Dear colleagues,

To celebrate the CONCO project, we took the initiative to organise the Conodays from Wednesday to Friday December 7th to 9th 2011 as a satellite event to the 2011 edition of the NP2D Natural Peptides to Drugs congress (Sunday to Wednesday December 4-7 2011).

The first half of the Conodays will be devoted to invited lectures by key people in the field of cone snails and conopeptides, while the second part will focus on presentation by CONCO team leaders. There will be ample time for discussions and social activities (we plan special ones!) to keep a friendly and productive atmosphere.

Since we really want to bring a lot of colleagues and friends together, the oral presentations will be rather short, and we currently work on the idea of two opening lectures of 30 minutes covering a broad view of the field (tentatively Wednesday from 4-7 PM), ten 20 minutes external keynote presentations (Thursday morning) to allow time for series of 5 minute hot-spot presentations. The CONCO part of the meeting shall consist of fourteen 20 minute keynote presentations and series of 5 minutes hot-spots. A round-table entitled “CONCO: What’s next” will close the event.

We warmly encourage you to join us in Zermatt!

The Organising Team.