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28 April
See the new "Dinner schedule" page and find your name- All speakers have been scheduled for a dinner on the evening of their talk, or close to it.
If you are not a speaker, you need to choose a night for dinner. If possible, please choose Thursday or Friday and let us know.
This dinner is included in the registration fee. Please contact us if you plan to bring a guest.
22 April
IMPORTANT: If you find at the last moment that you cannot travel to Verona, you will have the option of providing a video of your presentation, which will be played in the session in which you are scheduled to speak. You will receive a Certificate of Participation/Attendance to facilitate reimbursement of the registration fee.
8 April
One ideally-located apartment is available from 21 May...this is good for anyone not attending on the first days. Please see the Hotels page.
25 March
Please note that 31 March is the deadline for requesting a refund of the registration fee. Please be reminded that we have urged everyone to arrange travel cancellation insurance in the event that airline travel or medical issues prevent you from attending.
8 March
For anyone who has not been to Verona, here is a recent article from the BBC. It only scratches the surface of this unusually beautiful, easy-to-navigate, and walkable gem of a city... the largest Roman city north of ancient Rome, with an arena almost as impressive as the later-built Colosseum.
7 January, 2025
Please register now if you have not done so already. If your name is not on the "Attendees" page, you have not registered.
Airfares are currently attractive and hotel space is plentiful. Do not delay making travel reservations or visa applications.
2 December, 2024
Please note that increased costs of everything, particularly in the recent post-Covid era, have necessitated an increase in the registration fee. Over the past 14 years, the registration fee has risen from $475 in 2011 to $850 in 2025. Please consider that we are not a dues-paying society with staff available to run a meeting. And as a non-hierarchical meeting, we do not collect a registration fee and then divert funds to invited VIP plenary speakers in order to attract a passive audience. No one receives a fee to speak and no one gets a limousine ride or any expenses paid by the meeting. All expenditures at the meeting benefit all attendees equally.
Because we are an unsponsored meeting, and the attendees are the speakers, it is the registration fee that covers all of the costs of the conference organization and the meeting itself. The registration fee subsidizes a lower student registration fee so that students can have an opportunity to attend, to be seen, and to be heard. In addition, retired colleagues who no longer have institutional support have been given free registration as a matter of respect and inclusion. All of this is supported by the registration fee. Plus, the previously optional conference dinners will be included as part of the registration fee.
For 2025, the costs of AV services have risen significantly because we cannot continue to have one person do all of the last-minute talk uploads and also handle all of the live presentations. Additional AV staff is needed and we are committed to maintaining an efficient, top-quality meeting that no one can afford to miss.
25 October, 2024
The first confirmed sessions are now listed tentatively by the day on the "Scientific Program" page. Please do not base your dates of attendance on this preliminary schedule because the schedule may change in the next months. If you will be attending the entire meeting and the session schedule doesn't influence your travel dates, it is not too early to book travel and hotel space.
All new speaking requests will join a wait-list, and we will determine early in the new year how many new entries can be added.
9 September, 2024
The registration form for 2025 is now active on the "Register" page. The Hotel Due Torri (the venue) room reservation form is now active on the "Hotels" page.
3 July, 2024
If you would like to organize a theme-based session, please note that each talk is 5 minutes plus 2 minutes for discussion. The duration of the session will be determined by the number of speakers. Up to 8 people can speak in one hour so this is a good format if you have a large number of speakers. You can also request an individual Data Blitz spot that is not part of a themed session. To submit a session suggestion, please write to us via the "Contact Us" page. Early career submissions are particularly encouraged. Do not delay as the program is filling quickly. We have already filled all of the slots available for the longer-talk sessions.
20 June, 2024
We are now starting to build the scientific program, which is made up of themed one-hour sessions and variable-length sessions that involve 5 minute-long talks. The Data Blitzes (5 minute talks) are for everyone, and will enable anyone to present their data without being in a themed session.
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.
You are invited! This is an entirely open and democratic meeting. We encourage early-career colleagues and students to submit session proposals at any time. Regardless of junior/senior career status, the primary metrics are session quality and areas of broad interest. 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.
For the formal sessions, please keep in mind the following organizational details when inviting colleagues: Four speakers in a one hour session will allow for 10 minute talks with 5 minutes for questions; with more people in a one-hour session, the talk lengths will obviously be shorter. You can chair the session without speaking if you prefer.
For the Data Blitz presentations: 5 minutes for each speaker plus 2 minutes for questions.
If you are interested in organizing a session or being in a Data Blitz, please let us know via the "Contact Us" page. Please keep in mind that once the program starts to be actively organized, it fills very quickly.
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal's drawing of the hippocampus (Camillo Golgi's silver impregnation method)