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IBRO’S FUNDING
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NEWS FROM OUR
FELLOWS AND ALUMNI
Brain Imaging Research Centre, Scotland financial support of IBRO. I work on the fine anatomical structure of the
endocannabinoid system in the hippocampus; the methods we use are principally
descriptive. I wanted to gain a more complex view of the endocannabionid system, so
IBRO Fellow for 2007-8, Bartosz Karaszewski worked on metabolic I needed to investigate functional aspects of this system by the help of molecular
disturbances in brain ischemic regions at the Medical University of manipulations. The course was a great opportunity for me
Gdansk, Poland. He then carried out clinical work on neurological to learn new skills from experts and to network with a lot
diseases as well as experimental projects at the Medical University of interesting people. The practical modules of the course
of Gdansk, the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche covered up-to-date experimental techniques, like the use
Scientifique (INSERM), Paris, the University of Oslo, and the Brain of viral and BAC vectors, RNAi technique and single cell
Imaging Research Centre for Scotland, Div. of Clinical PCR techniques. Each module was supervised by skilful
Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, where he took up his and enthusiastic scientists, to whom we could turn if we
IBRO Research Fellowship. Dr Karaszewski’s work focused on needed practical help or had a question to discuss. Based
brain metabolic disturbances following acute ischemic stroke; on my skills from the ATMN course, we have started doing
magnetic resonance techniques in neurology; administration and in experiments by which to examine the in vivo localization
vivo molecular imaging of stem cells transplanted to brain or and function of proteins of the endocannabinoid system.
transfused on experimental model of acute ischemic stroke; The course instructors also gave detailed lectures to
qualitative and quantitative neurochemical analysis; brain Aniko Ludanyi explain the theoretical background of the methods. The
chemistry changes in hypoxic stress; and experimental modeling invited speakers gave fascinating lectures, and listening to
of brain ischemic/hypoxic injury. Part of his time in Edinburgh them has not only expanded my scope in neuroscience, but has also inspired me to
involved the organization of the project: patient recruitment aim high and to do unique and valuable work. Finally, I wish to thank IBRO for the
process; magnetic resonance imaging protocols; blood collection award that enabled me to attend the CSHL course.
protocols and material storage; collection of the scientific data and
material from patients in the study; organization of the experimental Claudia Garcia-Peña, Biomedical Science Program, Neurobiology Institute,
sub-study. During his fellowship, Dr Karaszewski gained UNAM, Campus Juriquilla, Mexico: Wonderful things happened to me on the
experience in human brain imaging techniques and data analysis; ATMB course in 2008. I learned techniques that allowed me to visualize and record
genetic analysis of human samples; stroke management (practice biological phenomena in vivo, such as cell migration,
Bartosz Karaszewski in Scottish clinical stroke system, working with British patients); cell proliferation, and many other aspects in mouse
transgenic animals preparation techniques, experimental methods embryos, adult mice, tadpoles. The molecular biology
of in vivo neuroimaging, animal brain surgery. Prof. Joanna Wardlaw, Director of the SFC Brain Imaging Research Centre, was procedures that I learned helped me understand how
Dr Karaszewski’s main supervisor and he is grateful to Prof. Martin Dennis and Dr Malcolm Macleod for their help with his to obtain RNA and DNA fragments and how to disrupt
research Bartosz Karaszewski while at Edinburgh. the translation process with interference RNA.
Besides the scientific aspects, I learned about
different cultures, different traditions from different
IBRO members: please update your details in the IBRO Members countries such as Korea, China, India, Italy, Brazil,
Ukraine, Romania, Germany, Serbia and, of course,
database for the latest information about IBRO’s activities: www.ibro.info the USA. The diversity of people enriched my mind Claudia Garcia-Peña
and my soul. Thanks for everything!
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NEUROSCIENCE
NEWS FROM IBRO
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NEUROSCIENCE
NEWS FROM IBRO
Ying Shing Chan, University of Hong Kong and Chair, IBRO Asia Pacific Regional Committee, 2002-8, was awarded the first
Australian Neuroscience Society (ANS) Medallion at a ceremony at the SfN meeting in Washington, DC, 2008. The Medallion
was awarded in appreciation of Prof. Chan's services to neuroscience in the Asia Pacific region of the world. ANS President
David Vaney stated: "The Society appreciates the seminal contributions that YS has made to the Asia Pacific Regional
Committee of IBRO … we also appreciate his long service to the Executive Committee of the Federation of Asian-Oceanian
Neuroscience Societies (FAONS).” IBRO Information Systems
The purpose of IBRO Information Systems is to support of IBRO’s
Sten Grillner, Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, was awarded the Kavli Prize for Neuroscience fundamental mission - to serve more than 45000 IBRO members through
in September 2008 in Oslo, Norway. He was one of three scientists who won the neuroscience prize: the other two were Pasko more than 20 programmes guided by some 300 committee members, the
Rakic, Yale University School of Medicine, US and Thomas Jessell, Columbia University, US. Sten Grillner is Chair of IBRO's Governing Council representing 85 affiliated organizations, and the core
Memberships and Partnerships Committee and is also President-Elect of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies administration. The major areas of support include:
(FENS). The Kavli Prizes are awarded in the research fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. Their founder is
the Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist Fred Kavli. • Identifying, coordinating and securing the distribution of information and
services to the IBRO community, in particular, the maintenance of web sites,
all interactive data collection for IBRO schools and funding programmes, a
helpline for members at large (help@ibro.info) and the analysis of data
Neuroscience the journal helping the IBRO governance to understand the numerous activities of
IBRO.
• Maintaining the secure, state-of-the-art and cost-effective infrastructure
A message from the Chief Editor with a continuous pursuit for the best choices for growth.
• Establishing strategic development planning within the budgetary and
Ole Petter Ottersen reports: A primary goal of any science journal is to attract the best manuscripts from the leading human resource constraint taking into consideration the lifecycle of
laboratories and to improve further these manuscripts through a fair and competent peer review process. We know that products and services.
the physical appearance of the journal is important, as is the quality of the publishing services and the reviewing and
editorial procedures are important. Neuroscience scores high on these counts, as judged by authors' satisfaction IBRO members: please update your details in the IBRO Members database
for the latest information about IBRO’s activities.
surveys. But even more critical is the speed by which the manuscripts are handled. Every scientist would like to see
that a decision is made as swiftly as possible. Thus a short time to first decision represents a major competitive
advantage for any journal. Neuroscience decided in 2005 that a primary goal of the journal was to cut down the time
to first decision to 30 days. This goal was reached in 2006 and the time to first decision has remained under 30 days
ever since. In 2007 Neuroscience launched a new category of paper: Neuroscience Forefront Reviews. They are by
invitation only and will be written by leading scientists who have introduced new concepts, models or methods in
neurobiology. We hope that the Forefront Reviews will emerge as reference papers in the respective fields. The Forefront
Reviews will be an addition to the regular reviews.
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REGIONS 2008-2009
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EDUCATION & TRAINING
2008-2009
Neuroimmunology of Disease Course: Ismailia, Egypt, Nov 24- Latin American Advanced School of Neuroscience: Montevideo, Visiting and Lecture Team Programme
Dec 3, 2008. Thirty students came from South Africa, Kenya, Uruguay, March 16-April 3, 2009. The school was directed by
Federico Dajas and Omar Macadar; participants included 28 The Visiting Lecture Team Programme (VLTP) runs lecture courses
Nigeria, Sudan, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Yemen and Egypt. The first part of for young neuroscience students in less well-funded, often remote
the school was devoted to basic immunology covering the graduate students from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba,
Peru, Venezuela, Spain and Uruguay and 40 lecturers. The school parts of the world. The programme is run by a team of international
fundamentals of innate and adaptive immune responses, neuroscientists and organized in collaboration with local and
cytokines/chemokines and signalling molecules in immune defence. encompassed the field of neuroscience from cellular and synaptic
physiology to systems and behaviour. The lectures included: basic regional neuroscience associations. The Grass Foundation has been
Lab work included ELISA, immunofluorescence and immune fixation the major partner in funding VLTP courses since 2003.
techniques for selection of monoclonal bands. The second part neurophysiology, development and neurogenesis, glia-neuron
presented an overview of the basics of the nervous system and its interactions, neurodegeneration and neuroprotection, neural San José, Costa Rica, July 30-August 6, 2008. Eighty students
interaction with the immune system in health and disease, including systems underlying behaviour, and neuroethology. Students carried from eight Caribbean countries attended the lecture course that
the immune-mediated disorders of the nervous system. Lab out hands-on work and learned different techniques: intracellular aimed to expose them to modern techniques and multidisciplinary
demonstrations involved perfusion and brain dissection, recording, patch clamp, extracellular field recording, cell culture, approaches to study the brain. There were 30 international faculty.
immunohistochemistry of brain sections, culture of nervous tissues, microdialysis, molecular analysis, immunohistochemistry, hypoxia- The course followed the usual VLTP format: daily one-hour small-
and ionic channel analyses. A UNESCO IBRO-IBSP partnership. ischemia models, behavioural experiments, and modeling. Other group sessions, each group led by one of the VLTP lecturers.
activities included specialized scientific meetings with local and Lecturers led a daily 1-2 hour tutorial on how to present 10-min talks
School on Behavioural Neuroscience: Nairobi, Kenya, Dec 13-20, invited scientists; round tables on animal care and how to develop for international meetings.
2008. Students from Morocco, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, a scientific career in Latin America; two mini-symposia ‘Neural
Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Cameroon attended the school which Codes and Plasticity’ and ‘Neurodegeneration and Asunción, Paraguay, Sept 3-5, 2008. The 40 students participating
covered the principles and use of different lab techniques and Neuroprotection’. The school was sponsored by the International were in the third, fourth and fifth years of medical school and were
methodology in quantitative studies in behaviour. The Society for Neurochemistry (ISN), Agencia Nacional de Investigación keen to learn about modern research on the nervous system. Each
appropriateness of the different methods in assessing different e Innovación (ANII), International Society for Neuroethology (ISN), morning there were three lectures, with the aim of showing students
behavioural and emotional states were included as well as Programa de Desarrollo de Ciencias Básicas (PEDECIBA), Comisión how to carry out experiments with limited resources as well as
experimental design, relevant statistical analysis, paper writing, Sectorial de Investigación Científica (CSIC-UdelaR), Labimed SA, presenting interesting advances in neurobiology. Each day lecturers
publication process, and elements of proposal writing. The students Sociedad de Neurociencias del Uruguay (SNU), and Sociedad met with three or four groups and carried out experiments.
ran experiments, collected and analysed data and presented the Uruguaya de Biociencias (SUB). The lecturers discussed the concept of double-blind experiments,
results. An INMHA/UNESCO IBRO-IBSP partnership. how to evaluate data, how to plan the next experiments.
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IBRO’S PARTNERSHIPS
IN THE WORLD OF NEUROSCIENCE
collaboration with
EFNS and WFN Asia Pacific energy in brain research
Raj Kalaria, former Africa Regional
Committee (ARC) Chair, reports on a On her visit to Japan, Korea and China in July, Secretary-General Marina
healthy clinical-basic partnership: Bentivoglio met many distinguished neuroscientists and experienced firsthand the
“IBRO Africa has been forging strong impressive development of neuroscience in those countries. At RIKEN Institute,
links with the major neurological near Tokyo, Japan, Prof. Bentivoglio met Tadaharu Tsumoto, President of the
federations to promote clinical Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS), who expressed a highly positive view of IBRO’s
n e u ro s c i e n c e s i n A f r i c a . O u r worldwide activities. Prof. Tsumoto represents JNS, a distinguished member of
collaboration with the World Federation IBRO, on the IBRO Governing Council. IBRO congratulates JNS for its growth,
of Neurology (WFN) and the European welcomes its plans to promote internationalization and collaboration.
Federation of Neurological Societies
(EFNS) continues to thrive. An initiative With a large number of academic institutions having set neuroscience as a priority
led by EFNS President Jacques De in the life sciences, and with very active exchanges between Japanese and
Reuck (Belgium) reached another Chinese neuroscience communities, brain research is flourishing in South Korea.
milestone in June 2009 with the 2nd In Seoul Marina Bentivoglio met Prof. Yoo-Hun Suh, Director, the Neuroscience
Research Institute, the Cognitive Science Institute, and the National Creative Kyungjin Kim, Marina Bentivoglio
Regional Teaching Course (RTC) in the
and Yoo-Hun Suh, Seoul, Korea
Neurological Sciences with the themes Research Institute Center for Alzheimer’s Dementia, also a member of IBRO’s Asia
Stroke and Epilepsy in Sub-Saharan Pacific Regional Committee, and Prof. Kyungjin Kim, Director of a nationwide
Africa, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, research program, the 21st Frontier Program in Neuroscience. President of the
June 24-27, 2009; it was a joint co- Korean Society for Brain and Neural Science, an affiliated member of IBRO. Open
operation between EFNS, WFN and to collaboration, Korean neuroscience will strengthen its ties with IBRO in
IBRO and hosted by the Neurology international initiatives. In addition to the Korean Society for Brain and Neural
Dept (G. Zenebe), Addis Ababa Science, the Societies for Brain Imaging and for Neurodegenerative Diseases (Prof.
University (AAU) and the Association of Yoo-Hun Sun is President of the latter) have been founded in South Korea in recent
Neurological Sciences of Ethiopia at years, bridging the basic and translational neurosciences. IBRO looks with Marina Bentivoglio with Qunyuan Xu, Capital
the Black Lion Hospital in Addis. Medical University, Beijing, China
admiration and high expectations at the growing Korean neuroscience community,
European and African faculty members with which joint ventures will increasingly be established. Masao Ito (RIKEN) and Hitoshi plays an increasing role in IBRO activities in
s h a re d t h e i r k n o w l e d g e a n d Okamoto (APRC Chair), Tokyo, Japan the pursuit for worldwide cooperation in brain
experience, encouraging neurologists The rapidly expanding neuroscience community in China is becoming a “Dragon” research. She also received a warm welcome from colleagues of the Taiwanese
in training towards excellence in of Chinese science and maintains strong ties with IBRO, with whom it has been a
practice and research. IBRO ARC- Society for Neuroscience, with fruitful discussions about the present and future
close partner since IBRO’s foundation. Ever keen to strengthen international work on brain research in Taipei, Kaohsiung and Tainan.
SONA has also renewed links with cooperation, China has hosted many IBRO activities (especially IBRO schools)
PAANS (Pan African Association of
both on the mainland and in Hong Kong. Emerging onto the Asian and global stage Former APRC Chair Ying Shing Chan describes the importance of partnership:
Neurological Sciences) with the intent
of brain research, Chinese institutions are now recruiting Chinese investigators “IBRO-APRC has through its schools created learning platforms for training young
of making the African Journal of
Neurological Sciences a more robust trained abroad (Europe, USA, Japan) as well as foreign scientists. In Beijing, Xi’an, neuroscientists; it also maintains a close interaction with the Federation of Asian-
publication. The event was made Hangzhou, Shanghai and Hong Kong, where centres of excellence have been Oceanian Neuroscience Societies (FAONS). IBRO’s role in our region has escalated
possible by generous contributions established, Prof. Bentivoglio met many Chinese neuroscientists who play leading steadily thanks to the enthusiasm of newly elected leaders of national
from UNESCO and IBRO.” roles in Chinese neuroscience. IBRO will stand close by the “Neuro-Dragon” as it neuroscience societies in the region.”
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