APRC/APSN Joint Advanced School

of Neuroscience

in Daegu, Korea

June 15-21, 2015

Korea Brain Research Institute (KBRI) in cooperation with the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)

and International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN) is pleased to announce the opening of the APRC/APSN

Joint Advanced School, with financial support from the IBRO/APRC and ISN/APSN. KBRI is the only national

brain research institute and gathers the capability of international and domestic neuroscience research, in

Korea.

1. Outline

The Advanced School will focus on neurochemical aspects of nervous system development to make

students learn a variety of techniques for neural connectomes and neural circuit reconstruction with

multi-scale imaging techniques to make students independently run an CLARITY, Electron

Microscopy(EM) or Array Tomography(AT) project.

The Advanced School will provide for junior researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students an

excellent opportunity to experience cutting-edge experimental methods by themselves. The school will

operate two tracks of the research trainings depending on the students interests. First track is a state-of-

art techniques for the in vivo examination of the brain development. The other track is techniques for the

electron microscope-based analysis of connectomes.

The course of the Advance School will also include oral presentation and poster presentation and run one

week of practical experiences in the laboratory, together with related lectures.

Language will use in lectures and laboratory experiences in English.

All participating foreign students will receive round-trip economic airfare from a major international airport

in their country to KBRI, and a reasonable allowance to support their travel and stay.

Accommodations will be provided at nearby KBRI.

2. Course

Special Lectures, advanced and

Technical lectures

Time table

3. Location

Taxi is available from Daegu International Airport to the guest house of DGMIF (which takes about

30 minutes).

DGMIFs guest house is located in nearby KBRI and takes about 5 minutes on foot.

4. How to apply

It is open to Ph.D students, Post-doctoral fellow and junior faculty (less than 5 yrs since appointed).

Applicants have to be from the Asia-Pacific region.

All applications for the APRC/APSN Joint Advanced School are handled by LOC.

Please expect to submit on-line the following pieces of information or items:

- Application Form

- CV (Curriculum Vitae) with publication /presentation List

- Two(2) letters of recommendation

5. Number of students

Maximum 20 students (each 10 students from either IBRO or ISN, respectively)

6. Application deadline

March 31, 2015 (Awardees will be individually noticed by mid of April)

7. Contact

Secretariat

Korea Brain Research Institute

61 Cheomdan-ro, Dong-gu, Daegu, 710-300, Korea

E-mail: ibro-isn@kbri.re.kr