مرکز تحقیقات علوم اعصاب

 

Department of Physiology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
September 26-October 4, 2018 (Mehr 4-12,1397)

 

Topics will include

Principles of neural signaling; Structure, function and formation of synapse; Channels and receptors; Sensory transduction; Signal processing; Neural development; Degeneration; Regeneration and Pathogenesis mechanisms of plasticity.

Lecturers

Jonathan Ashmore PhD, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL, UK

Charles Gilbert MD PhD, Laboratory of Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, USA

Criss Hartzell Jr. PhD, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, USA

Stephan Kröger PhD, Institute for Physiology, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany

Jack McMahan PhD, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, USA

Description

Thirty-five lectures last for about 50 minutes each. Daily 1- hour conferences are used for discussion of questions that arise from the lectures and consist of small groups that rotate day by day to different lecturers. Students will have the opportunity to present 10 min. talks on their own work if they wish. Tutorials on how to present the talks according to the format of International meetings are given at the end of each day. There will also be formal discussions about studentships and postdoctoral opportunities in Europe and North America.

The course is open to graduate students in biomedical sciences, medical students, medical residents, junior faculty members and advanced undergraduate students. Interested students of mathematics, physics, engineering and computer science are also welcome to apply.

 

Organizers

Saeed Semnanian MD PhD professor of physiology, Tarbiat Modares University Tehran, Iran

J. McMahan PhD, Professor of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.

Secretary

Hossein Azizi PhD, Assistant Professor of Physiology, Tarbiat Modares University Tehran, Iran

Please send your request along with your CV to azizihf@yahoo.com, 021-8288-4587 by September 1, 2018. The selected participants will be announced by September 10, 2018.

Registration fee: 2,500,000 IRR