Barrels XXIV Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：“桶”会议是神经科学学会年度会议中运行时间最长的（现已举办24年）卫星会议。会议的重点是解剖，发育，生理学，病理学和行为的啮齿动物须到桶系统。会议是不同实验室和不同科学领域的研究人员之间互动的催化剂。会议出席人数平均每年超过125人，其中大多数是研究生和博士后研究员。2011年的会议将在约翰霍普金斯大学霍姆伍德校区的查尔斯下议院举行。对于那些对发育、可塑性、感觉编码和行为研究感兴趣的人来说，须到桶通路已经成为神经科学中最常用的模型系统之一。桶会议每年围绕一般主题安排，汇集演讲者利用不同的技术来回答相关问题。对于每个主题，将有三到四次由资深研究人员发表的受邀演讲（30分钟），随后是由更多的初级研究人员和研究生进行的4-6次较短的（15分钟）演讲。此外，还有一个海报会议（通常每年展示50-60张海报）和一个数据闪电战（5分钟的演讲），以展示最新的结果。这种长、短演讲和会后演讲的组合为新研究人员向国际科学界同行展示他们的发现提供了充分的机会。项目委员会通过邀请受邀演讲者和选择简短演讲来最大限度地提高地域、种族、职业水平和性别多样性。桶会议一贯鼓励研究人员使用桶作为一个模型系统来探索行为，发展，感觉和运动功能，以及一个模型来理解临床疾病。每年，桶会议都会邀请“桶社区”之外的个人来展示他们的研究，以便让社区接触到新的令人兴奋的发展。桶会议在神经科学学会年会之前举行，这使得研究人员，特别是实习生可以方便地连续参加这两个会议，而不必额外制定旅行计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Barrels meeting is the longest running (now in its 24th year) satellite meeting to the annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting. The meeting focuses on the anatomy, development, physiology, pathology and behavior of the rodent whisker-to-barrel system. The meeting serves as a catalyst for interactions between researchers in different laboratories and different scientific fields. Meeting attendance averages over 125 attendees annually with the majority being graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. The 2011 meeting will be held at the Charles Commons on the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University. The whisker-to-barrel pathway has become one of the most utilized model systems in Neuroscience for those interested in development, plasticity, sensory coding and behavioral studies. The Barrels meeting is annually arranged around general themes which bring together speakers utilizing different techniques to answer related questions. For each theme there will be three or four invited presentations (30 min) delivered by established researchers, followed by 4-6 shorter (15 min) talks by more junior researchers and graduate students. In addition there is a poster session (typically 50-60 posters are presented annually) and a data blitzes (5 min talks) for the latest results. This mix of long and short talks and poste presentations provides ample opportunity for new researchers to present their findings to an international audience of scientific peers. The Program Committee works via invitation of the invited speakers and selection of the short talks to maximize geographical, ethnic, career level and gender diversity. The Barrels meeting consistently encourages researchers to use the Barrels as a model system to explore behavior, development, sensory and motor function as well as a model to understand clinical disorders. Each year, the Barrels meeting invite's individuals from outside the "Barrels community" to present their research in order to expose the community to new and exciting developments. The Barrels meeting is held just prior to the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting which allows researchers, especially trainees to conveniently attend both meetings consecutively without having to make additional travel plans. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Barrels meeting is the longest running (now in its 24th year) satellite meeting to the annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting. The meeting focuses on the anatomy, development, physiology and behavior of the rodent whisker-to-barrel system as model to understand brain functioning under normal and pathological conditions. Disclaimer: Please note that the following critiques were prepared by the reviewers prior to the Study Section meeting and are provided in an essentially unedited form. While there is opportunity for the reviewers to update or revise their written evaluation, based upon the group's discussion, there is no guarantee that individual critiques have been updated subsequent to the discussion at the meeting. Therefore, the critiques may not fully reflect the final opinions of th individual reviewers at the close of group discussion or the final majority opinion of the group. Thus the Resume and Summary of Discussion is the final word on what the reviewers actually considered critical at the meeting.