Dr. Jiulin Du was invited to attend the Symposium - Novel developments in the study of life and biological systems based on genome engineering and imaging Science, which was organized by International Institute for Advanced Studies at Kyoto during February 21 – 27, 2013. Dr. Du gave an invited talk entitled “Dopaminergic gating of visual flow to auditory escape circuit via inhibition”. After the meeting, Dr. Du was invited to visit National Institute of Genetics at Mishima, Japan, and gave a talk entitled “The axon terminal of bipolar cells initiates glutamatergic retinal wave”.