30 May, 2023 (now updated daily...please check often for the latest information)
Wine-tasting/food events are at 7:30pm at Osteria da Ugo, Vicolo Dietro Sant'Andrea, 1/b. Walk east from Piazza Erbe down via Capello. After the Unieuro store, turn right and it is up on your left.
It would be helpful to know how many people want vegetarian plates...please email me us...
When you enter the Hotel Due Torri, the stairway down to the meeting rooms is to the right. Go downstairs...
Your Powerpoint presentation
When any talk is strictly time-limited, there is a temptation to put 20 minutes worth of data into a 5 or 10 minute talk. This necessitates a delivery speed that simply cannot be comprehended by an audience made up mostly of colleagues for whom English is a second language. Therefore, we make the following suggestions:
1. Correction: Please use the Widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio, which is optimal. Click "Design" and then "Slide Size" to see Normal (4:3) and Widescreen (16:9) settings.
2. Reduce the breadth of your talk so that you can present it slowly and clearly. Twenty slides in 5 minutes is probably too many slides.
3. You will be loading your Powerpoint (or Keynote) talk onto the Conference computer so please have it on a thumb drive.
4. We must stay on-time, so please set the timer on your phone so you can see it during your talk. The shorter the talk, the more discussion we can have.
26 May, 2023
With everyone having a smartphone, please access the Scientific Program on your phone or print the current webpages if you want to have a printed version. The program is constantly changing and always current on the website. Printed programs will not be provided as they are quickly out-of-date.
There are a few seats available at the restaurant on Wednesday and Thursday evenings for the wine-tasting and food. There will be vegetarian and gluten-free options. For anyone who has not signed up for the wine-tasting with food, email us to reserve. We will also have sign-up sheets at Registration.
There is free wifi available in many of the main locations in Verona, including the square outside the Hotel Due Torri. You can download the "Verona SmartApp" now, and then connect as you walk around Verona. For the Hotel Due Torri wifi password, see the photo below.
And there is an overflow room with video and audio next to the main room if the main room is full or if you prefer the ambience of a smaller space.
Please note that there will be no recording or photographing the slide presentations without permission.
Osteria da Ugo is where we will have our wine-tastings, but you can eat there on your own anytime you like. You need to make reservations for lunch or dinner at osteriadaugo.com/menu/
Remember to bring your phone and computer chargers, and plugs that work in Italy. If you find that you need to buy electronic items, go to Unieuro at Via Capello, 34.
It happens every year. You make your connecting flight but your bags don't. Then you have three days without clothing or anything else. So if you have a connecting flight, carry whatever you need in your carry-on luggage in case you arrive without your bags.
Wine-tasting/food events are at 7:30pm at Osteria da Ugo, Vicolo Dietro Sant'Andrea, 1/b. Walk east from Piazza Erbe down via Capello. After the Unieuro store, turn right and it is up on your left.
It would be helpful to know how many people want vegetarian plates...please email me us...
When you enter the Hotel Due Torri, the stairway down to the meeting rooms is to the right. Go downstairs...
Your Powerpoint presentation
When any talk is strictly time-limited, there is a temptation to put 20 minutes worth of data into a 5 or 10 minute talk. This necessitates a delivery speed that simply cannot be comprehended by an audience made up mostly of colleagues for whom English is a second language. Therefore, we make the following suggestions:
1. Correction: Please use the Widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio, which is optimal. Click "Design" and then "Slide Size" to see Normal (4:3) and Widescreen (16:9) settings.
2. Reduce the breadth of your talk so that you can present it slowly and clearly. Twenty slides in 5 minutes is probably too many slides.
3. You will be loading your Powerpoint (or Keynote) talk onto the Conference computer so please have it on a thumb drive.
4. We must stay on-time, so please set the timer on your phone so you can see it during your talk. The shorter the talk, the more discussion we can have.
26 May, 2023
With everyone having a smartphone, please access the Scientific Program on your phone or print the current webpages if you want to have a printed version. The program is constantly changing and always current on the website. Printed programs will not be provided as they are quickly out-of-date.
There are a few seats available at the restaurant on Wednesday and Thursday evenings for the wine-tasting and food. There will be vegetarian and gluten-free options. For anyone who has not signed up for the wine-tasting with food, email us to reserve. We will also have sign-up sheets at Registration.
There is free wifi available in many of the main locations in Verona, including the square outside the Hotel Due Torri. You can download the "Verona SmartApp" now, and then connect as you walk around Verona. For the Hotel Due Torri wifi password, see the photo below.
And there is an overflow room with video and audio next to the main room if the main room is full or if you prefer the ambience of a smaller space.
Please note that there will be no recording or photographing the slide presentations without permission.
Osteria da Ugo is where we will have our wine-tastings, but you can eat there on your own anytime you like. You need to make reservations for lunch or dinner at osteriadaugo.com/menu/
Remember to bring your phone and computer chargers, and plugs that work in Italy. If you find that you need to buy electronic items, go to Unieuro at Via Capello, 34.
It happens every year. You make your connecting flight but your bags don't. Then you have three days without clothing or anything else. So if you have a connecting flight, carry whatever you need in your carry-on luggage in case you arrive without your bags.
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Here's the hotel wifi password
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30 March, 2023 CANCELLATION REFUNDS END TOMORROW, 31 MARCH
Please be advised that the registration fee is fully refundable until 31 March. After that date, all funds have been committed and no refunds can be made. You are advised to purchase travel insurance that will refund your registration fee and other costs if you have to cancel your participation after this date. It happens every year as work, family, and health issues cause last-minute cancellations. Please purchase travel insurance.
10 March, 2023
NEW APARTMENTS AVAILABLE NEAR THE VENUE. See Hotels page. Mention "Hippo23" for discount.
27 February, 2023 CANCELLATION REFUNDS END 31 MARCH
Please be advised that the registration fee is fully refundable until 31 March. After that date, all funds have been committed and no refunds can be made. You are advised to purchase travel insurance that will refund your registration fee and other costs if you have to cancel your participation after this date. It happens every year as work, family, and health issues cause last-minute cancellations. Please purchase travel insurance.
10 February, 2023
We want to include early-stage investigators and all who have not previously attended the Conference. You might benefit personally and professionally from a week of informal interactions with your hippocampal colleagues. If interested, please join us.
2 October, 2022
Registration is now open so please download the registration form from the "Register" page. In making travel plans, please note that the conference will begin at 8:30 am on Sunday, 28 May, 2023, and the last event will end at about 6pm on Friday, 2 June. We suggest that all Sunday speakers plan to arrive in Verona on Friday, 26 May. Having a free day in Verona is not so bad...
Everyone else should plan to arrive well before the day you speak. Delays always occur for some of us. If you are delayed and miss your session, there will be no chance for you to speak given the full schedule.
We suggest that you make refundable hotel and air reservations because predicting the future in an increasingly unpredictable world is difficult...
14 June, 2022 update
We have had an unusually quick response to the news of the next meeting, presumably because we are all eager to resume a normal life. As a result, we have already reached the maximum number of longer-format sessions (see the Scientific Program page). Data Blitz slots are still available. Do not delay, as the program fills quickly...please alert any colleagues who might like to attend...everyone is welcome.
24 May, 2022
We are now starting to build the scientific program. Please let us know via the "Contact page" if you would like to organize a session or be included in a Data Blitz (see below).
Do not delay as the program fills very quickly.
Previous messages:
The Data Blitzes are for everyone, and anyone can attend and present data in these well-attended, fast-paced sessions. If you want to give a Data Blitz talk, please read below and send us your information via the "Contact Us" page. Do not delay as the program fills quickly.
Please note that all participants pay the registration fee and the costs of attending as this is an unsponsored, informal meeting. Pre-doctoral students are subsidized with a reduced registration fee.
The Spring Hippocampal Research Conference is designed to bring together students, fellows, researchers, and clinicians interested in all aspects of normal hippocampal formation structure and function in learning, memory, and spatial function, as well as its dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric disorders. In addition to presenting and hearing the latest data in the formal sessions and data blitzes, participants benefit from informal interactions throughout the conference, which will be held every two years in a location that facilitates friendly interactions and future collaborations.
You are invited! This is an entirely open and democratic meeting. As the conference approaches, please contact colleagues and let us know if you plan to organize a session, as the program will fill quickly.
For the formal sessions, please keep in mind the following organizational details when inviting colleagues:
Four speakers in a one hour session (10 minutes for each speaker plus 5 minutes for questions); you can chair the session without speaking if you prefer;
This is an open, informal, and friendly meeting with few rules. The primary goals are to: 1) stay strictly on time, and; 2) have the highest-quality sessions.
For the Data Blitz presentations: 5 minutes for each speaker plus 2 minutes for questions.
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal's drawing of the hippocampus (Camillo Golgi's silver impregnation method)
Stober download
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