Construction and reconstruction of brain circuits: Normal and pathological axon guidance
Alpbach, Austria, September 10th – 15th 2018
The second ISN-JNC Flagship school covered the development and regeneration of peripheral nerves, the retino-tectal system and axons in the CNS. The presentations covered genetics, high-end imaging techniques, neuronal circuits and clinical aspects.
Members of Flagship School Committee
Alois Saria – Executive Chair
Jörg Schulz – Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Neurochemistry
Alain Chedotal – Scientific Chair
Kazuhiro Ikenaka – ISN Officer (ex officio)
Ralf Dringen – ISN Officer (ex officio)
Flavia Gomes – ISN Officer – (ex officio)
Babette Fuss – Chair of school committee
Mark Cookson – JNC editorial board representative
Vicky Johnston – JNC publisher representative (nominated by Wiley)
Anthony J. Turner – Chair publications committee
Akio Wanaka – Asian representative
Carla Tasca – Americas representative
Michael Cousin – European respresentative
Mychael Lourenco – YSSC representative
Speakers
Alain Chedotal, France
Rüdiger Klein , Germany
Mathias Bähr , Germany
Michael Granato , USA
Hiroyuki Kamiguchi , Japan
Dietmar Schmucker , Belgium
Zhigang He , USA
Jeroen Pasterkamp , Netherlands
Pierre Vanderhaeghen , Belgium
Yimin Zou, USA
Carol Mason, USA
Valérie Castellani , France
Lisa Goodrich , USA
Fanny Mann , France
Jörg B. Schulz, Germany
Tutorials:
Tutorial 1: Conceptualizing statistically sound experiments
Tutor: Frank Middleton
Tutorial 2: Imaging techniques I and II
Tutors: Nicolo Accanto and Emiliano Ronzitti
Tutorial 3: How to write a good paper
Tutors: Anthony J. Turner and Natalia Nalivaeva
Tutorial 4: Careers outside academia
Tutors: Mychael Lourenco, Roger Redondo, Georgi Hristov
Tutorial 5: Good Scientific Practice
Tutors: Jörg B. Schulz, Barbara Schweitzer
We congratulate the poster prize awardees of the 2nd ISN-JNC Flagship School:
1st prize: Brian Chiou, USA, “SEMAPHORIN4A AND H-FERRITIN UTILIZE Tim-1 ON HUMAN OLIGODENDROCYTES: A NOVEL NEURO-IMMUNE AXIS”
2nd prize: Sergi Roig, France, “CHARACTERISATION OF THE COMMISSURAL NEURONS TRANSLATOME AND ITS REGULATION BY MIDLINE CROSSING”
3rd prize: Mary Lopez, USA, “THE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY microRNA miR-21 PROTECTS THE BRAIN FROM STROKE AS PER THE STAIR CRITERIA”
