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ISAN2009
1-4 September
Manly Beach, Sydney, Australia.
On behalf of the organising committee for ISAN2009 I am delighted to invite you to Sydney, Australia, for the 6th Congress of the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience. It will be 12 years since the inaugural meeting of ISAN, held in Cairns in the tropical north of Australia – the country where ISAN was born. In 2009 the venue will be Sydney, cosmopolitan home to 5 million people from around the world and host city of the 2000 Olympic Games - a city founded on one of the world’s most beautiful natural harbours, a city of broad international appeal.
ISAN2009 will be held at the Manly Pacific Hotel right on Manly Beach, the most popular of Sydney’s northern beaches and a half-four ferry ride (or 15 minutes by JetCat) from Circular Quay in the centre of Sydney. Manly is replete with restaurants, cafes and bars, and you can even get close and personal with Sydney’s notorious sharks at the Oceanworld Aquarium.
ISAN2009 will be a truly international meeting, and will be held in conjunction with the European Federation of Autonomic Societies (EFAS). The four-day program includes four plenaries and 18 symposia, covering a range of topics that extends from cellular communication within the autonomic nervous system to the autonomic consequences of spinal cord injury. We have established an International Programming Committee, headed by Yvette Taché, to ensure that all areas of interest are adequately represented, and encourage ISAN members to submit proposals for symposia by June 30, 2008 (download submission guidelines here).
Sydney is well served by international flight connections from Asia, North and South America, Europe and New Zealand and is described as the “gateway to Australia”. It is the perfect departure point for tours of other parts of the continent before and after the Congress, so come and stay a while. As we say in Australia, there is “heaps to see!”
See ya!
Vaughan Macefield
Chair, Organising Committee
ISAN2009
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If you wish wish to receive further updates regarding ISAN2009, please complete the Expression of Interest form, or email ICE Australia, isan2009@iceaustralia.com
For all enquiries, please contact the Chair of the ISAN2009 Local Organising Committee, Professor Vaughan Macefield, v.macefield@uws.edu.au