2020 International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT, Portland, Oregon, June 20 - 24, 2020

该项目的主要目标是为一个研究会议提供赞助，即嗅觉和味觉国际研讨会（“ISOT”）。ISOT会议是一个真正的国际大会，主办关于嗅觉和味觉的化学感官的前沿研究，这些感官在大多数动物物种的行为中起着关键作用。ISOT每四年召开一次，在美国、欧洲和日本之间轮流举办，反映了关注化学感官的三个主要学会的密切国际合作。第18届ISOT会议将于2020年6月20日至24日在俄勒冈州的波特兰举行，预计将有1,000人出席。作为化学传感科学家在同一屋檐下的最大聚会，ISOT提供了一个交流该领域最新进展的论坛。2020年的研究计划包括超过25个研讨会演讲和全体会议，突出了嗅觉和味觉系统的理论，行为，生物，生态和计算基础。会议主题的广泛性，以及众多与会者之间互动和对话的机会，对促进化学感官的基础研究知识和激发新的想法和合作产生了广泛的科学影响。会议的另一个重要目标是促进主题，性别和地理多样性，以及职业阶段各层次的多样性。为了实现这些目标，该项目为年轻科学家参加ISOT提供支持，并强调将妇女，代表性不足的少数民族和残疾人纳入其中。ISOT是关于化学感官的旗舰国际研究会议，与会者将在那里接受跨物种，方法，从微观到宏观，从综合到自然的分析层次。一个主要目标是集中支持经常处于夹缝中的热门和及时的研究领域，四个专题讨论会经过精心定制，以适应NSF的明确使命，主题包括无脊椎动物神经科学的重要性，大数据方法，理论和建模，以及现实世界行为的行为学。 重要的是，预计ISOT 2020的高素质和科学家的浓度，在所有培训级别，为教育和职业发展提供了肥沃的媒介。根据这一目标，该项目为两个ISOT讲习班（“学习如何交流你的化学传感研究”和“解决妇女在科学领域面临的职业问题”）提供支持，这两个讲习班都旨在强调初级科学家成长为独立调查员过程中的具体障碍和解决办法。这些机会应共同对培养下一代化学意义上的科学家和大使产生广泛的社会影响，符合NSF的目标，即加强妇女，URMs和残疾人在STEM领域的充分参与，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得的。通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，

The main goal of this project is to provide sponsorship for a research conference, The International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste ("ISOT"). The ISOT conference is a truly international assembly hosting cutting-edge research on the chemical senses of smell and taste, which play a critical role in behavior in most animal species. ISOT convenes every four years, rotating locations between the United States, Europe, and Japan, reflecting the close international cooperation of the three major societies that spotlight the chemical senses. The 18th ISOT meeting is hosted in Portland, Oregon, June 20-24, 2020, with an expected attendance of 1,000 participants. As the largest gathering of chemosensory scientists under one roof, ISOT provides a forum for communicating the latest advances in the field. The 2020 research program features more than 25 symposium presentations and plenary sessions, highlighting the theoretical, behavioral, biological, ecological, and computational underpinnings of the olfactory and gustatory systems. The breadth of topics featured at the conference, and the opportunity for interactions and dialogue among so many attendees, has a broad scientific impact on promoting basic research knowledge on the chemical senses and inspiring new ideas and collaborations. Another important aim of the conference is the promotion of thematic, gender, and geographic diversity, as well as diversity across levels of career stage. To achieve these goals, the project provides support for participation of junior scientists to attend ISOT, and also emphasizes inclusion of women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities.ISOT is the flagship international research conference on the chemical senses, where attendees are hosted to cutting-edge olfactory and gustatory research that crosses species, methods, and levels of analysis from the microscopic to the macroscopic and from the synthetic to the naturalistic. A major goal is to focus support on topical and timely areas of research that oftentimes fall between the cracks, with four symposia that have been carefully tailored to fit the express mission of the NSF, with topics featuring the importance of invertebrate neuroscience, big data approaches, theory and modeling, and the ethology of real-world behavior. Importantly, the high caliber and concentration of scientists expected at ISOT 2020, across all training levels, provides a fertile medium for education and career development. In line with this aim, the project provides support for two ISOT workshops ("Learning How to Communicate Your Chemosensory Research" and "Addressing Career Issues Facing Women in Science"), which are both designed to highlight specific obstacles -- and solutions -- as junior scientists develop into independent investigators. Together these opportunities should have a broad societal impact on cultivating the next generation of scientists and ambassadors in the chemical senses, in line with the goals of the NSF to enhance full participation of women, URMs, and persons with disabilities in STEM fields, and to provide educational techniques in how to advance public engagement with science and technology.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.