December Meeting on "Smell and Taste" supportes by the Working Group on Olfaction and Gustation of the German ENT society, 7./8. December 2018 in Bern
Invitation
Dear colleagues:
We would like to invite you to the December Meeting on "Smell and Taste" which is supported by the Working Group on Olfaction and Gustation of the German ENT society, on the 7./8. December 2018.
The meeting will be international, congress languages are German and English. Talks may be presented in German or English , but we kindly request slides to be written in English.
We are looking forward to welcome you in Bern soon!
Prof. Dr. med. Antje Welge-Luessen
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Basel
Location
Langhans Auditorum, Pathologisches Institut, Eingang 43a, Inselspital, Freiburgstrasse , 3010, Bern
How to get to the conference site?
Inselspital Bern, Freiburgstrasse, 3010 Bern: Langhans Auditorium, Eingang 43a
- if you come by car, you can park in the Insel-Parking car park (parking fees apply, ca 35 CHF per day), 800 metres from motorway exit 35 Bern-Forsthaus/lnselspital. There are no long-stay parking bays on the Inselspital campus. https://www.insel.ch/de/patienten-und-besucher/ihr-aufenthalt/anreise/insel-parking/
- from Bern railway station (Bern Hauptbahnhof): take Bus no 11 in front of the train station on Perron F (https://www.bernmobil.ch/file/Angebote-und-Services/Dienstleistungen/Situationsplaene/Situationsplan-Bern-Bahnhof.pdf), direction “Holligen”, 3rd stop “Inselspital” (main entrance). The ride will take ca. 5 minutes. For the timetable, access https://www.bernmobil.ch/DE/Startseite/?oid=10063&lang=de
- Bern can be reached by plane:
à Bern International Airport: www.flughafenbern.ch
à Zurich International Airport: www.zurich-airport.com There are direct train connections to Bern railway station approximately every 30 minutes. Check www.sbb.ch for the exact timetable. The ride will take about 75minutes.
à EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg: www.euroairport.com Take the bus to Basel railway station (ca. 18min). There is a direct train connection to Bern approximately every 30 min. Check www.sbb.ch for the exact timetable. The whole ride will take about 90minutes.
à Geneva International Airport www.gva.ch There are direct train connections to Bern railway station, approximately every 30 min. Check www.sbb.ch for the exact timetable. The ride will take about 120min
- You can also reach Bern by bus from multiple European cities: www.flixbus.com
The Dinner
Altes Tramdepot, Grosser Muristalden 6, CH-3006 Bern
https://www.altestramdepot.ch/de/home
Fee
Fee for participation is 50 Euro; for students it is 20 Euro. For participants with an industrial background the participation fee is 200 Euro. Fees must be paid on registration with money transfer or through credit card. The refund for no show is limited to 50%.
The Bank details are as follows:
Payment in CHF
BEKB, Berner Kantonalbank AG, 3001 Bern
IBAN CH 28 0079 0020 0800 0426 7
BIC/Swift KBBECH22
Konto-Nr. 20 080.004.2.67
BC 790 / PC-Konto 30-106-9
Payment in EUR
BEKB, Berner Kantonalbank AG, 3001 Bern
IBAN CH 50 0079 0020 2599 9697 4
BIC/Swift KBBECH22
Konto-Nr. 20 259.996.9.74
BC 790 / PC-Konto 30-106-9
Empfänger/Beneficiary: Insel Gruppe AG
Adresse: Freiburgstrasse 18 3010 Bern
Bemerkungen/Note: WFH-013 (sehr wichtig/important!)
Payment in cash on site is possible.
Contact
Local organising committee:
Prof. Dr. med. M. Caversaccio
Dr. med. S. Negoias
Department of ENT,
Head and Neck Surgery
University Hospital of Bern - Inselspital
Freiburgstrasse, 3010 Bern
Switzerland
simona.negoias@insel.ch
Scientific contact:
Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Hummel
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
University of Dresden Medical School
Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307 Dresden
Germany
thummel@mail.zih.tu-dresden.de
Deadline
Deadline for registration is the 15th of November 2018. Please send an informal application to Thomas Hummel. Please let us know whether you would like to participate in the conference dinner.
Hotel Reservation:
Housing searching engines: www.booking.com or www.hotel.de
Alternatively, www.airbnb.com offers convenient housing solutions.
Bern Ticket
Ab der ersten Übernachtung in einem Beherbergungsbetrieb innerhalb der Stadt Bern erhalten die Gäste das Bern Ticket für ihren gesamten Aufenthalt, und geniessen damit freie Fahrt in den Zonen 100/101 des LIBERO-Tarifverbundes. Am Anreisetag dient die Reservationsbestätigung als Transferticket vom Bahnhof oder Flughafen Bern zum Beherbergungsbetrieb.
3 stars Hotels:
Hotel Ador
Hotel Arabella Bern
Hotel City am Bahnhof
Goldener Schlüssel Hotel
Hotel La Pergola
Bed & Breakfast:
Am Pavillon, Bed&Breakfast
B&B Gutenberg
Alfred Bed & Kitchen
4 stars Hotels:
Hotel Savoy
Hotel Bristol
Hotel Bären am Bundesplatz
Best Western Hotel
Hotel Ambassador
Hotel Allegro
Continued Medical Education
Continued Medical Education: The course will earn you 10 points 
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Scientific program
Friday, 7th of Dec
13:30 Coffee
14:00 Welcome – Prof. Marco Caversaccio (Bern), Dr. Simona Negoias (Bern)
14:00 Chemosensory testing, taste - Chair: Antje Welge-Lüssen (Basel)
14:00 Anna Oleszkiewicz (Dresden) Normative data for the Sniffin Sticks in more than 9000 healthy subjects -
14:15 Gerold Besser (Vienna) Short version of a retronasal olfactory test
14:30 Tanja Drews (Dresden) Self-administration of the Sniffin Sticks odor identification test
14:45 Lisa Grzeschuchna (Dresden) Electrophysiological correlates of gustatory activation in patients with taste disturbance
15:00 Plenarysession – Chair: Simona Negioas (Bern)
15:0 Önder Göktas (Berlin) Drug-induced taste loss: the hitlist
15:15 Michael Damm (Cologne) Diagnostics and therapy of olfactory dysfunction in German-speaking countries
15:30 Thomas Hummel (Dresden) Questionnaire for parosmia / smoking / general
15:45 Julien Hsieh (Geneva) Development of an ontology-based smell phenotyping system
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Lecture – Chair: Anna Oleszkievicz
Daria Knoch (Bern): Body odors
17:00 Mixed bag – Chair: Gerold Besser (Vienna)
17:00 Raffaela Fürer (Basel) Central-nervous processing of salty taste induced by NaCl or KCl
17:15 Antje Hähner (Dresden) Mutation in Nav1.7 causes high olfactory sensitivity
17:30 Agnieszka Sabiniewicz (Wroclav) Odor memory is related to the quality of early memories in older adults
17:45 Social program
Saturday, 8th of Dec
8:30 Coffee
09:00 Congenital anosmia, head trauma, trigeminal – Chair: Julien Hsieh (Geneva)
09:00 Akshita Joshi (Dresden) Brain activation to chemosensory stimulation in patients wth congenital anosmia
09:15 Basile Landis (Geneva) Gustatory and olfactory function after temporal bone fracture
09:30 Kyri Lindner (Dresden) Cognitive function in patients with trauma-related olfactory loss
09:45 Sophia Poletti (Tübingen) Distribution of trigeminal receptors in the nasal respiratory epithelium
10:00 Gerg Lober (Dresden) Trigeminal activation in patients with allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis
10:15 Carla Masala (Dresden) Correlation between nasal anatomy and olfactory function
10:30 Plenarysession – Chair: Karl-Bernd Hüttenbrink (Cologne)
Thomas Hummel (Dresden) Goals of the working group
11:15 Coffee break
11:45 Lecture – Chair: Basile Landis (Geneva)
Abel-Jan Tasman (St. Gallen) – Nose and Psyche
12:15 Mixed bag – Chair: Tanja Drews (Dresden)
12:15 Axel Wolf (Graz) Olfactory cleft proteome does not reflect olfactory performance in patients with olfactory loss
12:30 Simona Negoias (Bern) Chemosensory function and environmental sensitivity in patients with tinnitus
12:45 Yunpeng Zang (Dresden) Influence of olfactory dysfunction on food sense of perception
13:00 David Liu (Vienna) Assessment of retronasal olfactory function in patients with smell loss
13:15 Corinne Hasler (Basel) Olfactory function during the course of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease
13:30 Final remarks – Simona Negioas (Bern)
Abstracts
To come
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