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JULY 10-14, 2012 • ZURICH
to SSIB’s first President-Elect Steve Woods. Gorica’s
work helps us understand how cognitive processes
in the telencephalon can interface with circuits in the
hypothalamus and hindbrain to control feeding behavior;
again, I thank Linda and her committee for her work to
select this year’s awardee. Steve’s accomplishments
are just too numerous to be mentioned here. Come
and listen to his presentation during the awards session
on Saturday afternoon! For the second time in 2012,
SSIB is also proud to grant the Hoebel Award for
Creativity; this year, it will be given to one of our most
eminent colleagues, Harvey Grill. Harvey’s work helps
us understand the important role of the hindbrain in
ingestive behavior; his work helps to keep our view
balanced in a sometimes a bit hypothalamocentric
world. Two more awardees will only be selected during
the meeting, i.e. the Gerard P. Smith award for best
graduate student presentation and the Research Diet
award for the best postdoctoral fellow presentation.
Finally, let me thank the many people that actually help
to make SSIB and its annual meeting happen. SSIB
would not function without the dedication and help of
our board, our committee members and our executive
manager Jamie Price with her team. My local colleague
Wolfgang Langhans and his secretary Ruth Hauser were
indispensable for the local organization of the meeting at
“their” university (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology;
ETH) rather than at “my” university (University of Zurich;
UZH). We also thank the very generous financial support
of our members, non-corporate grants and corporate
sponsors. Their contribution is gratefully appreciated.
I look forward to an exciting week of hearing the latest
developments in research and discovery, and we should
of course not forget the social aspect to meet excellent
friends and colleagues. Enjoy Zurich!
Best Regards,
Thomas Lutz, Ph.D.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT