Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research 2012

Call for Registrations and Abstracts

We are calling for registrations and abstracts for this year’s AWCBR to be held from 25-29 August at the Copthorne Resort Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand. AWCBR encourages a multidisciplinary approach to neuroscience and is structured around early morning, late afternoon and evening sessions which leave your day free for interaction with other participants while enjoying the pleasures of New Zealand's most popular winter resort (skiing, jet-boating, bungy jumping, paragliding, hiking, rafting or just relaxing).

We sincerely hope you are able to accept our invitation to attend and participate in New Zealand’s annual international Neuroscience conference.

We are delighted to have as invited speakers:  

Professor Perry Bartlett, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
Distinct neurogenic stem cell populations in the hippocampus: How are they regulated and what are their functions?

Professor Andrew Lawrence, Howard Florey, University of Melbourne
Neuropeptides and reward-seeking

Dr Philip Corlett, Yale University Medical School, Department of Psychiatry
Glutamatergic model of psychoses: prediction error, learning, and inference

We are also pleased to announce that we will be co-hosting a scientific session with the Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting at Rydges Hotel. The topic of the joint session will be “Imaging Excitable Cells”. Speakers in this session are:

• Dr Thomas Knӧpfel, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan. “An optogenetic approach to voltage imaging”
  
  
• Assoc Prof Christian Soeller, University of Auckland. “Monitoring calcium, calcium handling proteins and receptor trafficking with novel high resolution techniques”
  
  
• Dr Pete Jones, University of Otago. “From dyes to proteins, imaging subcellular calcium events”
  
  
• Dr Peter Freestone, University of Auckland. “Imaging techniques for neurotoxicity investigations”
  
  

Queenstown Research Week

We are pleased to be part of Queenstown Research Week (www.qmb.org.nz). There are special joint registration options that are explained on both our website and the QRW website, and there will be a joint session with the Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting.

AWCBR provides the opportunity for you to organise a symposium on your special topic of interest. Please contact Dr Ruth Napper ruth.napper@stonebow.otago.ac.nz if you plan to organise a symposium. 

The Site Index has links to programmes of previous meetings that give an indication of the range of topics typically presented by speakers at the AWCBR.

2011 Conference Programme

2010 Conference Programme

2009 Conference Programme

Department of Psychology

University of Otago

PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054

NEW ZEALAND

Tel  64 3 479 7645

Fax  64 3 479 8335