Ricardo Miledi Neuroscience Training Program

Support Contributed by The Grass Foundation

Course Background

In 2003, the Society for Neuroscience, with funding from The Grass Foundation, developed the Ricardo Miledi Neuroscience Training Program aimed at helping attract, support, and retain the best students and young professionals in the field of neuroscience within Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The overall goal of the program has been to enhance the training and career development of highly promising neuroscience trainees from the LAC countries by providing an annual neuroscience course that emphasizes hands-on training. Since 2004, SfN has implemented annual courses and related training activities that have benefited young neuroscientists from throughout the region.

The Ricardo Miledi Neuroscience Training Program is open to LAC neuroscience graduate students. Course locations rotate annually among colleges and universities in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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

2010 Ricardo Miledi Neuroscience Training Program

• Date: August 16 - 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 general structure of the course will involve a daily morning lecture followed by the introduction of the day’s practical exercise by the instructor or discussion of the results of the previous day by the students. The course has been divided in four main sections: Neural Development, Physiology, Flourescence Imaging and Calcium Signaling and Neurodegeneration. Students will be divided into small groups and, on any given day, a member of each group will present and discuss the results of his or her group. All students will be required to present and discuss the results of their groups.

The course will provide practical instruction in key methodologies to allow students sufficient time to practice each methodology. Demonstrations will be kept to a minimum and will be used only in those cases in which the length of the procedures or waiting times between the different steps involved preclude their incorporation into the practical course. A great effort will be made to allow the students to try out most of the experimental procedures to be covered in the course.

Additionally, each student will be required to make a presentation in English of the research work they are engaged in at their home laboratories. These presentations will be distributed throughout the four weeks of the course.

Download the 2010 program flyer (PDF)

The deadline for the 2010 program has passed. Information regarding future courses is forthcoming.

Past Participants

2009
Juan Pablo Fernández - Argentina María Jimena Ricatti - Argentina Claudia Faturi - Brazil Jader Nones - Brazil Gustavo Reolon - Brazil Juan Pablo Zúñiga Hertz - Chile Diego Alzate Correa - Colombia Rocío García - Cuba Ariana Israela Balderas Moreno - México José Felipe Esquivelzeta Rabell - México Alicia Güemez Gamboa - México Omar López Ramirez - México Abraham Rosas-Arellano - México Nicolás Marichal - Uruguay Paula Pouso - Uruguay

2006	2007/2008
Tristan Aguero - Argentina Maria Belen Jaurena - Argentina Mariana Graciarena - Argentina Tiago Goss Dos Santos - Brazil Tania Spohr - Brazil Carolina Gatica - Chile Gilberto Sanchez Cruz - Cuba Miguel Alejandro Lopez - México Erika Azorin Vega - México Miriam Martinez Armenta - México Monica Ramirez - México Roberto Sanchez Sanchez - México Luis Lerma Romero - Peru Dalynes Reyes-Colon - Puerto Rico Andrea Cabeda - Uruguay	Laura Romina Caltana - Argentina Vanina Usach - Argentina Guillermo Vega López - Argentina Gabriela Filoso Barnabé - Brazil Ana Paula Horn - Brazil Cristian Andrés Arredondo Ramírez - Chile Pamela Izaurieta - Chile Helen Marcela Belacazar - Colombia Néstor Emmanuel Díaz Martínez - México Naima Lajud - México Francisco Mercado - México Gabriel Moreno-González - México Fernando Rosas-Sánchez - México María Gonzales - Peru Anderson Rafael Noriega Leon - Venezuela

2004	2005
Christian Bender - Argentina Theo Bibancos - Brazil Marcelo Aguilar - Chile Rafael Vargas - Colombia Silvo Macias - Cuba Leticia Arregui - México Ignacio Balbuena - México Salvador Galicia - México Luci Lopez - México Maria Lopez-Meraz - México Lizbeth Mejia Luna - México Maria Angeles Mixcoatl-Zecuatl - México Samuel Mucio-Ramirez - México Cecilia Reali - Uruguay Arelis Torres - Venezuela	Maria Rosana Ramirez - Brazil Marcelo Viera - Brazil Jorge Parodi Rivera - Chile Carlos Rozas - Chile Yeny Lemus Molina - Cuba Deysi Bermudez-Oscana - México Juan Carlos Flores-Alonso - México Belen Garduno-Torres - México Lily Magally Granados Dominguez - México Hugo Sanchez Castillo - México Fatuel Tecuapetla - México Maria Del Carmen Toro-Castillo - México Rafael Flores Orbando - Nicaragua Maria Florencia Arredondo Unanua - Uruguay Jessika Urbanavicus - Uruguay