International Symposium on Neural Regeneration

描述（由申请人提供）：本次国际研讨会的目的是介绍神经再生广泛领域的当前工作，同时强调最近取得显著进展的领域或提出了一些特别有趣的问题。研讨会计划于2005年12月14日至18日在加利福尼亚州太平洋格罗夫的Asilomar会议中心举行。这是一系列隔年会议中的第十一届，所有会议都在同一地点举行，并在每年的同一时间举行。前十次专题讨论会是在1985年12月至2003年。自1987年以来，美国国立卫生研究院一直共同赞助研讨会，自研讨会成立以来，退伍军人事务部通过提供支持来帮助承担会议的费用：1)组织办公室；2)研讨会策划委员会会议；3)为每次研讨会提供额外支持。支持2005年会议的申请已经或将提交给克里斯托弗·里夫麻痹基金会、联合脊柱协会和美国瘫痪退伍军人协会，他们共同主办了1997年、1999年、2001年和2003年的专题讨论会。拟议的2005年计划是2004年7月24日ISNR规划委员会会议的产物，包括一位主讲人，六位特色讲人，以及六个主要主题会议，每个会议都有一位主席，他将介绍介绍性概述，加上总共22位受邀的会议演讲者。此外，研讨会注册人将以海报的形式免费交流。会议对任何希望注册的人开放，鼓励学生出席并提供资金支持。登记人数估计为250人。专题讨论会的内容将以《再生研究通讯》（国际发行量4500份）的摘要、在专题讨论会方案中刊登摘要和在万维网上刊登摘要的形式广泛传播。长期计划是隔年定期在同一时间、同一地点举行神经再生专题讨论会。这些会议在Asilomar有一个单一的会议形式，并已组织，以最大限度地交流调查员之间，或经验丰富的调查员和学生之间，以自由下午的形式。这种形式在前十次专题讨论会中非常成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this international symposium is to present current work in the broad field of neural regeneration, while highlighting areas in which notable recent progress has been made or in which some particularly interesting issues have been raised. The symposium is planned for December 14-18, 2005 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California. It is the eleventh in a series of alternate year conferences, all held at the same site and during the same part of the year. The previous ten symposia were in December of 1985 through 2003. The NIH has continuously cosponsored the symposia since 1987, and since the inception of the symposia, the Department of Veterans Affairs has helped to underwrite the costs of the conferences by providing support to: 1) the organizing office; 2) the symposium planning committee meetings; and 3) additional support for each symposium. Applications for support of the 2005 conference have been or will be submitted to the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, United Spinal Association and Paralyzed Veterans of America, all of whom co-sponsored the 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2003 symposia. The proposed 2005 program, which was the product of a meeting of the ISNR Planning Board on July 24, 2004, includes a keynote speaker, six featured speakers, and six major topic sessions, each with a chairman who will present an introductory overview, plus a total of 22 invited session speakers. In addition, there will be free communications in the form of posters contributed by symposium registrants. The meeting is open to anyone who wishes to register, and student attendance is both encouraged and financially supported. The number of registrants is estimated at 250. The content of the symposium will be widely disseminated in the form of a summary in the Regeneration Research Newsletter (international circulation of 4,500), by publication of the abstracts in the symposium program and by placement of the abstracts on the World Wide Web. The long-range plan is to hold the neural regeneration symposia regularly on alternate years at the same time of year and in the same location. These meetings at Asilomar have a single session format and have been organized to maximize interchange between investigators, or between seasoned investigators and students, in the form of free afternoons. This format has been very successful during the previous ten symposia.