Neuroethology: Behavior, Evolution & Neurobiology 2008 Gordon Research Conference

神经行为学：行为、进化

• 批准号: 7478256
• 负责人: Catherine Emily Carr
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-01 至 2009-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7478256
• 关键词: Address; Animal Model; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Code; Communities; Condition; Decision Making; Development; Dreams; England; Environment; Evolution; Future; Genetic Models; Goals; Health; Homeostasis; Human; Human Characteristics; Intention; International; Learning; Love; Nervous system structure; Neurobiology; Neurologic; Neuronal Plasticity; Participant; Postdoctoral Fellow; Property; Public Health; Request for Proposals; Research; Research Personnel; Resolution; Sensory; Series; Signal Transduction; Social Interaction; Solutions; Students; System; Thinking; Training; Work; college; comparative; concept; day; developmental genetics; experience; insight; motor control; neural circuit; planetary Atmosphere; posters; programs; relating to nervous system; symposium; trait

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests partial support for an international meeting on Neuroethology as part of the Gordon Research Conference series to be held in Magdalen College Oxford August 10-15, 2008, and the preceding Graduate Research Seminar. The broad and long term goal of the conference is to increase our understanding of the evolution of neural circuits. The specific aim of this meeting is to convene 42 speakers that represent critical areas of neuroethology, evolution and development with a total of 135 participants for a five day conference in an isolated academic setting. Since the Gordon Conferences are an excellent forum for bringing together students and leaders in the field to discuss cutting edge problems, the intention of this meeting is to pose provocative questions on subjects that will generate real discussion. Prior to the official Gordon Research Conference, there will be a GRC program called "Graduate Research Seminar: Neuroethology 2050", where graduate students and post-docs will meet to discuss in an informal atmosphere what they think the future of neuroethology holds. The main program will have a keynote address and seven sessions. It will start with two sessions on the fundamentals: First, a session on current views of the origin of nervous systems and second one on homology, homoplasy, and divergence in neural circuits to discuss whether evolution always yields a common solution to similar problems of neural coding. The conference will also concentrate on three other areas with broad interdisciplinary impact. There will be a discussion about the evolution and development (evo-devo) of neural circuits in order to ask how much can be learned about the function of neural circuits from developmental and genetics rules. A session will be devoted to neural circuit properties underlying decision- making in different systems and one to discuss variability and homeostasis. The last two sessions concern future directions for the field. One session will discuss animal models of human characteristics where the questions will be raise about whether researchers are anthropomorphizing or whether there are fundamental common substrates for human traits such as love, dreaming, and social interactions? Our final session is a round table discussion on uncovering general principles in neuroethology. In addition, there will be poster session each evening to permit all participants to contribute. The significance of this application is that the Gordon Research Conference on Neuroethology is a critical component of the yearly series of conferences that propel research in the international community of neurobiologists working on how nervous systems integrate sensory signals within specific environmental contexts to provide behaviors, and how such behaviors, and thus the circuits underlying them, adapt to the natural environment. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The health relatedness of this application is that the discussions will define the questions that require experimental resolution in the studies of neural plasticity, motor control, neural genetics, and modeling. The Gordon Conference on Neuroethology: Behavior, Evolution, and Neurobiology, which will be held August 10-15th at Magdalen College in Oxford England, provides a unique opportunity for researchers from around the world to discuss emerging concepts related to the evolution and function of neural circuits. There will be a special pre-meeting Graduate Research Seminar to enhance the training experience for graduate students. Explicitly examining the evolutionary and comparative aspects of neural circuits will provide insights on the origin and cause of many human neurological and behavioral conditions.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案要求为国际神经障碍的国际会议提供部分支持，这是戈登研究会议系列的一部分，将于2008年8月10日至15日在玛格达伦学院举行，并在2008年8月10日至15日举行。会议的广泛和长期目标是提高我们对神经回路演变的理解。这次会议的具体目的是召集42位代表神经障碍，进化和发展关键领域的演讲者，共有135名参与者参加了在孤立的学术环境中进行为期五天的会议。由于戈登会议是一个很好的论坛，可以召集该领域的学生和领导者讨论最前沿问题，因此本次会议的目的是就将引起真实讨论的主题提出挑衅性的问题。在官方戈登研究会议之前，将有一个GRC计划，名为“研究生研究研讨会：2050年神经乙醇学”，研究生和培训后将在非正式的气氛中开会，他们认为神经障碍的未来的未来。主要程序将有一个主题演讲和七个会议。它将从有关基本原理的两个会议开始：首先，关于神经系统起源的当前观点的会议，第二个关于同源性，同质性和神经回路差异的观点，以讨论进化是否总是针对神经编码的类似问题产生共同的解决方案。会议还将集中于其他三个具有广泛跨学科影响的领域。将讨论神经回路的演变和发展（EVO-DEVO），以便询问从发育和遗传学规则中可以了解多少神经回路的功能。会话将专门用于不同系统中决策的基础神经属性属性，并讨论可变性和稳态。最后两个会议涉及该领域的未来方向。一场会议将讨论人类特征的动物模型，其中将提出有关研究人员是否是拟人化的问题，或者是否有基本的人类特征（如爱，梦和社交互动）的基本基础？我们的最后一次会议是关于发现神经障碍的一般原则的圆桌讨论。此外，每天晚上都会举行海报会议，以允许所有参与者贡献。该应用的意义在于，戈登神经心理学研究会议是年度系列会议的关键组成部分，这些会议推动了在国际神经生物学家社区中进行研究，致力于神经系统的国际社会，致力于神经系统如何在特定环境环境中整合感官信号，以提供行为，以及如何提供行为，以及如何在自然环境中进行这种行为以及如何循环。公共卫生相关性：本应用的健康相关性是，讨论将定义需要在神经可塑性，运动控制，神经遗传学和建模的研究中进行实验分辨率的问题。戈登神经义学会议：将于8月10日至15日在英国牛津的玛格达伦学院举行的行为，进化和神经生物学会议，为来自世界各地的研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，讨论与神经回路的进化和功能有关的新兴概念。将会举办特殊会议的研究生研究研讨会，以增强研究生的培训经验。明确检查神经回路的进化和比较方面将提供有关许多人类神经和行为条件的起源和原因的见解。