Dear Dr.

Thank you for agreeing to give a lecture at the "International Symposium on Drug Addiction: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches" sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is scheduled from October 10-13, 2008.

The main goal of this symposium is to facilitate interactions among Chinese scientists, overseas Chinese scientists and overseas scientists in the field of drug addiction research and treatment. We also hope to foster potential long-term collaborations between Chinese and US scientists and institutes.

Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences is your local host. Yunnan is a beautiful province located in the southwestern China boarded with Myanmar near the "Golden Triangle". It is one of the areas in that region suffering from drug abuse.

We thank you for your participation and contribution. Please send us your talk title as well as your name as it appears on your official ID. Hotel reservations will be made under your name. Please send us an abstract at your earliest convenience. The abstract will be printed in our booklet along with the meeting program and will be made available to all meeting participants. Attached below is a preliminary program with all the speakers and the sessions that they belong to.

We look forward to seeing you in Kunming.

July 11, 2008

Schedule of the meeting Oct 10. Session one: Behavioral models of reward and addiction. Aldo Badiani Bernard Balleine Nathaniel Daw Harriet de Wit Wei Hao Jon Horvitz Xiaoping Hu Yael Niv John Salamone Paul Vezina Zuoxin Wang Roy Wise Oct 11. Session two: A system perspective on substance abuse Gary Aston-Jones Rui Costa Lin Lu Michela Marinelli Celeste Napier Saleem Nicola Patricio O'Donnell Anthony Phillips Paul Phillips Geoffrey Schoenbaum Mark Wightman Lin Xu

Oct 12. Session three: Cellular and synaptic mechanisms of substance abuse. Antonello Bonci, Stephanie Borgland Xiu-Ti Hu Zhengping Jia Michael Levine David Lovinger Christian Luscher Dan McGehee, Carlos Paladini David Sulzer Jeffrey Wickens Fu-Ming Zhou Oct 13. Session four: Molecular neurobiology of addiction: Marc Caron Raul Gainetdinov Alla Karpova Jin Li Fang Liu Lan Ma Robert Messing Richard Palmiter Ming Xu Hui Zhang Xia Zhang: Xiaoxi Zhuang