Drs. Zhen-Ge Luo and Jia-Wei Zhou were invited to attend the 90th annual meeting of The Physiological Society of Japan (PSJ) in Tokyo, Japan from March 26th to March 30th, 2013. During the meeting, Dr. Luo gave an invited talk entitled "Cholinergic activation of caspase-3 induces synaptic pruning during neuromuscular synapogenesis". Dr. Zhou gave an invited talk entitled "Suppression of neuroinflammation by astrocytic dopamine D2 receptors through an aB-crystallin-dependent mechanism".