Dear colleague,
 
Re: Annual meeting of the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN)
 
I would like to invite you to submit proposals for symposia for our 2009 meeting, to be held from 21^st – 23^rd September at the UCL Institute of Child Health, London.
 
The general theme of this year’s meeting is ‘cortical plasticity’ – a broad theme, but one that is critical for understanding cognition at a number of levels: from sensory learning to language and memory. It also requires convergent methodologies and consequently we encourage you to represent the variety of modern neuroscience methods to address questions such as cognitive development, higher brain function or recovery from injury. We are also open to any alternative suggestions.
 
We are a relatively young society that is keen to support scientists at the beginning of their career. We therefore provide several bursaries for graduate students and a poster prize for exceptional undergraduate projects, the best of whom will be invited to give a platform presentation. There will be opportunity to interact with world-leading neuroscientists from nearby UCL-based neuroscience centres (e.g. the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience). We also promise a lively social programme - something BACN is well renowned for!
 
Please submit your symposium proposals by the 1^st February 2009 directly to me (T.Baldeweg@ich.ucl.ac.uk ). Please include a provisional list of speakers and titles. Symposia usually last from 1.5h to 2.5h. Free registration for participants and contributions towards travel expenses are available.
 
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
 
Torsten Baldeweg
Chairman BACN
 
PS: For those of you who missed our last meeting in Swansea, a summary is published by ACNR ( http://www.acnr.co.uk/ND08/ACNRND08_conference.pdf ). The programme can be found under ( http://psy.swan.ac.uk/bacn/conference/).