Barrels XXIV Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：桶会议是运行时间最长的（现在在其第24年）卫星会议的年度社会神经科学会议。会议的重点是解剖学，发展，生理学，病理学和行为的啮齿动物胡须到桶系统。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。会议出席人数平均每年超过125人，其中大多数是研究生和博士后研究员。2011年的会议将在约翰霍普金斯大学霍姆伍德校区的查尔斯下议院举行。对于那些对发育，可塑性，感觉编码和行为研究感兴趣的人来说，胡须到桶通路已经成为神经科学中最常用的模型系统之一。桶会议每年围绕一般主题安排，这些主题将使用不同技术的发言者聚集在一起回答相关问题。对于每个主题，将有三个或四个邀请演讲（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，还有一个海报会议（通常每年提交50-60张海报）和最新结果的数据闪电战（5分钟谈话）。这种长时间和短时间的演讲和后期演示的混合为新研究人员提供了充分的机会，向国际科学同行展示他们的发现。方案委员会通过邀请特邀演讲者和选择简短的演讲来最大限度地扩大地域、种族、职业水平和性别多样性。Barrels会议一贯鼓励研究人员将Barrels作为一个模型系统来探索行为，发育，感觉和运动功能，以及了解临床疾病的模型。每年，桶会议邀请来自“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。Barrels会议在神经科学学会年会之前举行，这使得研究人员，特别是学员可以方便地连续参加两次会议，而无需制定额外的旅行计划。 公共卫生相关性：桶会议是运行时间最长的（现在在其第24年）卫星会议的年度社会神经科学会议。会议的重点是啮齿动物胡须到桶系统的解剖，发育，生理和行为，作为了解正常和病理条件下大脑功能的模型。 免责声明：请注意，以下评论是由审查员在研究部分会议之前准备的，并且以基本上未经编辑的形式提供。 虽然审查人员有机会根据小组讨论情况更新或修订其书面评价，但不能保证在会议讨论之后更新了个人评论。 因此，这些评论可能并不完全反映小组讨论结束时个人评论员的最终意见或小组的最终多数意见。因此，讨论的简历和摘要是评审员在会议上实际认为关键的最后一句话。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Barrels meeting is the longest running (now in its 24th year) satellite meeting to the annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting. The meeting focuses on the anatomy, development, physiology, pathology 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. Meeting attendance averages over 125 attendees annually with the majority being graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. The 2011 meeting will be held at the Charles Commons on the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University. The whisker-to-barrel pathway has become one of the most utilized model systems in Neuroscience for those interested in development, plasticity, sensory coding and behavioral studies. The Barrels meeting is annually arranged around general themes which bring together speakers utilizing different techniques to answer related questions. For each theme there will be three or four 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 is a poster session (typically 50-60 posters are presented annually) and a data blitzes (5 min talks) for the latest results. This mix of long and short talks and poste presentations provides ample opportunity for new researchers to present their findings to an international audience of scientific peers. The Program Committee works via invitation of the invited speakers and selection of the short talks to maximize geographical, ethnic, career level and gender diversity. The Barrels meeting consistently encourages researchers to use the Barrels as a model system to explore behavior, development, sensory and motor function as well as a model to understand clinical disorders. Each year, the Barrels meeting invite's individuals from outside the "Barrels community" to present their research in order to expose the community to new and exciting developments. The Barrels meeting is held just prior to the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting which allows researchers, especially trainees to conveniently attend both meetings consecutively without having to make additional travel plans. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Barrels meeting is the longest running (now in its 24th year) satellite meeting to the annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting. The meeting focuses on the anatomy, development, physiology and behavior of the rodent whisker-to-barrel system as model to understand brain functioning under normal and pathological conditions. Disclaimer: Please note that the following critiques were prepared by the reviewers prior to the Study Section meeting and are provided in an essentially unedited form. While there is opportunity for the reviewers to update or revise their written evaluation, based upon the group's discussion, there is no guarantee that individual critiques have been updated subsequent to the discussion at the meeting. Therefore, the critiques may not fully reflect the final opinions of th individual reviewers at the close of group discussion or the final majority opinion of the group. Thus the Resume and Summary of Discussion is the final word on what the reviewers actually considered critical at the meeting.