6th IBRO School of Neuroscience

8th to 20th August 2005,National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

In October 1999, IBRO set up an Annual Neuroscience School in each of 4 regions of the world, viz. Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern/Central Europe. The first four Schools in the Asia-Pacific region were held in Hong Kong in 2000-2004, the fifth School was held in December 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand. In August 2005, the 6th IBRO School of Neuroscience will be held at NCBS in Bangalore, India.

The purpose of the School is to provide a platform for senior PhD students and junior post-doctoral fellows in the Asia-Pacific region to meet in an environment where they can acquire knowledge of both theoretical and technological advances in key areas of neuroscience research. Funding from IBRO will enable about 20 students (from outside India) to attend this 2-week School. The return airfare (home city - Bangalore, India) as well as room and board for the 2 weeks will be provided by the School.

The School in Bangalore will cover lectures, seminars and a variety of laboratory projects. The lectures will cover basic concepts in Neuroscience using vertebrate and invertebrate systems. These will focus on 5 technique-oriented areas in neuroscience. Each student will choose their order of preference for the 5 areas and will be allotted to a particular project. Different laboratories will be used for each area so that students benefit from the range of research facilities available.

Towards the end of the School, there will be a half-day presentation session when students from each group will present the results of their project(s).

The five laboratory modules will be on:

a.. in vitro electrophysiology in various systems
b.. Neurogenetics
c.. in vivo electrophysiology and behaviour in rodents
d.. Molecular neurobiology
e.. Human and vertebrate neuroanatomy
Teachers in the School will be internationally recognized researchers. The
medium of instruction will be in English.

Accommodation:

Students will be provided accommodation at the NCBS Students Guest House on
a room-share basis.

Meals:
All meals will be served at the Cafeteria on the campus. Students and
lecturers will remain as a group for these events.

Who can apply:

Students will be selected on the basis of academic record and research performance and written statements concerning their interest and/or training in neuroscience and why they expect the workshop to benefit their research. Graduate students and post-doctorates with a strong desire to enhance their
proficiency in the areas of the workshop are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to applicants from developing countries. The selection process will be coordinated by the IBRO Asia-Pacific Regional Committee.

The application form can be downloaded from the following websites:

http://www.ibro.org

http://www.FAONS.org

http://www.ncbs.res.in

The closing date for the applications is June 21st 2005.Please return the completed forms preferably by email to:

Sumantra Chattarji.

National Centre for Biological Sciences

GKVK Campus

Bangalore 560065,

Karnataka, India

Fax: 91-80-23636662

E-mail: ibromeet@ncbs.res.in

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Farewell, Hong Kong U; Farewell IBRO School; Farewell Hong Kong 

Group I: Dr. Eric YP Cho lab, CUHK  

Group I: Dr. Henry HK Yip lab,Department of Anatomy, HKU  

Robert Black College remembered. 

FAONS 3rd Annual Meeting, Chinese Students or Scholars. 

Reunited with Dr. John Nicholls, Trieate, Italy. 

Group I: Dr. Ken KL Yung Lab, HKBU 

We finished our first session. 

IAC-USNC MBL and CSHL program announcement (to 2000 Alumni)

Dear Colleagues,

Please assist to disseminate the information on the "Marine Biological Laboratory and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory" courses organized by the U.S.-Canada IBRO regional committee. Some preference will be given to applicants who have attended previous IBRO Schools. The IBRO-APRC is also repared to provide some subsidy to candidates who are selected by the MBL.

Sincerely yours,
Y.S. Chan

----- Forwarded message from "John G. Hildebrand"
--

Dear colleague,

This message is going to members of the IBRO Board of Schools, directors of record for current IBRO Schools, many others who have been significantly involved with IBRO educational programs (Schools, VLTP, courses, etc.) and/or the neuroscience course at the MBL and CSHL, and others likely to be interested in these opportunities for advanced research training. My purpose is to urge you to call these opportunities to the attention of outstanding, potentially qualified prospective applicants from around the world and to be prepared to serve as a recommender for such a prospect.

The following information -- and the attached flyer -- are meant to help you spread the news and recruit top-quality prospects. Please forward the information to anyone you think might be interested.

Thanks and cheers, John Hildebrand

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IAC-USNC/IBRO Organizes Opportunities at the Marine Biological Laboratory and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The IAC-USNC/IBRO, also known as the U.S.-Canada IBRO regional committee,announces the 2005 program to support scientists from developing countries in attending high level neuroscience courses at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and, new for this year, at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL).

The IBRO Board of Schools and the IAC-USNC/IBRO seek to encourage highly qualified and motivated research trainees from resource-limited countries to apply for admission to summer neuroscience courses at the MBL in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and the CSHL in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Substantial (usually complete) financial support is available to enable the participation of students from resource-estricted countries in these programs. This is an effort to enable the most meritorious alumni of IBRO Neuroscience Schools and other outstanding young scientists to gain
"capstone" experiences in leading training programs. These experiences are intended to benefit scientists who will continue to study and work in less financially advantaged regions such as those in Latin America, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia/Pacific.

Applications should be submitted through the normal MBL and CSHL application mechanisms. The MBL or CSHL will inform students if they have been selected. No applications should be sent to IBRO or the IAC-USNC directly. While not required, the IAC-USNC/IBRO does request that persons preparing their applications let the committee know they are applying (preferably in advance of the application deadline). Scientists who applied before but were not accepted might consider applying again as the application pool varies each year.

More information about MBL courses included in this program (Neural Systems and Behavior, Neurobiology, Methods in Computational Neuroscience, Neural Development and Genetics of Zebrafish, Fundamental Issues in Vision Research, Neuroinformatics, and "SPINES" is available at the MBL's Websitehttp://courses.mbl.edu/ under "Summer Courses"
and "Special Topics Courses." More information about the CSHL courses
included in this program (Ion
Channel Physiology,
Neurobiology of
Drosophila,
Imaging Structure & Function
in the Nervous System) will soon be available at
http://meetings.cshl.edu/Schedules.htm.

More information about this effort and suggestions for preparing an
application are available at
http://www.iac-usnc.org/MBLcoursefellowships.html.

Information about the experiences of 2004 participants is available on the
IBRO website www.ibro.org. Please do not hesitate to
consider this opportunity, as the application deadline for some courses is
February 1, 2005.

The IAC-USNC/IBRO is a joint committee of the Society for Neuroscience and
the U.S. National Academies (the "Society for Neuroscience International
Affairs Committee and National Academies U.S. National Committee for IBRO).
The goal of the committee is to increase understanding of the nervous
system in health and disease worldwide. Support of participants is made
possible by IBRO funds allocated to the committee. The committee is able to
oversee such efforts due to support of the IAC-USNC/IBRO by U.S. National
Institutes of Health (NIH), specifically the National Institute of Mental
Health, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and
the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

----- End forwarded message -----

THE JOHN G. NICHOLLS IBRO FELLOWSHIP

Mohammad Javan's webpage

5th IBRO School of Neuroscience

Asia-Pacific Region
December 7-18, 2004, Bangkok, Thailand


IBRO expects to sponsor 20-25 students for this program. The potential students of this IBRO School will be senior PhD students and junior postdoctoral fellows. Selected students will be provided with their return airfare as well as room and board for the 2-week period. The selection process will be coordinated by the IBRO Asia-Pacific Regional Committee.

IBRO decided in October 1999 to set up an Annual Neuroscience School in each of 4 regions of the world, viz. Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern/Central Europe. The first four Schools in the Asia-Pacific region were held in Hong Kong in 2000-2004. In December 2004, the 5th IBRO School of Neuroscience for the Asia-Pacific region will be held in Bangkok, Thailand.

The purpose of the School is to provide a platform for senior PhD students and junior post-doctoral fellows in the Asia-Pacific region to meet in an environment where they can acquire knowledge of both theoretical and technological advances in key areas of neuroscience research. Funding from IBRO will enable about 20 students (from outside Bangkok, Thailand) to attend this 2-week School. The return airfare (home city - BKK) as well as room and board for the 2 weeks will be provided by the School.

The School in Bangkok will cover lectures, seminars and a variety of laboratory projects. These will focus on 5 technique-oriented areas in neuroscience. Each student will choose their order of preference for the 5 areas and will be allotted to a particular project. They will attend hands-on workshops in participating universities in the following order: Chulalongkorn University, Mahidol University & Srinakarinwirot University.

Different laboratories will be used for each area so that students can benefit from the range of research facilities available. Mini-projects will be introduced in each of the 5 areas with the aim of linking the practical experience in the different laboratories. Towards the end of the School, there will be a half-day presentation session when students from each group will present the results of their project(s).

Teachers in the School will be internationally recognized researchers from the Asia-Pacific region. The medium of instruction will be in English.

During the School, the participants will attend a scientific meeting (10th Annual Conference in Neuroscience of Thai Neuroscience Society; December 13-14, 2004). They will be encouraged to present their own research work in one of the scientific sessions.

Students will be selected on the basis of academic record and research performance and written statements concerning their interest in neuroscience and what they expect to get out of the School. Preference will be given to applicants from developing countries. The selection process will be coordinated by the IBRO Asia-Pacific Regional Committee.


Accommodation:
Students will be resident at the Guest House. Two students will be expected to share one room.


Meals:
Breakfast and dinner will be served at the Guest House. Lunch will be served at cafeterias of each university. Students and lecturers will remain as a group for these events.


Transportation:
A bus will be arranged to transport the students and lecturers as a group between the Guest House and each university.


Theme1: Functional genomics
DIG-labeled in situ hybridization - Isolation of single cells (micromanipulator / laser capture) - Real Time quantitative PCR

Theme 2: Electrophysiological analysis of central neurons
Whole-cell patch clamp recordings in isolated cells and brain slices - Somato-dendritic morphology of whole-cell recorded neurons

Theme 3: Imaging techniques and localization of neurochemicals and receptors
Double fluorescence and immunolabeling of spinal motor neurons - Localization of acetylcholinesterase(AChE) and acetylcholine receptors (AChR) in denervated muscle - Confocal laser microscopy

Theme 4: Working memory assessment
Assessment of working memory deficit in rats with a cerebral hypoxic- ischemic insult - Treadmill exercise - Water maze protocol

Theme 5: Neuroinformatics
Studies of the structure of proteins using homology based tools - Functional annotation of proteins - Different tools and methods to study and analysis of neural data



The application form can be down-loaded from the following websites:
http://www.ibro.org

The closing date for applications is October 1, 2004. Please return the completed application forms preferably by E-mail to:

Dr. Sukumal Chomgthammakun
Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Science,
Mahidol University,
Rama 6 Rd.,
Bangkok 10400, THAILAND

E-mail: scsct@mahidol.ac.th