GORDON CONFERENCE ON NEUROETHOLOGY

要求提供资金，以帮助支持将于1999年8月29日至9月3日在英国牛津大学女王学院举行的第一次戈登神经行为学研究会议。从NIH收到的资金将用于支付来自美国的受邀演讲者和会议主席/讨论领导人的部分差旅和会议费用。 此外，还为来自美国的年轻研究人员（博士后和研究生）申请注册和旅行奖学金，优先考虑代表性不足的群体成员。会议将集中在动物行为，神经生物学，进化和比较生物学与神经行为学相关的相互关联和重叠领域的选定的重要主题。 重点将放在特定适应行为的感觉机制上，本次会议选择的治疗主题被认为是目前正在经历概念和技术发展的主题。 所有受邀发言人和会议主席/讨论领导人都是各自科学领域的专家，他们是由会议组织者在特设顾问委员会的协助下选出的。 特别注意在被邀请者中实现男女比例均衡，以及代表各种研究准备、技术方法和分析水平。与其他关于神经行为学的会议（如三年一次的神经行为学国际大会）或神经科学等相关领域的会议（如神经科学学会年会）相比，这次新的戈登研究会议将在范围和出席人数上有所限制，以鼓励和促进开放，动画，以及对想法，实验结果和未来研究计划的批判性小组讨论。 对这样一个会议的需要来自戏剧性的最近增长的知识在所有相关领域是会议的核心，包括神经科学，神经行为学机制，进化和比较动物生物学，仿生机器人和感官科学。 新会议的主要目的是创建一个开放的论坛，根据公认的和备受尊敬的戈登研究会议的格式，其中专家和学员在科学领域的核心会议焦点可以分享他们的最新发现，想法和猜测，并促进新的研究合作。

Funds are requested to help support the first Gordon Research Conference on Neuroethology, to be held on 29 August - 3 September 1999 at Queen's College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. Funds received from NIH would be used to defray partially the travel and meeting costs incurred by invited speakers and session chairs/discussion leaders from the USA. In addition, registration and travel scholarships are requested for young investigators (postdocs and graduate students) from the USA, with preference to be given to members of under-represented groups. The Conference will focus on selected, important topics in the interrelated and overlapping fields of animal behavior, neurobiology, and evolutionary and comparative organismal biology in relation to neuroethology. Emphasis will be placed on sensory mechanisms underlying specific adaptive behaviors, and topics chosen for treatment in this conference are ones regarded as currently undergoing conceptual and technological growth. All of the invited speakers and session chairs/discussion leaders are experts in their fields of science who have been selected by the meeting organizers with the assistance of an ad-hoc committee of advisors. Special attention has been given to achieving a balanced mixture of women and men among the invitees, as well as representation of a variety of research preparations, technical approaches, and levels of analysis. In contrast to other meetings on neuroethology (e.g. the triennial International Congresses of Neuroethology), or on related fields such as neuroscience (e.g. the annual meetings of the Society for Neuroscience), this new Gordon Research Conference will be restrictive in scope and attendance in order to encourage and facilitate open, animated, and critical group discussion of ideas, experimental findings, and future research initiatives. The need for such a meeting arises from dramatic recent growth of knowledge in all of the interrelated fields that are central to the conference, including neuroscience, neuroethological mechanisms, evolutionary and comparative animal biology, biomimetic robotics, and sensory sciences. The principal aim of the new conference is to create an open forum, according to the well established and highly respected Gordon Research Conference format, in which experts and trainees in areas of science central to the meeting focus can share their most recent findings, ideas, and speculations and foster new research collaborations.