Conference: 2022 Thalamocortical Interactions: Thalamic Architecture, Dynamics, and Function in Health and Disease GRC and GRS

会议：2022 丘脑皮质相互作用：健康和疾病中的丘脑结构、动力学和功能 GRC 和 GRS

• 批准号: 2150934
• 负责人: Judith Hirsch
• 金额: $ 2.48万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-15 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150934&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; 2022; Thalamocortical; Interactions; Thalamic

This award will provide support to US-based students and post-doctoral fellows and junior scientists to attend the 2022 Gordon Research Conference and Research seminar on Thalamocortical Interactions. This five-day meeting is the premier meeting that brings together researchers to present results and enagage in discussions on the cell and circuit properties of thalamocortical interactions, and build on these to explore their roles in cognition and behavior. This conference represents a rare opportunity for neuroscientists interested in thalamocortical interactions to exchange new results, hypotheses, and ideas at many levels, from cellular through systems to cognitive and clinical. This is especially timely because this field has been expanding significantly with the recent appreciation that the thalamus plays an ongoing and critical role in cortical functioning. With respect to broader impacts, this meeting will benefit the larger community in multiple ways. First, it will help train and inspire the next generation of scientists by exposing students and postdoctoral fellows to exciting science and scientists. Second, special emphasis will be given to junior faculty. Finally, a concerted effort will be made to recruit scientists from under-represented groups.The intellectual merit of this meeting derives from its small size, which promotes interactions between participants, and the assembly of many top scientists whose research spans thalamocortical interactions across multiple sensory modalities, emphasizing the commonalities. This combination leads to fruitful comparative analyses, raises new questions about underlying mechanisms and often leads to new collaborations. By maximizing both formal discussion and informal interactions, the Gordon Conference will highlight exciting new developments that have implications both for a basic understanding of the emergent properties of neural circuits as well as pathologies that involve thalamocortical disruptions.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.

该奖项将为美国学生、博士后研究员和初级科学家参加 2022 年戈登研究会议和丘脑皮质相互作用研究研讨会提供支持。这次为期五天的会议是首次会议，研究人员齐聚一堂，展示结果并参与丘脑皮质相互作用的细胞和回路特性的讨论，并在此基础上探索它们在认知和行为中的作用。这次会议为对丘脑皮质相互作用感兴趣的神经科学家提供了一个难得的机会，可以在从细胞到系统到认知和临床的多个层面上交流新的结果、假设和想法。这是特别及时的，因为随着最近人们认识到丘脑在皮质功能中发挥着持续而关键的作用，这一领域正在显着扩大。 就更广泛的影响而言，这次会议将以多种方式使更大的社区受益。首先，它将通过让学生和博士后研究员接触令人兴奋的科学和科学家来帮助培训和激励下一代科学家。其次，要特别重视青年教师。最后，将共同努力从代表性不足的群体中招募科学家。这次会议的智力优势源于其规模较小，这促进了参与者之间的互动，并且聚集了许多研究跨越多种感官的丘脑皮质相互作用的顶尖科学家。方式，强调共性。这种结合带来了富有成效的比较分析，提出了有关潜在机制的新问题，并常常导致新的合作。通过最大限度地进行正式讨论和非正式互动，戈登会议将突出令人兴奋的新进展，这些进展对于神经回路的新兴特性以及涉及丘脑皮质破坏的病理学的基本理解都有影响。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并已被通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。