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Upcoming SSPD Meeting
Monday, November 10th (7:30-10:00 p.m.) at the Society for Neuroscience 33rd Annual Meeting,
New Orleans November 8 - 12, 2003
SSPD News and Notes
Greetings and welcome to the second installment of the electronic
SSPD newsletter. Feel free to forward this newsletter to any colleagues
that might be interested in the stimulus properties of drugs. We are
also interested in updating our email list of members so forward any new
email addresses to Joe Porter. Any items
of interest that you have for future newsletters may be submitted to the
Secretary/Treasurer Joe Porter (jporter@vcu.edu).
There are a number of SSPD members to thank for their recent and ongoing
service to our organization. I would like to take this opportunity to thank
outgoing President Michael
Swedberg on behalf of the society for his stewardship in 2001-2002.
In addition, I would like to thank Ian Stolerman and his son Dominic for
the creation and maintenance of our SSPD webpage (http://www.sspd.org.uk/). Dominic Stolerman,
our Webmaster extraordinaire, has handed over his design, construction, and
maintenance reins to Adam Prus
from Virginia Commonwealth University. Thank
you Dominic for the years of service and thank you Adam for taking over this
weighty responsibility! Ian has handed over the position of Site Manager
to Joe Porter, the Secretary/Treasurer for SSPD. The Site Manager position
entails managing the information and membership list that goes onto the website
in conjunction with the Webmaster.
A number of previous SSPD members have been surprised to find that SSPD members
still gather at Society for Neurosciences each year. I believe this trend
in declining attendance reflects two issues. First, most of us interested
in the stimulus properties of drugs supplement our research programs with
other behavioral and pharmacological assays. Therefore, our SSPD meeting
competes with other satellite and ancillary events at the Society for Neurosciences
meeting for the attention of our members. For example, in Orlando 2002,
our meeting coincided with NIDA’s Neurobiology of Relapse satellite meeting.
A second issue to consider is that many of our SSPD members only attend Society
for Neurosciences meeting every few years. For example, many SSPD members
attend the Behavioral Pharmacology/American Society for Pharmacology and
Experimental Therapeutics meeting in April. Furthermore, even if these SSPD
members that are also BPS/ASPET members do attend Society for Neurosciences,
we may lose their company to the popular ASPET social often held on Tuesday
nights at SFN! Therefore, we have moved the annual SSPD meeting to
Monday night this year from 7:30–10:00 pm - room and location of the meeting
TBD. If you have any thoughts on these issues, please send your suggestions
or comments to me at eawalker@comcast.net.
We hope that the change in meeting time to Monday night in
New Orleans will help to draw out our members to hear their colleagues discuss
some of the current research underway for the stimulus properties of drugs.
Ellen Walker
President, SSPD
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Summer 2004