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Finally, on my last day of traveling, I can get online for more than just a few minutes at a time. I'm sitting in the final sessions of a very exciting workshop here at Magdalen College Oxford University on new developments in computer-asisted brain research in Drosophila. Lots of presentations on high-throuput methods for generating genetic, anatomical and behavioral data for filling up large relational databases. There are now several initiatives for screening genes, the anatomy of their expression patterns and link these up with behavioral phenotypes. Currently, people are in the process of creating ontologies and annotating the first data sets. Of course, with this crowd, I used my presentation to push Open Science and Science 2.0, so at least people here now have heard about these terms.Before coming to Oxford, I spent a week in Japan with a German delegation from the DFG on occasion of their opening an office in Tokyo. It was an amazing trip and I enjoyed every minute of it. We spent the first day and a half in Tokyo where we visited the Riken Brain Science Institute and three of us also visited Kei Ito's lab. We then moved to have a look at the NIPS institute on our way to the Japan Neuroscience Society Meeting in Nagoya. There, we had our own entire symposium where all 9 delegation members as well as 2 Japanese colleagues ewith ties to Germany presented their work. Not having known any of my fellow delegates before the trip, I was thoroughly impressed with their presentations and must say that I don't think I've ever witnessed a more substantial line-up ranging from single channels to cognition. Here's the list of our speakers:
Christian Wegener
(Philipps-University, Marburg)
Daniela C. Dieterich (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology)
Oliver Schlüter
(Göttingen University Medical School and Max-Planck Society)
Ilona Grunwald Kadow
(Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology)
Hiromu Tanimoto(Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)
Marc Spehr(Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Björn Brembs(Freie Universität Berlin)
Akihito Okabe(Hyogo College of Medicine)
Ileana Hanganu-Opatz(University Medical Center Hamburg)
Madoka Narushima(Technical University Munich)
Hauke Heekeren(Freie Universität Berlin & Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development)
We had plenty of opportunities to network and connect both among the delegates and with Japanese coleagues. From my perspective, the trip was a full success, exceeded even my high expectations and, as usual, was way too short.In a few hours I'll be heading back towards Berlin to catch up with some much needed sleep and get back to work.
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