2018 ISN-JNC Flagship School

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

 

Program

List of attendees

 

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”