In May 2008, the Blankenese Conference Series is host to a Minerva-Gentner Symposium on Sensory Signaling and Information Processing. The focus of this symposium will be on recent progress in sensory systems. In the most advanced field, visual perception, highlights will be discussed such as the atomic structure and function of rhodopsin, biochemistry of visual signal transduction and the cerebral cortical analysis and representation of sensory patterns and its relation to the motor system. In the field of olfaction enormous progress has been made which, for instance, is visible in the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology to Linda Buck and Richard Axel in 2004 for their merits. Thus olfaction, pheromones and taste are major topics at the conference and will include, for instance, the newly discovered receptors in the nasal epithelium of mice for their function as mammalian pheromone receptors and their possible role in man. Other topics to be covered will outline mechanoperception and pain, audition and the role of magnetism and seismic waves for orientation. Finally, neural transmission and information processing in sensory pathways will be a central topic throughout the symposium.
Last but not least, it is the overall goal of the Minerva-Gentner Symposium to bring Israeli scientists together with colleagues mainly from Germany but also from other countries, thus enabling a stimulating exchange of ideas and the establishment of new contacts which in turn is often the basis for new collaborations. In particular, we invite young scientists and those early in their careers (tenure track scientists/’habilitation’ candidates, post docs, Ph.D. students, M.Sc. students).
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