[visionlist] future meeting

[Neeraj Gandhi]

I would like to add an announcement for a future meeting on the
VisionScience website.  The info on the meeting is stated below.
Many thanks.
Sincerely,
    Raj Gandhi

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We invite you to attend the first Oculomotor System Biology meeting as part
of the Gordon Research Conferences (www.grc.org).  The meeting will be held
June 26 - July 1, 2005 at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

After more than 35 years of behavioral and single unit studies in awake,
behaving animals, the oculomotor system is arguably the best understood of
the skeletomotor control systems. Traditionally, scientists have
investigated the five oculomotor subsystems in isolation. Only recently has
there been a push to pursue system-wide integration. Moreover, the field has
begun to utilize imaging techniques, non-primate models (mouse, zebrafish),
and molecular genetics approaches to generate a truly multidisciplinary view
of the oculomotor system in health and disease.  This conference is designed
to bring together scientists and physicians in this mature field to take a
fresh look at how the diverse components of the oculomotor system interact
and to stimulate increased interdisciplinary research.

Podium and Poster Presentations
We are pleased to announce keynote presentations by Drs. David Sparks and
John Maunsell.  We invite you to visit
http://www.grc.org/programs/2005/oculo.htm for a list of sessions and
speakers.
In addition, there will be multiple poster presentation sessions at the
conference, and some of poster abstract submissions will be selected by the
organizers for oral presentation.  We hope that both faculty and junior
associates will take advantage of this informal, interactive environment to
present their work.

Meeting Location & Registration
The all-inclusive fee for room, meals (including the traditional Gordon
lobster dinner the last evening) and registration for this Gordon Conference
is $700.  Gordon conferences are designed to provide extensive opportunities
for interaction.  Participants at the conference will stay in the
dormitories and have meals at Bates College.  Bates is within an hour drive
of Portland (ME) International Airport (40 miles) and just over 2 hours from
Boston.
Additional information on travel, housing and facilities at Bates College is
available at: http://www.grc.uri.edu/sites/me/bc/bc.htm.
Registration for this meeting must be completed through the Gordon Research
Conference website (http://www.grc.uri.edu/attend.htm).  The meeting will be
capped at 130 registrants to preserve the interactive nature of Gordon
Conferences.

Organizers
John Porter, Larry Mays, Raj Gandhi and Jenni Groh

Contact
Raj Gandhi (neg8 at pitt.edu; 412-647-3076)