的生物体，它们使用视觉作为在环境中导航的主要手段。这次会议，视觉系统开发，是每隔一年举行的精英戈登会议之一。这次会议汇集了最优秀的科学家以及年轻有前途的科学家，为期四天，分享关于眼睛和视觉发展机制的数据，这些非凡的结构如何连接并将视觉信息带到大脑，以及如何感知视觉世界。这次会议被许多人认为是分享视觉和视觉系统发展信息和想法的杰出会议。除了汇集来自美国高等学府的研究人员，其中许多人得到了NSF的资助，这次会议也吸引了明显的国际观众。就更广泛的影响而言，本次会议的一个重要目标是通过在鼓励开放对话和科学卓越的环境中聚集来自许多不同学科的顶级研究人员来分享想法并创造新的想法。

Ross L. Cagan, Mount Sinai School of MedicineIOS-0834010Visual System Development 2008 Gordon Research ConferenceOf all the major senses, vision is probably the most tangible: humans and most other animals are vision-dominant organisms that use sight as the major means to navigate through the environment. This meeting, Visual System Development, is one of the elite Gordon Conferences that occurs every other year. The meeting brings together the very best scientists as well as young promising scientists for four days to share data on the mechanisms by which eyes and vision develop, how these remarkable structures connect and bring visual information to the brain, and how sense is perceived of the visual world. This meeting is considered by many to be the preeminent meeting for sharing information and ideas on vision and visual system development. In addition to bringing together researchers from premier institutions of higher learning from the United States, many of whom have been funded by NSF, this meeting also attracts a distinctly international audience. In terms of Broader Impacts, an important goal of this meeting is to share ideas and to create new ones by assembling top researchers from many different disciplines in an environment that encourages open dialog as well as scientific excellence.