Symposium: Sensory Biomechanics, Winter, '09, Westin Waterfront Hotel in Boston, MA.

动物通过感知环境中的机械信号来做出各种各样的行为。这种能力是由感觉器官促进的，它将刺激转化为神经信号。理解这是如何实现的需要考虑信号的物理学和感觉器官的神经生物学。该提案将支持一个研讨会，该研讨会将介绍动物如何感知机械信息的物理学和生物学研究。特邀演讲者将讨论动物环境中的机械信号，动物对这些信号的行为反应，以及信号是如何被感觉器官检测到的。此外，贡献的报告将展示整合生物力学和感觉生物学的广泛研究。所有的报告都将在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的综合与比较生物学学会2009年年会上进行。本次研讨会将提供一个论坛，既综合控制原则的感觉生物力学，以及方法和发现在这一领域的前沿。演讲者包括来自不同学科的各个职业水平的男性和女性，从研究生到杰出的教授。除了提供一个科学论坛外，本次研讨会的目的是促进年轻研究者的职业发展。

Animals sense mechanical signals in their environment for a wide variety of behaviors. This ability is facilitated by sensory organs that transform a stimulus into a nervous signal. Understanding how this is achieved requires a consideration of both the physics of the signals and the neurobiology of the sensory organs. This proposal will support a symposium that presents research on the physics and biology of how animals sense mechanical information. Invited speakers will discuss the mechanical signals in the environments of animals, the behavioral responses of animals to these signals, and how signals are detected by sensory organs. In addition, contributed presentations will showcase a breadth of research that integrates biomechanics and sensory biology. All presentations will be made during two days of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology in Boston, MA. This symposium will provide a forum for both the synthesis of governing principles of sensory biomechanics, as well as the approaches and findings at the cutting-edge of this field. The presenters include men and women from a diversity of disciplines at all career levels between graduate students to distinguished professors. In addition to providing a scientific forum, this symposium aims to promote the careers of young investigators.