24 May, 2025
We hope you enjoyed the Conference! Please add to the Job Opportunities page anytime by contacting us with details. We will keep the page updated...
The next conference will be held 16-21 May, 2027, same location... Check back 1 July, 2026 for news about filling the 2027 program.
13 May, 2025
Please note that all talks are between 5 and 10 minutes in length. All Data Blitz talks are 5 minutes in length (plus two minutes for discussion). Other talks are 5-10 minutes long, depending on how many speakers are in the one hour session. The sooner you stop speaking, the longer the discussion can be, which is often the best part. Please bring your talk on a thumb drive and make sure you have it uploaded as soon as possible. Please avoid last-minute uploads.
If you want a printed program, please print it at the last moment before leaving for Verona. Since the program is constantly changing and everyone can access it on their phones, there will be no printed version provided. The web version is always current. Here is the 15 May printable program pdf.
28 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.
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.
2 December, 2024
Regarding the registration fee, 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.
The costs of AV services have also 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 non-hierarchical 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. Although you are free to organize your session as you prefer, please give some thought to including junior, senior, male, and female speakers.
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.
We hope you enjoyed the Conference! Please add to the Job Opportunities page anytime by contacting us with details. We will keep the page updated...
The next conference will be held 16-21 May, 2027, same location... Check back 1 July, 2026 for news about filling the 2027 program.
13 May, 2025
Please note that all talks are between 5 and 10 minutes in length. All Data Blitz talks are 5 minutes in length (plus two minutes for discussion). Other talks are 5-10 minutes long, depending on how many speakers are in the one hour session. The sooner you stop speaking, the longer the discussion can be, which is often the best part. Please bring your talk on a thumb drive and make sure you have it uploaded as soon as possible. Please avoid last-minute uploads.
If you want a printed program, please print it at the last moment before leaving for Verona. Since the program is constantly changing and everyone can access it on their phones, there will be no printed version provided. The web version is always current. Here is the 15 May printable program pdf.
28 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.
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.
2 December, 2024
Regarding the registration fee, 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.
The costs of AV services have also 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 non-hierarchical 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. Although you are free to organize your session as you prefer, please give some thought to including junior, senior, male, and female speakers.
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)