2020 International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT, Portland, Oregon, June 20 - 24, 2020

该项目的主要目标是为国际嗅觉和味觉研讨会（“ISOT”）的研究会议提供赞助。ISOT会议是一个真正的国际会议，主持嗅觉和味觉化学感官的前沿研究，这在大多数动物物种的行为中起着关键作用。ISOT每四年召开一次，在美国、欧洲和日本之间轮流举行，反映了三个主要学会在化学感官方面的密切国际合作。第18届ISOT会议将于2020年6月20日至24日在俄勒冈州波特兰举行，预计将有1000名与会者出席。作为化学感觉科学家的最大聚会，ISOT为交流该领域的最新进展提供了一个论坛。2020年的研究计划包括超过25个专题讨论会和全体会议，突出嗅觉和味觉系统的理论、行为、生物、生态和计算基础。会议主题的广度，以及众多与会者之间互动和对话的机会，对促进化学感官的基础研究知识和激发新思想和合作具有广泛的科学影响。会议的另一个重要目标是促进专题、性别和地域多样性，以及职业阶段各层次的多样性。为了实现这些目标，该项目为青年科学家参加ISOT提供支持，并强调包括妇女、代表性不足的少数民族和残疾人。ISOT是关于化学感官的旗舰国际研究会议，在这里，与会者将主持尖端的嗅觉和味觉研究，这些研究跨越物种、方法和从微观到宏观、从合成到自然的分析水平。一个主要目标是集中支持经常落在裂缝之间的热门和及时的研究领域，四个专题讨论会已经精心定制，以适应NSF的明确使命，主题包括无脊椎神经科学的重要性，大数据方法，理论和建模，以及现实世界行为的行为学。重要的是，ISOT 2020所期望的高水平和专注的科学家，在所有培训水平上，为教育和职业发展提供了肥沃的媒介。为了实现这一目标，该项目为两个ISOT研讨会（“学习如何传达你的化学感觉研究”和“解决科学领域女性面临的职业问题”）提供了支持，这两个研讨会都旨在突出年轻科学家发展成为独立研究者时的具体障碍和解决方案。这些机会将对培养下一代化学感官科学家和大使产生广泛的社会影响，这符合NSF的目标，即增强妇女、urm和残疾人在STEM领域的充分参与，并提供如何促进公众参与科学和技术的教育技术。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The main goal of this project is to provide sponsorship for a research conference, The International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste ("ISOT"). The ISOT conference is a truly international assembly hosting cutting-edge research on the chemical senses of smell and taste, which play a critical role in behavior in most animal species. ISOT convenes every four years, rotating locations between the United States, Europe, and Japan, reflecting the close international cooperation of the three major societies that spotlight the chemical senses. The 18th ISOT meeting is hosted in Portland, Oregon, June 20-24, 2020, with an expected attendance of 1,000 participants. As the largest gathering of chemosensory scientists under one roof, ISOT provides a forum for communicating the latest advances in the field. The 2020 research program features more than 25 symposium presentations and plenary sessions, highlighting the theoretical, behavioral, biological, ecological, and computational underpinnings of the olfactory and gustatory systems. The breadth of topics featured at the conference, and the opportunity for interactions and dialogue among so many attendees, has a broad scientific impact on promoting basic research knowledge on the chemical senses and inspiring new ideas and collaborations. Another important aim of the conference is the promotion of thematic, gender, and geographic diversity, as well as diversity across levels of career stage. To achieve these goals, the project provides support for participation of junior scientists to attend ISOT, and also emphasizes inclusion of women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities.ISOT is the flagship international research conference on the chemical senses, where attendees are hosted to cutting-edge olfactory and gustatory research that crosses species, methods, and levels of analysis from the microscopic to the macroscopic and from the synthetic to the naturalistic. A major goal is to focus support on topical and timely areas of research that oftentimes fall between the cracks, with four symposia that have been carefully tailored to fit the express mission of the NSF, with topics featuring the importance of invertebrate neuroscience, big data approaches, theory and modeling, and the ethology of real-world behavior. Importantly, the high caliber and concentration of scientists expected at ISOT 2020, across all training levels, provides a fertile medium for education and career development. In line with this aim, the project provides support for two ISOT workshops ("Learning How to Communicate Your Chemosensory Research" and "Addressing Career Issues Facing Women in Science"), which are both designed to highlight specific obstacles -- and solutions -- as junior scientists develop into independent investigators. Together these opportunities should have a broad societal impact on cultivating the next generation of scientists and ambassadors in the chemical senses, in line with the goals of the NSF to enhance full participation of women, URMs, and persons with disabilities in STEM fields, and to provide educational techniques in how to advance public engagement with science and technology.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.