The ISN Advanced School committee headed by Eckart Gundelfinger from Magdeburg, Germany, invites 17 faculty members and 40 students from 19 countries from all continents of the world to the Austrian Alps to spend 3 exciting school days together at a rustic mountain resort. The students were selected by the School committee from more than 90 applications.

At Obergurgl University center, which is not far from the place where the mummy of Oetzi, the ancient iceman was discovered, the School will enlighten on recent progress in most advanced technologies to study the nervous system.

Faculty members are all outstanding scientists of high international reputation, who cover different aspects of imaging techniques from the visualization of single molecules to the analysis of complex brain activation patterns. The tentative program is provided at the School's website: www.neurochemistry-school.de

The Opening lecture will be given by Gero Miesenboek from New York. Three sessions will cover the Imaging of single molecules and organelles (I), Molecular Imaging of synaptic function, assembly and plasticity (II) and the Imaging of brain functions (III).
A round table discussion with students and faculty will complete the Advanced School from a philosophical point of view: "The Heisenberg problem in modern biology or how can we observe real life without disturbing it?"

The local organization of the School is greatly supported by Alois Saria and Christiane Riedl from the local organizing committee of the 20th ISN/ESN Biennial Meeting in Innsbruck.