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January 2007

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Future Meeting Dates

2007 - August 19-25, Joint meeting with ISN, Cancun, Mexico

2008 March 1-5, San Antonio Texas

2009 March, Charleston, SC

 

 

 

 

Call For Session Proposals

39th Annual ASN Meeting
San Antonio, Texas

March 1-5, 2008

The program committee invites proposal submissions
for symposia, colloquia and informal workshops.

The ASN program will encompass 4 broad themes:
1) Building the Nervous System
2) Glial Mechanisms & Injury
3) Metabolism, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
4) Neurodegeneration & disease

Proposals from younger investigators are welcome, and senior investigators are encouraged to consider appointing junior investigators as co-organizers.

ASN members and non-members are invited to submit proposals.

Details for submitting session proposals can be found at:
http://www.asneurochem.org/ASN2008Proposals.htm

The deadline for session proposals is April 1, 2007.

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Approaching Deadlines

January 31, 2007 is the deadline for Travel and Young Scientist Lectureship Awards.

January 31, 2007 is the deadline for the ISN Advanced  School, being held August 15-19 in the historic village of Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico.

March 15, 2007 is the deadline for Abstract submission to the Cancun meeting being held August 19-25, 2007.

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Join us for the ASN/ISN Joint Meeting in Cancun!

www.isn-asn2007cancun.org.mx

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Satellites to the 2007 meeting.

Myelin Development and Function

Organizer: Wendy Macklin – mackliw@ccf.org / www.isnmyelin.org

Aug. 14-18, 2007; Mayaland Hotel, Chichen-Itza, Yucatan, Mexico

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Drugs of Abuse and Neurotoxicity: Cocaine, GHB and Substituted Amphetamines

Organizers: Syed F. Ali - syed.ali@fda.hhs.gov

Michael Kuhar; Yossef Itzhak; Francesco Fornai ; Abel Santamaria

August 14 – 17, 2007, Princess Hotel, Belize City, Belize

Glutamate receptors and transporters as scaffolding proteins in cell signaling

Organizer: Arturo Ortega - arortega@cinvestav.mx

August 17-18, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, México

Mitochondria and Oxidative Stress in Neurodegenerative Disease

Organizers:  Gary E. Gibson - ggibson@med.cornell.edu

Rajiv Ratan - RRATAN@burke.org

Flint Beal - fbeal@med.cornell.edu

Late summer, 2007, Burke Medical Research Institute, New York, USA

Neurometabolism and neurological disease: Mini-satellite Meeting in Honour of Professor John Clark.

Organizer: Simon Heales - sheales@ion.ucl.ac.uk

August, Cancun, Mexico

 

New Secretary

By a vote of the ASN Council at its last meeting, Dr. Steve Levison was appointed the new Secretary. The ASN thanks Dr. Gary Gibson for his past service to our society as the former Secretary.

Gibson	Levison

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Special thanks to the following colleagues who have generously contributed to the missions of the ASN by serving as Councilors .

Karen Chandross (2003-2007)

Douglas Feinstein (2003-2007)

Alexander Gow (2001-2005)

Sandra Hewett (2003-2007)

Pamela Knapp (2003-2007)

Mark Smith (2003-2007)

Alternates to the Council:

Jeffrey Yao (2003-2007)

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In Memory of

Dr. Hugo Wolfgang Moser

October 4, 1924 - January 20, 2007

Dr. Moser was a member and friend of the ASN. His research on ALD led to critical advancements in treatment. Most recently, his landmark study of the preventative effects of Lorenzo’s Oil, proved the oil prevents the onset of disease symptoms for children suffering from this debilitating disorder. For a more complete tribute to Dr. Moser go to:

Kennedy Krieger Institute: Tribute to Dr. Hugo Moser