9th International Neurotoxicology Assoc (INA9) Meeting

描述（由申请人提供） 国际神经毒理学协会（INA）会议将于2003年6月23日至27日举行。 会议将在德国德累斯顿的职业健康和安全标准研究所（Berufsgenossenschaftliches Institut Arbeit und Gesundheit-BGAG）举行。 德累斯顿是这次会议的一个突出地点，因为它靠近前社会主义东欧国家，为这些国家的科学家提供了与北美和西欧科学家互动的机会。 除了来自学术界，工业界和政府组织的科学家外，INA还制定了一项正式计划，鼓励博士前和博士后研究员通过学生研讨会参加会议。 研讨会的参与者，通过竞争过程中选择，得到充分的支持，参加INA会议。 本次研讨会和学生招募的目标是培养一批年轻的科学家，他们将进入神经科学和毒理学领域。 INA 9的总体目标是交流神经毒理学的新研究成果，通过汇集来自各个领域的研讨会演讲者来促进神经毒理学，以教育经典毒理学以外领域的参与者，将实验室研究从分子到行为水平与流行病学研究结合起来，并通过小型，集中和非正式的会议发展科学家之间的学院关系。第九届国际化学品学会将讨论以下议题：化学感觉和毒性;听觉功能障碍和化学品接触;视觉系统毒理学;多溴联苯醚在发育期和成年期的神经毒性;甲苯接触的神经毒性机制和影响;神经系统疾病和植物消费;饮食和营养在神经毒理学中的作用;神经毒理学中的受体和离子通道;胆碱能抑制剂：从治疗学到恐怖主义;以及神经毒理学中的风险评估：暴露的模式和途径。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The meeting of the International Neurotoxicology Association (INA) will be held 23-27 June, 2003. The meeting will be held in Dresden, Germany, at the Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Standards (Berufsgenossenschaftliches lnstitut Arbeit und Gesundheit-BGAG). Dresden is an outstanding locale for this meeting due to its proximity to the former socialist Eastern Europe nations providing an opportunity for scientists from those countries to interact with North American and Western European scientists. In addition to scientists from academia, industry, and governmental organizations, INA has developed a formal program to encourage predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows to participate in its meetings through a student symposium. Symposium participants, selected through a competitive process, receive full support to attend the INA meeting. The objective of this symposium and student recruitment is to develop a cadre of younger scientists who will enter the fields of neurosciences and toxicology. The overall objectives of INA9 are to communicate new research findings in neurotoxicology, promote neurotoxicology by bringing together symposium speakers from a variety of fields to educate participants in areas beyond classical toxicology, bring together laboratory research from the molecular to the behavioral level with epidemiological studies, and develop collegial relationships among scientists through a small, focused, and informal meeting. The following topics will be discussed at INA9: Chemical senses and toxicity; auditory dysfunction and chemical exposure; visual system toxicology; neurotoxicity of polybrominated biphenylethers in development and adulthood; neurotoxic mechanisms and effects of toluene exposure; neurological diseases and consumption of plants; role of diet and nutrition in neurotoxicology; receptors and ion channels in neurotoxicology; cholinergic inhibitors: from therapeutics to terrorism; and risk assessment in neurotoxicology: patterning and routes of exposure.