Conference: Barrels Meeting XIX, to be held in Atlanta, GA, October 12 - 13, 2006.

会议：第十九届桶会议，将于 2006 年 10 月 12 日至 13 日在佐治亚州亚特兰大举行。

• 批准号: 0650502
• 负责人: Joshua Brumberg
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CUNY Queens College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-10-15 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0650502&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Barrels; Meeting; XIX; held

This award provides support for the "Barrels Meeting", a yearly meeting which focuses on the anatomy, physiology and behavior of the rodent whisker-to-barrel system. The meeting serves as a catalyst for interactions between researchers in different laboratories and different scientific fields. This year, Morehouse College, an HCBI institution, will act as host for the meeting, and Spellman and Clark Colleges, also HBCI institutions, will also participate in the meeting. Students and researchers from underrepresented groups will be encouraged to participate by enabling them to attend the meeting for free of charge The whisker-to-barrel pathway has become one of the most utilized model systems in Neuroscience. Neurons in the rodent primary somatosensory cortex are arranged in "barrelshaped" groups, the study of which provides a direct link between physiological measurements and underlying neuronal structure. Recent studies of physiological recordings from awake behaving animals has greatly increased the utility of this type of preparation, and questions in developmental neurobiology and plasticity are being answered by studying the precise development of the barrels and their subcortical counterparts with modern cell-biological and genetic techniques.The meeting will be arranged around the following themes: Activity patterns during Whisking Behavior, Cross-species Comparisons, and Cortical Circuits. For each theme there will be two or three invited presentations (30 min) delivered by established researchers, followed by 4-6 shorter (15 min) talks by more junior researchers and graduate students. In addition there will a poster session (typically 50-60 posters are presented annually). The mix of long and short talks and poster presentations will provide ample opportunity for new researchers to present their findings to an international audience of scientific peers. The organizers also will invite individuals from outside the "Barrels community" to present their research in order to expose the community to new and exciting developments.

该奖项为“桶会议”提供支持，这是一个年度会议，重点是啮齿动物胡须到桶系统的解剖学，生理学和行为。 该会议是不同实验室和不同科学领域研究人员之间互动的催化剂。今年，HCBI机构莫尔豪斯学院将担任会议的东道主，斯派曼和克拉克学院也将参加会议。 来自代表性不足群体的学生和研究人员将被鼓励参加，使他们能够免费参加会议。胡须到桶通路已成为神经科学中最常用的模型系统之一。 啮齿类动物初级躯体感觉皮层中的神经元排列成“桶形”组，对其的研究提供了生理测量与潜在神经元结构之间的直接联系。 最近对清醒行为动物的生理记录的研究大大增加了这种类型的准备的实用性，并且通过利用现代细胞生物学和遗传技术研究桶及其皮层下对应物的精确发育来回答发育神经生物学和可塑性的问题。会议将围绕以下主题安排：在鞭打行为，跨物种比较，和皮层回路的活动模式。 对于每个主题，将有两个或三个邀请演讲（30分钟）由既定的研究人员提供，然后由更多的初级研究人员和研究生进行4-6个较短（15分钟）的演讲。此外，还将举办海报会议（通常每年提交50-60张海报）。长短会谈和海报展示的组合将为新的研究人员提供充分的机会，向国际科学同行展示他们的发现。 组织者还将邀请来自“桶社区”以外的个人介绍他们的研究，以使社区了解新的和令人兴奋的发展。