Joint
Meeting 
of the International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN)
and the European Society for Neurochemistry (ESN),
to be held in Berlin, Germany from August 8 - 14, 1999
Joint
Meeting
of the International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN)
and the European Society for Neurochemistry (ESN),
to be held in Berlin, Germany from August 8 - 14, 1999
SATELLITE MEETINGS
International taurine symposium 1999: "Taurine
and excitable tissues"
August 3-8, 1999 – Siena, Italy
Expanding the circle: Tucson '75 - Siena '99, a quarter century
of research"
Meeting place: Certosa di Pantignano, Siena, Italy
Organizers: Laura Della Corte and Giampietro Sgaragli (Siena, Italy), Keith Tipton (Dublin, Ireland)
Format: Four invited plenary lectures; short oral communications (optional), posters (optional)
Travel connections to the main meeting: Daily regular flights from Firenze (1 hour from the Certosa) or Pisa (2 hours from the Certosa) to Berlin and other German airports
Deadline (provisional) for registration and abstracts: April 30, 1999
Financial support: Due to limited funds preference will be given to young scientists and to scientists from less advantaged countries.
Program: In 6 sessions the participants will be dealing with recent advances in understanding the actions of taurine including modulating cellular calcium levels, ion channels, osmolarity, membrane stability, oxidative stress responses and apoptosis, as well as release and reuptake mechanisms, and role in CNS development.
Plenary Lecturers: R. Huxtable (Tucson, AR, USA), D. Conte-Camerino (Bari, Italy); J.-Y. Wu (Lawrence, KS, USA); S. Schaffer (Mobile, AL, USA)
For further information contact: Prof. L. Della Corte, Dipartimento di Farmacologia, Preclinica e Clinica "M. Aiazzi Mancini", Viale GB Morgagni 65, 50134 Firenze, Italy; Tel/Fax: +39-55-410778, Tel +39-55-4271212, E-mail: taurine99@server1.pharm.unifi.it