AVA/Colour Group Meeting at Bristol

21st September 2006

Animal Vision

Meeting Programme

Meeting Abstracts

The Applied Vision Association and the Colour Group of Great Britain are pleased to announce the scientific one-day Meeting on Animal Vision will be held at the University of Bristol, Department of Experimental Psychology on Thursday 21st September 2006, 10:00-17:30.

Invited speakers include:

• Doekele Stavenga (Groningen) ‘Butterfly coloration and colour vision.’
• Mike Land (Sussex)  ‘Animal eye-movements’
• Olle Hastad (Uppsala). ‘Evolution of avian colour vision systems’.

The venue for the AVA/CGGB Animal Vision meeting is :

Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Bristol
12a Priory Rd
Bristol BS8 1TU

Info on how to reach it can be found on the Bristol University website

http://www.bris.ac.uk/university/maps/

or you can type the postcode

BS8 1TU

into a web-based map system such as

http://www.streetmap.co.uk

and then look at the map at any scale you like.

Briefly, the best way to get from the train station (Bristol Temple Meads) is by taxi, or number 9 bus, or the free university shuttle bus for which there is a timetable at

http://www.bris.ac.uk/university/maps/by_shuttlebus.html

Hotel accommodation is available by looking at the website

http://www.cliftonhotels.com/chg.html

and choosing a hotel. Then phone 0117 925 4000 and explain that you are attending a meeting at Bristol University, in order to get a discount. All 4 hotels are within walking distance of the meeting.

For further information please contact:

Dr Daniel Osorio

Email:  D.Osorio@sussex.ac.uk

University of Sussex
School of Life Sciences
Brighton
BN1 9QG, UK
 

Costs of registration:

AVA/Colour Group Member registration @ £25

Student members @ £10

Non-members @ £35

Student non-members @ £20

Non-student special offer @ £45

Student special offer @ £30

For further information about AVA membership, please contact
tom.troscianko@bris.ac.uk