Call for Symposium Proposals for the 10th Annual Genes, Brain and Behavior Meeting of IBANGS 2008 Portland, Oregon, USA May 5-9, 2008

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6th Fens Forum of European Neuroscience, July 12 – 16, 2008 Geneva, Switzerland

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Genes, Brain and Behavior Meeting 10th Annual Meeting – May 5-9, 2008 Portland, Oregon USA

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We hope to see all of you there!

Neuroscientists: What you always wanted to know about stereology, but were afraid to ask.

A special two day introductory course in stereology for neuroscientists will be held in San Diego immediately before the Neuroscience Meeting, November 1-2, 2007. For more information see http://www.neurostereology.info

G2B Impact factor

Last week, the Institute for Scientific Information posted the 2006 journal impact factors. For the third consecutive year, Genes, Brain and Behavior has posted an increase and now has an IF of 4.385, ranking it 36th among 199 neuroscience journals. In addition, G2B was listed for the first time this year in the category "Behavioral Sciences".

Here we rank 4th! It should be noted that the 3 journals ranking higher are all review journals, making G2B the highest ranking experimental journal in this category. If we had also been ranked in some other relevant categories, we would have obtained the following rankings:

Genetics: 30

Psychiatry: 13

Although there exists no journal that can be seen as a direct competitor for the same niche as G2B, almost all journals publishing articles in some of the areas covered by us (psychiatric genetics, neurogenetics, behavior genetics, behavioral neuroscience, etc) have impact factors of 1 or more points less!

Allow me to remind you of all the points that make G2B the preferred outlet for your best work:

-Rapid editorial procedures. Despite a huge increase in manuscript submissions, authors receive a first editorial decision generally within 5 weeks of submitting. The G2B editorial team is working hard to reduce this time even more.

-Rapid Online Early publication. In the mean, articles are published online 4-5 weeks after authors return their corrected proofs, which in turn they receive only weeks after their article has been accepted for publication. New articles published Online Early are now included in PubMed within a few days of publication. A new feature introduced this year has been "Online Accepted": within a few days after acceptance, manuscripts are posted online on our Synergy website (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/GBB).

-Possibility of free color on the web (printed articles are b/w but the web version has color).

-Online Open, the possibility to have your article posted on the Blackwell Synergy site freely available for all for a fixed fee. Blackwell is fully compliant with NIH and Wellcome Trust requirements.

-High visibility of your article. Thousands of institutions all over the world have access to G2B. In addition, the number or persons signing up for electronic tables of contents is growing almost exponentially.

-Free print and online subscription for IBANGS members (join now at http://www.ibangs.org).

Genes, Brain and Behavior aims to publish only the highest quality research. Our Associate Editors and referees generally provide authors with detailed comments to help them improve their manuscripts as much as possible.

Our current rejection rate is over 65% and despite large increases in the numbers of issues and pages published, submissions increase even faster and the rejection rate is therefore expected to rise even further in the near future. Do not let this discourage you from submitting: our rapid editorial process ensures that the risk of rejection is well worth the reward of being published in the most exciting behavioral neurogenetics journal around!

With many thanks to the Associate Editors, Editorial Board members, and the many authors and referees who work very hard to continue to improve our journal!

Wim E. Crusio, PhD

Editor-in-Chief, Genes, Brain and Behavior Centre de Neurosciences Intégratives et Cognitives

Reminder to all that registration is now available for the 21st International Mammalian Genome Conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan October 28-31, 2007. More information is available at imgs.org

Student (and postdoc) scholarships are available. Application consists of sending an email to millerdr@ornl.gov by July 13, 2007. Please include your name, address, the name of your laboratory head, a copy of your abstract and your position (student or post doc). You must also submit your abstract on line at www.imgc2007.com/abstract.html The scholarship will cover your registration fee, a housing allowance for 5 nights and some funds for travel. As in previous years, you must be a member of the IMGS to receive financial aid. To become a member, you can apply at imgs.org. You can apply for membership at the same time as aid application. We look forward to another highly interactive meeting and hope you will be a part of it!

The results of this year's IBANGS elections are as follow:

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The 9th Annual Meeting of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) was held in Doorwerth, The Netherlands (May 21-25, 2007)

For those of you who attended the 2007 conference in Doorwerth, The Netherlands, we hope that you had an enjoyable and productive meeting . If you attended and did not complete an evaluation of the meeting, please fill in evaluation sent by BANGnet and email it back to Mark Rutledge-Gorman rutledgm@ohsu.edu as soon as possible. We need the data to include in our progress report, due July 1, 2007. Thanks.