During May 26-28, the 6^th Academic Review of ION PIs and the 7^th International Advisory Board Meeting were held in Shanghai.

　　On May 26^th and 27^th, Drs. Jiawei Zhou, Jiu-Lin Du, Haishan Yao, Xiang Yu, Zuoren Wang, Leping Cheng, Zilong Qiu, Shiqing Cai and Chengyu Li participated in the 6^th Academic Review of ION PIs. The site visit review committee members included: Profs. Tobias Bonhoeffer (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology), Nancy Ip (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Lily Jan (University of California at San Francisco), Yuh Nung Jan (University of California at San Francisco), Anthony Movshon (New York University), Nicholas Spitzer (University of California at San Diego), Charles Stevens (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Michael Stryker (University of California at San Francisco) and Richard Tsien (New York University Langone Medical Center). After listening to the presentations of the PIs and having lunch with their graduate students, the reviewers held a close-door discussion. They will send a formal review report to the ION director.

　　On the morning of May 28^th, Dr. Mu-Ming Poo gave the director’s report to the International Advisory Board. Then, Drs., Hailan Hu, Yifeng Zhang, Yangang Sun, Xiaohong Xu, Jie He, Jin Xu, Wei Wang, Ninglong Xu, Zheng Wang, Yong Gu, Michael Dorris and Tianming Yang presented their recent research progress to the International Advisory Board. Their presentations were followed by thoughtful comments and discussions from members of the Board.

　　Dr. Mu-Ming Poo gave the director’s report

　　Present recent research progress to the International Advisory Board

　　In the afternoon of May 28^th, Profs. Charles Stevens, Nicholas Spitzer, Tobias Bonhoeffer, Richard Tsien and Lily Jan gave talks in the Shanghai Symposium on Frontiers of Neuroscience organized by ION. More than 350 researchers from ION, as well as the nearby institutes or Universities, attended this symposium.   

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　　Symposium on Frontiers of Neuroscience