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While you enjoy the ANA meeting 2021, Salzburg, you may wonder who are those behind this initiative and why do they do it. The meeting is actually supported by a wide team of enthusiastic volunteers. Every two years, these people strive to offer you the most excellent platform to tell your story and hear the latest news about Austrian and International Neuroscience. Why do they do it? In one word, altruism. Also and most crucial, the loyalty and contributions of our members and generous sponsors make this event significant. Thank you!

Isabella Sarto Jackson (vice-president of Austrian Neuroscience Association) is a neurobiologist passionate about the interdisciplinary combination of neurobiology, cognitive sciences, evolutionary biology and social education.

Isabella is also managing director of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognitive Research (KLI), lecturer for cognitive science at the University of Vienna and guest lecturer at the Comenius University in Bratislava, editor of the journal “Biological Theory”, speaker at Urania Vienna and chair of the committee of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Biology.

Want to know more about Isabella and her team?

visit:

https://social-brain.jimdosite.com/

https://www.kli.ac.at/en/people/sarto-jackson

Sébastien Couillard-Després (board member of Austrian Neuroscience Association) is a biochemist and neurobiologist who dedicates his lifework to the restoration of the functions of the central nervous system after traumas or diseases of the central nervous system, with particular focus on injury of the spinal cord.

Sébastien is director of the Research Institute of Experimental Neuroregeneration at the Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, associate editor of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, member of the European Society for Molecular Imaging and former member of the Research Steering Committee of the Paracelsus Medical University.

Want to know more about Sébastien and his team?

visit:

https://www.pmu.ac.at/en/neuroregeneration.html

Francesco Ferraguti (President of the Austrian Neuroscience Association) is a medical doctor and passionate researcher who focuses on understanding the neural mechanisms mediating emotional information processing in the amygdala, and in particular how fear memories are formed, stored and supressed.

Francesco is head of the Department of Pharmacology at the Medical University of Innsbruck, director of the Neuroscience Doctoral Program “Signal Processing In Neurons (SPIN)” – excellence program funded by the FWF at the Medical University of Innsbruck. He is also coordinator of the Neuroscience Module for Medical Students and Molecular Medicine Master at the Medical University of Innsbruck.

Furthermore, Francesco was the main organiser of the joint meeting of the Austrian Neuroscience Association and Austrian Pharmacological Society/Austria, September 2019 Innsbruck (ANA / APHAR meeting 2019 Innsbruck), one of the most inspiring and stimulating scientific events in Austria that sets the high standards of excellence for future initiatives.

Want to know more about Francesco and his team?

visit: 

https://www.i-med.ac.at/pharmakologie/index.html.en

https://www.neurospin.at/content/home/people/pis/ferraguti_francesco/