2014 Predator-prey Interactions "From Genes to Ecosystems to Human Mental Health" Gordon Research Conference; Ventura, CA - January 5-10, 2014

该提案提供资金，帮助研究生和博士后研究人员参加2014年1月戈登捕食者-猎物相互作用研究会议的首次会议。本次会议的副标题为“从基因到生态系统再到人类心理健康”，汇集了来自生态学、进化学、生理学和精神病学等领域的众多研究人员，探讨捕食风险（以及更广泛地说，身体伤害的威胁）如何影响生物体、种群、社区和生态系统。虽然许多研究人员已经在一个给定的系统或物种中研究了这些问题，但他们没有机会比较他们的发现，并确定跨学科工作的富有成效的途径。本次会议旨在提供这样的机会，确定研究协同的领域，并促进解决这些问题所需的跨学科合作。该提案针对学生和博士后研究人员，优先考虑那些也是代表性不足群体成员的个人。将提供部分经费使他们能够参加会议。给他们机会与领先的研究人员见面并展示他们自己的工作将拓宽他们的职业机会。为了与尽可能广泛的受众分享会议的结果，我们将在谷歌Scholar索引的开放获取在线期刊《开放生态学杂志》上发表一篇关于所讨论研究的迷你综述。

This proposal provides funding to help graduate students and postdoctoral researchers attend the inaugural meeting of the Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions in January 2014. This conference, subtitled "From genes to ecosystems to human mental health", brings together a wide array of researchers from fields such as ecology, evolution, physiology, and psychiatry to explore how predation risk (and, more broadly, the threat of bodily harm) affects organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems. While many researchers have examined these questions within a given system or species, there has been no opportunity for them to compare their findings and identify fruitful avenues for cross-disciplinary work. This conference aims to provide that opportunity, identifying areas of research synergy and spurring the interdisciplinary collaborations necessary to address them.This proposal targets students and postdoctoral researchers, with priority given to those individuals who are also members of under-represented groups. Partial funding will be provided to enable them to attend the conference. Giving them the opportunity to meet with leading researchers and present their own work will broaden their career opportunities. To share results of the conference with the widest possible audience, we will publish a mini-review of the research discussed in Open Ecology Journal, an open-access online journal indexed in Google Scholar.