Symposium of the Volkswagen - Foundation
"Mood, Behaviour, and Neuroimmunology"
together with the II. Symposium of the "German Endocrine Brain Immune Network" (GEBIN)
November 15th - 17th,
2001
St. Wolfgang Hall of the Music School of the Regensburger
Domspatzen
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OrganisationLectures and Posters(Lectures are 10 min + 5min discussion = 10 slides)
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Organisation Local Organiser: R. H. Straub, Regensburg; M. Schedlowski, Essen
Organising Office: Sabine Wolfsmüller, Rainer H. Straub, Fax: 0941 944 7121, email: sabine.wolfsmueller@klinik.uni-r.de; University Hospital, 93042 Regensburg
Scientific Committee: Hugo O. Besedovsky, Marburg; Jan Born, Lübeck; Adriana del Rey, Marburg; Norbert Müller, München; Thomas Pollmächer, München; Peter Rieckmann, Würzburg; Manfred Schedlowski, Essen; Werner Scherbaum, Düsseldorf; Günther Stalla, München; Volker Stefanski, Bayreuth; Rainer H. Straub, Regensburg; Karlheinz Voigt, Marburg.
Language: German or English
Congress Venue: St. Wolfgang Hall of the Music School of the Regensburger Domspatzen, Reichsstraße 22, 93055 Regensburg
Hotel Accomodation:
The following hotels are recommended:
Hotel Sorat (Phone 0941/ 8104-0; 204 DM / night)
Hotel Maximilian (Phone 0941/ 5685-0; 175 DM / night)
Hansa Apart Hotel (Phone 0941/ 9929-0; 120 DM / night)
Hotel Ibis Castra Regina (Phone 0941/ 56930; 120 DM / night)
Hotel Wiendl (Phone 0941/ 92027-0; 115 DM / night)
Hotel Straubinger Hof (Phone 0941/ 60030; 110 DM / night)
Hotel Apollo (Phone 0941/ 9105-0; 65 DM / night)
More information can be found on the following homepage: http://www.regensburg.de/touristik/tour_fr.htm
For those who are currently supported by the VW-Foundation we reserved rooms in the Hotel Maximilian. These participants also receive their travel expenses (train ticket) from the VW-Foundation.
For more information concerning the conference:
Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, 93042
Regensburg; Phone: 0941 944 7120; Fax: 0941 944 7121; e-mail:
rainer.straub@klinik.uni-r.de
Registration: Please register via e-mail
Use the following address:
sabine.wolfsmueller@klinik.uni-r.de or
rainer.straub@klinik.uni-r.de
Please mention name, title, complete address, Phone, Fax, email.
Call for abstracts
Deadline for Abstract Submission:September 15th, 2001
Delegates are invited to submit abstracts related to psycho neuro endocrino immunology for oral or poster presentation.
Abstract typing instructions:
Abstracts should be written with a word processor program
such as Word for Windows. Do not use non-standard
signs and symbols such as greek letters. The text should be copied
and pasted into an email window and send to:
“ute.hackert@uni-essen.de
”
Please do not attach the file, please copy and paste !
Abstracts are produced as submitted by the authors. Please double-check
spelling.
The content must be arranged as follows (affiliation, title, authors in CAPITALS, text without sub-headings):
| Department of Neurology,
Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany Aggravation of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice deficient in inducible nitric oxide synthase K.G.KAHN, J.ZIELASEK, S.JUNG, R.GOLD, H.P. HARTUNG and K.V.TOYKA Nitric oxide (NO) is produced during inflammation mainly by the... ...This may be due to the induction of T-cell apoptosis or deviation of the immune system towards a TH2 response. |
In order to avoid problems, please send the abstract not as an attached file but as a simple text in an email window to the above mentioned address.
The text should not exceed 250 words.
No proof reading nor retyping will be done.
Abstracts not suitable for reproduction will not be considered.
Poster presentation: Poster width
0,9 m, poster height 1,20 m
Preliminary Programme
Thursday, November 15th, 2001
14:00 Opening of the conference
14:30 Neuroimmunology in the CNS
(R.Hohlfeld,
U.Bogdahn)
Nancy
J. Rothwell, Manchester, UK
16:30 Neuroendocrine Network in Psychiatric
Disease
(T.Pollmächer,
V.Arolt)
Volker
Arolt, Münster
19:00 Evening Reception (with poster viewing session)
Friday, November 16th, 2001
09:00 Peripheral Neuroimmune Interactions
(D.Gemsa,
R.E.Schmidt)
Virginia
M. Sanders, Chicago, USA
12:00 Lunch (with poster viewing session)
13:00 Neuroendocrinology and Immune Function
(S.Bornstein,
E.Haen)
Samuel
M. McCann, Baton Rouge, USA
19:30 Party time in the Hotel Maximilian
Saturday, November 17th, 2001
09:00 Stress, Behaviour, and Immune Function
(R.Pabst,
D.v.Holst, K.Schauenstein)
Christopher
L. Coe, Madison, USA
12:30 The Future of GEBIN
13:00 Closing of the conference