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Please join The Cajal Club at FENS Forum 2012 in Barcelona! We will be hosting a satellite event on July 13th and sponsoring a special event on July 15th: Click here for more information about these upcoming events.

FENS Satellite Event - Including presentation of the prestigious Krieg Lifetime Achievement Award to Tomas Hökfelt
Date: July 13, 2012

Title of morning symposium: The thalamus and its relationship to the cortex

Title of Afternoon symposium: Cajal's contributions to cortical development and connectivity

Venue: AC Hotel Barcelona Forum by Marriott, Paseo Taulat 278, Barcelona, Spain
Organizers: Javier DeFelipe and Dennis O’Leary
Contact person: Charles E. Ribak, tel +1 949-824-5494
E-mail:
ribak@uci.edu

FENS Special Event sponsored by the Cajal Club
Date: July 15, 2012
The Falck-Hillarp histoflourescence method: 50 years in perspective
A panel discussion on the impact of the first neuroanatomical method that allowed studies of neurotransmitters at the cellular level
Program Committee: Anders Björklund, Tomas Hökfelt, Pasco Rakic and Larry Swanson __________________________________________________________________________
The Cajal Club is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Krieg Cortical Kudos Awards:
 
Discoverer – Susan K. McConnell
Explorer –
Erik W. Dent
Scholar –
Davi Bock

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In memoriam: Ted G. Jones
Dr. Edward (Ted) G. Jones passed away on Monday, June 6, 2011. He was a Past-President of the Cajal Club from 2006-2008.
He also served on the Board of the Cajal Club Foundation Corporation from 1998 to 2010 and was an active and vital member of the Cajal Club.
Ted is well known for his scholarly scientific papers and his books on the thalamus and a series of books on the cerebral cortex with Alan Peters.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
We will all miss Ted very much.
Shown below is a photo taken on May 19, 2011 at the Cajal Club sponsored Cortical Development Meeting in Chania, Crete where Ted is involved in discussions with Chris Walsh and Pasko Rakic. 

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Image from the 1952 Cajal Club Meeting
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Enlargement of the above picture showing (at center, from left to right) Wendell J. Krieg, Rafael Lorente De No and Pinckney J. Harman

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The Cajal Club is an organization of neuroscientists. The Club now meets every year at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. The goals of the Cajal Club are to 1) revere Cajal, 2) provide an opportunity for neuroscientists with special interests in the structure and function of the nervous system to confraternize, and 3) contribute to the welfare of neuroanatomy and neuroanatomists.

 

Please join the Cajal Club in congratulating Chuck Ribak on his retirement from the University of California, Irvine. The club is honored to have Chuck as an active member and we are grateful for his continued dedication to the vision of the Club. We wish Chuck the best of luck with his future endeavors! Please raise a glass with us in Seattle, San Diego and/or Crete to toast Chuck and celebrate his many contributions in science, academia and the innumerable friendships forged throughout his highly distinguished career.

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                                   Past International Meetings  
2011 - The Cajal Club sponsored the always popular Cortical Development meeting in Crete.

2009 -The Cajal Club held a very successful International Meeting, entitled "Camillo Golgi and Modern Neuroscience". The meeting took place at the Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of General Pathology “Camillo Golgi”, Palazzo Botta, University of Pavia, Italy, from September 29 – October 1, 2009. The symposium featured several talks on Golgi's great discoveries. In addition the Krieg Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Nobel Prize Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini by our former President, Larry Swanson.
Special thanks go to Marina Bentivoglio, Paolo Mazzarello, Gordon Shepherd and Edward Jones. Please see the Pavia 2009 link for pictures from the meeting in Pavia.
 
                             Past Meetings in the United States

Click here to see photos from SFN 2010 in San Diego

Click here to view pictures from the Seattle meeting.

Click here to see photos from the SFN 2009 Cajal Club Social

Click here for discounted publications from Cajal Club members.

                                                             
                                                                             
                                                   
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