ANS Plenary Lectures

ANS Plenary Lectures have been held annually since 1981. There are 4 plenary lectures held at the annual ANS meetings. The plenaries lectures include the ANS overseas lecturer, the ANS Plenary Lecturer, the Eccles Lecturer and the ANS Lawrie Austin Lecturer. The Eccles Lecture was named after Sir John Eccles, and is jointly sponsored by ANS and the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia and began in 1993. The speaker presents at both the annual ANS meeting and the annual meeting of the Neurosurgical Society. The Lawrie Austin Lecture is named in honor of Lawrie Austin, who was the first President of ANS and the first Australian elected to the Council of the International Society for Neurochemistry, not long after its formation. Further information about Lawrie Austin and his contribution to neuroscience in Australia is available here

Previous ANS Plenary Lecturers

  

2010 Sydney

ANS Plenary Lecture: Herbert Herzog "The role of NPY in health and disease: insights from transgenic and knockout models"
ANS/AuPS Overseas Plenary Lecture: Gilles Laurent (Germany) "Circuits and dynamics for olfactory coding"

AuPS Invited Lecture: David Adams "Analgesic conotoxins modulating pain pathways"

The Physiological Society (UK) Exchange Lecture: David Attwell "Brain power: how the brain’s energy supply determines the computational power of neurons"

 

2009 Canberra

ANS Plenary Lecture: Greg Stuart "The action potential"
ANS Overseas Plenary Lecture: Matthew Wilson (USA) "Sequential event memory formation and reactivation in the hippocampus and beyond"

Eccles Lecture: Peter Reilly "Neurotrauma management – prevention, protection and
repair"
Lawrie Austin Lecture: Phil Beart "Adventures in neurochemistry: people, places and puzzles"

 

2008 Hobart

ANS Plenary Lecture: Phil Robinson “Dynamin: linking endocytosis to synaptic transmission”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Carla Shatz (USA) “Tuning up circuits: brain waves and immune genes”

Eccles Lecture: Gary Egan “Investigating dynamical brain networks using high resolution structural and functional MRI”

ANS Lawrie Austin Lecture: Macdonald Christie “Neural mechanisms of opioid tolerance and dependence”

 

2007 Melbourne (joint meeting with the IBRO Congress of Neuroscience)

ANS Plenary Lecture: Mandyam Srinivasan “Small brains, smart minds: vision, navigation, and “cognition” in honeybees, and applications to robotics”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Lily Jan (USA) “Potassium channels”

Eccles Lecture: not held

ANS Lawrie Austin Lecture: not held

 

2006 Sydney

ANS Plenary Lecture: Sarah Dunlop “Promoting recovery after CNS and PNS injury”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Clifford Saper (USA) “Hypothalamic regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms”

Eccles Lecture: Frank Mastaglia “Transcranial brain stimulation: the past, the present and the future”

ANS Lawrie Austin Lecture: Ian Gibbins “Somewhere over the neurochemical rainbow: synaptic heterogeneity, Schwann cells and slow transmission”

 

2005 Perth

ANS Plenary Lecture: Bruce Walmsley “From ear to eternity: unlocking fundamental synaptic and neuronal mechanisms in the auditory pathways of the brain”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Larry Swanson (USA) “Cerebral hemisphere networks controlling motivation and emotion”

Eccles Lecture: Pankaj Sah “Synaptic transmission and plasticity in the amygdala: a cellular model for fear conditioning”

ANS Lawrie Austin Lecture: Ida Llewellyn-Smith “Unravelling spinal circuits that control autonomic function”

Special Lecture: Istvan Mody (USA) “Tonic inhibition in the crosshairs of hormones and drugs”

 

2004 Melbourne

ANS Plenary Lecture: Peter Schofield “The inhibitory glycerine receptor: molecular studies of structure, function and disease”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Eric Kandel (USA) “The long and short of long term memory”

Eccles Lecture: Andrew Kaye “The biology and treatment of cerebral glioma”

ANS Lawrie Austin Lecture: Glenda Halliday “Neurodegenerative dementias: dysfunction due to neuron loss, glial changes or protein aggregates”

Special Lecture: Robert Desimore (USA) “Top and bottom-up neural mechanisms for attention selection in visual cortex”

 

2003 Adelaide

ANS Plenary Lecture: Colin Masters “Molecular dissection of the pathways leading to Alzheimer’s disease”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Robert Malenka (USA) “Synaptic plasticity: the brain’s response to experience

Eccles Lecture: Richard Faull “Stem cells in the adult human brain”

ANS Lawrie Austin Lecture: David Adams “A cone snail’s view of the nervous system”

Overseas Lecture: Jean-Pierre Changeux “The acetylcholine nicotinic receptor: an allosteric protein involved in intercellular communication”

 

2002 Sydney

ANS Plenary Lecture: Peter Gage “A reductionist approach to electrical activity in the nervous system”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Mu-ming Poo (USA) “Neuronal plasticity at growth cones and synapses”

Eccles Lecture: Sam Berkovic “Genetic and acquired causes of epilepsies: is there a common neurobiological substrate?”

ANS Lawrie Austin Lecture: John Rostas Molecular interactions at synapses that modify neuronal activity”

 

2001 Brisbane

ANS Plenary Lecture: Elspeth McLachlan “Synaptic transmission in sympathetic ganglia and its modification after injury to the nervous system”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Marc Tessier-Lavigne (USA) “Wiring the brain: molecular mechanisms of axon guidance in vertebrates”

Eccles Lecture: Fred Mendelsohn “The role of brain angiotensin systems in central homeostatic mechanisms”

FASTS Lecture: Mandyam Srinivasan “Small brains, smart minds: insect vision, navigation and cognition”

APSN Plenary Lecture: Max Recasens (France) “Brain plasticitiy and changes in neurotransmitter phenotype”

APSN Plenary Lecture: Katsuhiko Mikoshiba (Japan) “IP3 receptor/Ca2+ channel: a key molecule in development and plasticity”

 

2000 Melbourne

ANS Plenary Lecture: Perry Bartlett “From a stem cell to a dead cell: regulating the life of a neuron”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Mriganka Sur (USA) “Rewiring cortex: patterned activity and the development of cortical networks”

Eccles Lecture: Michael Cousins “Persistent pain: a disease entity?”

 

1999 Hobart

ANS Plenary Lecture: Judy Morris “Co-transmission and cardiovascular control: rewriting the rules”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Bill Newsome (USA) “Seeing motion in depth: from neural circuits to perceptual decisions”

Eccles Lecture: Simon Gandevia “From motor commands to motoneurones”

FASTS Lecture: Graeme Clark “The bionic ear in the second and third millenia”

Special Plenary Lecture: John Nicholls (Italy) “Contributions of neurobiology to clinical neurology”

Special Plenary Lecture: John Steeves (Canada) “CNS repair: what are the goals and where has there been progress

FASTS Lecture: Sandra Rees “Brain development during pregnancy: what happens when things go wrong”

 

1998 Canberra

ANS Plenary Lecture: Dexter Irvine “Functional organisation and reorganisation in auditory cortex”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Bert Sakmann “Grey matter(s)?”

Eccles Lecture: M.J. Fulham “Functional imaging in the neurosciences: the role of PET, MR and SPECT”

FASTS Lecture: Graham Johnston “A chemists look at the brain”

 

1997 Newcastle

ANS Plenary Lecture: Mark Rowe “The brain and sensation: organisation and processing for touch and kinaesthesia”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Denis Baylor “Cellular mechanisms of single photon detection”

Eccles Lecture: John Willoughby “Generalised epilepsy: possible mechanisms”

FASTS Lecture: Jonathon Stone “Death and survival in the nervous system: our increasing understanding of neurodegenerative diseases”

ANS Special Guest Lecture: Howard Schulman “Spatial and temporal regulation of calcium signalling”

 

1996 Adelaide

ANS Plenary Lecture: Wickliffe Abraham (New Zealand) “Metaplasticity: the activitydependent regulation of synaptic plasticity”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Geoff Burnstock (UK) “Purinergic receptors”

Eccles Lecture: John Morris “The art and science of clinical observation”

FASTS Lecture: John Chalmers “Brain and blood pressure”

 

1995 Perth

ANS Plenary Lecture: Richard Mark “Development of sensory pathways in a mammalian brain: anatomy and physiology”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Albert Aguayo (Canada) “Survival regrowth and reconnection of injured neurons in the adult mammalian brain”

Eccles Lecture: Bill Blessing “Just one nervous system”

FASTS Lecture: Richard Faull “Neurological diseases and neural transplantation”

 

1994 Sydney

ANS Plenary Lecture: David Vaney “The neuronal architecture of the mammalian retina”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Jack McMahan (USA) “Composition and function of the matrix insynaptic cleft”

ANS Special Guest Lecture: Trevor Lamb (UK) “Signalling in G-protein cascades: the photoreceptor as an example”

ANS Guest Lecture: Timothy Bliss (UK) “Retrograde messengers in long-term potentiation”

Eccles Lecture: Peter Blumbergs “Traumatic axonal injury”

FASTS Lecture: Clive Harper “Are we drinking our neurones away?”

 

1993 Melbourne

ANS Plenary Lecture: Marcello Costa “The enteric nervous system”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Stanley B. Pruisner (USA) “Chemistry and biology of prion diseases”

ANS Special Guest Lecture: Jack Feldman (USA) Rhythmic pattern generators: cellular and synaptic mechanisms underlying breathing movements”

Eccles Lecture: Ian McCloskey “Postural stabilizing reflexes in humans”

FASTS Lecture: Colin L. Masters “The enigma of amyloid in the causation of Alzheimer’s disease”

 

1992 Adelaide

ANS Plenary Lecture: David Hirst “Neuroeffector transmission in the nervous system”

ANS Overseas Lecture: Bertil Hille (USA) “G protein-coupled receptors, channels, modulation and mood”

FASTS Lecture: Jim Lance “Consequences of neurology to the health of the nation”

ANS Special Guest Lecture: Hugh Perry (UK) “The role of macrophages in degeneration and regeneration in the peripheral nervous system”

 

1991 Dunedin

ANS Plenary Lecture: Ian McCloskey “Experiments on human motor control”

 

1990 Queensland

ANS Plenary Lecture: David Curtis “Micropharmacology of central synaptic terminals”

(Delivered in 1991)

ANS Overseas Lecture: Roger Nicoll (USA) “Mechanisms underlying long-term potentiation: a cellular model for memory”

ANS Overseas Lecture: J.M Ritchie (USA) “Ion channels in Schwann and glial cells”

ISN Visiting Lecture: Bernard Agranoff (USA) “Biochemistry of second messengers

 

1989 Monash

ANS Plenary Lecture: Lyn Beazley “Development of the visual system”

 

1988 Canberra

ANS Plenary Lecture: John Furness” Structure, neurochemistry and function of the enteric nervous system”

 

1987 Newcastle

ANS Plenary Lecture: John Pettigrew “Ramblings in comparative neuroscience”

ISN Visiting Lecture: Wallem Gispen "Phosphoprotein B50 in neuronal function”

 

1986 Perth

ANS Plenary Lecture: Stephen Redman “Excitatory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system”

 

1985 Adelaide

ANS Plenary Lecture: Jonathan Stone “Patterns of retinal embryogenesis”

 

1984 Canberra

ANS Plenary Lecture: James Lance “Brain stem control of the cephalic circulation and its possible relation to migraine”

 

1983 Melbourne

ANS Plenary Lecture: Max Bennett “The development of neurons and their synaptic connections”

 

1982 Sydney

ANS Plenary Lecture: David Cohen “Neural correlates of classical conditioning in the pigeon”

 

1981 Adelaide

ANS Plenary Lecture: Hugh Niall “Neuropeptides”

 

 

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