VU Neuroscience master students attended attended ‘Ion Channels in Health and Disease: a symposium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize awarded to Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley’.
On 16 september 2013, 31 VU neuroscience master students, accompanied by prof. Huib Mansvelder and Leontien Diergaarde PhD, traveled to Cambridge to attend ‘Ion Channels in Health and Disease: a symposium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize awarded to Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley’.
Leading scientists like Bert Sakmann and Karl Deisseroth lectured about their findings at this symposium. This gave the students the opportunity to get close to top-researchers in the field of Neuroscience. The two-day symposium also included a workshop and poster presentations. The event was round up by a stylish Gala Diner at Trinity College.
The journey also included a field trip to the state-of-the-art MRC flagship building, shaped like a chromosome and a Cambridge city tour. As prof. Mansvelder put it: “There was good science, interesting people and the city was absolutely wonderful.”
Find out more? Read the impressions of Sybren de Kloet here:
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