Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology

描述（由申请人提供）：目前我们会议旅行补助金的竞争更新的目的是继续促进学生/博士后参与国际发展心理生物学学会（ISDP）会议（包括现任会员和潜在会员的新研究生）。ISDP的使命是促进和鼓励对包括人类在内的所有生物的行为发展的研究，特别注意在任何组织层面上运作的生物因素的影响。正常和异常发育的表观遗传基础是研究的目标。现申请资助30名博士预科生和20名博士后在未来5年内参加ISDP年会的部分差旅费。2005年ISDP会议将在华盛顿举行，就在神经科学学会会议之前。我们之前的两次会议（2003年在洛杉矶的新奥尔良和2004年在法国普罗旺斯的艾克斯）取得了巨大的成功，这在很大程度上要归功于美国国立卫生研究院的旅行资助，它为研究生和博士后前往参加这些会议提供了部分支持。自1999年会议以来，我们已经为40名以上的学生/博士后提供了部分旅行支持。参加ISDP会议的学生人数在过去5年中稳步增长。此外，这笔资金使我们能够在ISDP开始一个新的传统；旅游奖得主被邀请在一个5分钟的“单张幻灯片”演讲中展示精选的数据。学生和资深科学家对这些演讲的反应非常热烈。学生和博士后是我们社会的命脉。在像我们这样的小社会中，培养学生的高水平参与是至关重要的。事实上，许多ISDP的资深成员最初都是作为学生加入该协会的。许多人在ISDP会议上发表了他们的第一次研究报告。鉴于可用的旅行资金有限，学生旅行支持仍然是我们社会的一个关键问题。美国国立卫生研究院继续提供的旅费支持将对我们吸引学生和博士后参加本次会议的能力产生重大影响。此外，对学生旅行的支持将使我们能够使用ISDP账户中有限的资金，从而进一步增加此类赠款的影响。例如，我们能够提供部分旅费支持，以使外国研究生参加会议，并促进与美国会员的互动。本提案要求5年的支助，以继续提供资金，部分支持学生和博士后研究员参加ISDP年会的旅费。获得多年的支持将鼓励不同大学的研究生参加ISDP会议的文化，这将延长补助金的影响，即使在要求的支持期之后。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of the present competing renewal of our conference travel grant is to continue to facilitate student/postdoctoral fellow involvement (both current members and newer graduate students who are potential members) in the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP) meetings. The mission of ISDP is to promote and encourage research on the development of behavior in all organisms, including humans, with special attention to the effects of biological factors operating at any level of organization. The epigenetic underpinnings of both normal and abnormal development are targets of study. We are requesting partial support of the travel expenses of 30 pre-doctoral and 20 postdoctoral students for attendance at the annual meetings of the ISDP over the next 5 years. The 2005 ISDP meeting will be held in Washington, DC, just prior to the Society for Neuroscience meeting. Our previous two meetings (2003 in New Orleans, LA and 2004 in Aix en Provence, France) have been enormously successful, due in no small part to the travel grants from NIH that provided partial support for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to travel to these meetings. Since the 1999 meeting, we have provided partial travel support for 40 or more students/postdoctoral fellows. Student attendance at ISDP meetings has grown steadily in the past 5 years. In addition, this funding enabled us to begin a new tradition at ISDP; travel award winners were invited to present select data in a "single slide" 5-min talk. Reactions to these presentations were overwhelmingly enthusiastic from both students and senior scientists. Students and postdoctoral fellows are the lifeblood of our society. It is critical in a small society such as ours to foster a high level of student participation. Indeed, many of the senior members of ISDP first became involved in the Society as students. Many gave their first research presentation at an ISDP meeting. Student travel support remains a critical issue for our society, given the limited nature of travel funds available. Continuation of travel support from NIH will have a major impact on our ability to bring students and postdoctoral fellows to this meeting. Furthermore, support for student travel will enable us to use the limited funds in the ISDP account in ways that will increase the impact of such a grant even further. For example, we are able to provide partial travel support to bring foreign graduate students to meetings and facilitate interactions with US members. The present proposal requests 5 years of support, to continue to provide funds for partial support of travel for student and postdoctoral fellows to the ISDP annual meetings. Obtaining multiple year support will encourage a culture of attendance at the ISDP meetings among graduate students at various universities, which will prolong the impact of the grant long after the period of support requested.