Start planning your trip to Japan for the

International Congress of Neuroethology
July 28 - August 1 2014

 Preparations for the 11^th International Congress of Neuroethology in Sapporo, Japan are well underway. ICN2014 will dovetail with the 36^th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry (JSCPB). Start planning your visit to Japan now!

All symposia will include 4 speakers and be two hours in length (20 min per talk, 5 min chair's introduction to the symposium, 5 min question period following each talk). Please note that although symposium speakers need not be members of ISN, symposium organizers must be members. We anticipate having up to 12 symposia.

Proposals are due 15 June 2013. They will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of the criteria listed below, with final decisions made by 1 August 2013.

The basic criteria for symposia include:

1. The topic should be novel, timely, and interesting to a broad range of neuroethologists.
2. The topic and the list of proposed speakers must not duplicate or substantially overlap symposia presented at the meeting in College Park (2012). The program committee will also give priority to those proposals that also do not overlap in either content or speakers with the 2013 Gordon Research Conference in Neuroethology.
3. Proposed speakers should represent a good balance between established and new investigators, have an equitable representation of women and members of under-represented groups, and reflect the international diversity of ISN.

Please include the following information in your proposal:

1. your name and affiliation
2. the title and goal of your proposed symposium
3. the basic theme or area the symposium represents
4. a list of the proposed speakers and a brief (1 sentence) statement of how their work fits into the topic of the symposium
5. a short (2-3 sentence) statement of how the symposium meets the criteria listed above
6. a statement as to which of the proposed speakers has agreed to participate

Please be aware that the Program Committee may make suggestions for substituting speakers to ensure the kinds of diversity and issues of non-duplication suggested above. Symposium chairs should not make any commitments to proposed speakers regarding financial support. Although we are working to raise funds for the conference, no promises can be made at this time.

Please email your proposal by 15 June 2013 to both Program Committee Co-chairs at eisthen@msu.edu and mk3u@virginia.edu. Please include your proposal in plain text in the body of the email rather than including an attachment.        

Program Committee (2013-2014)

• Amir Ayali, Israel, ayali@tauex.tau.ac.il
• Andrew Barron, Australia, andrew.barron@mq.edu.au
• Marie Dacke, Sweden, Marie.Dacke@biol.lu.se
• Silvia Gruhn, Germany, sgruhn@uni-koeln.de
• Etsuro Ito, Japan, eito@kph.bunri-u.ac.jp
• David McLean, USA, david-mclean@northwestern.edu
• Jose Pena, USA, jose.pena@einstein.yu.edu
• Andrea Simmons, USA, andrea_simmons@brown.edu

• Yoshitaka Oka, Chair
• Toshiya Matsushima, Vice chair
• Sapporo
  • Makoto Mizunami
  • Hiroto Ogawa
  • Masayo Soma
  • Kazuhiro Wada
  • Hitoshi Aonuma
• OutsideSapporo
  • Kentaro Arikawa
  • Etsuro Ito
  • Ryohei Kanzaki
  • Takeo Kubo
  • Sakiko Shiga
  • Kazuo Okanoya
  • Mamiko Ozaki
  • Masashi Kawasaki
  • Hideaki Takeuchi
  • Azusa Kamikochi
  • Hiroyuki Ai
  • Osamu Koizumi
  • Ichiro Fujita
  • Masakazu Takahata
  • Kiyoshi Aoki
  • Jiro Okada
  • Michiyo Kinoshita
  • Midori Sakura
  • Yoshitaka Fukada
  • Yuichi Iino
  • Kei Itoh
  • Kenji Tomioka
    

2013 Gordon Research Conference in Neuroethology: Behavior, Evolution & Neurobiology

August 18-23, 2013

The 2013 Gordon Research Conference in Neuroethology will take place August 18 through 23, 2013, at Mount Snow Resort (Vermont). The overall theme of the 2013 meeting will be "Modules, Circuits, and Networks". A detailed program is available at http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2013&program=neureth.

The sixth Neuroethology GRC will be taking place at a time when classical neuroethological topics on sensory and motor systems are increasingly integrated with molecular and genomic approaches, social neuroscience, computational neurobiology, and robotics. The pace of progress in these areas has been breath-taking due to advances in "high-throughput" and computational technologies as well as progress in analytical and modeling techniques. We believe this is an opportune time for all researchers interested in the neural basis of behavior to reflect on what these approaches have allowed us to learn about the neural and molecular underpinnings of natural behavior. We also need to explore how we can harness these varied approaches in diverse model systems and within a comparative framework to ask fundamental questions in novel and innovative ways that will lead to future breakthroughs.

As co-chairs of the 2013 Neuroethology GRC, we invite you to participate in this exciting conference in a beautiful setting. We expect an outstanding and diverse group of scientists at the forefront of research. We particularly invite younger scientists and students to attend.

Trainees are encouraged to register for the associated Gordon Research Seminar (http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2013&program=grs_neuret) that will immediately precede the conference. The International Society of Neuroethology will support a number of trainees with Heiligenberg Student Travel Awards (for application details see c). The application deadline is 30 April 2013.

We very much look forward to seeing you in August!

Heather Eisthen and Hans Hofmann
Co-Chairs, 2013 GRC in Neuroethology

Crawfly Neuroscience Training Course

20-24 June 2013
Hosted by Cornell University and ADinstruments

The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University and ADInstruments, Inc. will cohost a hands-on summer workshop for life science instructors seeking to expand their curriculum reach in the neurosciences. The first 2½ days will be based on topics explored in the “Crawdad Project,” a program initially funded by the National Science Foundation to promote the use of invertebrates in undergraduate physiology and neuroscience lab courses. The second 2½ days will focus on using modern neurogenetic tools in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. The two sections are designed to provide different but complementary approaches to teaching integrative neuroscience. The Crawdad section teaches basic electrophysiological recording with time-tested preparations to set the stage for the fruit fly section, which brings state of the art neurogenetic techniques into the teaching lab. The course will be taught by Bruce Johnson (Cornell University), Bob Wyttenbach (Cornell University), Ron Hoy (Cornell University), Stefan Pulver (Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI), and Wes Colgan (ADinstruments).

ADInstruments is offering a competitive scholarship to attend this workshop for all faculty members, course instructors, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students interested in learning new techniques and preparations for teaching laboratory neuroscience. We especially encourage women, under-represented minorities in neuroscience, those teaching at institutions with primarily minority students, young faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students to apply.

Details for this workshop are found at: http://www.adinstruments.com/CrawFly_2013

The deadline for deadline for scholarship applications is 28 February 2013.

14^th Invertebrate Sound and Vibration meeting (ISV2013)

23-26 July 2013
Glasgow, Scotland

The 14^th Invertebrate Sound and Vibration international meeting will be held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Invertebrate Sound and Vibration (ISV) integrates a wide range of themes including biomechanics, evolution, behavioral ecology, neuroethology, phylogenetics, and genomics of acoustic and vibratory communication in invertebrates. For more information, see http://www.isv2013.org.

Third International Conference on Invertebrate Vision (ICIV)

1-8 August 2013
Bäckaskog Castle, Sweden

The International Conference on Invertebrate Vision brings together the world's leading authorities in invertebrate vision. The first conference was held in 2001, the second in 2008 and the third will take place 1-8 August 2013. For more information, see http://www.iciv.se.

Behaviour 2013

4-8 August 2013
Gateshead, England

The 33rd International Ethological Conference (IEC) and will be be a joint meeting of the IEC and the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB).  For more information, go to http://iec2013.com/.

Neuroethology and Neurobiology of Memory in the Southern Cone: A Tribute to Héctor Maldonado

September 30 – October 2, 2013
Córdoba, Argentina
Satellite Meeting: Neural Bases of Behaviour

Héctor Maldonado (1927-2010) was an outstanding scientist who strongly contributed to the understanding of the neural bases of animal behavior by his studies of learning and memory using innovative non-traditional model systems. He was also a great team-leader, the founder of Neuroethology in Argentina, and its promoter across Latin America. Inspired by Héctor’s legacy, two groups of neuroscientists come together to tribute Héctor Maldonado and to foster interactions and collaborations between groups working in Neuroethology and in Neurobiology of Memory in the region.Two days of symposia and poster presentations will precede the Closing Homage Ceremony with the participation of Profs. Yadin Dudai and Randolf Menzel. In addition, this meeting is meant to be the first step in the organization of the 2016 ICN to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Announcements of meetings relevant to neuroethology can be posted on the ISN website free of charge. Please submit the text of the announcement to Zen Faulkes, Chair, ISN Web Oversight & Education Committee (Email: zfaulkes@utpa.edu). The announcement will be removed after the meeting is completed.

Meeting announcements can also be posted in ISN's newsletter (Submit an Article under Society News link) and circulated to members by sending an email to the ISN listserv (emaillist@neuroethology.org). Submissions to the listserv are reviewed prior to posting to ensure the posting has relevance to the field of neuroethology.