Symposia for the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste 2008, July 21-26, 2008 in San Francisco, CA

该奖项的目的是支付与嗅觉和味觉国际研讨会有关的费用，该会议每12年在美国举行一次。 2008年的会议计划于7月21日至26日在加州的弗朗西斯科举行。 该奖项将资助两个专题讨论会。 一个名为鸟类嗅觉将荣誉博士伯尼采温泽尔，通过探索感官生物学和生态学的嗅觉在各种物种，从各种学科的角度，包括觅食生态学，社会行为和神经行为学。 化学感觉的神经生态学研讨会将重点放在神经生态学方法上，从行为和社区生态学到神经和分子作用机制，直接置于进化的背景下。其目的是弥合生理效应和生态后果知识之间的差距。 八位演讲者将得到支持，其中六位是年轻的研究人员或博士后。 此外，本次研讨会的支持将允许赞助组织（化学感受科学协会）的资金专门用于为所有研究生与会者承保会议费用。 这些专题讨论会的会议记录将以两种形式出版。 首先，会议上所有发言的摘要将发表在《化学感觉》杂志的特刊上（牛津大学出版社）。 此外，专题讨论会的会议记录将提交期刊出版。

The purpose of this award is to defray costs associated with the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste, a meeting held every 12 years in the United States. The 2008 meeting is planned for San Francisco, California on July 21-26. Two symposia are to be supported by this award. The one entitled Olfaction in Birds will honor Dr. Bernice Wenzel, by exploring the sensory biology and ecology of olfaction in a wide variety of species, from the perspective of a variety of disciplines including foraging ecology, social behavior and neuroethology. The symposium on the Neuroecology of Chemical Senses will focus on neuroecological approaches, which range from behavioral and community ecology to neural and molecular mechanisms of action, placed squarely within the context of the evolution. The aim is to bridge the gap between knowledge of physiological effects and ecological consequences. Eight speakers will be supported and six of them are young investigators or post-docs. Furthermore, support of this symposium will allow funds from the sponsoring organization (the Association of Chemoreception Sciences) to be dedicated to underwriting meeting costs for all graduate student attendees. The proceedings of these symposia will be published in two forms. First, the abstracts from all presentations at the meeting will appear in a special issue of the journal, Chemical Senses (Oxford Univ. Press). Also, proceedings from the symposia will be submitted for journal publication.