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The Ricardo Miledi Neuroscience Training Program is open to LAC neuroscience graduate students. Course location rotates annually among colleges and universities in Latin America and Mexico.

Students selected for the training program also receive the Hugo Arechiga Fellowship, which includes SfN membership, as well as registration and travel expenses to the SfN annual meeting.

The following information applies to the 2010 program:

• Date: August16 – September 10, 2010
• Location: Instituto de Fisiología Celular – Neurosciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México D.F., México
• Course Directors: Iván Velasco, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM
• Topic: Neural development, physiology, imaging and degeneration.

The primary audience is graduate students from Latin American and the Caribbean. Applicants must be able to communicate in English, as lectures and discussions will be conducted in this language. All students will be required to present and discuss their results. Full financial support for traveling and housing expenses will be provided. In addition, a travel award to attend the 2010 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, November 13-17, 2010 in San Diego, CA will be provided. A total of 15 course participants will be selected.

The  Marie Curie Initial Training Network is an European program devoted to fund PhD students. Dr. Stéphane Oliet, Deputy Director of the Inserm U862 – Neurocentre Magendie, is the recipient of one of these programs, Edu-Glia (www.eduglia.eu), and is looking for a motivated Brazilian student that would like to perform his/her research in her group, in Bordeaux, France. The candidate will be very well paid and would not have to be registered in a French University for a PhD degree (he/she can be registered in Brazil and do his/her research in France).

The project itself deals with neuron-glia interactions, a field in which her group is well recognized (Oliet et al, Science 2001; Piet et al, PNAS 2004; Panatier et al, Cell 2006; Henneberger et al, Nature in press).

If you know some talented and motivated MSc students that would be interested, please make contact with SBNeC (sbnec@sbnec.org.br), so we will be able to direct them to the program website where they will be able to apply for this position, or to other positions available in different European labs that are part of this network.

Best regards,

SBNeC