clinical CHEMOSENSATION 2014

The International Meeting of the Committee on Olfaction and Gustation of the German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

The meeting is going to take place in Dresden, Germany. It will begin on Friday afternoon, November 21^th, and end on Sunday afternoon, November 23^rd, of 2014.
The meeting will be preceded by a hands-on course on various clinical topics, on Thursday morning, 20^th of November, and end on Friday, the 21^th of November at around 3 p.m. If you would like to participate in the course, please CLICK HERE 

About | Location | Fee / Registration| Deadline | Travel awards | Poster prize| Participants| Program | Program and Abstracts| Support | Scientific Board | Smell and Taste 06 | Getting here | City| Hotels

About

The clinical CHEMOSENSATION 2014 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. The scientific focus of the meeting is on human chemosensation. The meeting is also supported by the Committee on Olfaction and Gustation of the German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

Download: Program and Abstracts
Continuing medical education: Each day of the meeting will get you 19 points, Category A.  

Location

The conference venue will be the lecture hall (“Hörsaal”) at the DEKANAT building at Fiedlerstrasse 27.Please click here to receive information how to get there.

Help desk telephone number: +49- 1515 1107454

The meeting is organized by the Smell & Taste Clinic of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the TU Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany; phone +49- 0351 458-4189

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Fee / Registration

Fee for participation is 50 Euro, for people with an industrial background it is 300 Euro; students pay 20 Euro. Accompanying persons who would like to participate in the dinners pay 30 euro per dinner. The fee should preferably be paid by cash at the registration desk; however, it can also be paid by CreditCard or bank transfer. 

Credit Card payment:

        Last name, first name (as written on card)

        Card Type (VISA or MASTERCARD)

        Credit card number

        Expiration date

        Conference fee

        Email for possible inquiry

Money transfer - please send the money to the following account:

Within Germany:

Carl Gustav Carus Management GmbH

Important: Please indicate as purpose of the payment “CHEMOSENSATION” plus your name

Bank: Deutsche Kreditbank AG

BLZ: 120 300 00

Account number: 11 248 333

From outside of Germany:

Receiver: Carl Gustav Carus Management GmbH

Important: Please indicate as purpose of the payment “CHEMOSENSATION” plus your name

IBAN:    DE 71 1203 0000 0011 248 333

BIC:    BYLADEM 1001

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Deadline

Deadline for registration is the 15^th of October 2014. 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 Saturday, 22nd of November.

Travel awards

The European Chemoreception Organisation (ECRO) generously agreed to give out travel awards to students or researchers who would like to attend the CHEMOSENSATION meeting. Applicants are asked, among others, to send a CV, bibliography, accompanying letter and a letter of recommendation from the head of their institution to Dr. Didier Trotier (Didier.Trotier.ecrogs@gmail.com), general Secretary of ECRO. 

Poster prize

The best poster will receive a prize of 100 Euro. The awardee will be determined through the Scientific Board. The prize will be announced at the end of the meeting.

Participants

Participants include:

Andrea Buettner, Germany
Johan Lundstrom, Sweden
Michael Schmuker, Germany
Ilona Croy, Germany
Basile Landis, Switzerland
Antje Welge-Luessen, Swirtzerland
Richard Doty, USA
Moustafa Bensafi, France
Maria Larsson, Sweden
Monique Smeets, The Netherlands
Denise Chen, USA
Antje Haehner, Germany
Don Wilson, USA
Kees de Graf, The Netherlands
Tagaki MIwa, Japan
Jorn Lotsch, Germany

Program

Oral presentations will be held by Dick Doty, Andrea Buettner, Michael Schmuker, Jessica Freiherr, Johan Lundstrom, Maria Larsson, Denise Chen, Don Wilson.

A specific poster session will be held on Saturday afternoon.

On Saturday afternoon there will be a special lecture by Dr. Klaus Olbrich.

Program at a glance

Friday, 21th of November

15:00: Welcome by Prof. Zahnert, Chair of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Dresden Medical School

15:05 to 17:30: scientific program
Pretzels, beer, lemonade and wine with all speakers and faculty between 19:00 and 20:00 h at the conference venue

Saturday, 22nd of November

8:00 to 9:30 a.m.: Open discussion (in German) by the Committee on Olfaction and Gustation of the German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

9:30 to 17:30: scientific program including poster session

Guided tour through historic city center:

17:45 tram transfer from the conference venue to the city center
18:00 to 19:30 Guided tours (in English and German) through the historic center

19:30 Dinner at the Kanonenhof, beneath the Bruhlsche Terrassen in the historical center (Brühlscher Garten 4)

20:00 - 22:00: For people interested in ballet there will be NUTCRACKER at the Semper Opera

Sunday, 23th of November

8:00 to 9:30 a.m. Discussion of an international intiative on The Clinics of Smell and Taste

9:30 to 15:00: scientific program
15:00: end of conference

Download: Program and abstracts

Dinner

Saturday, 19.30 Dinner at the Kanonenhof, beneath the Bruhlsche Terrassen in the historical center (Brühlscher Garten 4)
- please see maps in your conference bag -
We will have an alcohol restriction in place meaning that the welcome drink plus the first alcoholic drink are free; for all other alcoholic beverages people have to pay for themselves.

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Support

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

We also gratefully acknowledge other support which comes from Klosterfrau, Symrise, and Burghart.

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Scientific Board

The scientific board consists of the following people:

Antje Haehner (Dresden), Basile Landis (Geneva), Boris Stuck (Mannheim), Antje Welge-Luessen (Basel), Martin Witt (Rostock)

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Smell and Taste 06

For more information, please CLICK HERE.

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How to get to the conference site?

Dekanat, Fiedlerstrasse 42, D-01307 Dresden

from the Airport:

From the Airport, please take the train S2 (every 30 min) to the train station Bahnhof-Neustadt. Then take the tram no. 6, direction Niedersedlitz, to the station Augsburger Strasse/Universitätsklinik. Cross the street and walk along the street Augsburger Strasse till you come after 50 m to the intersection with Fiedlerstrasse. Take a right and find the entrance of the Dekanat to your left after 100 m.

by train:

From the main train station Hauptbahnhof please take the tram no. 10 from Hauptbahnhof Nord, direction Striessen, to the station Fetscherplatz. Then take the tram no. 12, direction Striessen, to the station Augsburger Strasse/Universitätsklinik. Cross the street and walk along the street Augsburger Strasse till you come after 50 m to the intersection with Fiedlerstrasse. Take a right and find the entrance of the Dekanat to your left after 100 m.

From the train station Bahnhof Neustadt take the tram no. 6, direction Niedersedlitz, to the station Augsburger Strasse / Universitätsklinik. Cross the street and walk along the street Augsburger Strasse till you come after 50 m to the intersection with Fiedlerstrasse. Take a right and find the entrance of the Dekanat to your left after 100 m.

by car:

From the Highway A4 and A13: Take the highway exit Dresden-Hellerau (No. 81a) and follow the signs along Hansa Strasse to the centre of Dresden „Zentrum“ until the point when you pass the train station, „Dresden-Neustadt“. At the first traffic light after the train station, turn left, (you may only turn left here) and drive straight on following the signs to the „Staatskanzlei“. Passing the Staatskanzlei on your right, follow the sign „Zentrum“ and cross the Albert-Bridge. At the second traffic light after the bridge turn left and follow the sign „Johannstadt” into Gerokstrasse which will later become Blasewitzer Strasse. When you reach the third traffic light turn left into Fetscherstrasse. At the the first intersection turn right into Fiedlerstrasse. After 400 m on the right you will find the Dekanat.

You will find the Dekanat at number 40

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What to see?

a tour through Dresden
City of Dresden homepage
Dresden and Saxony (Dresden is the state capitol of Saxony!)

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Where to stay? 

Special offer (open until 15th of October)): art'otel dresden, single room from 69 Euro; location: city center; phone +49-30 400 557 700; fax +49-30 400 557 777; Email addres@pphe.com; keyword: CHEMO SENSATION 2014

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