Barany Society XXII Regular Meeting, Seattle, WA USA

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求对Barany协会（前庭科学家的国际组织）为期3天的两年期会议的支持。这次会议将是该协会16年来首次在美国举行会议。本次会议旨在促进基础和临床科学家之间的互动，以继续肥沃的异花授粉，使前庭领域近年来取得如此巨大的跨学科进展。由于这种进展的持续在很大程度上取决于鼓励年轻临床医生和基础科学家之间的互动，我们在这里请求支持，让学生，博士后和居民参加会议。那些不能参加会议的人将受益于出版物，在前庭研究杂志的一个特殊卷中，那些贡献，特别是临床和基础科学合作以及计划摘要的出版。 我们计划通过五种方式促进科学互动。首先，将有3次全体会议，其中一个领域的进展将从基础和临床科学的角度进行讨论。第二，每次全体会议结束时将有一个小时的讨论时间，对听众开放。第三，每次讨论之后将有一个延长的（1/2小时）茶点休息，以促进非正式小组的继续对话。第四，所有平台和海报会议将根据主题组织，因此将听取临床和基础科学观点。第五，关于恢复前庭功能的两个未来方向的相对前景，将有一场辩论;即，毛细胞再生与前庭假体的发育。年轻的科学家将有机会在平台或海报会议上展示自己的工作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks support for the 3-day bienniel meeting of the Barany Society, an international organization of vestibular scientists. The proposed meeting will be the Society's first in America in 16 years. This conference is meant to promote interactions between basic and clinical scientists in order to continue the fertile cross-pollination that has allowed the vestibular field to make such great interdisciplinary progress in recent years. Because the continuation of such progress depends strongly on encouraging interaction between the young clinicians and basic scientists, we are requesting support here to allow students, postdocs, and residents to attend the meeting. Those who cannot attend the meeting will benefit from the publication, in a special volume of the Journal of Vestibular Research, of those contributions that exemplify clinical and basic science collaboration especially well and the publication of the program abstracts. We plan to promote scientific interaction in 5 ways. First, there will be 3 plenary sessions in which progress in an area will be discussed from both a basic and clinical science perspective. Second, each plenary session will be concluded by an hour-long discussion period open to the audience. Third, each discussion period will then be followed by an extended (1/2 hour) refreshment break to facilitate continued conversation in informal groups. Fourth, all platform and poster sessions will be organized according to topic so both clinical and basic science perspectives will be heard. Fifth, there will be a debate about the relative promise of two future directions in the restoration of vestibular function; i.e., hair cell regeneration vs. development of a vestibular prosthesis. Younger scientists will have the opportunity to present their own work in either the platform or poster session.