Dear list members,
The call for abstracts and symposium proposals for the 1st Conference of the
Timing Research Forum (TRF1) is now open. TRF1 is the first international conference dedicated to multidisciplinary research on timing and time perception and will be held in
Strasbourg, France from October 23-25, 2017.
The deadline to submit both abstracts and symposium proposals is
May 1, 2017. During the submission process, please indicate if you wish to present an oral or poster presentation, and express your interest for student travel awards. All selected abstracts will be published in the journal,
Timing and Time Perception Reviews.
We are pleased to announce three impressive Keynote Speakers -
Sofia Soares: PhD Candidate, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Sofia will give the
Prize Keynote Lecture based on her
paper -
Soares, S., Atallah, B. V. & Paton, J. J. (2016) Midbrain dopamine neurons control judgment of time. Science 354,
1273–1277, that was selected by the TRF Committee as the 'Best Timing Paper of 2016'.
We thank our current sponsors - Wellcome Trust, INSERM, CNRS, Neuropole Strasbourg, FMTS and the University of Strasbourg and look forward to further proposals of sponsorship. Our sponsorship booklet is available
here. Anyone interested in joining the Timing Research Forum can do so by following the instructions at this
link.
We look forward to seeing you in Strasbourg!
Anne Giersch & Jenny Coull
Conference Co-Chairs
&
Sundeep Teki & Argiro Vatakis
(On behalf of Timing Research Forum)
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Sundeep Teki PhD
Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow
Auditory Neuroscience Group
Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics
University of Oxford
South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT