2019 Neuroethology Gordon Research Conference & Gordon Research Seminar

项目摘要： 资金要求支持第九届戈登研究会议（GRC）在神经行为学，将于7月举行 28-8月2日，美国佛蒙特州西多佛的斯诺山。从NIH获得的资金将仅用于 支付美国学生，博士后和其他受邀演讲者的旅行和注册费用， 优先考虑早期职业科学家和妇女。在GRC之前， 戈登研究研讨会（GRS）由两位博士后研究员组织，并得到导师的支持， 领导者在外地。GRS是专为研究生和博士后讨论他们目前的研究 并与同龄人建立联系。几乎所有的GRS与会者也参加了GRC。 寻求理解生物体巧妙地适应环境的生物学原理， 这使得他们能够解决复杂的问题，导致了意想不到的见解，如何类似的问题， 它是BRAIN倡议和RFA在多感觉整合中的核心。最新前沿 神经行为学研究的进展揭示了神经处理是如何被生理调节的。 饥饿或压力等状态，或者通过融合感觉方式来控制和产生复杂的 行为，比如运动，或者社会互动。2019年GRC -其标题是多式联运战略， 行为控制：分子，神经元，电路和行为-旨在采取多学科的方法， 动物已经进化出趋同的解决方案来应对广泛的神经生物学挑战。神经 解决方案，包括潜在的电路和基因，最容易在动物中研究， 夸大了一个特定的感觉系统或进化出一个精心制作的行为剧目作为适应一个 特定的自然生态位这些适应通常是为了应对变化和 不可预知的感官环境例如，研究猫头鹰寻找猎物的专门系统的工作， 导致了对听觉编码过程和成人大脑可塑性的普遍理解;计算和 运动视觉的潜在神经回路在苍蝇中得到了最多的揭示， 与脊椎动物相似，昆虫对听觉的理解可能会影响下一代的听觉。 声源定位的辅助工具，以及运动回路的胺能调制的重要原理， 最近在斑马鱼的全脑成像中绘制出来。

Project Summary: Funds are requested to support the 9th Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Neuroethology, to be held July 28-August 2 at Mount Snow, West Dover Vermont, USA. Funds received from the NIH will be used solely to defray the travel and registration costs incurred by US-based students, postdocs, and other invited speakers, with preference being given to early career scientists and women. The GRC will be preceded by a two day Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) organized by two postdoctoral fellows, with support from mentors that are leaders in the field. The GRS is designed for graduate students and postdocs to discuss their current research and to network with their peers. Almost all GRS attendees with also attend the GRC. The quest to understand the biological principles that exquisitely adapt organisms to their environments and which allow them to solve complex problems, has led to unexpected insights into how similar problems can be solved and are central to the BRAIN initiative, and RFA in Multisensory Integration. Recent cutting-edge advances in neuroethological research are revealing how neural processing is modulated by physiological state such as hunger or stress, or by converging sensory modalities to control and generate complex behaviors, like locomotion, or social interactions. The 2019 GRC – whose title is Multimodal Strategies for Behavioral Control: Molecules, Neurons, Circuits, and Behavior – aims to take a multidisciplinary approach to discuss animals have evolved convergent solutions to a wide range of neurobiological challenges. The neural solutions, including the underlying circuits and genes, are most readily studied in animals that have exaggerated a particular sensory system or evolved an elaborate behavioral repertoire as an adaptation to a specific, naturally occurring niche. These adaptions are usually formed in response to varying and unpredictable sensory environments. For example, work on the specialized system in owls for finding prey has led to a general understanding of the auditory coding process and adult brain plasticity; the computational and underlying neuronal circuitry for motion vision has been most unraveled in flies, which shares computational motifs with vertebrates, the understanding of hearing in insects will likely impact the next generation of hearing aids for sound source location, and important principles of aminergic modulation of motor circuits has been recently mapped out with whole-brain imaging in zebrafish.