DUBLIN 2005:

37 th Annual General Meeting of EBBS 

The 37th Annual General Meeting of the EBBS will be held in Trinity College Dublin (http://www.tcd.ie/).  

Trinity is Ireland's oldest University, founded in 1592, and possesses the unusual and quaint legal name: ' The Provost Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin'. It is a beautiful campus, consisting of a mix of old College squares and newer buildings, contained within an island site within the center of Dublin (http://www.dublin.ie/; http://www.dublinks.com/; http://www.visit.ie/dublin/).

Dublin is a vibrant and cosmopolitan city of about 1 million people, stretched along a rather beautiful bay; it is a very old city, with archaeological remains dating back several thousand years; it is most famous for its Georgian period architecture andmany beautiful Georgian squares (http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/).

Dublin and Ireland are easily accessed by air (http://www.dublin-airport.com/) and sea (there are cheap ferry services to Dublin and Rosslare from the UK and France). Visit http://www.iol.ie/~discover/homefl.htm for many useful transport links and other information). Dublin is a destination for very many low fares airlines; it also has many reasonable priced hotels and Bed and Breakfasts. Information on these options will be posted on the TCIN website in the coming months.

Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN) was founded as a virtual institute in 2000; the physical institute is now under construction with an expected completion date of August 2004 (http://www.trinityneuroscience.com/).

The new institute will house state of the art laboratories and technologies, including high-field strength human brain imaging and neurogenetics. TCIN has an interdisciplinary research and teaching ethos; its mission is captured in the phrase 'from molecules to mind', emphasising a vision stretching across differing levels of investigation of brain function.