human CHEMOSENSATION 2010

human CHEMOSENSATION 2010

The meeting is going to take place in Dresden, Germany. It will begin on Thursday, December 2^nd, and end on Saturday, December 4^th, of 2010.

It will be followed by an international meeting of the German Working Group “olfaction and gustation” which will begin on Saturday evening, December 4^th and end on Sunday afternoon, December 5^th.

About the meeting:

The human CHEMOSENSATION 2010 meeting is a conference in the tradition of a series of meetings which started in 1995 at the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Erlangen, Germany. These three previous meetings, termed BIORESPONSE, of this series of conferences have been received extremely well by all participants, largely because a major focus is on the interpersonal exchange between researchers. The scientific focus of the meeting is on human chemosensation. Among other topics the 2010 meeting is going to highlight qualitative olfactory dysfunction.

Continuing medical education: Each day of the meeting will get you 6 points.

Location:

It is organized by the Smell & Taste Clinic of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the University of Dresden Medical School, Fetscherstrasse 4, 01307 Dresden, Germany; phone +49- 0351 458-4189 or -3197.

The conference venue will be at the facilities of the Medizinisch Technisches Zentrum, Fiedlerstrasse 42 (Google Earth Coordinates: 51.054239 13.783372). Please click here to receive information. Help desk telephone number: +49-1629-566 056

Fee for participation is 125 Euro, for people with an industrial background it is 600 Euro; students pay 35 Euro (although these fees also cover participation in the meeting of the Working Group Olfaction and Gustation on Sunday, 5^th of December it would be wonderful if a donation would be made in order to defray costs for the meeting of the Working Group). Accompanying persons who would like to participate in the dinners pay 40 euro per dinner. The fee should preferably be paid by cash at the registration desk; however, it can also be paid by CreditCardor bank transfer.

Deadline for registration is Sunday, the 21st of November 2010. Please send an informal application including an abstract to Thomas Hummel. Please indicate whether you would prefer an oral or a poster presentation. Also, please indicate whether you would like to participate in the dinner on Friday (3^rd of Dec) and Saturday (4^th of Dec)

Participants:

The following distinguished scientists will contribute to the meeting as invited speakers:

• Jay Gottfried, Chicago: “Clinical Windows into the Basic Neuroscience of Human Olfaction”
• Jean-Marie Lledo, Paris: “The flexible brain”
• Johan Lundstrom, Philadelphia: “The Importance of Body Odors: from Neurons to Behavior and Back”
• Christian Margot, Basel: Exploring monomolecular odorants”
• Noam Sobel, Rehovot: Predicting odorant perception and neural activity from odorant structure”
• Don Wilson, New York: “Perceptual plasticity in olfaction”
• Johannes Frasnelli, Montreal: “Evidence for ventral and dorsal streams in the chemical senses"
• Maria Larsson, Stockholm: “Dementia, genes, and olfaction”
• Joern Loetsch, Frankfurt: “Trigeminal chemosensation in pain research”
• Steven Nordin, Umea: “Parosmia and Phantosmia”
• Benoist Schaal, Dijon
• Ariel Schoenfeld, Magdeburg: “Spatio-temporal correlates of taste perception“
• Martin Witt, Rostock: “Olfaction in an animal model of Niemann-Pick disease”
• Christoph Michel, Geneva: “Tracing the temporal dynamics of olfactory processing with EEG source imaging”
• Moustafa Bensafi, Lyon: “Determinants of inter-individual variability in odor hedonic perception”
• Wilhelm Boland, Jena: “Volatiles, the language of plants.”

Support:

The meeting receives very generous support through the DFG / Priority Programme SPP 1392

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We also gratefully acknowledge other support which comes from symrise,  Burghart Messtechnik, Cospar, Givaudan, International Fragrance Association, Firmenich, Neuroscan , and Takasago .

Program:

Help desk telephone number: +49-1629-566 056
please click for download PDFs:  Programdownload

Thursday, 2^nd of December
6 p.m. Registration/Gettogether at the Academy of arts at the “Brühlsche Terrassen” in the historical center.There will be drinks and nice fingerfood but no real dinner - it is meant to meet and talk and to plan the rest of the evening from there.
 

Friday, 3^rd of December
9.00 a.m. to 5.15 p.m. Scientific program
5.45 p.m. bus transfer to the Historic Green Vault (10 people have to be there already at 5:30 p.m., the rmaining 60 should be there at 6 p.m.)
6.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. Guided tours (audioguide) through the Historic Green Vault (only 70 tickets available! Please register in advance)
7.30 p.m. Dinner at the Chiaveri Restaurant in the building housing the Saxonian Parliament ("Sächsischer Landtag")
 

Saturday, 4^th of December
9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Scientific program
5.45 p.m. bus transfer to the “Italienisches Dörfchen” where the tours start
6.00 p.m. to 7.15 p.m. Guided tours (in English and German) through the historic center
7.30 p.m. Dinner at the Kanonenhof, beneath the Bruhlsche Terrassen in the historical center

7.00 p.m. to 8.15 p.m.: For people interested in modern, contemporary opera: for the 4th of December there are also 4 free tickets available (please ask at help desk) for the opera “GISELA! oder: Die merk- und denkwürdigen Wege des Glücks”. Musictheatre by Hans Werner Henze, Christian Lehnert and Michael Kerstan; for singers, actors, mixed little choir and instruments, Performed in German with German subtitles;   

Official end of the human CHEMOSENSATION 2010 conference
Continued by the annual December meeting of the German Working Group on Olfaction and Gustation (meeting language: English)

Sunday, 5^th of December
9.00 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. Scientific program

Program in detail:

Welcome by Prof. Zahnert, Chair of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Dresden Medical School

Saturday, 4th of December

Official end of the human CHEMOSENSATION 2010 conference
Continued by the annual December meeting of the German Working Group on Olfaction and Gustation (meeting language: English)