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After the success of ISAN2007, where we were treated to an excellent scientific program and the warm hospitality that is Kyoto, as Chair of the organising committee for ISAN2009 I am delighted to invite you to Australia for the 6th Congress of the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience.
In 2009 the venue will be Sydney, a city founded on one of the world’s most beautiful natural harbours, a city of broad international appeal. Sydney is the cosmopolitan home to 5 million people from around the world and was host city of the 2000 Olympic Games.
ISAN2009 will be held at the Manly Pacific Hotel (www.manlypacificsydney.com.au) on Manly Beach. Manly is the most popular of Sydney’s northern beaches and was so named for the “confidence and manly behaviour” of its original inhabitants, the Australian Aborigines. Today it is one of many playgrounds scattered around this emerald city, a half-hour ferry ride (or 15 minutes by JetCat) from Circular Quay in the centre of Sydney: Manly is replete with restaurants, cafes and bars, and you can even get close and personal with Sydney’s notorious sharks at the Oceanworld aquarium (www.oceanworld.com.au).
ISAN2009 will be held in conjunction with the European Federation of Autonomic Societies (EFAS). The four-day program commences with an opening plenary lecture on Tuesday, September 1st, and a welcome reception where delegates can enjoy drinks and canapés as the sun sets over the Pacific Ocean. We have three full days of science, with three concurrent 2-hour symposia each morning and afternoon. Each symposium will include presentations by three invited speakers, with two additional speakers being selected on the basis of submitted abstracts. Lunch will be followed by two hours of posters. The four plenary lectures - to be presented by Darwin Berg (USA), Hugo Critchley (UK) Max Hilz (Germany) and Elspeth McLachlan (Australia) - and the 54 invited symposium speakers will cover the entire range of autonomic neuroscience, from development of the autonomic nervous system to the clinical consequences of disorders of autonomic control.
Sydney is well served by international flight connections from Asia, North and South America, Europe and New Zealand and is described as the “gateway to Australia”. It is the perfect departure point for tours of other parts of the continent before and after the Congress, so come and stay a while. As we say in Australia, there is “heaps to see!”
Vaughan Macefield
Chair, Local Organising Committee
ISAN2009
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International Programming Committee: |
| David Adams |
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Yvette Taché (chair) |
| Andrew Allen (treasurer) |
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Mike Andresen |
| James Brock |
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Keith Brain |
| Pascal Carrive |
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Pietri Cortelli |
| John Furness |
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John Furness |
| Ann Goodchild |
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Rainer Haberberger |
| Luke Henderson |
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Max Hilz |
| Janet Keast (co-chair) |
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Wouter de Jonge |
| Ida Llewelyn-Smith |
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Janet Keast |
| Robin McAllen |
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Vaughan Macefield |
| Vaughan Macefield (chair) |
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Tadaaki Mano |
| Margaret Morris |
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Hermann Rohrer |
| Clive May |
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Clif Saper |
| Heather Young |
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Keith Sharkey |
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Tai Yao |
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Poster Abstract Submission Deadline: Closed |
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Registration Deadline: Late Registration 19 August 2009 |
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