Enclosed with this newsletter you should find the registration brochure for the meeting, which includes programme details and details of student oral and poster prizes and travel awards. After substantial deliberation, the Council decided to accept all 7 full proposals it had received for symposia. Consequently, the programme is one of the busiest and most diverse ever presented for an ANS meeting. At the time of going to press with this newsletter, the Eccles Lecturer had still to be confirmed, but will be posted on the ANS website as soon as details are available. The Local Secretary Phil Beart and Local Treasurer Andrew Lawrence and their organising team based at Monash Uni have arranged an excellent social programme to go with the science.
Further details are in the enclosed brochure.
Student Travel Awards must be applied for at the time of registering for the meeting and submitting an abstract. There was some confusion about the process for selecting recipiants for the awards this year. Please note the details of the selection process on the application form enclosed with the meeting brochure. As announced in the last newsletter, Brian Key will be the Local Secretary for the 2001 meeting. He is presently in transit moving to Brisbane to take up his new position in Anatomical Sciences.