Glia is our mind.

Where is the location of our mind? It probably resides in the milky-white substance that sits inside your skull. But the half of the brain is glia. Let's, for the sake of argument, assume that our mind is embedded in these glial cells. What would be your counterevidence?

ABOUT

Framework
Young Glia
Established
November 15, 2015
Budget source
Japan: Glial Assembly
Germany: Glial Heterogeneity

Executive Supervisors
Japan: Dr. Kazuhiro Ikenaka
Germany: Dr. Frank Kirchhoff

Project Overview

The purpose of this framework is to stimulate mutual exchange visits of young researchers of glial research. The collaborative research between Japan and German will be carried out by the young researchers. Applicants must be graduate students or have obtained a Ph.D. degree within the past five years. The collaboration must be approved by the priciple investigators on both sides but the original proposal and execution of the research itself must be done by the young researchers.

ALBUM

YG Gold Award - 1FY collaboration startup support

"Role of the glial P2Y1 receptor in cerebral ischemic injury"

Germany member Carmen Bohn
Dr. Frank Kirchhoff Lab
(University of Saarland)
Japan member Dr. Yuri Hirayama
Dr. Schuichi Koizumi Lab
(Yamanashi University)
Proposal

In this proposal, we want to address the role of the glial P2Y1 receptor in the injured cortex. We want to investigate if an upregulation/activation of the receptor after ischemia is beneficial or harmful for brain physiology.

Exchange dates

Plan for FY2015 has been executed in March-April 2016.

2016.03-04 Yuri visits Carmen

Collaboration was done in Dr. Frank Kirchhoff's lab in Homburg.














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