CAJAL Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme : Advanced Imaging Methods for Cellular Neuroscience

External Event - 10th to 28th Sep 2018

Brain cells, and especially neurons, have developed a high degree of polarisation as well as micro- and nanoscale compartmentalisation of cellular components when compared to other cell types.  Cellular neuroscience has benefited in the last years from the development of sophisticated high-resolution imaging techniques including subcellular nanoscopy and the development of novel probes that allow the visualization of neuronal architecture and function in vitro and in the brain in vivo. These advances have placed cellular neuroscientists at the forefront of cell biology and have allowed them to study at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution processes such as synaptic transmission, receptor trafficking, or morphological adaptations during brain plasticity in diverse models ranging from cultured neurons to the entire brain. The course and its participants will greatly benefit from the infrastructure provided by the Bordeaux Imaging Centre. Finally, this Course will emphasize how new techniques can address specific biological issues and lead to new concepts and discoveries in cellular neuroscience. 

Modern neuronal cell biology relies on a large array of advanced techniques. The past decade has produced a revolution in technological innovations and the interweaving of approaches at the molecular, cellular, network and organismal levels (“from genes to behaviour”). This advanced course allows the students to obtain hands-on experience with innovative techniques expected to be central in cellular neuroscience in the coming decade. These techniques focus on the study of cell proliferation and migration, axonal growth, cellular trafficking, synaptogenesis as well as mature cell function, in particular synaptic transmission and plasticity. Techniques will include in vitro and in vivo gene transfer (including viral vector technology and single cell electroporation), cell and tissue imaging by confocal imaging and light sheet microscopy, photomanipulation in living tissue and optophysiology, patch clamp electrophysiology, imaging of proteins and lipids by super-resolution microscopy (STED and PALM/STORM), single-particle tracking methodologies, correlative light electron microscopy (CLEM), live imaging of protein interactions (FRET, FLIM). Rodent and human model systems (iPSCs, organoids) are central, and successful invertebrate models such as Drosophila and C. elegans will be also available.

Applications are open!

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Deadline extended: 30 May 2018

Course directors:

• Volker Haucke, Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP), Germany
• Britta Eickholt, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
• David Perrais, IINS, CNRS, University of Bordeaux, France

Keynote Speakers:

• Vivian Budnik, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
• Pietro De Camilli, Yale School of Medicine, USA
• Mike Fainzilber, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• Erika Holzbaur, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
• Erik Jorgensen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
• Gary Lewin, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
• Klaus Nave, Max Planck Institute, Germany
• Silvio O. Rizzoli, University of Göttingen Medical Center, Germany
• Frédéric Saudou, Grenoble University Hospital CHUGA, France
• Gipi Schiavo, University College London, UK
• Stephan Sigrist, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany
• Patrik Verstreken, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, Belgium

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Instructors:

• Laura Andreae, King’s College London, UK
• Mathias A. Böhme, Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin
• Maxime Cazorla, Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience, France
• Ingrid Chamma, CNRS UMR 5297 – INSERM - Université Bordeaux Segalen, France
• Soham Chanda, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
• Daniela C. Dieterich, Otto-von-Guericke University (OVGU) Magdeburg, Germany
• Helge Ewers, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany
• Anna Fejtova, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany.
• Gregory Giannone, IINS, Bordeaux, France
• Cyril Hanus, Institute for Psychiatry and Neurosciences of Paris, France
• Etienne Herzog, CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for NeuroScience, Bordeaux, France
• Robin Hiesinger, Free University Berlin, Germany
• Janine Kirstein, PhD, Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP),  Germany
• Anke Mu?ller, Otto-von-Guericke University (OVGU) Magdeburg, Germany
• Ira Milosevic, University Medical Center (UMG), Germany
• Valentin Nägerl, IINS, University of Bordeaux, France
• José Filipe Nunes Vicente, IINS, Bordeaux, France
• David Owald, Institut für Neurophysiologie, Charité, Germany
• Andrew Plested, Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Germany
• Christian Rosenmund, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Neurophysiology, Germany
• Guillaume Van Niel, University Paris Descartes, France
• Alexander Walter, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Germany
• Shigeki Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Marius Wernig, Stanford University, USA

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Registration

Fee : 3.500 € (includes tuition fee, accommodation and meals)

The CAJAL programme offers 4 stipends per course (waived registration fee, not including travel expenses). Please apply through the course online application form. In order to identify candidates in real need of a stipend, any grant applicant is encouraged to first request funds from their lab, institution or government.

Kindly note that if you benefited from a Cajal stipend in the past, you are no longer eligible to receive this kind of funding. However other types of funding (such as partial travel grants from sponsors) might be made available after the participants selection process, depending on the course.

For more information please visit https://www.fens.org/Training/CAJAL-programme/CAJAL-courses-2018/AIMCN-2018/