<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear all</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="margin-bottom:5.65pt;line-height:15px;vertical-align:middle">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">The 6</span>^{<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">th</span>}<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:MyriadPro-Regular"> <span lang="EN-GB">Annual INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics will convene August 27-29 at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. (see flyer attached).</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:5.65pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15px;vertical-align:middle"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">The emerging field of neuroinformatics combines neuroscience and informatics research to develop tools and approaches to understand the structure and function of the brain. These tools can also be applied to the study of brain disorders and diseases.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:5.65pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15px;vertical-align:middle"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:MyriadPro-Regular">The INCF Neuroinformatics Congress welcomes more than 200 researchers in all fields related to neuroinformatics, including data- and knowledge-bases of the nervous system from molecular to behavioral levels; tools for the acquisition, analysis, and visualization of nervous system data; and theoretical, computational, and simulation environments for modeling the brain. The meeting will include a series of keynote speakers, workshops, poster sessions and live demonstrations of neuroinformatics tools.</span></p>
<div><br></div><div><b>Call for Workshop proposals: deadline 31st January 2013</b></div><div><a href="http://www.neuroinformatics2013.org/program/call-for-workshop-proposals" target="_blank">http://www.neuroinformatics2013.org/program/call-for-workshop-proposals</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin:0em 0em 8px;line-height:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Program Committee encourages researchers of all neuroinformatics-related fields to submit proposals for hosting a workshop. Please note that the topic of your proposal should be different from those currently in the program.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><h2 style="font-size:14px;text-align:justify">Workshop format</h2><p style="text-align:justify">Formats: 1 hour 20 minutes on Wednesday or 1 hour 50 minutes on Thursday</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">Program: <span style="text-align:left">3 – 4 speakers including the chairman and an optional concluding panel discussion<br></span>Venue: <span style="text-align:left">Karolinska Institutet<br>
</span>Equipment: <span style="text-align:left">Projector, screen, microphones, internet<br></span>INCF support: <span style="text-align:left">Speakers and chairman get the Congress registration fee waived</span></p><h2 style="font-size:14px">
Application procedure</h2><p style="text-align:left">To submit a workshop proposal, please send an email to <a href="mailto:congress2013@incf.org" target="_blank">congress2013@incf.org</a></p><p style="text-align:left">Write "Workshop proposal" in the subject line and enter the following information:</p>
<ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Name and contact info of the organizers</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Workshop topic and title</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Workshop description</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Speaker names and talk titles</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Motivation</li></ul><p><span style="text-align:left"><b><u>Submission deadline: January 31st, 2013</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align:left">Thank you,</p><p style="text-align:left"><br></p>
<p style="text-align:left">Repectfully</p><p style="text-align:left">INCF Communications Team</p></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Beatriz Martin Villalba MD, MA<br>
Communications Officer</span><div><div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility - INCF- </span><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Secretariat </span></div>
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