Upcoming Neuroscience Conferences and Courses

American Society for Neurochemistry Annual meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, March 6-10, 2010. Abstracts are now being accepted through October 15. Please go to www.ASNeurochem.org for further information.

Eighth World Congress on Brain Injury, Washington, DC, March 10-14, 2010. All accepted abstracts will be published in a supplemental issue of IBIA’s official journal Brain Injury. Submissions must be data-driven or assessment/treatment model descriptions. The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Congress is October 12, 2009. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Congress’s International Scientific Committee, which will determine the most appropriate presentation format (oral presentation or poster) for each abstract accepted. For further information go to www.internationalbrain.org

Pain Management Workshop, March 26 2010 Vancouver, Canada.  Dr. Dennis C. Turk, internationally acclaimed expert in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain, will be offering a full-day workshop entitled Best Practices in Assessing and Treating Chronic Pain Patients: An Evidence-based Approach. For a full description of this workshop and to register on-line, please visit our website at www.thetrainingassociatesvancouver.com. Contact:  Shelley Johnson ph +1 604.875.1775 shelley.johnson@sljproductions.ca

Peter Goodenough Memorial Lecture, 8 April 2010. Queensland Brain Institute (QBI). Dr Sarah Caddick (Principal Neuroscience Advisor to Lord Sainsbury - the Gatsby Foundation), will talk on "Philanthropy and the Brain: Making Connections". The challenge that faces neuroscience in the coming decades is to obtain a coherent and unified view of the relationship between gene activity, neural circuit function and behaviour.  Achieving this goal will require an effective merger of old and new technology and a culture of innovation and collaboration between neuroscientists around the world.  This effort is one that every country should be a part of and ambitious philanthropy from all stakeholders will be essential to provide resources that protect the pursuit of an ambitious and long-term scientific goal. The lecture is named in honour of the late Mr Peter Goodenough, a QBI benefactor, whose personal battle with motor neuron disease led to an inspirational bequest for scientific research into MND. For further information please go to http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=27038#goodenough2 or e-mail events@qbi.uq.edu.au

MUSCLE 2010 Gage conference on muscle. April 14th - 16th 2010 at Canberra Boys Grammar School, ACT The Gage Conferences (previously Curtin Conferences) are live-in conferences based on the USA Gordon Research Conferences which aim to provide maximum opportunities for interaction between experts in a field.
Themes: Molecular mechanisms in Ca2+ signalling in heart and skeletal muscle; Excitation-contraction coupling in health and disease (cardiac and skeletal); Muscle as a metabolic organ; Muscle aging and Injury; Muscular Dystrophies; Inherited myopathies; Other neuromuscular disorders. REGISTER NOW! http://www.gageconf.org.au

4th A+PD Symposium 2010 Sydney Thursday, April 22, 2010 – Friday, April 23, 2010. After the success of the previous symposia (with 160 participants in 2009) the Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease Laboratory at the Brain and Mind Research Institute (BMRI) of the University of Sydney will for the fourth time host the A&PD Symposium on Pathomechanisms in Neurodegeneration. Again we will have prominent speakers from overseas (including Drs Lennart Mucke, Director of the Gladstone Institute, UCSF and Peter Seubert, Elan Pharmaceuticals, South San Francisco). Besides the overseas speakers, a number of excellent Australian/New Zealand speakers have been selected. As before, the focus is on neurodegeneration in general and we like to be as broad as possible to spike the conference up. We will have a poster session this year, with a poster prize. For program details contact Prof. Jürgen Götz, jgoetz@med.usyd.edu.au, Tel. (02) 9351.0789

Australian and New Zealand Society for Neuropathology Annual Scientific Meeting, Brisbane. Saturday, May 2nd 2010, 8:30am - 5pm.  Royal Brisbane and Women�s Hospital Education Centre.  This one-day scientific meeting will feature clinical and research presentations of interest to those with a neuropathology focus. Invited speakers include Professor Linda Richards, Head of Cortical development and Axonal Guidance Laboratory, Queensland Brain Institute and Professor Bernd Scheithauer, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.  The meeting also includes a slide seminar and oral research presentations. One session is devoted to student and young investigator presentations competing for the Bill Evans Memorial Award. Deadline for submission of abstracts for research presentations is April 9th, 2010. This will be held in conjunction with a Pathology Queensland and RCPA sponsored "Surgical Pathology of the Central Nervous System" course on 1st May 2010, 8:30am - 6pm at the same venue. For further information, please contact Dr Queenie Lau, Email: queenie_lau@health.qld.gov.au or visit website www.pathology.usyd.edu.au/ANZSNP/anzsnp.html

AREADNE 2010 Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles Nomikos Conference Centre, Santorini, Greece 17-20 June 2010 http://areadne.org info@areadne.org

RIKEN Brain Science Institute Summer Program 2010 (JAPAN) RIKEN Brain Science Institute will host a Summer Program.  Plan A is a two-month internship in a BSI lab (July 1 to Aug. 26) and Plan B is a two-week lecture course (July 20- July 30). Please see the website below for further information.  The deadline for application is February 28, 2010. http://www.brain.riken.go.jp/summer.html

7th FENS Forum of European Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 3-7, 2010. See http://fens2010.neurosciences.asso.fr/index.html for more details

Measuring Behavior 2010 The 7th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral research 24-27 August 2010, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Measuring Behavior is the premier interdisciplinary event for scientists and practitioners concerned with the study of human or animal behavior. This unique conference focuses on methods, techniques, and tools in behavioral research in the widest sense; from neuroscience and zoology to psychology and consumer behavior, and from human factors research to public safety and smart homes. For further information see www.measuringbehavior.org

28th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (AWCBR) 28 August – 1 September 2010 Queenstown, New Zealand
Each year the conference attracts participants from Australia, Europe, Japan, New Zealand and North
America. All participants are encouraged to present a paper and we will create symposia to accommodate papers as necessary. Our purpose is to encourage interaction between a wide range of academic and clinical brain research disciplines including anatomy, kinesiology, molecular biology, neural modelling, neurochemistry, neurology, pharmacology, physiology, and psychology. To view the range of topics covered in recent years, visit our website at www.awcbr.org.
REGISTRATION DEADLINES AND STUDENT GRANTS
The deadline for abstracts, accommodation bookings and Early Bird registration fees is 14 May 2010. The Early Bird standard registration fee is NZ$315, while the Early Bird student registration fee is NZ$135. After 14 May, the fees increase to NZ$450 and NZ$180, respectively.
Email awcbr@psy.otago.ac.nz Website http://www.awcbr.org

World Congress on Huntington’s Disease 11-14 September 2011, Melbourne, Australia http://www.worldcongress-hd2011.org/

11th Biennial Australasian Schizophrenia Conference, Sydney, 22-24 September 2010
Abstract and symposia submission is now open for the 11th Biennial Australasian Schizophrenia Conference (ASC 2010). The theme of the ASC2010 conference will be ‘Molecules to Mind’, which reflects the broad perspective required to achieve a greater scientific understanding of schizophrenia.
The ASC 2010 conference will include plenary sessions, symposia, scientific paper presentations and poster presentations. International plenary speakers will include Prof. Cameron Carter (USA), Prof. Shitij Kapur (UK), Prof. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg (Germany) and Prof. David Penn (USA). Australian plenary speakers will include Prof. Assen Jablensky, Dr Eoin Killackey, Prof. John McGrath and Prof. Cyndi Shannon Weickert. ASC 2010 will be offering up to six Early Career Investigator Awards in the form of travel grants to early career scientists, to assist with expenses relating to their participation at the Conference. Hosted by the Schizophrenia Research Institute, ASC2010 is proud to be affiliated with the Schizophrenia International Research Society and the Australian Psychosis Research Network. Details of the Conference can be found at: www.asc2010.com

OzBio2010 The Molecules of Life - From Discovery to Biotechnology. Melbourne Convention Centre, Australia Sept 26-Oct 1, 2010. This premier international scientific meeting brings together the 12th IUBMB Conference, the 21st FAOBMB Conference and the ComBio2010 meeting. This unique blend of participating societies will generate an outstanding scientific and technological event, which will be of major interest to biochemists, molecular biologists, cell and developmental biologists, and plant scientists. The world’s top speakers in these areas will present their exciting new findings in major plenary sessions and in a wide array of more specialist symposia, including a Molecular Neurobiology program stream.
Abstract and Early Registration Deadline, Friday, 16 April 2010. The OzBio2010 online registration and abstract submission pages can now be accessed at: http://www.asbmb.org.au/ozbio2010/registration.html and http://www.asbmb.org.au/ozbio2010/abstracts.html respectively. International Plenary Speaker Biographies and Current Draft Symposium themes, titles and chairs can be downloaded from http://www.asbmb.org.au/ozbio2010/program.html

8th Asian & Oceanian Epilepsy Congress (AOEC) , Melbourne, Australia, 21st - 24th October 2010. Registration is now open for the Congress: www.epilepsymelbourne2010.org/registration/registration.html#fees.
The Scientific Organising Committee and the Scientific Consultative Committee have put together a scientific programme of international appeal that is highly relevant to recent scientific, clinical and social developments in epilepsy. The main topics of the Congress will be:  "Epilepsy Surgery - Who and When?", "Outcome in Newly-diagnosed Epilepsy", "Prevention of Symptomatic Epilepsy" and "Psychological Wellbeing in Epilepsy". In addition, parallel sessions will focus on the pertinent issues of epilepsy practice and research, the Masakazu Seino Memorial Lecture, practical video sessions, lively debates, interactive workshops, and topical satellite symposia. The Asian Epilepsy Academy (ASEPA) will once again organise a series of didactic lectures by world-renowned experts in their respective fields and pre-congress workshops on epilepsy surgery and basic science.  Please visit  www.epilepsymelbourne2010.org/scientificprog/sciprog.html to view the scientific activities of the 8th AOEC.
Abstracts are now being accepted: www.epilepsymelbourne2010.org/abstracts/abstracts.html
An exciting programme on Epilepsy and Society that will be of great interest to both individuals living with epilepsy and for staff from community organisations supporting people living with epilepsy will run in conjunction with the Congress. Further details can be found on www.epilepsymelbourne2010.org/ibeprog/ibeprog.html
Full details on the 8th AOEC can be found on the congress website www.epilepsymelbourne2010.org; for any enquiries please email melbourne@epilepsycongress.org ; tel: + 353 1 2056720 or fax: + 353 1 2056156.

9th Biennial Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry (APSN 2010), Phuket, Thailand October 18-20, 2010
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: May 1, 2010
CHAIR OF THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE:Professor Akio Wanaka, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience 840 Shijo-cho, Kashihara City, Nara 634-8521 Japan E-mail: akiow@naramed-u.ac.jp

Federation of Asian-Oceanean Neuroscience Societies: 2010 Congress in India and Satellite Symposium in Sri Lanka. The 5th Congress will be hosted by the Indian Academy of Neuroscience and organised by Professor Prahlad Seth (prahladseth@gmail.com). Dates to  be announced, tentatively November / December 2010. A satellite symposium in Sri Lanka is also proposed before or after the Congress and will be organised by Professor Ranil de Silva, President of the Neuroscience Society of Sri Lanka.