EVENTS

INF Is Involved In A Number Of Scientific Meetings

EVENTS

INF Is Involved In A Number Of Scientific Meetings

NEXT SATELLITE MEETING

This year the British Society for Neuroendocrinology (BSN) is hosting its annual meeting in Exeter 2023 on 4-6 September – and the abstract submission and registration is open!

The meeting will highlight the latest neuroendocrinology research with a strong focus on early-career researchers.

Set in the hills above the city centre, many of the University buildings have panoramic views of the city, including its 15th Century cathedral, and surrounding countryside include the Exe estuary. From Exeter, those wishing to explore for the day can take the train to the beach at Exmouth or go to Dartmoor via the train to Okehampton. Travel from Europe to Exeter can be easily arranged either by flying to Exeter or Bristol airports or by taking the Eurostar to London and then taking a train on to Exeter.

Register and submit your abstract

Registration deadline: 30 June 2023

Abstract deadline: 28 April 2023

Read more: www.neuroendo.org.uk/Exeter2023

Confirmed speakers – full programme coming soon!

Public lecture speakers, Forum Lecture Theatre, University of Exeter
Anna Murray
Chrissie Thirlwell

Mortyn Jones Lecturer
Valerie Simmonneaux

Alison Douglas Lecturer
Manuel Tena-Sempere

Symposia speakers
Sharon Ladyman
Helen Eachus
Naresh Hanchate
Jenni Harvey
Dan Brierley
Laura Dearden
Eder Zavala
Lukasz Chrobok
Beatriz Bano Otalora
Allan Herbison
Elodie Desroziers
Deyana Ivanova

NEXT INF MEETING

ICN 2026 - The 12th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

MEMBER SOCIETY MEETINGS

4th BSN-SNE Joint Meeting of Neuroendocrinology

The congress will last 3 full days, from the 22nd to the 24th of September 2021, and will be entirely online. The scientific program elaborated by both the SNE’s and BSN’s scientific committees includes 4 plenary lectures and 4 symposia. The objective of the meeting is to highlight recent advances in Neuroendocrinology with the best specialists in the field.

PREVIOUS INF MEETINGS

10th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

7-10 August, 2022

SEC Glasgow, Scotland

9th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

15-18 July, 2018

The Westin Harbour CastleToronto, ON, Canada

8th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

August 17-20, 2014

Hilton Hotel, Sydney, Australia

7th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

July 11-15, 2010

Law Faculty, Rouen, Normandy, France

6th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

June 19-22, 2006

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

5th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

August 31-September 4, 2002

University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

4th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

October 1998

Kitakyushu, Japan

3rd International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

July 3-8, 1994

Budapest, Hungary

2nd International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

June 24-29, 1990

Bordeaux, France

1st International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

July 9-11, 1986

San Francisco, California, USA

INF Geoffrey Harris Memorial Lectures

This lecture series commemorates Geoffrey Wingfield Harris, FRS (1913-1971), the ‘father’ of neuroendocrinology.

Harris showed through a series of elegant experiments that ‘the hypothalamo-hypophysial portal vasculature is necessary for the maintenance and control of normal activity of the anterior pituitary’, contrasting this mechanism with the direct neural control of the posterior pituitary. He proposed that ‘of the many possibilities’ to explain these effects ‘the most likely seems to be that nerve fibres from the hypothalamus liberate some humoral substance(s) into the capillaries of the primary plexus in the median eminence and that this substance is carried by the portal vessels to excite or inhibit the cells of the pars distalis’ (Harris GW, 1955; Neural Control of the Pituitary Gland. Monographs of the Physiological Society 3, London: Edward Arnold, 298pp).

The Geoffrey Harris Memorial Lectureship, first awarded in 1974 to Sawyer in New Delhi, was the highest honour of the International Society for Neuroendocrinology (ISN) and continues to be recognized in this manner by the International Neuroendocrine Federation (INF) which succeeded the ISN when it was dissolved in 2000. The honour recognises major contributions by the lecturer to the advancement of knowledge in neuroendocrinology.

The INF Executive Board nominates the Lecturer from up to three names suggested in consultation with the Program and Local Organising Committees of the International Congress of Neuroendocrinology. The INF provides an honorarium for the lecturer.

Lecturers

CH Sawyer (USA) 1974
R Guillemin (USA) 1976

BT Donovan (UK) 1977

B Flerko (Hungary) 1979

SM McCann (USA) 1980

J Meites (USA) 1981

E Knobil (USA) 1982

WW Vale (USA) 1984

KJ Catt (USA) 1985

T Hokfelt (Sweden) 1986

S Nakanishi (Japan) 1988
L Martini (Italy) 1990

B Halasz (Hungary) 1992

D deWied (Netherlands) 1994

M Palkovits (Hungary) 1998

MG Rosenfeld (USA) 2002

RP Millar (Rep S Africa) 2006

IJ Clarke (Australia) 2011

TM Plant (USA) 2014