Institute of Neuroscience (ION) and the Shanghai Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) invited Prof. Kozo Kaibuchi from the Department of Cell Pharmacology at Nagoya University in Japan to visit ION on March 20, 2009. During his stay, Prof. Kaibuchi visited several ION laboratories, had lunch with some ION students and gave a talk entitled "Axon formation and polarized transport". More than one hundred researchers attended the lecture.

This lecture was sponsored by the SFN Grass Traveling Scientist Program.