45th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Neurochemistry

描述(由申请人提供)：目前的申请是为了支持将于2014年3月8日至12日在加利福尼亚州长滩举行的第45届ASN年会。NIH为以前的ASN会议提供的资金对于支持我们的科学计划和增强我们让研究生和博士后研究人员参与ASN会议的能力来说是非常宝贵的。为了适应神经化学以及细胞和分子神经生物学的广度，并提供对特定主题的深入分析，ASN继续围绕四个相互交织但截然不同的主题建立其科学计划。选择这些主题是为了增加我们对神经发育和疾病的细胞和分子基础的理解。这四个主题是：1)建立神经系统，2)细胞新陈代谢和神经传递，3)健康和疾病中的胶质功能，以及4)神经退化。四位全体发言者接受了我们的邀请，参加了第45届ASN会议，每个人都谈到了四个主题中的一个。ASN坚决致力于让妇女和种族/族裔少数派代表参加其会议。在这方面，其中一项 四名全体发言人为女性，研讨会、座谈会和研讨会的主席/联席主席中有39%是女性，8%的主席/联席主席来自少数族裔。ASN会议为代表提供了许多交流思想和形成新合作的机会，因为总出席人数约为500人，我们的计划中有许多空间供代表非正式聚会。该会还设立了几个机制，以加强初级调查人员在会议期间的专业发展。我们组织与全体发言者的会议，这使与会者有机会与发言者讨论主题。这些会议的费用对学生和博士后研究员来说是降低的。有一种专为学生和博士后研究员提供的社交活动，这被一再认为是结交人脉的绝佳机会。有一个名为“神经化学领域的女性”的活动，对所有参与者开放，初级调查人员降低了费用。从提交的摘要中挑选出最多6次口头报告，重点是从研究生和博士后研究员那里挑选报告。有为优秀研究生和博士后研究员提供的旅行奖励，以支付他们的入学费用。我们主办了一个招聘网站，学生们可以在会议期间与潜在的未来导师或同事见面。最近，我们为来访的高中生增加了一个半天的项目，让这些未来的科学家在他们成长的几年里参与进来。从年度离职调查结果中，我们了解到，ASN年度会议已经并将继续为前沿神经化学和L提供一个极好的场所，并促进年轻研究人员的职业生涯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current application is for support for the 45th annual ASN meeting to be held in Long Beach, CA from March 8-12, 2014. NIH funding for previous ASN meetings has been invaluable for supporting our scientific programs and for enhancing our ability to involve graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the ASN meeting. To accommodate the breadth of neurochemistry as well as cellular and molecular neurobiology and to provide in depth analyses of particular topics, the ASN continues to build its scientific program around four interwoven, but distinct, themes. These themes have been selected to increase our understanding of the cellular and molecular basis of neural development and disease. These four themes are: 1) Building the Nervous System, 2) Cellular Metabolism and Neurotransmission, 3) Glial Function in Health and Disease, and 4) Neurodegeneration. Four plenary speakers have accepted our invitation to participate in the 45th ASN meeting, each one addressing one of the four themes. The ASN is strongly committed to the representation of women and racial/ethnic minorities at its meetings. In this regard, one of the four plenary speakers is female, 39% of the Chairs/Co-Chairs of Symposia, Colloquia and Workshops are female, and 8% of the Chairs/Co-Chairs is from racial/ethnic minorities. The ASN meeting provides numerous opportunities for delegates to exchange ideas and to form new collaborations because total attendance is approximately 500 and there are numerous spaces in our program for delegates to congregate informally. The Society also has several mechanisms to enhance the professional development of junior investigators during the meeting. We organize meetings with the plenary speakers, which gives attendees a chance to discuss topics with the speakers. The fees for these meetings are reduced for students and postdoctoral fellows. There is a social mingle exclusively for students and postdoctoral fellows, which is repeatedly recognized as an outstanding opportunity to network. There is a function entitled "Women in Neurochemistry", that is open to all attendees, and junior investigators have reduced fees. There are up to 6 Oral Sessions that are selected from abstracts submitted, with an emphasis on choosing presentations from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. There are travel awards for outstanding graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to defray their costs of attendance. We host a job posting site and students can meet with potential future mentors or colleagues during the meeting. Most recently, we added a half-day program for visiting high-school students to engage these future scientists during their formative years. From results of yearly exit surveys, we know that the annual ASN meeting has and will continue to provide an excellent venue for cutting edge neurochemistry a n d n e u r o b I o l o g y , and for enhancing the careers of young investigators.