On June 10th, Nature Cell Biology published online an article from ION entitled “Dishevelled promotes axon development by regulating atypical protein kinase C”. This study was conducted in the Laboratory of Synaptic Signaling, by graduate students and research assistants Xian Zhang, Ji Zhu, Guo-ying Yang, Qing-jie Wang and Lei Qian under the supervision of Dr. Zhen-Ge Luo.
Dr. Tian-le Xu was invited to visit the Department of Biochemistry at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) from May 17th to 21st.
Jin-Ping Xi, Secretary of Shanghai CPC visited ION in the afternoon of May 21, 2007, accompanied by Yi-Cui Yin (Deputy Secretary of Shanghai CPC), Ding-Hua Yang (Deputy Mayor of Shanghai), Yi-Ping Li (Director, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai), Xuan-Hai Li (Party Secretary, Science & Education Commission of Shanghai), Mian-Heng Jiang (President of Shanghai Branch, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Ren-Chang Hua (Party Secretary of Shanghai Branch, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Kai-Xian Chen (Party Secretary of SIBS).
On May 23, 2007, a delegation from University of Leeds visited ION,
Xue-Yong Li, Secretary of the Leading Party Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), visited ION on May 20, 2007, accompanied by Xiao-Fang Wang (Director-General, Department of Development Planning, MOST), Xian-En Zhang (Director-General, Department of Basic Research, MOST),
On May 9th, the Journal of Neuroscience published an article from ION entitled “Experience improves feature extraction in Drosophila”. This work was done by graduate students Yueqing Peng, Wang Xi and colleagues under the supervision of Prof. Aike Guo.
Dr. You-sheng Shu was invited to visit the Department of Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden from May 4th to 8th. During his visit, Dr. Shu gave an invited talk entitled "Mechanisms of Recurrent Cortical Network Activity ".
Dr. Shumin Duan was invited to visit the National Neuroscience Institute and the National University of Singapore from April 25th to 27th.
As members of the Chinese Society for Cell Biology, Drs. Yi-zheng Wang and Zhen-ge Luo were invited to attend the 6th Across-the-Taiwan-Strait Symposium on Cell Biology in Taiwan,
On April 20th, Cell published a report from ION entitled “Long-Range Ca2+ Signaling from Growth Cone to Soma Mediates Reversal of Neuronal Migration Induced by Slit-2”.
On April 1st, Nature Neuroscience published online a report from ION entitled “TRPC channels promote cerebellar granule neuron survival”. This work was done by graduate students Yi-chang Jia and Jian Zhou, under the supervisoin of Dr. Yi-zheng Wang.
Dr. Shu-min Duan was invited to attend the Gordon Research Conference on “Glial Biology: Functional Interactions among Glia and Neurons” in Ventura, held March 11th to 16th, 2007. During the session of “Water, Calcium and Ligand Dynamics in Glia”,
Dr. Ai-ke Guo was invited to attend the Conference entitled “Insect Behavior: Small Brains, Big Functions” in Washington, held March 13th to 15th, 2007. Dr. Guo gave an invited talk entitled “Cognition in Drosophila”.
Dr. Ai-ke Guo was invited to attend the 10th Tamagawa-Riken Dynamic Brain Forum in Nagano, held March 7th to 9th, 2007.
On March 7, 2007, a delegation from GlaxoSmithKline visited ION,
