BIFCES requests nominations for the Bargmann-Scharrer Lecture and for the Pickford Medal Lecture to be given at the 16th International Congress of Comparative Endocrinology in Hong Kong, China, June 22-26, 2009. The Bargmann-Scharrer lecturer should be a prominent comparative neuroendocrinologist. The Pickford medalist should be a comparative endocrinologist under the age of 45. Please send, by June 1, 2008, a nomination letter and a CV of the nominee to Eric W. Roubos, Department of Cellular Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands. E-mail: