The 11th International Symposium on VIP, PACAP and Related Peptides

The organizing committee of the 11th International Symposium on VIP, PACAP and Related Peptides is pleased to invite scientists working in the field of VIP, PACAP and related peptides to join us at this exciting event.

This symposium is the 11th time that scientists sharing common interest in this peptide family come together and discuss their research. The main goal of the symposium is to discuss most recent findings on different functional, structural and genomic aspects of the VIP, PACAP family of peptides.



Our goal is also to promote scientific collaborations between different groups. We would like to invite young scientists to join us and get to know the people working in this field as well as the newest results. We believe that such personal encounters could be a driving force in their carriers.



The symposium will be held in Pecs, a multicultural city of Central Europe. Pecs is the fifth largest city in Hungary with a cozy Mediterranean atmosphere and a lively environment. Pecs has a more than 2000-year-old history. The city is rich in Roman, Turkish, Hungarian and Slavic cultural heritage and thanks to the position of the city as Cultural Capital of Europe in 2010, many recent modern developments can also be seen.



The host institution is the University of Pecs, which is a university with 10 faculties, with more than 30 thousand students. The medical faculty has international programs, where more than 2000 students from all over the world are enrolled. This international atmosphere is also visible in the scientific activity of the faculty, which has a long tradition of promoting and conducting science.



The conference venue is the Janos Szentagothai Research Center, which was inaugurated in 2012, in the year of the 100th birthday of one of the greatest Hungarian scientists. Professor Szentagothai was chair of the Anatomy Department here in Pecs, 1946-1963. One of his main research areas was neuroendocrinology, with special interest in the hypothalamo-hypophyseal system. His followers established the collaboration between Pecs University and the US-Japan Biomedical Research Laboratories led by dr. Arimura in New Orleans. Thanks to dr Arimura?s efforts to help Hungarian scientists from Pecs, he was elected a honorary doctor of the University of Pecs. The conference organizers are members of the PACAP Research Team of the University of Pecs and Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The team has a history of conducting PACAP research for more than 10 years, following the heritage of dr. Akira Arimura. Thus, hosting the VIP PACAP symposium in the Janos Szentagothai Research Center has symbolic meaning for us and it is a true honor. We are looking forward to welcoming all of you here in Pecs


Dora Reglodi
dora.reglodi@aok.pte.hu
chair of the organizing committee

and

Andrea Tamas
andreatamassz@gmail.com
secretary of the organizing committee

Tudományos bizottság tagjai:
Reglodi, Dora MD.,PhD.,DSc.
chair of the organizing committee


Tamas, Andrea MD.,PhD.
secretary of the organizing committee


PTE-MTA PACAP Lendulet Research Team
Atlasz, Tamas MSc.,PhD.
Banki, Eszter MD.
Danyadi, Bese MD.
Czeiter, Endre MD.,PhD.
Csanaky, Katalin MD.
Fabian, Eszter MSc.
Farkas, Jozsef MD.
Fulop, Balazs
Gaszner, Balazs MD.,PhD.
Hollósy, Tibor MD
Horvath-Opper, Gabriella MD.,PhD.
Horvath, Gabor MD.
Jungling, Adel
Kiss, Peter MD.,PhD.
Kvarik, Timea MD.
Laszlo, Eszter
Mammel, Barbara MD.
Matkovits, Attila MD.
Nagy D., Andras MD.,PhD.
Opper, Balazs MSc.
Rivnyak, Adam
Szabadfi, Krisztina PhD. MSc.
Varga, Andrea
Werling, Dora MD.


National advisory board
Zsolt Pirger MSc.,PhD.
Tibor Kiss MSc.,PhD.,DSc.


International Committee on VIP, PACAP and Related Peptides
Jan Fahrenkrug (Denmark)
Rosa P. Gomariz (Spain)
Illana Gozes (Israel)
Marc Laburthe (France)
Victor May (USA)
Atsuro Miyata (Japan)
Joseph R. Pisegna (USA)
Sami I. Said (USA)
Seiji Shioda (Japan)
David Vaudry (France)
Hubert Vaudry (France)
James A. Waschek (USA)