Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN)

The Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN) is a registered non-profit organization that was founded in 1992 by several leading Israeli neuroscientists. From about 300 participants at the first Annual Meetings at its establishment, it has doubled in size. Members include neuroscientists and graduate students from all the research institutes and universities in Israel, as well as foreign delegates, all of whom are involved in versatile basic and clinical research of the nervous system.

The Society holds an annual meeting each fall, which offers a stage for presentations of cutting edge research in the form of oral lectures, posters and WEB based abstracts. Abstracts are further printed in a special booklet or as a supplement to an international scientific journal, 2009 and 2010, the Journal of Molecular Neuroscience.

Hilton Queen of Sheba, Eilat

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Dear Members and Friends,

I am pleased to announce that the on-line registration and abstract submission to the 20th Annual ISFN Meeting as well as the Hotel Reservation are now active.

The 20th Annual ISFN Meeting will take place on December 11th-13th, 2011, at the Hilton Queen of Sheba, Eilat.

We are honored that Prof. Giulio Tononi (Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison) has agreed to deliver the Plenary Lecture entitled: "Sleep Function and Synaptic Homeostasis". This will be the first event on our Scientific Program, at around noon on Sunday December 11th. On Sunday evening, during the course of the Opening Ceremony, Prof. Mario Livio (The Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD) will deliver a Special Lecture entitled: "The Greatest Scientific Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope". On Monday, December 12th, Prof. Mark Gluck (Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ), who is Director of the Rutgers Memory Disorders Project, will deliver a Special Guest Lecture entitled: "Hippocampal Dysfunction Leads to Transfer-Generalization Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Depression".

The scientific program will consist of parallel sessions that will include short lectures, 3-4 workshops proposed and organized by ISFN members and two poster sessions. Some of the speakers in these workshops are prominent Neuroscientists invited from abroad. Details of the sessions and workshops will be published in the meeting program after all the abstracts have been received.

Prior to Registration and Abstract Submission please read carefully the guidelines regarding abstract submission, rates and FAQs which appear under "Annual Meeting". The deadline for abstracts submission has been postponed to September 8, 2011.

We intend to select a few of the best posters submitted by ISFN students for very brief oral presentations (3 minute, 2 slides) in a special "Blitz" Poster Discussion Session. The best three posters selected by a reviewing committee will be awarded with a prize of 1,000 shekels each.

A satellite symposium will be held at the Hilton Queen of Sheba immediately after the ISFN meeting, on December 13th-16th. This symposium, entitled: "The 10th International Symposium on VIP-PACAP and Related Peptides", will be organized by Prof. Illana Gozes, Director of the Adams Super Center for Brain Studies, Tel Aviv University: http://www.brain.tau.ac.il/vip-pacap2011

Finally, our 20th Annual Meeting will include two social events: a "fork and plate" cocktail/mixer on Sunday evening and a Gala Dinner on Monday night. These events are included in the registration fees.

On behalf of the ISFN Committee I wish all of us a successful and fruitful meeting,

Gabi Amitai

President of the ISFN