[vslist] UK Meeting: Neuroecology & Vision

[Anya Hurlbert]

Conference announcement & First call for poster presentations

How the Brain is Shaped:
A scientific symposium to inaugurate the
Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology
University of Newcastle upon Tyne

27-29 June 2002

This meeting will explore the developing science of neuroecology, 
whichis based on the premise that natural selection has shaped the 
neural mechanisms and cognitive processes of animals,  just as it 
has shaped their anatomy, physiology and behaviour.  It will bring 
together scientists from different disciplines (see invited speakers 
list below), to promote cross-fertilisation between the computational, 
behavioural, neurophysiological, psychophysical and ecological 
approaches to the study of the brain, with a particular (but not 
exclusive) focus on the visual brain.

We will also celebrate the opening of the Henry Wellcome Building 
for Neuroecology, funded by the DTI/Wellcome Trust/HEFCE Joint
Infrastructure Fund, which houses an interdisciplinary group of 
researchers from the Psychology Department at the University of 
Newcastle upon Tyne, and is specifically designed to enhance 
scientific interactions between its diverse inhabitants. The building 
also houses state-of-the-art facilities for animal brain fMRI, optical 
imaging, computational neuroscience, visual psychophysics, and 
animal behaviour studies, intended to form a national resource.

An exhibit of new art, by scientists and professional artists,
celebrating the themes of vision, behaviour and the brain will run 
concurrently with the symposium.

This announcement is the first call for poster presentations. Please
complete the poster presentation form below and send to 
paula.mcewen@ncl.ac.uk, by the deadline of 22 April 2002.

Registration details for non-presenting participants will be sent out
soon.

Invited Speakers:
Professor Thomas D Albright, Salk Institute, San Diego, USA
Professor Valentino Braitenberg, Max-Planck Institut, T=FCbingen,
Germany
Professor Clive Catchpole, Environmental and Evolutionary Biology,
Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Sir Gabriel Horn, Department of Zoology, University of
Cambridge
Dr Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Professor Nikos K Logothetis, Max-Planck Institut, T=FCbingen, 
Germany
Dr Justin Marshall, Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre,
Brisbane, Australia
Dr Suzanne McKee, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San
Francisco, USA
Dr Ian Owens, Department of Biology, Imperial College at Silwood
Park, Berkshire
Professor Michael Paradiso, Department of Neuroscience, Brown
University, Providence, USA
Professor Tatiana Pasternak, Department of Neurobiology and 
Anatomy, University of Rochester, New York, USA
Professor Leslie Ungerleider,  Laboratory of Brain and Cognition,
NIMH, Bethesda, USA
Professor John Wann, Action Research Laboratory, Department of
Psychology, University of Reading

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Anya Hurlbert MD PhD
Reader in Visual Neuroscience
Medical School
Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH