University of Calgary

Meeting Impressions

ISHN-Cheiron 2011 -- Sulphur Mountain 

"Announcing" the ISHN-Cheiron Meeting at 2,451 m above sea level: ISHN President, Dr. Frank W. Stahnisch on top of
Sulphur Mountain (Sept-20, 2009 -- "very cold and windy") in Banff National Park -- (photograph taken by SF, © FWS)

Change of ISHN Presidency 2010

"Change of Guards" -- The transition of the Presidency from Dr. Marjorie Lorch (Birkbeck College London)  to Dr. Frank W. Stahnisch (University of Calgary) at the Annual Meeting of the ISHN at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France
(June 19, 2010) -- (photograph taken by PF, © FWS) 

From the grand old Salpetriere in France ... 

Salpetriere

To the "Land of Grizzly Bears" -- Alberta, Canada ...

Grizzly Street Banff

Visit of ISHN founding member Dr. Stanley Finger to the Hotchkiss
Brain Institute and excursion to "Grizzly Street" in Banff, Alberta on
Sept-19, 2009 -- (all photographs taken by FWS, © FWS)

Interesting enough, Banff city cemetery has many tomb stones, showing the names of great English-speaking neuroscientists
-- following to two centuries of strong Scottish and English immigration: "Hutchinson", "Sherrington", "Moorhouse", "Hobbs",
"Mitchell", or "Hill" etc.:

Tomb stones at Banff city cemetery

(photograph taken by FWS, © FWS)