HBM 2011 Call for Symposia Posted By: David Kennedy - Jul 21, 2010Tool/Resource: Conferences, Workshops and Meetings Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Scientific Program Committee, I am pleased to invite all interested members to submit an application for a scientific symposium to be presented at the next annual meeting that will be held in Québec City, Canada, June 26-30, 2011. The deadline for submission is August 31, 2010. Symposia have attracted a great deal of interest and tend to be the best-attended parts of the program. The time allotted for each symposium or workshop is 75 minutes. The topics of the proposed symposia may include any of the traditional topics of the OHBM annual meetings, including cognition and attention, emotion and motivation, sensory systems, language, motor behavior, disorders of the nervous system, memory and learning, modeling and analysis, physiology, metabolism, and neurotransmission, neuroanatomy, genetics and imaging techniques. There is no need, however, to structure the symposium within the confines of these topics. Furthermore, we encourage you to include in the proposal contributions addressing both health and disease in order to increase the dialogue between basic and clinical neuroscientists. A morning workshop proposal should be a single topic with a teaching goal. Applications should include: names of all speakers, titles of each presentation, and a summary of each talk. Also, include a brief paragraph describing the timeliness and importance of the theme and the advantage of addressing it in the format of a symposium or workshop. Applicants are encouraged to invite speakers from other institutions; no laboratory should be represented by more than one speaker. A diversity of speakers will be part of the selection criteria. The committee will take into account nationality, gender, and a range of scientific opinion when choosing the workshops/symposia for the meeting. The number of speakers is limited to four. By the time of the applications, all speakers should have already agreed to participate. Please indicate in your proposal if you are interested in presenting in a symposium format only, a workshop only or either one. The Program Committee will review applications at its October meeting and will judge them on thematic relevance and scientific quality. The Committee is most interested in symposia/workshops that present the most recent advances. Decisions on acceptance will be sent in November. The Program Committee reserves the right to ask an organizer to modify their symposia or workshop in order to insure balance and quality in the HBM 2011 program. If the chair or speakers cannot make it, we reserve the option to cancel the symposium and select a replacement. The deadline for submission is August 31, 2010. Please go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HBM2011Cal... to submit your application online. If you have questions, please contact the OHBM Executive Office at info@humanbrainmapping.org. Sincerely, Alain Dagher Chair, Program Committee |
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