CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE
23rd ISN BIENNIAL MEETING in 2011

The ISN Officers should like to invite the membership to make suggestions concerning the location of the Biennial Meeting of the ISN for the year 2011. The Biennial International Meetings of ISN have been held in the places shown in Table 1. The evaluation of the list provides an overview on the number of times the Meeting has been held in the various countries (Table 2) or in the various regions or continents (Table 3). In accordance with a decision taken in the Council Meeting in Chicago in 2000, the biennial meetings should be organized in collaboration with ASN/APSN/ESN on a rotational basis. Since the meetings in 2007 and 2009 are organized jointly with the ASN and APSN, respectively, the meeting in 2011 will be organized jointly with the ESN and therefore will have to take place in Europe.

Proposals of meeting sites within this geographical area should be accompanied by the following information:

1. Name and location of the proposed hotel/institution/congress center meeting site.
2. Possible dates for the meeting that normally shall be in the summer.
3. The anticipated costs for accommodations in the host hotel and/or nearby hotels.
4. The cost and location of lower cost accommodations for students and postdoctoral fellows, e.g. at university dormitories.
5. The possibility of financial supports (or even better the agreement for support) from the city, local public organizations, and local companies.
6. A rough estimate of the whole budget and anticipated registration fees (member, non-member and student/emeritus) and what the fees would include.
7. The transportation facilities to and in the host city; proximity of airports, train stations, bus terminals, driving distances from major cities, distance from hotels to the meeting site (walking distance or transportation required?)
8. The expected weather conditions during the proposed time of the meeting.
9. The local cultural points of interest in the host city.
10. If proposal will be approved of, the proposing persons are supposed to form a Local Committee.

Please send your proposals to the ISN Secretary by March 15, 2007:
Dr. Agustina García
Instituto de Biotecnología y Biomedicina V. Villar Palasí
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallés)
Spain, 08193
Phone: + 34 935812802
Fax: + 34 935812011
Email: isn.office@uab.cat

Table 1. Locations of the Biennial International Meetings of ISN:

Table 2. Distribution of ISN Biennial Meetings by countries till 2009:

Table 3. Distribution of ISN Biennial Meetings by continents or regions till 2009: