ANS Annual Conference

ANS 2011  will be held in Auckland, New Zealand from Monday 31st January - Thursday 3rd February 2011.

ANS 2012 will be held on the Gold Coast, Qld from Sunday 29th January - Wednesday 1st February.

ANS 2013 will be held in Melbourne.

The Australian Neuroscience Society holds an Annual Scientific Meeting every year, generally in late January/ early February.

Previous ANS Conferences

• 2010 - Sydney (joint meeting with AuPS; 979 registrants)
• 2009 - Canberra (740 registrants)
• 2008 - Hobart (639 registrants)
• 2007 - Melbourne (joint meeting with IBRO; 2300 registrants)
• 2006 - Sydney (865 registrants)
• 2005 - Perth (752 registrants)
• 2004 - Melbourne (886 registrants)
• 2003 - Adelaide (704 registrants)
• 2002 - Sydney (587 registrants)
• 2001 - Brisbane (578 registrants)
• 2000 - Melbourne (578 registrants)
• 1999 - Hobart (528 registrants)
• 1998 - Canberra (532 registrants)
• 1997 - Newcastle (471 registrants)1
• 1996 - Adelaide (559 registrants)
• 1995 - Perth (492 registrants)
• 1994 - Sydney (549 registrants)
• 1993 - Melbourne (>500 registrants)
• 1992 - Adelaide (389 registrants)
• 1991 - Dunedin, New Zealand (>60 registrants)
• 1990 - Brisbane (320 registrants)
• 1989 - Melbourne (340 registrants)
• 1988 - Canberra
• 1987 - Newcastle (223 ANS registrants + 46 ASANZ registrants)
• 1986 - Perth
• 1985 - Adelaide
• 1984 - Canberra
• 1983 - Melbourne
• 1982 - Sydney
• 1981 - Adelaide (>200 registrants)

ANS Joint Meetings

ANS hosted the 13th Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry in Sydney in July 1991. It has held joint meetings with other societies on several occasions, including with a number of Australian societies jointly in Canberra in 1988, with the APSN in Brisbane in 2000, ISDN in Sydney 2002,  the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) World Congress of Neuroscience in Melbourne in 2007 and the Australian Physiological Society in 2010.

ANS Sponsored Boden Conferences

Have included:

• 2004 - Visual cortex: A variety of viewpoints
• 1998 - Synaptic transmission
• 1997 - Retinal biology and retinal diseases
• 1993 - Muscle afferents and motor control
• 1991 - Innervation of blood vessels
• 1990 - Regulatory peptides
• 1989 - Processing of information in the auditory and tactile systems
• 1984 - Chemical transmitters in the nervous system