On September 17th, 2008, a delegation from the Toulouse Institute for Brain Science in France, visited ION. Delegation members included Prof. Pier-Giorgio Zanone, Michele Fabre-Thorpe, Yves Trotter and Dr. Jeanne Leung-Tack, et al. Following a brief description of current research at ION from Dr. Ai-Ke Guo, the delegation members discussed the prospects of future collaborations between the two institutes and visited the laboratories of Drs. Ai-Ke Guo, Zuo-Ren Wang, Hai-Shan Yao, You-Sheng Shu and Xiao-Hui Zhang, as well as the Zebrafish and Drosophila Centers.