会议名称(英文)： The 2014 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Predator-Prey Interactions
所属学科： 动植物微生物学,生物物理学、生物化学及分子生物学,进化与系统生物学
开始日期： 2014-01-05
结束日期： 2014-01-10
所在国家： 美国
所在城市： 美国
具体地点： Ventura, CA
主办单位： Gordon Research Conferences
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[ 重要日期 ] 参会报名截止日期： 2013-12-08
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会议网站： http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2014&program=predator
会议背景介绍： Predator-prey interactions have shaped all life on earth and this underlying commonality helps explain the recent development of parallel independent research paths in many diverse fields. For instance, the persistent threat of immediate violent death is a hallmark of predator-prey interactions that has profound implications for human psychology, epigenetics, neurobiology, physiology, developmental biology, ecology and evolution. Studying fear of predators has accordingly come to inform research on, e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), maternal stress and the ‘programming’ of childhood anxiety, learning and long-term memory, ecosystem functioning, conservation and eco-evolutionary dynamics.
The goal of this inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions is to facilitate the coalescence of these parallel research paths by bringing together the leading investigators from diverse fields, in order to create a cohesive community of excellent researchers keen to collaborate in exploring the unique insights to be gained from an interdisciplinary focus on phenomena specific to predator-prey interactions. The theme of this inaugural Conference is ‘From Genes to Ecosystems to Human Mental Health’ and the sessions correspondingly cover an extensive range of topics including, e.g., ‘The neurobiology of predator-induced fear’, ‘Predators as stressors: integrating human and animal models’, ‘Fear effects on population- and ecosystem-level processes’ and ‘Restoring the balance between predators and prey’.
The Conference will bring together an international group of researchers at different career stages who are all at the forefront of their diverse fields, and will provide junior scientists and graduate students the opportunity to meet and discuss their work with the leaders in their field. To complement the session presentations and help ensure everyone is an active participant all attendees are strongly encouraged to contribute a poster. Bringing together diverse scientists in the collegial atmosphere of this Conference, with organized discussions, opportunities for informal gatherings, and inclusive poster sessions, is certain to lead to numerous new synergies and interdisciplinary collaborations.
SUNDAY
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm)
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm Establishing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Predator-Prey Interactions
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm Welcome by Chair / Discussion Leader: Larry Dill (Simon Fraser University)
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm Oswald Schmitz (Yale University)
"Developing a cohesive, holistic view of predator-prey interactions"
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:15 pm David Diamond (University of South Florida)
"Predator-prey interactions provide insight into adaptive and maladaptive aspects of the psychobiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm The Neurobiology of Predator-Induced Fear
9:00 am - 9:15 am Discussion Leader: Phillip Zoladz (Ohio Northern University)
9:15 am - 9:45 am Newton Canteras (University of Sao Paulo)
"What ethologically based models have taught us about the neural systems underlying fear and anxiety"
9:45 am - 9:55 am Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am Joel Brown (University of Illinois-Chicago)
"Ecology of Fear: Using behavioral titrations to measure fearfulness and its consequences"
10:25 am - 10:40 am Discussion
10:40 am - 11:10 am Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:40 am Jacqueline Blundell (Memorial University)
"Neural mechanisms underlying predator stress-induced fear memories"
11:40 am - 11:50 am Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm Jeffrey Rosen (University of Delaware)
"The smell of fear: Innate fear of predator odor"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Inducible Morphological Defences
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Peter Ekl?v (Uppsala University)
"Announcements"
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm Rick Relyea (University of Pittsburgh)
"Inducible anti-predator defences and the phylogeny of fear: insights from the world of amphibians"
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm Ralph Tollrian (Ruhr University)
"The genetics and neurophysiology of inducible defences in Daphnia"
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm Predators as Stressors: Integrating Human and Animal Models
9:00 am - 9:15 am Discussion Leader: Jay Schulkin (Georgetown University)
9:15 am - 9:45 am Michael Clinchy (University of Victoria)
"Physiological, behavioural and demographic effects of fear in free-living vertebrates"
9:45 am - 9:55 am Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am Michael Sheriff (Pennsylvania State University)
"Predator-induced maternal stress and its effect on population dynamics"
10:25 am - 10:40 am Discussion
10:40 am - 11:10 am Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:40 am Vivette Glover (Imperial College London)
"Maternal stress during pregnancy predicts cognitive and behavioural changes in the human child, including increased fearfulnesss"
11:40 am - 11:50 am Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm Rachel Yehuda (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
"Protective and damaging effects of the bio-behavioral stress response: cognitive and clinical aspects"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Fear Effects on Population- and Ecosystem-Level Processes
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Maria Thaker (Indian Institute of Science)
"Announcements"
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm Scott Creel (Montana State University)
"The role of predation risk in mediating the predator-prey dynamics of large carnivores and their ungulate prey"
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm Dror Hawlena (Hebrew University)
"Fear of predation affects ecosystem elemental cycling"
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm Learning, Unlearning and Communicating Fear
9:00 am - 9:15 am Discussion Leader: Ken Lukowiak (University of Calgary)
9:15 am - 9:45 am Maud Ferrari (University of Saskatchewan)
"The role of uncertainty in learning and retention of predator information"
9:45 am - 9:55 am Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am Dan Blumstein (UCLA)
"Predator naiveté: when and how do prey lose their fear of predators?"
10:25 am - 10:40 am Discussion
10:40 am - 11:10 am Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:40 am Robert Magrath (Australian National University)
"Signals of danger: how and why to eavesdrop on the neighbours"
11:40 am - 11:50 am Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm Peter Banks (University of Sydney)
"Dangerous liaisons: the predation risks of receiving social signals"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm Business Meeting
Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Predators, Prey and Plants: Does Fear Make the World Green?
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Evan Preisser (University of Rhode Island)
"Announcements"
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm Pamela Reynolds (UC Davis)
"Factors influencing the strength of fear effects in aquatic food webs"
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm Mark Boyce (University of Alberta)
"Does fear of large carnivores reduce the impacts of ungulates on the plants ungulates eat?"
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm Restoring the Balance between Predators and Prey
9:00 am - 9:15 am Discussion Leader: James Estes (UC Santa Cruz)
9:15 am - 9:45 am Craig Packer (University of Minnesota)
"Large carnivore conservation: is the solution fenced reserves?"
9:45 am - 9:55 am Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am Michael Heithaus (Florida International University)
"Ecological consequences of marine top predator declines"
10:25 am - 10:40 am Discussion
10:40 am - 11:10 am Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:40 am Bodil Elmhagen (Stockholm University)
"Top predators, mesopredators and their prey"
11:40 am - 11:50 am Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm David Macdonald (University of Oxford)
"Paying for predator conservation"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Evolutionary Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Andrew Beckerman (University of Sheffield)
"Announcements"
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm Johanna Mappes (University of Jyv?skyl?)
"Predator community structure affects how predator foraging selects for variation in defence strategies"
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:15 pm Andrew Sih (UC Davis)
"Evolution and novel predator-prey interactions in a human-altered world"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Departure
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参加 Gordon Research Conference-高登研究会议 有感
1. 在科学上还是很讲究＂江湖地位＂的:
连续４，５天会议中第一排的位置总是自觉的留给几个大牛（经常是在文献中看到如nature,science发文章和综述的传说中的人物），他们在会议中一直很认真，经常提问题的也是他们，会后你会看到很多年青一点或者学术上没有他们高的人，积极的寻找机会和他们交流，甚至晚餐是主动帮他们预留位置，就是想有机会和他们认识和交流合作。因为参会者都是同一研究领域的，大多对专业有很深的认识，所以让人觉得能够受到同行的尊重，是很大成就感。
而且我觉得这些大科学家大多都很随和，他们很乐意和年轻人探讨学术上的问题，并且给出自己的建议，这种气氛很好。经常听说大科学家之间有很多竞争，导致私人关系不好等等，但是他们对我们这种年轻人还是很友善的，也许是我们的学术地位过低，不至于对于他们产生威胁吧。
2. 科学上的竞争是很激烈的：
看到这么多同世界各地的同一领域的科学家，你会意识到科学上的竞争是很激烈的，想在这么多人中脱颖而出是很困难的，同时如果想让同行认可你工作也是不容易的，所以大家利用各种机会去交流，建立学术上和私人的联系，对于彼此发展都是很重要的。
3. 年轻的科学工作者应该抓住一切机会去提升自己：
在会议中，应该敢于提出问题，不要害怕自己出错，我的一个老师曾竟对我说过＂不要害怕提问题，只有愚蠢的报告和愚蠢的回答，没有愚蠢的问题＂，所以年轻的我们面对大科学家的时候，要积极主动，可以提出你的疑问，在会议中向他们提问，对你是一个很好的锻炼。
会后都有poster section，要充分利用这一机会，找到自己感兴趣的海报，和作者面对面的交流，从中得到有用的信息，如果自己有海报，就要好好准备，主动向看你海报的专家，同行汇报，讲解你工作，认真听取他们的建议和问题，对于自己的实验也会有很大帮助。
最后，自己恭喜一下自己，在１００多份海报中，我竟然获得了poster winner prize, 仅仅只有４个人，不错。
下边是网上的一些关于高登的一些信息:
高登研究会议(Gordon Research Conference)是由约翰 霍普金斯化学系教授Neil E.Gordon(以下简称高登)于1931年发起的。
经过70多年的发展，高登研究会议已经由原来的几个分会议发展为拥有几百个分会议，内容涉及物理、化学、生物等几乎所有领域的大型会议。高登研究会议为不同国家的科学家们提供了一个交流的平台。会议期间不准拍照，不准摄像，不准录音，会议具体内容也不向外界公布，因此科学家们可以将最新的实验进展，甚至并不成熟、完善的理论拿出来与大家交流探讨。
高登研究会议对出席人员也有要求。每个分会限额150人，一般被邀请参加的都是在相关领域有较大影响的知名科学家，他们中多半在《Science》、《Nature》这样的著名期刊上发表过文章，不少人世界著名大学任教。
佩服，楼主太有才了，能够想像参加这样的会议是多么兴奋的事情啊！
写的不错啊
有这样的机会与大牛近距离交流真是羡慕啊
楼主真的厉害哦！也希望自己能有机会接近大家，拥有大家风范。
能参加国际有名的会议确实不错,上次我都准备去了,飞机票也买好了,居然不给签证,而且也没有理由,也没有申诉,我只好以后再也不去了,白受气!
虽然过去了快一年了,但是到现在想来我仍然不平,
