It is with great pleasure that we would like to announce the first call for abstracts and registration for the

The 'fMRI Experience VI' Conference

To be held

6th-9th May 2004

Hotel Casa Grande,
Guaruja Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Confirmed speakers so far include:

Professor Jim Haxby,
Professor Nikos Logothetis,
Dr Peter Bandettini,
Dr Elliot Stein,
Professor Mary Phillips,
Dr Jorge Moll,
Professor Mick Brammer,
Professor Steven Williams,
Dr Vincent Giampietro,
Professor Rainer Goebel,
Professor Miguel Nicolelis,
Professor Philip McGuire,
Dr Derek Jones,
Professor Randy McIntosh,
Professor Ricardo Gattass,

The four days will consist of teaching sessions led by world-renowned experts in the field on basic principles and advanced topics in fMRI, in combination with student presentations. Students will have the opportunity to present their new research, both in-progress and recently completed projects. As students contribute greatly to research projects and yet rarely have the opportunity to make oral presentations at international meetings, we have aimed to provide them with this opportunity, although there will also be poster presentations scheduled. This year the organizing committee is pleased to offer a number of formal workshops, including a course on the Brain Voyager software (led by Professor Goebel) which will be held on the last day of the meeting.

There is no charge for registered delegates to attend these courses however, due to space constraints, delegates will have to register to attend a particular course via the conference WWW site.

Further details about the 'fMRI Experience' conference series, including this years registration and abstract submission information (deadline : 1st Feb 2004) can be found on the conference WWW site (www.fmriexp.com). Further questions can be directed to Tamara Russell (t.russell@iop.kcl.ac.uk) or Carl Senior (seniorc@mail.nih.gov).

The organizing committee 2004

Edson Amaro Jr,
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Draulio B. de Araujo,
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Luiz Guilherme Lutterbach,
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dora Ventura,
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Silvia Arcuri,
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Cynthia Fu,
Institute of Psychiatry & Kings College London, UK.

Tamara Russell,
Institute of Psychiatry & Kings College London, UK.

Carl Senior,
National Institutes of Health, USA.