MNS 2017 MALTA will be held on between 12 and 15 June in at Radisson Blu Resort in St Julian’s.
On Monday 12 June HE Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, President of Malta, Prof. Alfred J Vella, the Rector of the University of Malta, Prof. Marc Landry, Mediterranean Neuroscience Society (MNS) President (University of Bordeaux, FR) and Prof. Giuseppe Di Giovanni, President of the 2017 MNS Meeting (University of Malta) and Coordinator of the Malta Neuroscience Network (MNN) of the University of Malta will open the 6th Mediterranean Neuroscience Society Conference.
On Monday 12 June HE Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, President of Malta, Prof. Alfred J Vella, the Rector of the University of Malta, Prof. Marc Landry, Mediterranean Neuroscience Society (MNS) President (University of Bordeaux, FR) and Prof. Giuseppe Di Giovanni, President of the 2017 MNS Meeting (University of Malta) and Coordinator of the Malta Neuroscience Network (MNN) of the University of Malta will open the 6th Mediterranean Neuroscience Society Conference.
More than 400 delegates, including neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, basic and clinical researchers from 41 Countries are attending the Meeting.
The meeting will gather scientists from the broad Mediterranean area, and not only, and offer a rich program, spanning from molecular and cell biology to behavior under normal and pathological conditions. This includes 9 main lectures, over 60 symposia, poster sessions and social events. The meeting is expected to be highly beneficial, not only for the scientific exchanges, but also in terms of training opportunities for students and young researchers.
Nine special keynote speakers!
- Two University of Malta Plenary Lectures by Giacomo Rizzolatti (IT/MT), and Vincenzo Crunelli (UK/MT)
- Juan Lerma (ES), Secretary General of the Federation of European. Neuroscience Societies (FENS)
- Raphael Mechoulam (age 86), from Israel. He discovered and isolated the molecule of THC, the main active principle of cannabis, in the 60s
- Michela Matteoli, member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- Pierre J. Magistretti of Lausanne, Switzerland, President of International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
- Rosa Cossart (FR)
- Carmen Cavada (SP)
- Ilana Gozes (IL)
The meeting has 3 free workshops on Wednesday 14 June; the workshops on different subjects, such as 'how to get your paper published', 'statistics for neuroscientists', 'science communication' are open to Maltese students (besides for the attendees)
A Matchmaking Event on Wednesday 14 June is being organised with the support of Malta Enterprise.
Three Poster prizes will be given to the best posters presented at MNS2017
1) Best Poster Prize Xjenza/RIDT
€500 for the best Maltese Neuroscience Poster presented at MNS2017.
2) Best Poster Prize Elsevier/J Neurosci Methods
For the Best Methodological Poster
3) Best Poster Prize Springer Nature/The Receptors
For the Best Poster on neurotransmitter receptors
The prize giving ceremony will be held at the end of the conference on 15 June.