After the cancalation in 2020 and 2022 because of the pandemic, we are happy to announce the face-to-face ANN Spring Meeting in March 2024 in a scenic town of Cochem in Germany!

             Final Program download from  = Here =

Date: 22-24 March, 2024 (Friday-Sunday)

Place: Youth Hostel Cochem   = Web site =   = Map = 
Klottener Straße 9, 56812 Cochem, Germany.
Closest train station: 10-min walk from Cochem (Mosel) Station
 (35 min by RE (Reginal Express) or 50 min by RB (Regional Bahn) from ICE station Koblenz, 2-2.5 hours from Frankfurt Flughafen)

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Registration Deadline:    31. January 2024

Participation Fee: 
110 € for PhD Students / Students
170 € for Postdocs / Technicians
250 € for Principle Investigators / Lab Heads / Senior Scientists / Retired
The fee includes two nights of stay, all meals, sweets, beverage and WiFi connection.

The ANN (Arthropod Neuroscience Network) Spring Meeting is a discussion-oriented meeting aimed especially at young researchers to get to know each other and to exchange ideas and technical information. It will be held during the spring semester break of even years, effectively alternating with the Göttingen Neuroscience Meeting.

Features of the meeting:

• Neuroscience of all species of insects and arthropods, with diverse research approaches.
• 2 nights / 3 days. Starts at around 15:00 on the first day - concludes at around 13:00 after lunch.
• Everyone stays together from breakfast to night beer.
• Only young people will present talks and posters (students, postdocs, and young PIs who are less than 2-3 years after starting their labs).
• Young people who want to participate without presentation are also welcome.
• More established people are strongly encouraged to participate as "discussers." Your comments and suggestions will be very helpful for younger people.
• Ample discussion time after each talk.
• Long poster sessions.
• Free excursion time.
• Late night party.

Cochem is a nice small town along the Mosel River. There is a historic downtown and a castle. Unfortunately it is a bit shifted towards the Western edge of Germany. During the past several years we examined more than 40 venues from Berlin to Konstanz, but there are few facilities where we can organize such a meeting with >100 participants with a reasonable price. The venue would be most convenient for the people who work in Germany, but people in nearby countries are of course welcome to join. We look forward to your attendance to make this meeting a really fruitful one.

== Oral sessions ==

• We will have 6 oral sessions. Each talk will be 15-min presentation followed by 10-min discussion. Therefore we will have plenty of discussion time. (For the sake of diversity, we will have only one, or maximum two talks from each lab)
• Talks about any topics are welcome. We will organize them into several sessions. We also welcome the talks about methodology/techniques.
• Due to the time constraints, we might have to make selection if we receive too many talk applications.

== Poster sessions ==

We will have two poster sessions at both nights after dinner. They will transform to drink sessions with beer and wine for further communication.

== Final Program ==

Friday, 22 March
13:30-15:00  Registration
15:00-15:10  Welcome Remark
15:10-17:40  Oral Session 1 and 2
18:00-19:00  Dinner
19:00-20:00  Get together meeting
20:00-22:00  Poster
22:00-           Beer+Wine

Saturday, 23 March
07:00-09:00  Breakfast
09:00-12:40  Oral Session 3 and 4
12:00-14:00  Lunch
14:00-18:00  Free time
18:00-19:00  Dinner
19:00-22:00  Poster
21:00-           Party (open end with music, may continue until quite late.)

Sunday 24 March
07:00-09:00  Breakfast
09:00-11:40  Oral Session 5 and 6
11:50-12:20  Broad discussion and Closing remark
12:20-13:20  Lunch and Félix Dujardin Awards

== Registration ==

  = Goto Registration Web Site =  and click the "Register as attendee" box.
You will be asked for setting up a user account for the meeting. Later, you can access your registration site with the username and password.

If you plan to present a talk: Please submit the Title, Author list, and Abstract.
If you plan to present a poster: Please submit the Title and Author list. (Abstract is not needed.)
Conference fee can be paid by bank transfer, credit card (VISA/Master), and Paypal.

 - Submit Title, Author list, Abstract: email to contribution-ann@uni-koeln.de
 - Questions about the meeting: email to ann-spring-meeting@uni-koeln.de

== Organizers ==

Program Organizers
 - Dr. Susanne Neupert (Univ. Kassel)
 - Dr. Andreas Thum (Univ. Leipzig)
 - Dr. Uwe Homberg (Univ. Marburg)
Local Organizers
 - Dr. Hannah Jones (Univ. Cologne)
 - Dr. Thomas Riemensperger (Univ. Cologne)
 - Dr. Kei Ito (Univ. Cologne)

The meeting is financially supported by the AXA Research Fund.