Spring 2000

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Evening session of the Society for Stimulus Properties of Drugs at the ASPET meeting in Boston. (Abstracts due April 15.)

The SSPD will sponsor an evening session at the annual meeting of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) (June 4 – 8) in Boston. The session is scheduled for Wednesday, June 7, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. For SSPD members who are current on their dues, there is no fee for attending the session (members who are not current on their dues can pay them at the session). Non-members will be charged a nominal fee. Food and drink will be provided for all attendees, and there will be a cash bar.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is April 15, 2000. Please restrict abstracts to a maximum of 1/2 page, single-spaced, 12-pt type, and underline the name of the presenting author. The time allotted for each presentation will depend on how many presentations are accepted; in any event, no less than 15 minutes will be allowed for each speaker. Send abstracts for the SSPD meeting in Boston to Jenny Wiley PhD, SSPD Secretary-Treasurer, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Box 980613, Richmond, VA 23298-0613, USA, (804) 828-2067, (804) 828-2117 (Fax), E-mail: jwiley@hsc.vcu.edu or secretary@sspd.org.uk Abstracts may be sent as e-mail attachment, if desired.

Please note that this will be the first year that the newly formed Division of Behavioral Pharmacology will participate in the ASPET meeting. Also note that the Behavioral Pharmacology Society (BPS) organizes a meeting in Boston on June 2-3, immediately before the ASPET meeting. Consult the ASPET home page (http://www.faseb.org/aspet/) or contact Jonathan Katz (jkatz@intra.nida.nih.gov) for program details of special interest to behavioral pharmacologists and neuropharmacologists, and contact Jack Bergman (jbergman@hms.harvard.edu) for information about the BPS meeting.

BOSTON 2000

Greetings. You may have read some exciting things about Behavioral Pharmacology in the most recent issue of The Pharmacologist. Among the most important news items is that the Division will sponsor several symposia of particular interest to behavioral pharmacologists at the Pharmacology 2000 meeting that will be held in Boston on June 4th through 8th. The preliminary program is out now, and if you don't have one you can get one for the ASPET office [phone: 301/530-7010] or you can check the ASPET web site for information [http://www.faseb.org/aspet/].

The Symposia at ASPET of particular interest to behavioral pharmacologists include:

Summer 2004

Fall 2003

Fall 2002

Fall 2001

Spring 2001

Fall 2000

Spring 2000

Fall 1999

Spring 1999