Gordon Research Conference on the Chemical Senses

描述（由申请人提供）：申请资金用于支持2003年7月6日至7月11日在新罕布什尔州新伦敦科尔比索耶学院举行的2003年戈登化学感官研究会议。美国国立卫生研究院的财政支持将部分用于支付受邀演讲者、讨论者和会议主席的旅费和会议费用。此外，新的研究人员（研究生和博士后研究人员）需要支付会议费用，少数族裔申请人优先。会议将包括一个主题演讲，随后是8个重点会议。2003年的会议将讨论由新的分子和神经生理学技术驱动的新兴进展如何改变系统级处理的概念。每一个选择的主题都经历着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知名和新兴领导者，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的工人提供新的见解。戈登化学感官会议具有我们领域定期召开的会议所没有的独特优点。有限的范围和出席人数允许参与者深入探索一个特定的领域。戈登会议的形式也鼓励所有参与者出席所有会议，并给予讨论和正式演讲同等的重视。我们领域的主要定期会议，化学接受科学协会年会，具有覆盖范围更广的互补优势，但它已经发展到包括大约650名与会者和400次演讲。这样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的人员进行批判性的比较。戈登会议的形式强烈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互动。最近在分子和细胞水平上的发现的累积影响，开始在化学感觉如何作为一个综合系统发挥作用的概念上取得显著进展。2003年戈登化学感官会议的目标是积极讨论那些新的，有时有争议的想法，并激发进一步的，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.