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Keystone Symposia, Snowbird, Utah
January 21 - 25, 2007
The chemical senses - taste and smell - have been revolutionized by molecular biology since Buck and Axel's discovery of odorant receptors in 1991. We have now a nearly complete description of the repertoires of chemosensory receptor genes in several vertebrate and invertebrate species. The enormous and exciting task faced by the field is how chemosensory circuits develop and how the mature brain perceives tastes and smells. A solution of these problems will require integrative and comparative approaches. Receptor-driven perspectives are rapidly taking over from more traditional analyses. We propose an integrative meeting about research on taste, smell and pheromones, in vertebrate and invertebrate systems, using imaging, modeling, molecular biology, genomics, physiology, and developmental studies.
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Organized by:
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Peter Mombaerts and Leslie B. Vosshall |
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Invited Speakers:
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- David Anderson, California Institute of Technology
- Richard Axel, Columbia University
- Cornelia (Cori) Bargmann, Rockefeller University
- Linda Buck, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Barry Dickson, IMP
- Dennis Drayna, National Institutes of Health
- Stuart Firestein, Columbia University
- Bill Hansson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Trese Leinders-Zufall, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Robert Margolskee, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Christian Margot, Firmenich SA
- Hiroaki Matsunami, Duke University
- Peter Mombaerts, Rockefeller University
- Hitoshi Sakano, University of Tokyo
- Kristin Scott , University of California, Berkeley
- Kazushige Touhara, University of Tokyo
- Barbara Trask, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Leslie Vosshall, Rockefeller University
- Mark Zoller, Senomyx, Inc.
- Charles Zuker, University of California, San Diego
- Laurence Zwiebel, Vanderbilt University
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Deadline for Abstracts:
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Sept. 21, 2006
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Registration:
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Please see website
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E-mail:
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info@keystonesymposia.org
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