Cajal Club In the pursuit of Brain Structure and Function    BREAKING NEWS ABOUT UPCOMING MEETINGS President Ted Jones has organized a one day meeting at UC Davis on September 25, 2008. Here are the details and a registration form can be found below. All members and guests are invited to an exciting meeting on vision in Davis, California at the University of California at Davis on September 25, 2008. President Edward Jones and his colleague Leo Chalupa have invited some great speakers, including Barry E. Stein (Wake-Forest University), Rachel Wong (University of Washington), and the Pinckney J. Harman Memorial Lecturer for 2008, Jonathan C. Horton (UC San Francisco). In addition, two speakers from UC Berkeley will be presenting, Ralph D. Freeman and Yang Dan, and five speakers from UC Davis, Gegg Recanzone, Barbara Chapman, W. Martin Usrey, Steven Luck and David Whitney. A registration form is located below and all attendees should plan to make their hotel reservations soon. Details for hotels are located on the registration form. Please note that a poster session will be held and prizes will be awarded. Davis is a gateway to the Napa Valley, one of the world’s best wine regions. If attending the meeting, you may want to travel there on the weekend. Cajal Club Social at Society for Neuroscience List of Social Guests: E.G. Jones, L.W.Swanson, C.E.Ribak, C.B.Sapir, J.H.Morrison, P. Rakic, V.Casagrande, H.Markram, M.Chklomskii, J.DeFelipe, R.D.Traub, L.F.Abbott, B.Sakmann, K.Svoboda, E.Callaway, M.Hines, and winners of the 2008 awards. Short Description: The Cajal Club, the oldest neuroscience society, hosts a social evening focused on a theme of increasing interest in cortical studies: scaling up simulations based on realistic architectures of cortical neurons and their wiring. Leaders in this effort, involving neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, computational modeling, BlueBrain and other supercomputer resources, synaptic circuitry, cell and brain imaging, and neuroinformatics, will discuss the state of the art, with the aim of realistic simulations that can give insight into the neural basis of cortical function and guide experimental analysis. We will also honor winners of the Krieg Cortical Kudos and Sanford L. Palay Award. The annual Business Meeting for the Cajal Club will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2008 from 11 am to 11:45 am in Washington, DC. The exact location will be announced soon. All members and their guests are welcome to participate in the review of past activities and the planning of upcoming meetings. A brunch will be provided. REGISTRATION FORM – THE CAJAL CLUB 2008 ANNUAL MEETING The Cajal Club annual meeting will take place September 25, 2008 at the Buehler Alumni Center, University of California, Davis, California. Please return this completed form to: Terry Wright, tdwright@ucdavis.edu (as an e-mail attachment), or FAX to: 530-757-8827. Registration is for planning purposes only – there is no fee. Any questions? Call Terry at 530-757-8748. Registration Due Date is September 5, 2008 First name: ____________________________________ Last name: _____________________________________ Institution: _____________________________________ Address: _______________________________________ ________________________________________ HOTEL ARRANGEMENTS Each hotel has seven rooms on hold for Sept 24, 25, 26, 2008. Reservations must be made no later than 30 days before arrival date. The reservations are held under the "Center for Neuroscience." If you are paying for the rooms you will receive the University rate. Palm Court Hotel 234 D St Davis, CA 95616 530 753-7100 http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/productInfo.do?propertyCode=05536 Aggie Inn 245 First St. Davis, CA 95616 530 756-0352 www.AggieInn.com Hallmark Inn 110 F St Davis, CA 95616 530 753-3600 www.HallmarkInn.com