Workshop: Integrating Molecular Mechanisms and Quantitative Genetics in Order to Understand Consistent Individual Differences in Behavior; Urbana, IL; Summer, 2016

在动物行为的研究中，问题仍然存在，为什么群体行为存在差异，为什么个体有时在一段时间内表现出一致的行为，而其他时候则不然，最后，为什么我们看到某些行为在个体内部同时发生，或者动物个性的表达。行为是由基因控制的，研究人员可以通过多种方式提出有关行为和控制其表达的基因的问题。然而，我们的一些最有价值的调查技术及其产生的数据并不容易整合。这是我们全面了解基因如何控制行为的重要缺失部分。在这里，一个研讨会将汇集来自行为学和遗传学各个领域的研究人员，以解决这种缺失的整合，以确定如何将数据汇集在一起，并为遗传学和行为学领域的当前和未来的研究人员制定培训计划和建议。本次研讨会的成果将通过出版物广泛传播给科学界，不仅有益于行为科学，而且有益于生态学、进化、神经科学和生理学——包括人类健康——的研究。

Within the study of animal behavior questions remain concerning why population variation in behaviors exist, why individuals sometimes show consistent behavior across time while at other times they do not, and last why we see certain behaviors occurring together within individuals, or the expression of animal personalities. Behavior is controlled by genes and there are a number of ways in which researchers can ask questions about behavior and the genes that control their expression. However some of our most valuable investigative techniques, and the data they produce, are not easily integrated. This is a significant missing piece to our full understanding of how genes control behaviors. Here a workshop will bring together researchers from a wide variety of areas within behavior and genetics to address this missing integration to determine how data can be brought together and develop training plans and recommendations for current and future researchers in the area of genetics and behavior. Outcomes from this workshop will be broadly disseminated to the scientific community through publications and are of benefit not only to the behavioral sciences but to studies of ecology, evolution, neuroscience, and physiology - including human health.