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-ofart 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:

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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