Conference: 2023 Neuroethology: Behavior, Evolution and Neurobiology GRC Linking Diversity in Cells, Circuits, and Brain Architecture to Ecologically Relevant Behaviors

会议：2023 年神经行为学：行为、进化和神经生物学 GRC 将细胞、回路和大脑结构的多样性与生态相关行为联系起来

• 批准号: 2334509
• 负责人: Kim Hoke
• 金额: $ 1万
• 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: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2334509&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; 2023; Neuroethology; Behavior; Evolution

This project provides funding to support a conference focused on the neural mechanisms of natural behaviors, or neuroethology. The conference sessions focus on a broad set of principles by which the brain works, spanning development, evolution, and physiology of nervous systems that relate to variation in behavior. The conference includes extensive opportunities for training the next generations of scientists and particularly focuses on increasing the diversity of researchers in the field of neuroethology. A pre-meeting for students and postdocs allows newcomers to the field a chance to meet mentors and develop peer networks. The intimate size and remote location of the main conference promotes many opportunities for early career scientists to meet luminaries in the field, allowing students to develop a sense of belonging and develop collaborations with cutting-edge scientists around the world. Given the increasing appreciation among neuroscientists that studies of natural behavior offer uniquely powerful insights into fundamental of brain function, this conference brings together interdisciplinary researchers to tackle key questions that will advance our understanding of neural circuits. This project supports the Gordon Conference in Neuroethology, a venue to discuss innovative and interdisciplinary work into the neural circuit basis of behavior. The Gordon Conference structure promotes networking and collaborations across fields, and the program brings together researchers focused on natural behaviors, neurophysiology, molecular and cellular neuroscience, and computational neuroscience. Sessions cover broad topics relevant to leveraging neural circuit variation to understand fundamental principles of brain function, and the conference structure promotes discussion and interchange of ideas across disciplines. The conference leadership also has a strong plan for developing mentorship networks and sense of belonging for early career researchers that will increase diversity and inclusion in the field. This conference provides a key opportunity for leveraging the newly developed cutting edge technical and computational tools to devise key insights neural circuit function impacting behavior.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.

该项目提供资金支持关注自然行为的神经机制或神经行为学的会议。会议重点关注大脑工作的一系列广泛原则，涵盖与行为变化相关的神经系统的发育、进化和生理学。该会议包括培训下一代科学家的广泛机会，特别注重增加神经行为学领域研究人员的多样性。为学生和博士后举办的会前会议让该领域的新人有机会见到导师并发展同行网络。主会议的规模较小且地点偏远，为处于职业生涯早期的科学家提供了许多与该领域杰出人物会面的机会，使学生能够培养归属感并与世界各地的尖端科学家开展合作。鉴于神经科学家越来越认识到自然行为研究为大脑功能的基础提供了独特而有力的见解，本次会议汇集了跨学科研究人员来解决关键问题，以增进我们对神经回路的理解。该项目支持戈登神经行为学会议，这是一个讨论行为神经回路基础的创新和跨学科工作的场所。戈登会议结构促进跨领域的网络和合作，该计划汇集了专注于自然行为、神经生理学、分子和细胞神经科学以及计算神经科学的研究人员。会议涵盖了与利用神经回路变化来了解大脑功能的基本原理相关的广泛主题，会议结构促进了跨学科的讨论和思想交流。会议领导层还制定了一项强有力的计划，为早期职业研究人员发展导师网络和归属感，这将增加该领域的多样性和包容性。这次会议为利用新开发的尖端技术和计算工具来设计影响行为的神经回路功能的关键见解提供了一个重要机会。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。