The annual Primate Neurobiology meeting offers a platform for European scientists, studying the electrophysiology and imaging of the central nervous system in nonhuman primates. For the 12th Primate Neurobiology Meeting we will meet again in Goettingen March 6-8, 2019. 

We would be happy to welcome you to the event and hope you seize this unique opportunity to get together with colleagues. Please, tell others who might be interested in the topic and may not be on the mailing list. 

With your input, we will put together an interesting scientific program. In addition to the keynote lectures there will be posters (DIN A0, Portrait format) and oral presentations (20-25 min), as well as a forum for discussion. The single-track schedule ensures plenty of opportunity to get in contact and discuss your research. Please be aware, that a cash prize will be awarded for the best poster!

The meeting will allow you to discuss new results, established as well as upcoming new methods, questions of animal husbandry and welfare as well as legal issues regulating research on nonhuman primates. The format of the meeting will be deliberately informal in order to facilitate the exchange of information on any aspect of primate neurobiology and to allow us to speak out more audibly on behalf of this indispensable approach in the study of the brain. To this end, participants may present any aspect of their work at any stage – from the presentation of methods to that of concepts, from the introduction of very first results to the discussion of work that may have already been presented at other conferences. We will accommodate short oral presentations as well as posters. Please specify your preference but be aware that due to limited number of time slots we might not be able to accommodate all oral presentation requests. In particular, we encourage students and postdocs working in nonhuman primate laboratories to participate and to consider presenting their projects.

An advanced methods course for doctoral students and postdocs will take place before the Primate Neurobiology Meeting on the 4th and 5th of March. The course will focus on important behavioral, experimental and data analytical methods for researchers working non-human primates in neurophysiological settings. Topics will include data analysis, computational analysis and legislation. This course is mandatory for GTPN members. Further information and registration available here.

An additional program will be organized specifically for technicians in the fall of 2019, in order to make this option accessible to more people. We will send further information on the content and exact schedule later this year. We would nevertheless be happy about any technicians choosing to join the meeting in March.