Welcome to the 16th “International Symposium on Chromaffin Cell Biology” (ISCCB16).  In 1982 a group of 100 researchers from all over the world decided to meet for a week on the Spanish island of Ibiza to discuss the chemical, physiological, pharmacological, and clinical aspects of chromaffin cell biology. The meeting was an outstanding success, so the researchers decided to repeat it biennially at different venues. The ISCCB’s goals are to promote high quality neuroscience research using chromaffin cells as a biological model, to exchange ideas, to promote collaboration between laboratories with complementary methodologies, to foster scientific strategies, and to bring together senior and junior neuroscientists.

An international advisory committee composed of experts on exocytosis/endocytosis, ion channels, Ca2+ signaling, neurotransmitter synthesis/storage, and methodologies provides guidance to the organization, largely in the form of scientific themes for the symposium. The ISCCB meeting in Beijing will cover major themes including, exocytosis/endocytosis, ion channels, Ca2+ signaling, neurotransmitter synthesis/storage, secretion-disease, and methodologies/techniques used to study secretion. This promises to be a very exciting meeting with excellent opportunities to interact with well-known investigators across diverse areas of chromaffin cell study. 

We hereby invite you to participate in the symposium, and are looking forward to welcoming you to Beijing!

The total ISCCB’s attendance is approximately 140-180 scientists from Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Australia. Usually, more than 60% of the participants are young scientists and, for the first time, the ISCCB will be held in China in 2011.

Zhuan Zhou, professor,
Institute of Molecular Medicine,
Peking University;

Lung-sen Kao, professor,
Department of Life Sciences,
National Yang-Ming University.