The Periodic Paralysis Association had invited us to participate in their conference last year in Orlando and said we could have our own side meetings but there wasn't much interest.
Their conference is always in October, and they used to have it in Las Vegas every year. I'll check to see if they have a location picked out. If it is in Vegas that would be the best bet. They ask for a voluntary registration of $50 for an individual and $100 for a family and have ion channel experts for speakers. Then we'd only have to organize our own seminars or events and would just need to pay for our lodging, not the meeting space.
I just heard from someone with the PPA...they only hold conferences every 2 years now and that they are not planning to use Las Vegas as a destination in the future (she said it was not friendly to the periodic paralysis population).
So I guess we're on our own if we want to plan something for 2010.