Welcome

Mathias V. Schmidt

Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to attend our 45th meeting of the European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS), which will be held September 6-9, 2013 in Munich. Being the oldest international neuroscience society, founded in 1968, the main purpose of the EBBS is to stimulate the exchange of information between scientists interested in the relationship of brain mechanisms and behaviour, in its broadest sense. Thereby this meeting is welcoming both basic scientists and clinicians, and is the ideal meeting point for everybody studying the interplay of the brain, behaviour and disease. The meeting is actively supported by the Munich Center for Neurosciences – Brain & Mind (MCN) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), which is a network comprised of all local groups and disciplines with interests related to neurobiology, cognition and “brain and mind”.

Building on the success of the previous meetings, we have selected a high-quality and well balanced program. The following speakers have confirmed their participation:

• Christina Alberini. USA
  Gareth Ball. UK
  Tallie Baram. USA
  Christelle Baunez. FRA
  Daphne Bavelier. CH
  April Benasich. USA
  Alessandra Berry. ITA
  Hans van Bokhoven. NL
  Thimoty Bredy. AU
  Frances Champagne. USA
  Alon Chen. IL
  June-Seek Choi. KOR
  Rui Costa. POR
  Nikolaos Daskalakis. USA
  Stanislas Dehaene. FRA
  Damiaan Denys. NL
  Jan Deussing. GER
  Yadin Dudai. IL
  Howard Eichenbaum. USA
  Alan Evans. CAN
  Ernst Fehr. CH
  Pier Francesco Ferrari. ITA
• Andre Fischer. GER
  Paul Frankland. CAN
  Peter Gass. GER
  Inbal Goshen. IL
  Valery Grinevich. GER
  Thalía Harmony. MEX
  Benjamin Hayden. USA
  Markus Heinrichs. GER
  Katharina Henke. CH
  James Herman. USA
  Marian Joels. NL
  Jeansok Kim. USA
  Sophie Knobloch. GER
  Aniko Korosi. NL
  Min Jeong Kye. USA
  Gil Levkowitz. IL
  Malcom MacLeod. UK
  Simone Macri. ITA
  Dario Maestripieri. USA
  Eleanore Maguire. UK
  Richard Morris. UK
  Morris Moscovitch. CAN
• Elisabeth Murray. USA
  Tommaso Pizzorusso. ITA
  Elizabeth Quinlan. USA
  Gregory Quirk. PT
  Jelena Radulovic. USA
  Hans Reul. UK
  Gal Richter-Levin. IL
  Marco Andrea Riva. ITA
  Alessandro Sale. ITA
  Rolinka Schippers. NL
  Carla Shatz. USA
  Bea van den Berg. BEL
  Franz Josef van der Staay. NL
  Oliver Stiedl. NL
  Moshe Szyf. CAN
  Alexa Veenema. USA
  Patrick Vuilleumier. CH
  Mark Walton. UK
  Brian Wiltgen. USA
  Carsten Wotjak. GER
  Hanno Wuerbel. CH

The meeting will take place in the beautiful capital of Bavaria, Germany, which is easily reachable from all over the world, offers a wide variety of attractions and is the ideal place to combine work with pleasure. We will also offer a social program during the meeting and attendees are welcome to stay a few days longer to visit the world famous Oktoberfest.

For all of the above reasons I am convinced that the 45th EBBS meeting will be a great success and I look forward to welcome you in Munich in September 2013.

Mathias V. Schmidt
Chair, Local Organizing Committee