The deadline for Symposium proposals has been extended until February 7th, 2023

The 9^th Mediterranean Neuroscience conference that will be held in Carthage (Tunisia, 14-18 October 2023) is now accepting submissions for proposed symposia. A typical symposium gathers 4-5 speakers, each addressing the general topic from a different perspective. The total allocated time is 2 hours per proposed symposium (linked symposia could be proposed, but their joint acceptance is not guaranteed, given our aim to increase thematic diversity). Symposia dealing with all areas of neuroscience research are warmly invited, including, biomedical, clinical, genetics, imaging, computational history and teaching neuroscience.

The confirmed keynote lectures will be:

Amadi Ihunwo, SONA President - School of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Daniele Piomelli, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, USA

Rajita Sinha, Yale University, School of Medicine, USA

Riadh Gouider, Head of Neurology at Razi Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, President of the Tunisian Society of Neurology and the President of the Pan African Association of Neurological Societies, Tunisia

Tracey-Shors, Department of Psychology and the Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University, USA

The requirement to submit a proposal is active MNS membership for the current year (2023)

First register at HERE and create your MNS member profile. Choose PAY ANNUAL MEMBER FEE in your personal panel

The MNS strives to strengthen exchanges between Mediterranean neuroscientists, promote education in the neurosciences and increase public awareness of progress made. The participation of scientists from the South countries, whether as organizers of symposia or as speakers, is, therefore, highly encouraged. The gender ratio, and the geographical distribution in order to promote a diversity of the attending members, within each proposal will also be taken into account to reach a decision.

Online submission for symposium proposals is open and ends 31^st of January 2023. Submission Online at https://www.medneuroscisociety.org/

• Title of the symposium
• Name(s), affiliation(s) and email(s) of the organizer(s)
• General abstract of the symposium describing the aims of the symposium (no more than 500 words)
• Name, address, email, academic position or career stage, and gender of each speaker (no abstracts are requested at this stage).

The MNS and its partners will provide a limited number of stipends for qualified early-career candidates (guidelines to be released soon). However, the symposium proponents are invited to seek funding for travel, accommodation and conference registration of the invited participants (MNS only offers logistic support at the meeting venue).