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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:white">Due to numerous requests the abstract submission deadline for
<b>IWSP7: Epilepsy Mechanisms, Models, Prediction and Control </b>has been extended to
<b>April 30 2015.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:white">For more details visit the conference website at
</span><b><a href="http://www.iwsp7.org">http://www.iwsp7.org</a></b><span style="background:white"> and/or read below. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="background:white">The 7<sup>th</sup> International Workshop on Seizure Prediction (<b>IWSP7: Epilepsy Mechanisms, Models, Prediction & Control</b>) will bring together world leading
</span>epileptologists, engineers, physicists, mathematicians, neurosurgeons and neuroscientists<span style="background:white"> to focus on epilepsy research in Melbourne Australia from 3-6 August 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background:white">Invited Speakers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Samuel <b>Berkovic</b>, University of Melbourne, Australia (Genetics and individual-specific nature of epilepsy)<br>
Sydney <b>Cash</b>, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA (Cortical physiology and epilepsy)<br>
Antonio <b>Dourado</b>, University of Coimbra, Portugal (Seizure Prediction and the EPILEPSIAE project)<br>
Bin <b>He</b>, University of Minnesota, USA (EEG-based imaging to localise seizure and high frequency activity)<br>
Louis <b>Lemieux</b>, University College London, UK (Multi-modal imaging of human epileptic zone and networks)<br>
Liset <b>Menendez de la Prida</b>, Instituto Cajal - CSIC, Spain (Sources of functional heterogeneity in the cellular activity of hippocampal microcircuits in temporal lobe epilepsy)<br>
Martha <b>Morrell</b>, Stanford University, Neuropace, USA (Responsive seizure control and its clinical implications)<br>
Philippe <b>Ryvlin</b>, Lyon University, France (Vagal nerve stimulation and seizure prediction)<br>
Bjoern <b>Schelter</b>, University of Aberdeen, UK (Recent advances in data-based modelling and their role in epilepsy research)<br>
Steven <b>Schiff</b>, Penn State University, USA (Unification of spikes, seizures and spreading depression)<br>
Piotr <b>Suffczynski</b>, University of Warsaw, Poland (Modelling of neuronal and ionic dynamics during ictogenesis)<br>
John <b>Terry</b>, University of Exeter, UK (Modelling multiscale brain networks: seizure initiation, evolution and prediction)<br>
Gregory <b>Worrell</b>, Mayo Clinic, USA (Forecasting epileptic seizures in dogs)</span><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="background:white">Extended Abstract submission deadline:</span></b><span style="background:white"> 30<sup>th</sup> April 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="background:white">Notification of acceptance:</span></b><span style="background:white"> 31<sup>st</sup> May 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="background:white">Early bird registration:</span></b><span style="background:white"> full: AU$465; Student/Early Career Researcher: AU$165.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="background:white">Early bird registration deadline:</span></b><span style="background:white"> 30<sup>th</sup> June 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="background:white">Standard registration:</span></b><span style="background:white"> full: AU$565; Student/Early Career Researcher: AU$265.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="background:white">Over 30 generous travel stipends</span></b><span style="background:white">
<b>will be awarded</b> to participants submitting the best abstracts as determined by the IWSP7 Scientific Advisory Board. The majority will be awarded to undergraduate or postgraduate students and early career researchers (people who completed their PhD within
the period of the 3 years preceding 3<sup>rd</sup> August 2015).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="background:white">The best abstracts will also be selected for talks</span></b><span style="background:white"> by the IWSP7 Scientific Advisory Board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="background:white">Topics for abstracts include, but are not limited to:</span></b><span style="background:white"> seizure prediction, detection and control; seizure mechanisms<span style="color:#1F497D">,
</span>animal models<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>and human neurophysiology; neuroimaging of epilepsy/seizure localisation; computational modelling of epilepsy; epilepsy networks; high frequency oscillations; model-based estimation, statistical signal
processing or control theory applied to epilepsy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="background:white">The best work presented at IWSP7 will be invited to appear in a
<b>special issue in the International Journal of Neural Systems (Impact factor 6.056)</b>. The call for papers can be downloaded from the IWSP7 website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="background:white">There will also be
<b>two A$500 prizes for the best posters </b>at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:#1F497D;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="background:white">For information on the preliminary<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>conference program, and how to submit abstracts and register visit: </span>
<a href="http://www.iwsp7.org">http://www.iwsp7.org</a><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<h4 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Please forward this notice to anyone that you think might be interested. Or post the conference poster around
your department. The poster can be obtained at the link: <a href="http://www.iwsp7.org/flyers/IWSP7_Call_for_Abstracts.pdf">
http://www.iwsp7.org/flyers/IWSP7_Call_for_Abstracts.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<h4 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></h4>
<h4 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">We would also like to draw your attention to two partner events:
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<h4 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Melbourne</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Epilepsy</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"> which brings together Melbourne’s best epilepsy researchers and will overlap at the
same venue with IWSP7 on August 6<sup>th</sup>, and finish by 1pm on August 7<sup>th</sup>. Attendance is free for IWSP7 registrants.<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<h4 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Swinburne Brain Imaging Symposium 2015: Principles and Applications of Magnetoencephalography</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
is a meeting on MEG and neuroimaging occurring in Melbourne in the week preceding IWSP7 from June 29-30 2015.
<a href="http://www.research.swinburne.edu.au/our-research/events/neuroimaging-symposium.html">
http://www.research.swinburne.edu.au/our-research/events/neuroimaging-symposium.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We look forward to seeing you at IWSP7!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On behalf of the local organizing committee<o:p></o:p></p>
<h4 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Levin Kuhlmann, PhD<br>
David B. Grayden, PhD<br>
Mark J. Cook, MD<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<h4 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Anthony N. Burkitt, PhD<br>
Dean R. Freestone, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<h4 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Tatiana Kameneva, PhD<br>
Alan Lai, PhD<br>
Elma O'Sullivan-Greene, PhD<br>
Andre Peters<span style="color:#1F497D">o</span>n, BSc (hons)<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Email: <span style="color:#1F497D">
<a href="mailto:organizingcommittee@iwsp7.org">organizingcommittee@iwsp7.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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