ASN 2018 Annual Meeting

项目摘要/摘要 这是将于3月在加利福尼亚州河滨举行的第49届ASN年会的支持申请 2018年24-28日。NIH之前的资金对支持我们的科学计划和 增强我们让研究生、博士后研究人员和代表性不足群体参与进来的能力。至 适应神经化学的广度，并提供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。这些主题一直是 被选中是为了增加我们对神经发育和疾病的细胞和分子基础的了解。 这四个主题是：1)建立神经系统/神经发育，2)细胞代谢和 神经传递/认知，3)健康和疾病中的神经胶质功能，以及4)神经退行性变；每个主题 有四位全体会议/总统发言人之一。ASN坚定地致力于代表 妇女和种族/族裔少数群体在其会议上。四位全会/总统发言人中有一位是女性， 座谈会和座谈会40%的主席/联席主席是女性，9%的主席/联席主席来自 种族/少数民族；座谈会和研讨大会43%的演讲者是女性，7%的人来自 少数族裔。ASN大力支持年轻研究人员的发展；11%的 研讨会和讨论会的主席/联席主席和5%的会议演讲者在教职前，即在教职后 博士/研究生水平。 ASN会议为与会者提供了许多交流思想和形成新的 协作，因为预计总出席人数约为300人，并且包含大量商机 在我们的节目中，参与者可以非正式地聚会。该协会也有几个机制来加强 会议期间初级调查员的专业发展。我们组织会议，与 全体会议/主席发言者，这使与会者有机会直接与发言者讨论议题。 这些会议的费用对学生和博士后研究员来说是降低的。有一种混搭，包括 教育/辅导部分，专门面向学生和博士后研究员。这项活动已经 一再被认为是结交人脉的绝佳机会。有一个活动的标题是“女性在 “神经化学”对所有参与者开放，初级调查人员降低了费用。有口服药 会议，从提交的摘要中选择，重点是从 研究生和博士后研究员。有优秀研究生的旅游奖励， 博士后研究员和初级研究人员支付参加会议的费用。我们有一个招聘网站， 学生可以在会议期间与潜在的未来导师或同事见面。在2010年，我们增加了一个 为来访的高中生提供的计划，以吸引这些未来的科学家。从年度离职调查结果来看， 我们知道，一年一度的ASN会议将继续为尖端技术提供一个极好的场所 神经化学和神经生物学，并促进年轻研究人员的职业生涯。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This is application for support of the 49th annual ASN meeting to be held in Riverside, California from March 24-28, 2018. Previous NIH funding has been invaluable for supporting our scientific programs and for enhancing our ability to involve graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and underrepresented groups. To accommodate the breadth of neurochemistry 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/Neurodevelopment, 2) Cellular Metabolism and Neurotransmission/Cognition, 3) Glial Function in Health and Disease, and 4) Neurodegeneration; each theme has one of the four Plenary/Presidential speakers. The ASN is strongly committed to the representation of women and racial/ethnic minorities at its meetings. One of the four Plenary/Presidential speakers is female, 40% of the Chairs/Co-Chairs of Symposia and Colloquia are female, and 9% of the Chairs/Co-Chairs are from racial/ethnic minorities; 43% of the Speakers of Symposia and Colloquia are female, while 7% are from racial/ethnic minorities. The ASN strongly supports young investigators in their development; 11% of the Chairs/Co-Chairs of Symposia and Colloquia and 5% of the Session Speakers are at the pre-faculty, i.e. post- doctoral/graduate student levels. The ASN meeting provides numerous opportunities for participants to exchange ideas and to form new collaborations because total expected attendance is ~ 300, and there are numerous opportunities incorporated in our program for participants 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/Presidential speakers, which gives attendees a chance to discuss topics directly with the speakers. The fees for these meetings are reduced for students and postdoctoral fellows. There is a mingle that included an educational/mentoring component, exclusively for students and postdoctoral fellows. This event has been 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 Oral Sessions, which 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, postdoctoral fellows and junior researchers 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. In 2010, we added a program for visiting high-school students to engage these future scientists. From results of yearly exit surveys, we know that the annual ASN meeting will continue to provide an excellent venue for cutting edge neurochemistry and neurobiology, and for enhancing the careers of young investigators.