We are delighted to extend an invitation to participate in the 34th Annual Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society which will take place in Adelaide from 28 – 31 January 2014. Ours is the largest meeting of neuroscientists in the Australasian region and will include four plenary lectures. It begins on Tuesday afternoon with delivery of the Overseas Plenary Lecture by Moses Chao of the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine. Perry Bartlett, Marcello Costa and Trevor Kilpatrick will deliver our other plenaries during the course of the meeting (see our Speakers page). The meeting’s many oral presentations are organised into a wide variety of parallel sessions spanning most areas of neuroscience. There are extended periods for poster presentation and discussion. The conference will be held in the spacious, modern and centrally-located Adelaide Convention Centre (ACC) in Australia’s most liveable city. For 2014 we have kept our registration cost at last year’s level. We will provide both high-end accommodation options as well as low-end options to assist attendance by students and early-career researchers. Travel scholarships for students are also available. The ACC lies next to the newly-built South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, fine hotels and the Adelaide Casino. Within a short walk one can find our renowned restaurant culture, food courts, universities (Adelaide, Flinders, UniSA), accommodation and the National Wine Centre of Australia. You can admire the nation’s most comprehensive displays of indigenous culture at the SA Museum and see the nation’s finest collection of early European settlement art at the Art Gallery of SA. You can stroll along the River Torrens to our gorgeous Botanic Gardens and the Adelaide Zoo where you will find both Australian animals and our panda guests, Wang Wang and Funi. Of course, South Australia produces most of Australia’s wine so we hope that you will take the opportunity to arrive early or stay afterwards (or both) to visit nearby areas such as the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale our beaches and the Adelaide Hills. A winery tour will be available as part of our social program on the day after the conference. There will also be numerous satellite meetings to attend before and after the ANS 2014 meeting. The Social Program will include a Welcome Reception overlooking the River Torrens on Tuesday evening. The popular Early Career Researcher Social Mixer (for students, postdocs and guest speakers) will take place in the National Wine Centre. This year the widely renowned ANS Conference Dinner will be held with special guests in the Convention Centre’s capacious hall and we will treat you to food and fine wine South Australian-style. Don’t miss it!