Barcelona AGM 2003: Call for symposia

 

   Our biannual stand-alone Annual General meeting will be held in Barcelona (September 17-20, 2003). The local organising committee, chaired by Prof. Ignacio Morgado-Bernal is enthusiastically committed in the organisation of what should be an outstanding scientific event.

The programme, as usual, will be entirely based upon plenary lectures and symposia plus free communications in the form of posters. 

 

   To have a well-balanced and high scientific quality programme it is most important that the proposals reflect the scientific interests of the EBBS membership. We can only achieve these goals of scientific excellence and membership interest through active participation of EBBS members in formulation of the programme. The EBBS committee, acting as the programme committeee, urges members to submit proposals for symposia on topics of their choice and to encourage colleagues, EBBS members or not, to submit proposals. 

 

Proposals should be sent before June 15 2002 to Dr Catherine Thinus-Blanc, Laboratory of Cognitive Neurosciences, CNRS, 31 Chemin J. Aiguier, 13402 Marseille Cedex 9, France.

Electronic submission to  thinus@lnf.cnrs-mrs.fr is welcome.

GUIDELINES  ---- see below
Guidelines for symposia

- Symposia should be organised by established researchers;

- Symposia are two hours in length and comprise four speakers;

- Symposia lectures should ideally be a balanced mix of presentations of a wide, synthetic or reviewing perspective on the topic covering several years of work, and descriptions of some new data, relevant to the topic;

- Symposia could have one or two young speakers at the postdoctoral level presenting data relevant to the broader topic;
- Symposia organisers and speakers at recent AGMs should generally not submit proposals, but there can be exceptions to this rule;

- Speakers, and only speakers, receive a free registration;

- Session chairs should be chosen from  persons attending the meeting if the organiser is a speaker;

- Symposia may be proposed by EBBS members or nonmembers, with no geographical restrictions.