Workshop: Present and Future Theoretical Frameworks in Neuroscience

研讨会：神经科学当前和未来的理论框架

基本信息

批准号：
1820631
负责人：
Horacio Rotstein
金额：
$ 9.5万
依托单位：
New Jersey Institute of Technology
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-07-01 至 2023-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1820631&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Workshop Present Future Theoretical Frameworks

项目摘要

One important goal of the Brain initiative has been the development of novel neurotechnologies, which together with the technologies that have been developed in the recent past will provide vast streams of experimental data in the coming years. The potential flood of data and experimental advances makes the need to develop the appropriate theoretical frameworks that spam across scales, systems and species imperative in order to frame and ask key questions that advance our understanding of brain function in action and in context. This proposal requests funds for the organization of the workshop on Present and Future Theoretical Frameworks in Neuroscience. The workshop will take place in San Antonio, TX. An interactive format based on discussions and working groups during this activity will help identify key theoretical questions and develop experimental frameworks with a long-term vision to incorporate new tools, their capabilities and the data they will produce to advance neuroscience. This multi-day workshop will bring together a diverse group of scientists, a mix of young faculty and trainees (graduate students and postdocs) along with leading theoretical and experimental neuroscientists in a variety of fields to provide the necessary "cross-generational" perspective for the proposed activities to have an impact that persists in time. The discussions are expected to guide experimental and theoretical neuroscience research towards the understanding of brain function across interacting levels of organization (e.g.,sub-cellular, cellular, microcircuit, complex networks), scales (spatial, time) and range of species. The participation of a scientists from a broad variety of universities and research institutes across the nation is expected to provide the necessary geographic representation and diversity for the workshop to succeed in its goals and recruit the best people and ideas for future endeavors. A key dissemination platform will be the production of a podcast to ensure the ideas discussed at the workshop reach the broader community and bring the discussion to a more general level of participation. Efforts will be made to secure the participation of members of underrepresented minorities in neuroscience and for the broad dissemination of the workshop outcomes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

大脑倡议的一个重要目标是开发了新型神经技术，这些神经技术与最近几年中最近开发的技术一起将在未来几年提供大量的实验数据流。数据和实验进步的潜在洪水使得需要开发适当的理论框架，这些框架跨越规模，系统和物种势在必行，以构成框架并提出关键问题，以提高我们对动作和上下文中大脑功能的理解。该提案要求在神经科学中的当前和未来理论框架上组织研讨会的资金。研讨会将在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥举行。基于讨论和工作组的交互式格式将有助于确定关键的理论问题，并具有长期愿景的实验框架，以结合新工具，它们的能力以及它们将产生的数据以推进神经科学。这个多天的研讨会将汇集一群多样化的科学家，包括年轻教师和学员（研究生和博士后）的混合在一起，以及领先的理论和实验性神经科学家在各个领域中提供了必要的“跨代”观点，以及时及时地产生影响。这些讨论有望指导实验和理论神经科学研究，以了解组织相互作用水平（例如，细胞，细胞，细胞，微电路，复杂网络），量表（空间，时间）和物种范围的脑功能。期望全国各种各样的大学和研究机构的科学家的参与将为研讨会提供必要的地理代表和多样性，以成功实现其目标，并招募最好的人和思想，以实现未来的努力。关键的传播平台将是播客的生产，以确保研讨会上讨论的想法到达更广泛的社区，并将讨论提高到更一般的参与水平。将努力确保代表性不足的少数群体参与神经科学的参与，并为开展研讨会成果的广泛传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来进行评估的。