Gordon Research Conference on the Chemical Senses

描述（由申请人提供）：资金要求，以协助支持2003年戈登研究会议的化学感觉将于2003年7月6日至7月11日在科尔比索耶学院在新伦敦，新罕布什尔州。NIH的财政支持将用于支付受邀演讲者、讨论者和会议主席的部分差旅费和会议费。此外，还要求为新的调查人员（研究生和博士后研究人员）支付会议费，少数民族申请人优先。会议将包括一个主题演讲，然后是8个重点会议。2003年的会议将讨论系统级处理的概念是如何被新的分子和神经生理学技术所驱动的新兴进步所改变的。每个选定的主题都在经历快速的理论和技术发展。演讲者和讨论领导者是化学感官领域的既定和新兴领导者，以及来自相关领域的可比个人，他们的发现可以为味觉和嗅觉工作者提供新的见解。戈登化学感官会议具有我们领域定期会议所没有的独特优势。有限的范围和出席率使参与者能够深入探索特定领域。戈登会议的形式还鼓励所有与会者出席所有会议，并给予同等重视的讨论和正式介绍。我们领域的主要定期会议，化学感受科学协会年会，具有覆盖更广泛范围的互补优势，但它已发展到包括约650名与会者和400场演讲。这就没有足够的时间进行讨论，也没有足够的时间对从事不同亚专业工作的人进行批判性的比较。戈登会议的形式有力地促进了味觉和嗅觉的自然相关领域以及神经科学的其他领域之间急需的相互作用。最近在分子和细胞水平上的发现的累积影响开始对化学感觉如何作为集成系统发挥作用的概念产生显着的影响。2003年戈登化学感官会议的目标是积极讨论这些新的，有时有争议的想法，并激发进一步的，但更新颖的假设。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds are requested to assist in support of the 2003 Gordon Research Conference on the Chemical Senses to be held from July 6-July 11, 2003 at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire. Financial support from NIH will be used to partially defray travel costs and conference fees incurred by the invited speakers, discussants, and session chairs. In addition, conference fees are requested for new investigators (graduate students and postdoctoral researchers) with preference for minority applicants. The meeting will consist of a keynote lecture, followed by 8 focused sessions. The 2003 conference will address how concepts of systems-level processing have been transformed by emerging advances driven by new molecular and neurophysiological techniques. Each chosen topic is undergoing rapid theoretical and technological growth. The speakers and discussion leaders are established and emerging leaders in the chemical senses, and comparable individuals from related fields whose findings can provide fresh insights for workers in taste and smell. The Gordon Conference on the Chemical Senses has features with unique benefits not available in the regularly-scheduled meetings in our field. The limited scope and attendance allows participants to explore intensively a specific area. The Gordon Conference format also encourages attendance of all the participants at all of the sessions, and gives equal weight to discussion and formal presentation. The major regularly-scheduled meeting in our field, the annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, has the complementary advantage of covering a wider scope, but it has grown to include approximately 650 attendees and 400 presentations. This does not allow adequate time for discussion and for critical comparisons among people working in different subspecialties. The Gordon Conference format strongly promotes much needed interactions between the naturally-allied areas of taste and smell, as well as other areas of neuroscience. The cumulative influence of recent findings at the molecular and cellular level are beginning to make notable inroads into concepts of how the chemical senses function as integrated systems. The goal of the 2003 Gordon Conference on the Chemical Senses is to vigorously discuss those new, sometimes controversial ideas and to stimulate further, yet more novel hypotheses.