DNC2023

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 A phishing email from travellerpoint(dot)org has been sent to one of the lecturers of the DNC 2023 workshop claiming to make a pending payment on the hotel reservation here in Okinawa (this case - Coco Garden Resort Okinawa). We do NOT work with a travel agency to make travel arrangements including accommodation and hotel arrangements for the lecturers and participants. Please ignore the emails sent by them and do not reply or click any links given in the emails.

Overview

  • Duration: July 11-23, 2023
  • Venue: OIST Campus
  • Organizing Institution: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
  • Language: All lectures will be given in English.
  • Contact: dnc.secretariat[at]oist.jp

Important Dates:

  • Begin Accepting Applications: January 20, 2023
  • Application Deadline: February 28, 2023  Extended until March 20, 2023
  • Notification of Application Results: by early April, 2023
  • Participants arrive in Okinawa: July 10, 2023
  • Participants depart Okinawa: July 24, 2023

Application

  • Deadline: Extended until March 20, 2023
  • To apply to participate in the workshop, please go to the Application Form.
  • The course is targeted mainly to Ph.D. students and junior postdocs.
  •  Please visit Travel and Accommodation for information.

Course Directors

  • David Van Vactor (Harvard Medical School)
  • Ichiro Masai (OIST Developmental Neurobiology Unit)
  • Sam Reiter (OIST Computational Neuroethology Unit)
  • Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama (OIST Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit)

Course Faculty and Lecturers

[Lecturers]

  • Aakanksha Singhvi (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
  • Claire Wyart (Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière) (ICM)
  • Dragana Rogulja (Harvard University)  
  • Fumi Kubo (Nat Inst of Genetics)         
  • Michael Yartsev (UC Berkeley)             
  • Mike Crickmore (Harvard University)
  • Orkun Akin (UCLA)
  • Paul Garrity (Brandeis Univ)   
  • Shen-ju Chou (Academia Sinica)         
  • Takeshi Sakurai (IIIS, Tsukuba Univ)    
  • Todd Roberts (UT Southwestern)         
  • Tom Baden (Univ of Sussex)   Remote
  • Yukiko Goda (OIST)   
  • Yutaka Yoshida (OIST/Cornell Univ)    

[Teaching Lab Lecturers]

  • (T) David Van Vactor (Harvard Medical School)
  • Ichiro Masai (OIST Developmental Neurobiology Unit)
  • Sam Reiter (OIST Computational Neuroethology Unit)
  • Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama (OIST Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit)
  • Shoi Shi (Univ of Tsukuba, IIIS)

DNC2023 Program