Meeting Place: University of Ulm, Medical School

Organizers: Alexander Storch (Ulm), Michael A. Collins (Maywood, IL, USA)

Format: Invited speaekers, posters

Travel connections to main meeting: Daily direct flights to Berlin from the close-by airports of Stuttgart, Munich and Augsburg. Frequent direct Intercity Express trains to Berlin

Registration fees: US$ 60 (ISN or ESN members), US$ 90 (non-members)

Deadline for registration and submission of abstracts: March 15, 1999

Program: The role of neurotoxins in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease is still unknown. There is growing evidence for potential endogenous and exogenous compounds that selectively damage dopaminergic neurons. The goal of this satellite symposium is to gather key researchers in the field and stimulate new ideas in this area, to induce other scientist to refresh the field with new ideas and techniques as well as to develop treatment strategies that counter the early neurodegeneration that neurotoxins may be causing.

Speakers (partial list): S. Przedborski (New York, NY, USA), R. E. Burke (New York, NY, USA), J. Sanchez-Ramos (Miami, FL, USA), S. Ohta (Tokyo, Japan) and G. Dryhurst (Oklahoma, OK, USA)

For further information contact: Dr. A. Storch, University of Ulm Medical School, Department of Neurology, Oberer Eselsberg 45, D-89081 Ulm, Germany; Phone: +49-731-177-0, Fax: +49-731-177-1202, e-mail: alexander.storch@medizin.uni-ulm.de