Connectionists: FYI RIKEN BSI Summer School 2008

[hiroyuki nakahara]

Dear colleagues,

I forward the following information.    

- Hiro Nakahara


Call for Applications

RIKEN Brain Science Institute 2008 Summer Program
URL: http://www.brain.riken.jp/en/summer/index.html
Application deadline; February 29, 2008
Lecture Course: July 28 - August 8    
Internship: June 25 - August 20 

Every summer, RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Wako, Japan; nearby Tokyo)
organizes the international summer school. The short summary of the
summer school this year is attached below. Application guideline, 
further information of the coming and past summer schools and etc are 
on the above URL. 

The summer school program has two types of applications. One 
("Lecture Course application") is to attend the lecture course. 
The other ("Inernship application") is to have a two-months 
intership in one of laboratories at RIKEN Brain Science
Instiute in addition to the attendance at the lecture course. In both
types, financial support for travel and accommodation will be considered
for those without external funding. 

For questions, please send any general inquiry not to me but to the
adminstration or organizing committee of the summer school shown in the
above summer school URL, while you can send inquiry to me if 
it is specifically about my laboratory (lab URL: http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp). 


2008 Summer Program
Developmental Foundations of Brain Function and Dysfunction

Advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of neural development have made significant impacts on broader areas of brain science. These areas include studies of neural plasticity and neuropsychiatric disorders, and improvement of therapeutic strategies for nervous system damage. This year, the RIKEN Brain Science Institute has organized a series of lectures by leading scientists that emphasize the links between the molecular and cellular bases of neural development, plasticity, dysfunctions and repair.

  2008 Summer Program Lecture Schedule

[Invited Lecturers] 
Silvia BUNGE (UC Berkeley)
Eric COURCHESNE (UC San Diego)
Marie FILBIN (Hunter College, CUNY)
Lawrence GOLDSTEIN (UC San Diego)
Elizabeth GOULD (Princeton Univ.)
Masanobu KANO (Tokyo Univ.)
Pat LEVITT (Vanderbilt Univ.)
Fumio MATSUZAKI (RIKEN CDB)
Randolph NUDO (Kansas Univ.)
Hideyuki OKANO (Keio Univ.)
Hitoshi SAKANO (Tokyo Univ.)
Akira SAWA (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Stephen SMITH (Stanford Univ.)
Lawrence ZIPURSKY (UC Los Angeles)

[Special lecturer] 
Sandra BLAKESLEE (Science writer)


[BSI Speakers] 
Teiichi FURUICHI (Lab. for Molecular Neurogenesis)
Atsushi IRIKI (Lab. for Symbolic Cognitive Development)
Hiroyuki KAMIGUCHI (Lab. for Neuronal Growth Mechanisms)
Hitoshi OKAMOTO (Lab. for Developmental Gene Regulation)
Keiji TANAKA (Lab. for Cognitive Brain Mapping)
Kazuhiro YAMAKAWA (Lab. for Neurogenetics)

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Hiro Nakahara
Lab for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
2-1 Hirosawa Wako
Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
Email: hn at brain.riken.jp
Lab webpage: http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp/