THE ANATOMICAL RECORD (NEW ANAT.
) 261:48, 2000
NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ANATOMISTS
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
2000 Meeting
M
any AAA members conduct-
ing neuroscience research
have productive collabora-
tive relationships with their European
colleagues. It therefore seems appro-
priate to announce that the Federa-
tion of European Neuroscience Soci-
eties (FENS) will hold its annual
meeting in Brighton, UK, June 24-28,
2000, at the Metropole Hotel and
Brighton Conference Center. There
will be a Special Interest Workshop on
Three-Dimensional Microscopy on
June 29. The organizers have put to-
gether an outstanding meeting that is
only briefly summarized here. Details
are available at http://www.fens2000.
org.
Prior to the FENS meeting, there
will be two days of Satellite Sympo-
sia covering topics such as Synaptic
Plasticity (contact Prof. Zafar Bashir,
email z.i.bashir@bristol. ac.uk), Knock-
outs and Mutants: Genetically Dissect-
ing Brain and Behavior (contact Prof.
W.E. Crusio, crusio@cnrs-orleans.fr), The
Artificial Intelligence-Neuroscience In-
terface (contact Prof. M.O. Shea, email
m.o-shea@sussex.ac.uk), and Space
Motion Processing in the Auditory
Systems (contact Prof. D. McAlpine,
email d.mcalpine@ucl.ac.uk).
A Satellite Symposium of particular
interest has been organized by Prof.
Richard Apps and Prof. D. Marple-
Horvat of the University of Bristol and
Prof. Chris Miall of Oxford and is en-
titled The Significance of Inferior Ol-
ivary and Cerebellar Cortical Activity
for Motor Control. The participants
and their respective topics are:
Dr. Tom Ruigrok (Rotterdam) Ana-
tomical and physiological organiza-
tion of olivary circuits
Dr. Martin Garwicz (Lund) Func-
tional organization of olivocerebellar
zones and microzones
Dr. Kris Horn (Phoenix) Inferior ol-
ive neuronal activity during behavior
Dr. Shigeru Kitazawa (Tsukuba) In-
formation conveyed by olivocerebel-
lar afferents
Dr. Steve Lee (Bristol) Gating of
olivocerebellar afferent pathways
Dr. Markus Juptner (Essen) What
do the cerebellum and basal ganglia
contribute to motor control: lessons
from PET experiments
Dr. Dilwyn Marple-Horvat (Bristol)
Signal processing in paravermal and
hemispheral cortex during visually
guided stepping and reaching
Dr. Yasushi Kobayashi (Okazaki)
Temporal firing patterns of complex
spikes of Purkinje cells in the cerebel-
lar ventral paraflocculus during ocu-
lar following responses in moneys
Dr. Timothy Ebner (Minneapolis)
Combining movement direction and
speed signals in the discharge of Pur-
kinje cells: encoding velocity
Dr. Chris Miall (Oxford) The lateral
cerebellum and visually guided move-
ments: evidence of a forward model
For further information on this sym-
posium please contact Prof. D. Marple-
Horvat, email d.e.marple-horvat@
bristol.ac.uk. The overall FENS meet-
ing will consist of Special Interest
Workshops, Technical Workshops, sev-
eral Plenary Lectures, 43 Symposia,
and Special Interest Symposia. In addi-
tion there will be several other special
presentations and lectures. For further
information on this meeting, including
general information on potential travel
routes to Bristol, visit the web site
(http://www. fens2000.org).
Duane E. Haines
Treasurer, AAA
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