10 th European Symposium on Insect Taste and Olfaction ESITO X September 15-22, 2007 Roscoff, France

Symposium site
Marine Biology Research Station
29682 ROSCOFF cedex, France
http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/Accueil)

The meeting will start on the evening of Saturday, September 15 and end Friday afternoon, September 21. Oral presentations and poster sessions will be grouped in Symposia.

Registration and payment
Our administration obliges us to ask for advanced payment of the registration fee and costs for the banquet and excursion for you and accompanying persons. Please calculate the total amount with the help of the registration form and follow the payment instructions on that form. Please also indicate if you will present a poster or talk and the title of your presentation on the registration form. The deadline for payment and final registration is June 15, 2007.

Abstracts
Please prepare an abstract of your presentation following the instructions:
Format: Word RTF file. The one-page text includes Title, Author names, full addresses, and e-mail addresses. Please follow the standard formatting of ESITO abstracts as in the attached sample or visit http://www.esito-symp.org/2005_TalksAbstracts.html

Submission: send the abstracts as an e-mail attachment tosanton@versailles.inra.fr and to flybrain@neurobio.arizona.edu so that we can prepare the abstract volume and can include your abstract on the official ESITO website.

The deadline for abstract submission is May 16, 2007.

Symposia

A video projector and computer (PC/Mac) will be available for your presentations. If you require a slide projector or overhead projector for your presentation, please let us know in advance!

- Molecular biology, physiology of chemosensory reception and transduction processes
A. Molecular aspects of olfaction
B. Transduction
 

- Coding of chemical signals and functional anatomy of the chemosensory systems
A. Peripheral coding of chemosensory signals
B. Central coding of chemosensory signals and functional anatomy

- Development, evolution and higher functions of chemosensory systems  

- Plasticity of chemosensory systems  

- Behaviour and Chemical Ecology

Poster presentations

Posters will be an important part of the meeting. Within each symposium we will organise a Poster session where each poster will be briefly presented orally with 2-3 slides followed by at least 1 hour to visit the posters of the symposium.
Poster size: 90 x 120 cm (width x height)

Hotel reservation

Please make your own reservations for accommodation with the hotels on the attached list, or indicate the type of room at the Station you are interested in on the registration form. We will confirm your reservation for the rooms at the Station depending on availability.

(Rooms at the station can be paid in ROSCOFF by Credit card or cash only).

Travel information

How to reach Roscoff in September  

By train from Paris 

Paris Montparnasse train station – Roscoff / September 15, 2007

Roscoff – Paris Montparnasse train station / September 21, 2007

Please note that it takes at least 1 hour and a half to get from the airport Charles de Gaulle to the train station Montparnasse.

Depending on arrivals/departure of participants, we will organise shuttles from the TGV station Morlaix to Roscoff.

By plane, the closest airport is in Brest

There are several flights per day connecting the 2 airports of Paris - Orly and Charles de Gaulle - to Brest. There are also some cheap companies flying from different airports in England to Brest (e.g. London Luton, Manchester…). Then you'll have to take the train from Brest to Roscoff. It takes approximately 1h30 to 2h00 with a change in Morlaix. Depending on the arrivals of participants, we will organise shuttles from the airport in Brest to Roscoff.

Here is a list of flights on Air France between Paris and Brest:

September 15

Paris Orly – Brest
09:15 – 10:25
12:15 – 13:25
15:30 – 16:40
21:20 – 22:30

Paris Charles de Gaulle – Brest
9:35 – 10:50
15:55 – 17:00
21:00 – 22:15

September 21

Brest- Paris Orly
06:25 - 07:40
09:05 – 10:20
11:10 – 12:25
14:05 – 15:20
17:25 – 18:40
20:50 – 22:05

Brest – Paris Charles de Gaulle
06:35 - 07:55
13:45 – 15:05
18:00 – 19:20

September 22

Paris Orly – Brest
06:25 - 7:40
11:10 – 12:25
14:05 – 15:20
17:25 – 18:40

Brest – Paris Charles de Gaulle
06:35 - 07:55
13:45 – 15:05
18:00 – 19:20

Please inform us on your flight/train number and arrival time as soon as you have booked your flights/trains so that we can organise shuttles! Please send this information to:

santon@versailles.inra.frand nboitte@versailles.inra.fr