The Gordon Research Seminar on Catecholamines is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The 2011 Gordon Research Seminar on Catecholamines will highlight novel catecholamine research across a diverse range of topics. As the field of catecholamines research expands, it is necessary to develop integrated approaches to the study of catecholamine function. As such, the GRS will seeks to incorporate topics ranging from catecholamine neurotransmission, advances in methods, to talks integrating catecholamine physiology, pharmacology, neuroethology, epigenetics and behavior. We plan to highlight these new advances by selecting junior scientists at the forefront of the field to provide a unique opportunity to discuss recent advances in the understanding of how catecholamine systems function.

The 2011 GRS has an expected participation of 60 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and seeks to focus on similar themes as the formal GRC. Oral presentations will be given exclusively by students and postdoctoral fellows. These presentations will follow the general GRC philosophy of encouraging extensive discussion. Student speakers will be chosen by the GRS organizing committee on the basis of abstracts submitted prior to the meeting. The remainder of postdoctoral fellows and students are encouraged to present posters. All participants in the GRS are encouraged to attend the formal GRC during the following week.