Conference: FASEB Summer Conference on Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing, Saxtons River, VT

该奖项将支持2010年FASEB视网膜神经生物学和视觉处理夏季会议的初级与会者的注册和旅行费用。视网膜功能的基础研究对于理解视觉系统功能方面的神经生物学机制至关重要。这一努力的关键是视觉科学家社区之间公开交流新的研究成果。FASEB视网膜神经生物学夏季会议是视网膜生物学和视觉处理领域的首要会议。这个前沿会议吸引了来自世界各地的最优秀的视网膜科学家，并最大限度地提高了最高水平的科学互动。 将探讨视网膜研究的不同领域，包括视网膜回路的发展和外部损伤后该回路的重塑，视网膜神经元之间的专门突触连接，视网膜回路的活动依赖性变化，以及从视网膜发送到大脑其他部分的信号中包含的信息。我们尽一切努力促进该领域的年轻人参加这次会议：全体会议上的大量发言者是研究生或博士后研究员，整个口头会议都以他们令人兴奋和及时的工作为特色，这些工作来自海报会议摘要。此外，“数据闪电战”会议的特点是由年轻的调查人员进行非常简短的介绍，从而将他们介绍给整个小组，并宣传他们的海报和两个海报会议。

This award will support the registration and travel costs for junior attendees of the 2010 FASEB Summer Conference on Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing. Basic research into the function of the retina is crucial for understanding neurobiological mechanisms involved in the functional aspects of visual systems. Crucial to this effort is the open exchange of new research findings among the community of vision scientists. The FASEB Summer Conference on Retinal Neurobiology is the premier meeting in the field of retinal biology and visual processing. This cutting-edge meeting attracts the best retina scientists from around the world and maximizes scientific interactions at the highest level. Diverse areas of retinal research will be explored, including development of retina circuitry and remodeling of that circuitry upon extrinsic insults, the specialized synaptic connections between retinal neurons, activity dependent changes in retinal circuitry, and the information contained in the signals sent from the retina to the rest of the brain. Every effort is made to foster participation in this conference by young people in the field: a significant number of speakers in the plenary sessions are graduate students or postdoctoral fellows, and an entire oral session features their exciting and timely work, which is drawn from poster session abstracts. In addition, a "Data Blitz" session features very brief presentations by young investigators, thereby introducing them to the entire group and advertising their posters and the two poster sessions.