2006 Genes & Behavior Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：资金被要求帮助支持第二次戈登基因和行为研究会议，将于2004年2月12日至17日在加州文图拉福朋喜来登酒店举行。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整合。第二次会议的目的与非常成功的第一次会议相同，即将开发遗传工具以研究“模型行为系统”中行为的科学家与研究“模型遗传系统”中行为的科学家聚集在一起。“所有受邀的演讲者和讨论负责人都是各自领域备受推崇的专家，由会议主席与会议计划委员会协商后选出。特别注意包括来自不同学科的专家，以实现对基因影响行为的广泛理解。 基因组学和分子生物学的最新进展使我们有可能细致地研究基因与行为之间的关系。我们相信，在这一前沿领域的大部分进展将来自两个方向：扩大模型遗传生物的行为研究范围，并应用模型遗传系统中开发的技术来模拟行为系统。我们寻求利用戈登会议作为促进这一进程的机制。 第一届戈登基因与行为会议被几乎所有的与会者认为是非常成功的（基于GRC出口民意调查的结果）。讨论十分热烈，而且据各方面的情况，在来自截然不同背景的科学家之间寻找共同参数方面取得了重大进展。我们相信第二次会议将比第一次会议更成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds are requested to help support the second Gordon Research Conference on Genes and Behavior, to be held on February 12th to 17th, 2004 at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel 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 the integration of molecular genetics, biotechnology and the behavioral sciences. The aim of the second conference is the same as the highly successful first conference namely to bring together scientists developing genetic tools to study behavior in "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 were selected by the Conference Chair in consultation with a conference program committee. Special attention has been given to include experts from diverse disciplines in order to achieve a broadly based understanding of genes influence behavior. Recent advances in genomics and molecular biology are making it possible to examine in exquisite detail the relationship(s) between genes and behavior. We believe that much of the progress in this frontier area 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 use the Gordon Conference as the mechanism catalyze this process. The first Gordon Conference on Genes and Behavior was seen by nearly all participants as highly successful (based on the results of the GRC exit poll). The discussions were lively and by all accounts substantial progress was made in finding the common parameters among scientists from remarkably different backgrounds. We believe the second conference will be even more successful than the first.