Age limit of applicants: 40 years old as of Nov. 1, 2014

Travel Awards will be offered to 50 young scientists who come from abroad and participate in the Inner Ear Biology Workshop 2014 in Kyoto to give a presentation. Recipients will be given 100,000 Japanese yen as a partial support for their traveling expenses. The prize money will be provided in Japanese yen upon their arrival in Kyoto. Those who wish to apply for this award are requested to indicate to that effect on the abstract submission form on the website and send their abstract and CV.
Age limit of applicants: 40 years old as of Nov. 1, 2014

        MEDEL has agreed to provide a minimum support to maintain alive the official IEB site for 2010. The issue of the official IEB site is still unresolved and it is hoped that some solution will be found during the businnes at the Prague workshop.

        MEDEL has agreed to provide a minimum support to maintain alive the official IEB site for the next few years. The issue of the official IEB site is still unresolved and it is hoped that some solution will be found during the businnes at the Utrecht workshop.

         The Ferrara IEB site has been downloaded into the official site, and can be accessed from here ( i.e. abstract book) :

       During the 44th Inner Ear Biology Workshop a number of IMPORTANT decisions were made :

1. The registration fees, established for the first time during the 43th workshop at MontPelier, remain as 150 Euros for participants and something less for students.

2. To guarantee that the IEB traditions are maintained over the years it was decided to form a steering comittee (Board) which will facilitate the duties of each organizer. Jean-Luc Puel was elected as the coordinator of the board and he will announce its structure duting the 45th meeting at Ferrara.

3. The future of this web site is at serious risk, since the organizers cannot fund its yearly expenses (1000 Euros). The web site issue will be discussed and hopefuly resolved at the forthcoming Ferrara meeting.

       The IEB 2007 meeting in London is scheduled from 16th to 19th of September and it will be held at the Institute of Child Health.

        A pre-meeting symposium is scheduled on Sunday September 16th on the topics "Nerve, Ear and Synapse: emerging ideas in sensory-neural hearing impairment".

       More information and the address of the satellite London site will be available from March 2007.

On behalf of the Tubingen organizing committee, (Tony Gummer):

Dear Colleagues,

      Hearing Research has offered to publish manuscripts of oral and poster presentations from the Inner Ear Biology Symposium and Workshop 2005 in a special issue. This is a very generous offer, and we would encourage participants to contribute. Please note that this is a free offer, and that it is the policy of the organizing committee that every participant is free to submit his/her work to any journal he/she chooses.

        Please submit manuscripts to Hearing Research mentioning that it was partly or fully presented at the IEB Symposium and Workshop in Tübingen. Manuscripts will be subjected to the usual peer-review process. Please consult an issue of Hearing Research or the Hearing Research website http://ees.elsevier.com/heares/ for instructions for authors.

       If enough manuscripts are accepted (15 minimum), they will be published in a special issue of Hearing Research. If less than 15 manuscripts are accepted, they will be published in regular issues of Hearing Research.

              The deadline for submission is 28 February 2006.

The Tubingen scientific committee has defined revised guide-lines for the annual Spoendlin award :

The Spoendlin Junior Award will be given to the best paper submitted by a young researcher, less than 35 years old.

The paper should contain non-published original research.

The best paper will be selected by a jury of at least three experts before the Workshop.

Jury members shall not belong to the same department of any of the entrants.

Members of the local organizing committee will not be part of the jury; they will cast the decisive vote should the jury not be able to arrive at a majority decision.

An award will not be made if in the opinion of the jury members it was not justified by the quality of the science.

The winner will present his work as a lecture at the Workshop.

The Award will consist of a plaque and a Euro 1,000 prize (charged to the Workshop).

Manuscript in extenso must be e-mailed to the Workshop Secretariat before 17. May, 2005.

The manuscript must be the entrant's own research. When the entrant is not the sole author, a statement of consent and relative contributions must be provided with submission of the manuscript.

The nominee will be informed by 17. July 2005.

The abstracts from the Debrecen 2004 meeting are now available on line. To speed-up downloading times and to bridge compatibility with both PCs and MACs the abstract material is presented as small pdf (Adobe Acrobat ) files

The 41th IEB meeting at Debrecen was very successful with a large number of participants. The web site of the Debrecen meeting will be transferred into this site by early October 2004, and the abstracts (orals and posters) will be available on-line on line approximately by the same time.

Updated information on the Hearing Research Special Volume from the Debrecen presented 2004 manuscripts will be also presented in the News section.

We have been notified from the Editorial offices of Hearing Research that the Special volume dedicated to the 2003 IEB meeting at Granada will contain the following 3 manuscripts (other manuscripts are still under revision).

Varela-Nieto et al : ?TROPHIC EFFECTS OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR- I (IGF-I) IN THE INNER EAR?.

Szucs et al.: ?Differential expression of purinergic receptor subtypes in the OHCs of the guinea pig?.

Previati et al: ?RNA expression induced by Cisplatin in an Organ of Corti-derived immortalized cell line?.

A part of the material from the IEB 2003 meeting at Granada is available on-line. The abstracts of that meeting are not available yet .

The National Organization for Hearing Research and University of California, San Diego are sponsoring a 5th meeting on the applications of molecular biology to the investigation of the auditory system. For more information clich here.

Dr. Gummer from the Section of Physiological Acoustics in Tubingen has informed us that the laboratory facilities of his group can be used as a Marie Curie Training Site for interested Ph.D. students. To obtain more information for this unique opportunity click here .

The 40th IEB meeting at Granada was very successful with a large number of participants. The web site of the Granada meeting will be transferred into this site by early November 2003, and the abstracts (orals and posters) will be available on-line on line approximately by the same time.

We have been notified from the Editorial offices of Hearing Research that the Special volume dedicated to the 2002 IEB meeting at Liege will contain the following 8 manuscripts.

B. Mazurek, E. Winter, J. Fuchs, H. Haupt, J. Gross ?Susceptibility of the hair cells of the newborn rat cochlea to hypoxia and ischemia?

T Takeda, S. Sawada, S. Takeda, H. Kitano, M. Suzuki, A. Kakigi, S. Takeuchi ?The effects of V2-antagonist (OPC-31260) on endolymphatic hydrops?

A.E. Stenberg, R. Simonoska, D. Stygar L. Sahlin, M. Hultcrantz ?Effect of estrogen and antiestrogens on the estrogen receptor content in the inner ear of ovariectomized rats?

S. K.R. Plontke, A.N. Salt ?Quantitative interpretation of corticosteroid pharmacokinetics in inner fluids using computer simulations?

M. A. Vicente-Torres, D. Davila, M.V. Bartolome, F. Carricondo, P. Gil-Loyzaga ?Biochemical Evidence for the Presence of Serotonin Transporters in the Rat Cochlea?

S. Hatzopoulos, J. Petruccelli, G. Laurell, M. Previati, A. Martini ?Lack of significant changes in distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) in the Sprague Dawley rat after carboplatin treatment?

B. Sergi, A. Ferraresi, D. Troiani, G. Paludetti, A. Fetoni ?Cisplatin ototoxicity in guinea pig: vestibular and cochlear damage?

A.N. Salt, C. Kellner, S. Hale ?Contamination of perilymph sampled from the basal cochlear turn with cerebrospinal fluid?

The abstracts from the Liege 39th IEB meeting are on-line.

Dr. Aaron Moller, editor of Hearing Research has informed us that the submission deadline for the 39th IEB manuscripts has been postponed to November 8th (Friday).
    Interested authors might send their manuscripts (and images / photos) initially by email to this address and then they can send by normal mail the 3 paper copies to the Hearing Research editorial address, shown below.

Aage R. Moller, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief
HEARING RESEARCH
University of Texas at Dallas
Callier Center for Communication Disorders
1966 Inwood Rd,
Dallas, TX 75235
Phone: (214) 905-3148
FAX: (214) 905-3006

We have transfered to the IEB archives the 39th IEB Liege web site. By the end of this year the detailed abstracts from the meeting will be on-line (and fully searchable).

The 39th meeting at Liege was very succesful thanks to the excellent time coordination of the Liege group, guided by Dr. Lefebvre. During the bussinness meeting it was decided to enhance the pages of this web-site with material (registration, abstract submission, guides how to reach the conference place etc) dedicated to each annual conference. As a base-model we plan to use and subsequently modify the succesfull web-implementation developed by the Liege group by Drs. van Camp and Lefebvre. In a couple of months the first pages dedicated to the 40th IEB meering at Granada will be available on-line.

The IEB site has a new look. We will be in designing-process until the end of September, so if you have any comments / additions please send a message to the site administrator.

The scientific program of the 39th IEB meeting in Liege is now available on-line. You can download also the oral and poster presentation as pdf files.

The deadline for abstract submission for the IEB-2002 meeting in Liege has been extended to June 30th, 2002. In the Li?e site you can find a page which will facilitate the abstract submission process. To remember though, the the whole abstract SHOULD NOT exceed 2000 characters (spaces included)
       It has been also communicated to us that registered individuals SHOULD BOOK a hotel as soon as possible.

A general reminder to the IEB members who wish to send an oral or a poster contribution to the next meeting at Liege. The deadline for abstract submission is on June 15th, 2002. In the Li?e site you can find a page which will facilitate the abstract submission process. To remember though, the the whole abstract SHOULD NOT exceed 2000 characters (spaces included)

The complete set of abstracts from the 38th IEB meeting at Rome, are now available on line.

We have received a number of requests regarding the SEARCH function we have in the site. The terms you can search should be related to the contents of this site ONLY. The search procedure does not SEARCH the web , but it is limited to the index of the words contained in the web pages of the IEB site. For example you cannot search for contents related to the Li?e site. The searchable index is updated automatically at the end of each month. In this context, if we place on our web pages some new information on the 15th of the month, we will not be able to trace it via a SEARCH query until the fist day of the next month.

The complete set of abstracts from the 38th IEB meeting at Rome are now available on line.

More news regardiing the NEXT IEB meeting. For those who have preregistered already there is an additional request from the organizer Dr. Lefebvre :

      "Before sending a second annoucement, we would like to implement our website by adding a list of preregistred peoplewith their associated topics that will be covered during the next ieb meeting in Li?e in September 2002. May I ask you to give us the topic and a brief title (if you wish) of your future presentation in Li?e. The topics could be taken in the following list, however new topics could be added if enough abstracts fit them.

Themes and topics:

• 1. Development and regeneration
  
  

• 2. Ototoxicity:apoptosis and cell death
  
  

• 3. Otoprotection
  
  

• 4. Electrophysiology of cochlea and auditory pathways
  
  

• 5. Clinical otorhinolaryngology
  
  

• 6. Genetic: human hereditary deafness
  
  

• 7. Cell signalling, ionic channels and receptors
  
  

• 8. Central and peripheral auditory morphology
  

As you might know already, from 2001 every IEB meeting will have a separate space in the IEB web structure and we will try to enrich your information about the future IEB activities by presenting early announcements / invitations from the local organizers. We present a salutation from the Organizer of the next meeting in Liege, Dr. Philippe Lefebvre.

Dear Colleagues,

        On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the 39th Inner Ear Biology Meeting, I would like to invite you to Li?e next September. The workshops have always had a very special character, which it has been possible to preserve over the years. This meeting in Li?e will be organized in the Spirit of the Founders of the workshop. The main purpose was and still is to provide the opportunity for an open exchange of ideas with open, friendly and, if necessary, hard discussion. In this way, people get to know each other and become friends, even if they have differing opinions. That is the reason why we will try to create the conditions of excellent scientific exchanges in a state of the art "Palais des Congr?" in Li?e and of socializing after the scientific session. The congress palace of Li?e is situated in the center of the city and has a nice view on the river. On the Saturday, we have organized a satellite symposium on "advanced treatment of inner ear disorders" which is sponsored by the Royal ENT Society of Belgium. This symposium will be the link between the basic research on the future daily medical practice. The attendance to meeting is free of charge as usual. Every day, we will have a tutorial lecture on a selected topic of a general interest, as this was appreciated last year in Rome.
        The social program will include a cruise on the river followed by a diner in an ancient church and a gala diner in a castle. Finally as customary, we will have a family excursion to Brugge, also called the Venice of the North. To get a glimpse at the program, please visit our website: www.uia.ac.be/ieb2002/.

        I hope that you will join us in Li?e from September 7th to 10th, 2002 and please, if you have any question, contact us at + 32 43665905

Sincerely yours,

Philippe Lefebvre
Chairman of the Organizing Committee

The registration for the next IEB meeting at Liege has started. If you want to pre-register or see the working status of the 39th meeting, click here.

With the creation of the Otoacoustic Emissions Portal, we have concentrated in one site a lot of material concerning the otoacoustic emissions and their use as a tool to probe the cochlear amplifier. We are looking forward to receive contributions in areas of biophysics and Hearing Science where OAEs as used. If you have something like an ARO poster, a congress communication, a powerpoint presentation etc, which you consider interesting for the OAE community, please contact us.

From this year, each conference will have it's own page where comments , pictures and abstracts will be available. We are currently designing the pages from the last meeting at Rome. You may access the information from each meeting clicking on the voice "Locations and Organizers" in the MENU at your left.