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SSIB 2012
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Dear SSIB Community:
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 2012
SSIB meeting in Zurich. This year’s meeting is a special
meeting because we can celebrate two important
anniversaries at once. The year 2012 marks the 25th
anniversary of SSIB’s existence, and it marks the 20th
SSIB annual meeting. SSIB can be proud of its many
achievements over the past 25 years. SSIB began with
Harry Kissileff, Anthony Sclafani, Carol Maggio and
Suzanne Sunday as incorporators. The first President
(and our long time Honorary board member) Harry
Kissileff was supported by the first President-Elect Steve
Woods, and we are proud that Eliot Stellar was among
the first leaders of our society. The first independent
SSIB meeting was held in 1992 and was organized
by Bart Hoebel in Princeton. Now, 20 years later, I am
extremely pleased to see how well SSIB developed into
a society of vibrant research activities and with a large
number of wonderful and supportive members.
The program committee headed by Alan Watts and
seconded by Suzanne Higgs and Matthew Hayes
did a marvelous job to come up with a full schedule
of presentations. The state-of-the art lectures of our
“Mars series”, the symposia and the research abstracts
make proof of the tremendous research activities done
by SSIB members and the attendees of our annual
meeting. I am sure you will agree with me that SSIB
was again able to come up with a scientific program that
combines top class basic animal and human research in
ingestive behavior and to assemble the world leaders in
the field. The program also offers sessions dedicated to
professional development, meet-the-professor, and an
industry-sponsored lunch.
SSIB would have a limited half-life without contributions
from our young researchers. As every year, the program
committee received a large number of excellent
submissions from our young predoctoral students and
early post-docs. The support of our young generation is
one of the most important features of SSIB to me and I
am happy that we were again able to support a number
of our young investigators with the “new investigator
travel award”. The committee choosing the NITAwinners
was headed by our President-Elect Linda Rinaman, and
I want to take the opportunity to thank Linda for her work.
Next to the NITA awards, SSIB continues its tradition to
grant the “early career” Alan N. Epstein Reward Award
to Gorica Petrovic and the Distinguished Career Award
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT