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IOS Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | January 26, 2016 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | January 26, 2016 |
| Award Number: | 1547463 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Sridhar Raghavachari
sraghava@nsf.gov (703)292-4845 IOS Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems BIO Directorate for Biological Sciences |
| Start Date: | February 1, 2016 |
| End Date: | January 31, 2017 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $15,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $15,000.00 |
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4333 BROOKLYN AVE NE SEATTLE WA US 98195-1016 (206)543-4043 |
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Box 351800 Seattle WA US 98195-1800 |
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Animal Behavior, Activation |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.074 |
ABSTRACT
This award will provide support to post-doctoral fellows and junior scientists to attend a symposium on Neuroecology at the 2016 Annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The goal of this symposium is to bring together leading researchers across career stages to discuss the challenges and next steps in understanding how to link neural bases of behavior in natural settings and to natural stimuli. The topics will cover multiple scales of analysis, from molecular and cellular levels up to behavior and ecology. Eighteen invited speakers, chosen based on their creative contributions to the field and their ability to promote fruitful discussions, have confirmed their attendance. The results presented at the meeting will have the potential to guide future developments in understanding the neural mechanisms of sensory and motor processes that mediate ecolologically relevant behaviors.
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 neurobiology, animal behavior and ecology. It spans a wide variety of experimental systems and focuses on areas of exceptional activity or promise. This combination leads to fruitful comparative analyses, raises new questions about underlying mechanisms and often leads to new collaborations. The outcomes of the award will include a symposium as part of the larger meeting, oral presentations by students and postdoctoral scholars, a breakout session to synthesize ideas in neuroscience, animal behavior and ecology and publication of the symposium proceedings. This award will also be instrumental in training a new generation of scientists in this interdisciplinary field.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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The Symposium “Neuroecology: Neural Mechanisms of Sensory and Motor Processes that Mediate Ecologically Relevant Behaviors” was part of the annual meeting for the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology conference in Portland, OR USA, January 3-7 2016. The Conference was well-attended with approximately 2000 attendees. Symposium speakers were selected with several factors in mind, including excellence and scientific breadth as a researcher, thinker, and communicator, and we selected speakers whose work collectively covers different types of organisms, habitats, sensory systems, and topics. Speaker youth was an important criterion (the majority of speakers were at the Assistant Professor level); these young speakers are utilizing cutting-edge techniques at the interface of multiple disciplines. Moreover, six out of ten of the speakers were women. The symposium emphasis was placed on unpublished research and discussion of future areas of growth at the interface of neuroscience, ecology, behavior and evolution. In addition to the symposium, complementary sessions were run in parallel where graduate student and postdoctorates could present their research. Concepts and synthesis papers arising from the talks were published in scientific journals, and discussions were facilitated by social media, in-person and online surveys to promote collaborations and the exchange of ideas, as well as to disseminate this information to the public.
Last Modified: 04/14/2017
Modified by: Jeffrey A Riffell
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