Barany Society XXII Regular Meeting, Seattle, WA USA

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求对 Barany Society（前庭科学家国际组织）为期 3 天的两年期会议的支持。拟议的会议将是该协会 16 年来在美国举行的第一次会议。这次会议旨在促进基础科学家和临床科学家之间的互动，以继续丰富的异花授粉，使前庭领域近年来取得了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，因此我们在此请求支持，允许学生、博士后和住院医师参加会议。那些无法参加会议的人将受益于《前庭研究杂志》特刊中发表的那些特别出色地体现了临床和基础科学合作的贡献以及项目摘要的出版。 我们计划通过 5 种方式促进科学互动。首先，将举行 3 场全体会议，从基础科学和临床科学的角度讨论某个领域的进展。其次，每次全体会议的最后都会有一个向观众开放的长达一小时的讨论时间。第三，每个讨论阶段之后都会有一个延长的（1/2 小时）茶歇时间，以促进非正式小组中的继续对话。第四，所有平台和海报会议都将根据主题组织，以便临床和基础科学观点都能被听到。第五，关于前庭功能恢复方面两个未来方向的相对前景将存在争论；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.