Upcoming Neuroscience Conferences and Courses

6th Drug Discovery for Neurodegeneration: An intensive course on translating research into drugs, February 12-14, 2012, New York, USA. Designed as a comprehensive course, this conference provides participants with the fundamental knowledge and resources on creating new drugs to treat and prevent neurodegenerative disease. Case studies on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Multiple Sclerosis will be included in the discussions.  Th e meeting attracts about 140 participants from around the world.  More information can be found on the conference website: http://www.worldeventsforum.com/addf/drugdiscovery/.

International Brain Injury Association's Ninth World Congress on Brain Injury Edinburgh, Scotland March 21-25, 2012. The International Brain Injury Association's Ninth World Congress on Brain Injury is the largest gathering of international professionals working in the field of brain injury. Delegates are comprised of physicians, psychologists and neuropsychologists, therapists, social workers, nurses, case managers, legal professionals, advocates and all others working in the field of brain injury. For further information see www.internationalbrain.org.

8th Asia Pacific Symposium on Neural Regeneration (APSNR), in conjunction with the 5th Pan Pacific Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Research (PPSSC), Taichung, Taiwan, April 12-16, 2012. www.ppssc.com.tw/index.html Travel award application and Abstract submission deadline Feb 7, 2012.

10th International Conference on Brain Energy Metabolism “Bioenergetics of Neurological Disease and Aging” Monterey, California, USA April 17 - 20, 2012. Email for information: ICBEM2012@ncire.org Website (to be operative by April 10, 2011);  www.ncire.org/ICBEM2012

7th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation 2012 (WCNR 2012), Melbourne, 16 - 19 May 2012. Topics of the WCNR Congress will include: Traumatic Brain Injury, Cognitive Rehabilitation for Children, Paediatric Spinal Cord Injury & Disease, Stroke, Gait Disorder, Education, Neurodegenerative Conditions: Rehabilitation Opportunities, Basic Science & Neurorehabiliation, Neurorehabilitaion in Developing Countries, Imaging & Plasticity, Multiple Sclerosis, Spasticity, Movement Disorder, Spinal Cord Injury, NeuroOncology, Cerebal Palsy,
Spinal Innovations. For more information go to www.dcconferences.net.au/wcnr2012/.

The Joint 12^th International Child Neurology Congress and 11^th Asian and Oceanian Congress of Child Neurology, May 27- June 1, 2012, Brisbane, Australia. The Joint Congress will cover a wide range of topics, with cutting edge research in paediatric neurology and related disciplines. Abstracts are currently being accepted, closing on the 30th September. Full information about the congress and the exciting program can be found on the website www.icnc2012.com

11^th International Meeting on Cholinesterases, June 3-11, 2012, Kazan, Russia. Venue: Grand Hotel Kazan. For more information: www.11che.ru.  Contact:info@11che.ru

21^st Annual meeting of International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS), June 5-10, 2012, Hawaii, USA. Proposals are now being solicited for symposia and satellites. We look forward to another scientifically excellent conference at a welcoming and beautiful venue. IBNS selects meeting locations that attract behavioral neuroscientists from around the globe. The average IBNS meeting draws 33% students and post-doctoral fellows, thus fostering excellent interaction and networking opportunities for the younger scientists in an informal atmosphere. www.ibnshomepage.org/annualmtg12.htm.

2012 Serotonin Club Meeting, July 10-12 2012, Montpellier, France. For more information go to the conference http://www.serotoninclub.org/Montpellier2012.asp.

AREADNE 2012 Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles Nomikos Conference Centre, Santorini, Greece 21-24 June 2012 http://areadne.org; info@areadne.org

2012 International Motoneuron Meeting – Motoneurons and Beyond, Sydney 23-27 July 2012 http://www.motoneuronmeeting.org//

2012 International Congress of Neuroethology, College Park, Maryland, USA, 5–10 August 2012. The Program Committee is soliciting proposals for symposia, due May 1, 2011. See website for more details http://www.neuroethology.org/meetings/ or contact Justin Marshall justin.marshall@uq.edu.au

2nd International Neural Regeneration Symposium, Shenyang, China, September 22-26, 2012. For more details go to www.nrronline.org/conference

APSN/JSN 2012, the Joint Symposium of 11th Biennial Meeting of APSN and 55th Meeting of JSN, International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan Sept 29-Oct 2, 2012.The meeting will address major topics of latest developments in basic and clinical neuroscience research with an emphasis on ‘Brain chemistry: Integrating the Mind’. The purpose of the meeting is to offer an international forum of scientific exchange for researchers and clinician neuroscientists by a series of sessions on distinguished scientific developments. The meeting will partially overlap with the meeting of Japanese Society of Biological Psychiatry, which will offer an exceptional and international platform for neurochemists all over the world, especially those from the Asia-Pacific region. 
Conference Themes: Development, Neurodegeneration, Neural regeneration, Neural plasticity, Ion channels & Transporters, Neuroprotection, Neurotransmission / cell signaling / signal transduction, Brain metabolism, Ischemia, Neuroendocrinology, Cognition & behaviour, Psychiatry, Pain, Substance abuse, Glia function / Neuron-Glia interaction, Glia in disease.
Abstract Submission: The Scientific Program Committee invites all participants who wish to present a poster or an oral presentation to submit an abstract.  When submitting abstracts, registrants should indicate whether they wish to be considered for oral or poster presentations.  In addition, workshop and satellite symposia topics are also invited. The deadline for free communications to be submitted is March 1, 2012. www.apsneurochem.org

World Muscle Society Annual Congress, Perth Australia 9^th - 13^th October. This is the first time this meeting has been held in Australasia. This meeting annually brings together world leaders in clinical, pathological and scientific research into these disorders. This is an exciting time in the neuromuscular disorders field, with next generation sequencing techniques starting to have a huge impact in novel disease gene discovery and approaching use in molecular diagnostics and potential therapies for these conditions, based on understanding the pathobiology of the diseases, in clinical trials. The four chosen themes for this year are: 1- Impact of New Diagnostic Techniques on Clinical Practice in Neuromuscular Disorders; 2- Congenital Myopathies; 3- Standards of Care in Neuromuscular Disorders (inc. cardiac, respiratory, orthopedic, swallowing and feeding, physical medicine/therapy and rehabilitation); 4- Advances in Therapy for Neuromuscular Disorders. Early career clinicians, pathologists, geneticists and research scientists can take the opportunity of the Training Course that is always run in association with the Congress to be taught by some of the world’s best neuromuscular disorders clinicians and pathologists. The abstract closing date is 31^st March. For more details go to www.wms2012.com