---CONGRESS INFORMATION---

Date:

　March 28 (Tuesday)-March 30 (Thursday), 2006

Venue:

　Gunma Prefectural Assembly Hall
　1-10-1, Hiyoshi-cho, Maebashi, Gunma 371-0017
　Tel: +81-(0)27-232-1111, Fax: +81-(0)27-232-1115
　http://www.manabi.pref.gunma.jp/kenmin/

　Maebashi Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hall
　1-8-1, Hiyoshi-cho, Maebashi, Gunma 371-0017
　Tel: +81-(0)27-234-5111, Fax: +81-(0)27-234-8031
　http://www.maebashi-cci.or.jp

Language:

　Most oral/poster session will be presented in English.

Registration and Abstract submission：

Dead line for abstract/travel grant submission is December 7, 2005, 17:00 PM, Japanese Time.

Registration

If you want to attend the congress without submitting an abstract, please send an emial to congress secretariat (phys-cong@nori3.dept.med.gunma-u.ac.jp) before the meeting. Then we will
send an email confirming your pre-Meeting registration. Please bring this letter to registration desk at the meeting and pay the fee with pre-Meeting price. You could also register on-site, which is slightly more expensive. Badge will be provided at the registration desk.

Registration Fee (not waivable for travel grant winner)

	Before Meeting	On-site registration
Member of Local Physiological Society	JPY10,000	JPY13,000
Non-member	JPY12,000	JPY15,000
Student (postgraduate)	JPY3,000	JPY5,000
Student (undergraduate)	JPY1,000	JPY1,000

Abstract submission
1. Abstracts can be submitted until Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 17:00 PM, Japanese Time.

2. Submission must be done online (https://endai.umin.ac.jp/reg/input.cgi?site_id=A00116-00010-022). If you want to apply for travel grant, please send the abstract directly to the secretiat (phys-cong@nori3.dept.med.gunma-u.ac.jp)

3. Revision of abstracts will be available by deadline.

4. Abstracts are allowed 1,800 characters. Note that the abstract title, authors/institutions, and disclosure information are also counted toward this allotment. Figures and photographs are not available. Spaces are included in the total character count.

5. Authorship on multiple abstracts is permitted.

6. The contact/presenting author on the abstract must attend the meeting to validate the abstract.

7. Submitting an abstract register you for the meeting. Please pay the registration fee (pre-meeting price) at the on-site registration desk. Badge will be provided at the registration desk.

Abstract Submission Deadline: December 7, 2005, 17:00 PM, Japanese Time

Letter of Invitation:

　Participants who require a letter of invitation in order to obtain a visa to enter Japan must request it to the secretariat. (These invitations do not imply a commitment by the organizers to bear any expenses)

Certificates of Attendance and Presentation:

　A certificate of attendance/presentation will be available upon request during the meeting at the Registration Desk. Certificates will not be issued after the Congress.

Travel Grants:

An organizing committee would like to offer a travel grant (JPY100,000/ person) for participants from outside of Japan. Applicant must be both the first and presenting author of the abstract. The committee will select winners based on scoring of abstracts. The committee will notify all winners (maximum 10 winners) by email by December 15, 2005 and will post the names of all winners on its Web site in January.

Deadline of submission will be on December 7, 2005.

Applicant must submit an abstract directly to secretariat by e-mail. The address is: phys-cong@nori3.dept.med.gunma-u.ac.jp. Abstract should include title, author, institution and body. Make the abstract concise to be less than 1800 characters including space. For further question, please send the email to the same address as above.

---ORGANIZING COMMITTEE---

President: Seiji Ozawa

Department of Neurophysiology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine.

Secretary: Noriyuki Koibuchi

Department of Integrative Physiology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine.

Chair of Program Organizing Committee: Tomoaki Shirao

Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine

Secretariat: Department of Integrative Physiology

Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine
3-39-15 Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511
Tel: +81-(0)27-220-7923, Fax: +81-(0)27-220-7926
Email: phys-cong@nori3.dept.med.gunma-u.ac.jp

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE

Invited Speakers

Roger A. Nicoll Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, University of California at San Francisco

Andrew Maus Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland

Riki Kurokawa Saitama Medical School

Yuchio Yanagawa Gunma University, Japan

Kang Cheng RIKEN, Japan

Hideki Taniguchi Yokohama City University

Akinori Noma Kyoto University

Sei Sasaki Tokyo Medical and Dental University

More than 20 additional symposia will be organized.