FASEB SRC Retinal Neurobiology & Visual Processing

总结/摘要 此申请要求为“视网膜神经生物学和视觉处理”会议提供部分资金， 由美国实验生物学学会联合会（FASEB）管理，将于2012年举行， 2014年和2016年。2012年将在科罗拉多的汽船泉举行的会议是2012年的第十一次会议。 这一系列非常成功的两年一度的会议，为研究人员建立了一个独特的论坛， 不同的背景来讨论愿景。会议的主要目标是将来自 神经生物学、计算生物学和视觉研究的不同领域，讨论最先进的 技术和应用创造性的科学思维来理解视网膜视觉的神经生物学基础。 我们的180名参与者包括积极参与视网膜研究的成熟和年轻的研究人员，他们 在整个会议期间广泛互动，提供了一个刺激，自由和生动的思想交流。 这些会议的计划提供了该领域最新研究的批判性评论，及时解决 这些问题是Vision社区非常感兴趣的，并作为未来工作的路标。主要 2012年会议的主题是：1）细胞命运，发育和再生2）可塑性，修复， 正常和视网膜病变中的突触和替代，3）识别细胞中的突触和视觉功能，4） 从外视网膜到内视网膜的信号传递的调制，5）信号动力学，6）视网膜中的计算 和视觉系统，7）从视网膜到皮层的视觉处理，以及8）来自其他感觉系统的教训。 此外，还举办了两次互动式讲习班，分别是关于视网膜研究的计算方法和关于光学 方法将被保留。最后，两个特别会议的特点是从提交的令人兴奋和及时的工作中选出 来自初级同事的海报摘要。这些非常受欢迎的“数据闪电战”会议，举行之前，我们的每一个 两个海报会议，提供了一个机会，我们的24个初级同事提出五分钟的概要， 他们的海报展示。这确保了初级参与者积极参与会议， 以丰富海报所涵盖的有趣主题。2014年的详细计划和 当然，2016年的会议将在晚些时候举行，以利用最新的发展，但 涵盖视觉处理的不同主题和促进青少年参与的一般计划 调查人员将在今后的会议上继续进行调查。 从本申请中提供的拟议方案和数据可以看出，我们会议的一个独特目标是 是为博士前和博士后学员，以及早期独立调查人员， 相互之间以及与该领域的知名领导人会面并分享他们的想法。为此，我们的发言人 名单包括大量的研究生，博士后研究员和年轻的研究人员。他们的 包容性突出了令人兴奋的新课题，并促进了视觉研究界的新成员。 通过这一战略，我们的会议为研究生提供了了解其他领域的机会， 研究和探索博士后的可能性，并给予博士后研究员一个宝贵的机会，以表明， 他们准备担任初级教员职务。

Summary/Abstract This application requests partial funding for the conference on "Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing", administered by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), to be held in 2012, 2014, and 2016. The conference to be held in Steamboat Springs, Colorado in 2012 is the eleventh meeting in this series of highly successful biennial conferences that have established a unique forum for researchers with varied backgrounds to discuss vision. The primary goal of the meeting is to bring together participants from diverse areas of neurobiology, computational biology, and vision research to discuss state-of-the-art techniques and apply creative scientific thinking to understanding the neurobiological basis of retinal vision. Our 180 participants include both established and young investigators actively involved in retinal research, who interact extensively during the entire conference, providing a stimulating, free, and lively exchange of ideas. The programs of these conferences provide a critical review of recent research in the field, address timely questions that are of high interest to the vision community, and serve as a guidepost to future work. The major session topics for the 2012 meeting are: 1) Cell Fate, Development, and Regeneration 2) Plasticity, Repair, and Replacement in Normal and Diseased Retinas, 3) Synaptic and Visual Function in Identified Cells, 4) Modulation of Signal Transfer from Outer to Inner Retina, 5) Signaling Dynamics, 6) Computation in the Retina and Visual System, 7) Visual Processing from Retina to Cortex, and 8) Lessons from Other Sensory Systems. In addition, two interactive workshops on A Computational Toolbox for Retinal Research and on Optical Methods will be held. Finally, two special sessions feature exciting and timely work selected from submitted poster abstracts from junior colleagues. These highly popular "Data Blitz" sessions, held prior to each of our two poster sessions, provide an opportunity for 24 of our junior colleagues to present five-minute synopses of their poster presentations. This ensures active engagement of junior participants in the conference, and also serves to advertize the range of interesting topics covered in the posters. Detailed programs for the 2014 and 2016 meetings will of course be established later, to take advantage of the most recent developments, but the general scheme of covering diverse topics in visual processing and fostering engagement of junior investigators will continue at future conferences. As can be seen from the proposed program and data provided in this application, a unique goal of our meeting is to provide opportunities for pre- and postdoctoral trainees, as well as early-stage independent investigators, to meet and share their ideas with each other and with established leaders in the field. To this end, our speaker list includes a significant number of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and young investigators. Their inclusion highlights exciting new topics and promotes new members of the vision research community. Through this strategy, our conference offers opportunities for graduate students to learn about other areas of research and explore postdoctoral possibilities, and gives postdoctoral fellows a valuable chance to show that they are ready to assume junior faculty positions.