We are proud to announce the MaRGA meeting for 2009. This fourth edition of MaRGA will take place July 29-31, 2009 and we would be very pleased to see you in Natal, Brazil at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). The researchers from the Psychobiology Graduate Program of the Department of Physiology started working with marmoset monkeys (Callithrix jacchus) in the late 1980s, investigating behaviour and cognition in captive marmosets and in the early 1990s at the field station of Nisia Floresta, 45 km from Natal. Since then, they have conducted several studies on the physiological and behavioural approaches in both areas and currently their focus continues to be physiology, behaviour and cognition in these small Neotropical non-human primates.

We hope that our event is a fruitful encounter and that the exchange of experiences increases both our interest and collaboration in developing and disseminating knowledge about callitrichid monkeys. This is the first time MaRGA will be meeting in South America and we are excited to have the opportunity to hold the meeting in an area where marmosets are endemic.

See http://www.cb.ufrn.br/~fisiologia/marga/ for more information.