During the past year we have had our biannual 'stand-alone' EBBS Meeting in September in Marseille which we shared with the European Behavioral Pharmacology Society (EBPS). We have had this welcome opportunity to combine our interests in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience with the focus of EBPS on the neurochemical foundations of behavior. There were six plenary lectures, 30 symposia and workshops, and numerous abstracts. We are grateful for the work of the Local Organisation Committee of EBBS members Catherine Thinus-Blanc, Bruno Poucet and Bernard Soumireu-Mourat, which were joined by Marianne Amalric, Christelle Baunez and André Nieoullon from EBPS. It was a first rate meeting, combined with a spectacular setting at the mouth of the old harbor and a wonderful weather. But it was also the time of the tragic and traumatic events of September 11 in New York and Washington. Deeply shocked and made entirely speechless by these events, we tried everything to express our sympathy to our American colleagues and reduce their grief, and to finish the meeting as best as we could. I believe this meeting will remain in the memory of many of us as the most traumatic conference we ever had.

But there was also better news. The EBBS Committee welcomed its newly elected member Stephanie Clarke. A Warm Welcome, Stephanie! Pascale Gisquet former member of the EBBS committee but still committed member of the EBBS has organised a well attended dinner debate on the theme "Retrieval and Reconsolidation: New Findings and Old Concepts" at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2001 in San Diego. The next EBBS workshop "Cognitive and neural bases of visuomotor control" will take place on Lalonde, near the medieval town Hyères in the South of France (5-8 September 2002) and will be organised by A.D. Milner, H.-O. Karnath and M. Desmurget.

We are also preparing the next Annual General Meeting for 2003 (September 17-20) in the wonderfully European and cosmopolitan city of Barcelona, where Ignacio Morgado-Bernal and his experienced local organizing committee is making every effort to provide an amazing environment with the support of La Caixa Foundation, the City of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

The plan is to hold the conference in the La Caixa Forum which not only houses excellent conference facilities but also an extensive modern art museum which conference participants will be able to visit between lectures and posters. The EBBS Committee is now soliciting proposals for about 14 symposia and 7 plenary lectures.

Please send your suggestions to Catherine Thinus-Blanc appointed Programme committee Co-ordinator of the Barcelona Meeting.

Wolfram Schultz,   EBBS President 2000-2002

CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE:

Note from the President

EBBS/EBPS Meeting 2001 in Marseille

Minutes of the Marseille AGM

EBBS Dinner Debate in San Diego

Nominations and Elections

Barcelona AGM : Call for symposia

News from the EBBS Membership

. Knighthood for the Cambridge Scientist and EBBS Member Gabriel Horn

Coming events

. IBRO Meeting 2003 in Prague