2015 Neuroethology: Behavior, Evolution, & Neurobiology Gordon Research Conference & Gordon Research Seminar

 申请资助：第七届戈登神经行为学研究会议和研讨会将于2015年6月27日至7月3日在意大利卢卡的文艺复兴托斯卡纳Il Ciocco度假村举行。从美国国立卫生研究院获得的资金将完全用于支付在美国的学生、博士后和其他受邀的初级演讲者的旅费和注册费用，优先考虑来自代表性不足群体的科学家。在GRC之前，将由研究生和博士后为研究生和博士后组织为期两天的研究生研究研讨会。这一创新计划将结合科学演示和指导，以增强年轻科学家参加他们的第一次GRC的经验。对了解生物学原理的探索，这些原理使有机体精致地适应环境，使它们能够解决复杂的问题，这导致了对如何通过技术解决类似问题的意想不到的见解，这是最近的大脑倡议的核心。神经行为学研究的最新进展揭示了动物如何感知不断变化的环境，并通过神经网络使用这些信息来控制和操纵复杂的行为，如飞行、行走和跑步，以及远距离导航。神经行为学家正在揭示的原理展示了天然传感器和执行器的巨大复杂性，它们的特性将永远成为未来自主手术设备、机器人和神经假体的非常理想的特征，这些设备可以帮助人类在疾病或感觉敏锐度丧失时进行运动和感知。2015年GRC的标题是：未来是现在：神经行为学和新技术的创新概念-旨在将神经行为学的尖端基础研究与世界领先的仿生学和神经形态工程研究结合起来，为生物学家和工程师提供一个无与伦比的论坛，让他们在一个小型的大学环境中相互启发和学习。每一届会议都旨在展示神经行为学领域的领先研究，以及生物机器人学和仿生学领域的最新进展，旨在激励领先的 这两个领域的研究人员。该计划将包括关于动物和机器的运动和感应、动物和机器人的嗅觉以及动物和机器导航的课程。此外，还将有其他几个课程涉及大脑的进化、技术进步、神经可塑性、新兴感觉形态和计算神经生物学。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds are requested to support the 7th Gordon Research Conference and Seminar in Neuroethology, to be held June 27th -July 3rd, 2015 at the Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort, Lucca (Barga), Italy. 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 who are junior, with preference being given to scientists from underrepresented groups. The GRC will be preceded by a two day Graduate Research Seminar organized by graduate students and postdocs for graduate students and postdocs. This innovative program will combine scientific presentations and mentoring to enhance the experience of younger scientists attending their first 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 technologically and are central to the recent BRAIN initiative. Recent cutting-edge advances in neuroethological research are revealing how animals sense their constantly changing environments and use this information neurally to control and steer complex behaviors, such as flight, walking and running, and navigating over great distances. The principles neuroethologists are uncovering showcase the enormous sophistication of natural sensors and actuators, the properties of which will invariably become highly desirable features of future autonomous surgical devices, robots and neural prosthetics that can aid in human movement and sensing due to disease or loss of sensory acuity. The 2015 GRC - whose title is The future is now: Innovative concepts in neuroethology and new technologies - aims to combine cutting-edge fundamental research in Neuroethology with the world's leading research in biomimetics and neuromorphic engineering, allowing an unparalleled forum for biologists and engineers to inspire and learn from each other in a small and collegial environment. Each session of the conference is designed to present the leading research in neuroethology with the latest advances in the fields of biorobotics and biomimetics, with the aim of inspiring the leading researchers in both fields. The program will include sessions on animal and machine locomotion and sensing, olfaction by animals and robots, and animal and machine navigation. In addition there will be several other sessions dealing with the evolution of brains, advances in technology, neural plasticity, emerging sensory modalities and computational neurobiology.