From May 28^th to 30^th, the 8^th Academic Review of ION PIs and the 9th International Advisory Board Meeting were held in Shanghai.

　　On May 28^th and 29^th, Drs. CHENG Leping, LI Chengyu, CAI Shiqing, QIU Zilong, YANG Tianming, XU Ninglong, CHANG Hungchun, HE Jie, YANG Hui participated in the 8th Academic Review of ION PIs. The site visit review committee members included: Profs. Tobias Bonhoeffer (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology), Nancy Ip (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Lily Jan (University of California at San Francisco), Yuh Nung Jan (University of California at San Francisco), Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics), Anthony Movshon (New York University), Nicholas Spitzer (University of California at San Diego) and Richard Tsien (NYU Longone Medical Center). After listening to the presentations of the PIs and having lunch with their graduate students, the reviewers held a close-door discussion. They will send a formal review report to the ION director.

　　On the morning of May 30^th, Dr. Mu-Ming Poo gave the directora€？s report to the International Advisory Board. Then, sixteen ION Laboratory Heads presented their recent research progress to the International Advisory Board. Their presentations were followed by thoughtful comments and discussions from members of the Board.