2004 Genes and Behavior Gordon Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：资金要求，以帮助支持第一次戈登研究会议的基因和行为，将于2004年2月8日至13日在假日酒店，文图拉，加州。 从NIH收到的资金将用于支付来自美国的受邀演讲者和讨论领导人的部分差旅和会议费用。此外，还要求为来自美国的年轻研究人员（博士后和研究生）提供支持，优先考虑代表性不足的群体的成员。 会议将集中在动物行为，神经生物学，遗传学，分子生物学和进化生物学的界面上选择的重要主题。重点将放在催化分子遗传学，生物技术和行为科学的迫切需要和及时的整合。我们的目标是第一次把那些开发遗传工具的人聚集在一起，在精心挑选的“模型行为系统”中研究自然界中的行为，以及那些在“模型遗传系统”中研究行为的人。“所有受邀演讲者和讨论负责人都是各自领域备受推崇的专家，他们是由会议主席与会议计划委员会和特设顾问委员会协商后选出的。特别注意实现性别平衡，并包括来自不同学科的专家，这些专家必须有代表，以广泛了解基因对行为的影响。 基因组学和分子生物学的最新进展首次使研究基因与行为之间的关系成为可能。我们相信，生物学这一前沿领域的大部分进展将来自两个方向：扩大模型遗传生物中研究的行为范围，以及将模型遗传系统中开发的技术应用于行为系统建模。我们寻求通过将在这两个领域工作的人聚集在一起，以戈登会议所闻名的激励和富有成效的方式来促进进展。优先考虑代表性不足的群体和初级同事（研究生，博士后助理和新的助理教授）的成员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds are requested to help support the first Gordon Research Conference on Genes and Behavior, to be held on 8-13 February 2004 at the Holiday Inn, Ventura, California. Funds received from NIH would be used to partially defray the travel and meeting costs for invited speakers and discussion leaders from the US. In addition, support is requested for young investigators (postdocs and graduate students) from the US, with preference to be given to members of under-represented groups. The Conference will focus on selected, important topics at the interface of animal behavior, neurobiology, genetics, molecular biology, and evolutionary biology. Emphasis will be placed on catalyzing a much needed and timely integration of molecular genetics, biotechnology and the behavioral sciences. We aim to bring together for the first time those developing genetic tools to study behavior in nature in carefully selected "model behavioral systems" with those who study behavior in "model genetic systems." All of the invited speakers and discussion leaders are highly regarded experts in their fields, and they were selected by the Conference Chair in consultation with a conference program committee and an ad-hoc committee of advisors. Special attention has been given to achieving gender balance and to include experts from the diverse disciplines that must be represented to achieve a broadly based understanding of the influences of genes on behavior. Recent advances in genomics and molecular biology are making it possible for the first time to study the relationship between genes and behavior. We believe that much of the progress in this frontier area in biology will come from two directions: expanding the range of behaviors studied in model genetic organisms, and applying the techniques developed in model genetic systems to model behavioral systems. We seek to catalyze progress by bringing together people working in these two areas in the stimulating and productive ways that the Gordon Conferences are renowned for. Preference will be given to members of underrepresented groups and junior colleagues (graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and new assistant professors).