BARRELS XXI

The 21st Annual Barrels Meeting will be held Thursday, November 13 and Friday, November 14, in Baltimore, MD on the campus of Johns Hopkins University just prior to the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting (held in nearby Washington, DC).

We invite all participants to deliver a short platform presentation and/or present a poster. Those wishing to give platform presentations must register by September 1; acceptance of the talk will be communicated by September 30.

The Function of the Posterior Medial (POm) Thalamic Nucleus
Ehud Ahissar, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Martin Deschenes, Laval University, Canada
Asaf Keller, University of Maryland Medical School, USA

Coding in the Somatosensory System
Mathew Diamond, ISSI, Trieste, Italy
Adrienne Fairhall, University of Washington, USA
Daniel Feldman, UCSD, USA
Christopher Moore, MIT, USA
Christiane Vahle-Hinz, University Medical Center, Hamburg Germany

Development of Projections To and From Barrel Cortex
Pat Gaspar, INSERM, France
Denis Jabaudon, Harvard, USA
Zoltan Molnar, Oxford, UK

Cerebellar Loops with the Cerebral Cortex: Circuits for Movement, Cognition, and Perception
Peter Strick, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Registration: Early registration is available until September 1 ($100 fee for graduate students/postdoctoral fellows, $200 for faculty members); after September 2 a $50 late fee will be added.

Online registration is now open at www.regonline.com/barrels21

Housing: We have secured rooms at the Doubletree Inn at the Colonnade (Phone 410- 554-7572; Fax 410-366-6734; http://www.colonnadebaltimore.com/) within walking distance to the meeting site.

Mention the Barrels Meeting to get the negotiated rate of $149/night (rooms released October 22).

Further information: Contact Joshua C. Brumberg at joshua.brumberg@qc.cuny.edu

Joshua C. Brumberg, Ph.D.; Queens College, CUNY 
Randy Bruno, Ph.D.; Columbia University
Mitra Hartmann, Ph.D.; Northwestern University
David Kleinfeld, Ph.D.; University of California San Diego 
Jochen Staiger, M.D.; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg Germany
Mary Ann Wilson, Ph.D.; Johns Hopkins University

For a PDF poster version of the above info, click here.

For an MS Office (doc) version of the above info, click here.

Photos of the May 2003 Barrels Workshop
Photos from the 2002 Barrels (XV) conference