Barrels XXIV Meeting

描述(由申请者提供)：Barrels会议是神经科学学会年度会议中持续时间最长的(现已是第24个年头)卫星会议。会议重点讨论了啮齿动物胡须对桶系统的解剖、发育、生理、病理和行为。这次会议为不同实验室和不同科学领域的研究人员之间的互动提供了催化剂。参加会议的人数平均每年超过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，胡须到桶的通路已经成为神经科学中使用最多的模型系统之一。桶会议每年围绕一般主题安排，演讲者利用不同的技术回答相关问题。对于每个主题，将有三到四个受邀的演讲(30分钟)由知名研究人员发表，然后是更多初级研究人员和研究生的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个海报)和数据闪电战(5分钟演讲)，以了解最新的结果。这种长短演讲和邮寄演讲的组合为新的研究人员提供了充分的机会，向国际上的科学同行观众展示他们的发现。计划委员会通过邀请受邀演讲者和挑选简短的演讲来工作，以最大限度地实现地域、种族、职业水平和性别的多样性。桶会议一直鼓励研究人员将桶作为探索行为、发育、感觉和运动功能的模型系统，以及理解临床疾病的模型。每年，桶会议都会邀请“桶社区”以外的人展示他们的研究成果，以便让社区接触到新的、令人兴奋的发展。Barrel会议是在神经科学学会年度会议之前举行的，该会议允许研究人员，特别是受训者方便地连续参加这两个会议，而不必制定额外的旅行计划。 与公共健康相关：Barrels会议是神经科学学会年度会议中持续时间最长的(目前已是第24个年头)卫星会议。会议的重点是以啮齿动物胡须到桶系统的解剖、发育、生理和行为为模型，了解正常和病理条件下的大脑功能。 免责声明：请注意，以下批评是由评审员在研究小组会议之前准备的，基本上是以未经编辑的形式提供的。虽然审查员有机会根据小组的讨论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别批评意见。因此，这些评论可能不能完全反映评审员在小组讨论结束时的最终意见或小组的最终多数意见。因此，讨论纪要和总结是审查员在会议上实际上认为至关重要的最后结论。

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.