SSN Annual Meeting 2012

University of Zurich, 3. February 2012


Location: Irchel Campus, University of Zurich

Date: Friday, February 3, 2012

Time: 9:15-18:30

Registration and abstract submission opens: Thursday, December 1, 2011

Registration deadline: Friday, January 13, 2012

Abstract submission: information for abstract submission follows upon registration by email. Deadline: January 13, 2012. There is a limit of 300 poster walls. Acceptance will be on first comes first serves basis.

Poster size: 2 m wide and 1 m high ("landscape" format)

Registration fees: 100.- SFR. SSN members who paid their 2011 annual fees are free of charge. Note that the annual fee for students is only 40 SFR!! 

Please note that payment of registration after Wednesday, February 1, 2012 cannot be treated anymore. You will need to take your printed payment confirmation with you and show it at the reception. If you don't, you will have to pay the onsite registration fee of Fr. 100.- (regular and students).
 

Animal experimentation training: The SSN annual meeting has now been approved as 1/2 day of mandatory animal experimentation training. Register (in the right panel) to receive an attendance certificate that will allow you to validate your training.

LOC: Esther Stöckli, Daniel Kiper, Christian Grimm, Isabel Klusman and Wolfgang Knecht.

 

Preliminary Program
   
8:30-9:15 Registration and poster setup
9:15-9:30

Welcoming remarks by the president of the SSN Esther Stoeckli

9:30-10:30  Plenary lecture 1

Prof. J.A. Movshon , NYU, USA

"Brain mechanisms of visual motion perception"

10:30-10:45 Coffee break  
10:45-12:00 Parallel Symposia (click here for program)      
 

Sympo sium 1

Advances in neuromorphic systems (Org. K. Martin and S.C. Liu)

 

Symposium 2

Generation, degeneration, preservation: the ways of vision (Org. C. Grimm)
12:00-12:30
SSN Business Meeting    
12:30-14:30 Poster session and Lunch
14:30-15:45 Parallel Symposia (click here for program)      
 

Symposium 3

Imaging the nervous system (Org. K.H. Stephan and F. Helmchen)
 

Symposium 4

Plasticity in Chronic Pain: Neurons, Astrocytes, and Microglia

(Org. H.U. Zeilhofer)
15:45-16.15 Coffee break  
16:15-17:15 Plenary lecture 2

Prof. J. Wood, UCL, UK

"Mechanosensation, sodium channels and pain"

 

17:15-18:15 Award ceremony

Closing remarks and Apero

19:00-24:00

Dinner in ETH Main Building, Dozenten FoyerNote (registration required)

Costs: 80.- / person (everything included), payable in advance.
Make your payment before January 13, 2012, to Post Account:
30-781023-3
Make sure to indicate your name on the payment, with the indication "SSN Dinner"

Note: Only people who have registered and paid in advance will be admitted to the dinner. On-site payment will not be accepted!



Program and directions

 

Here is the full program

Here is a short version of the program (without abstracts)

Here are directions to the Irchel campus and to the dinner location

 

Registrations for the SSN 2012 Meeting and Meeting dinner, as well as abstract submission are now closed.