Our University hosted the "12th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Cerebellar and Ataxia (SRCA 2022)"

October 21-22, 2022 Beijing time, hosted by our university The 12th International Symposium of the Society for Research on the Cerebellum and Ataxias (SRCA) was successfully held
。 The conference was originally planned to be held on-site at our university, but due to the epidemic, it was changed to be held
online.
Professor Junfeng Zhang, Vice President of our University, President of SRCA, Professor Jean Mariani of the Sorbonne University in France, and experts from China, the United States, Nearly 300 experts, scholars and researchers in the field of cerebellar research around the world, including the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Japan and South Korea Students attend meetings
.
The conference was co-organized by the School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, the State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, the Institute of Brain Science, Nanjing University, the Sensory and Motor Branch of the Chinese Society of Neuroscience, and the Jiangsu Society of Physiological Sciences.

Professor Zhu Jingning, Vice Dean of the School of Life Sciences, served as the chairman, Professor Shen Ying from the School of Medicine of Zhejiang University served as the co-chairman, and Professor Wang Jianjun from the School of Life Sciences of Zhejiang University served as the chairman Honorary Chairman
.

Vice President Zhang Junfeng delivered an opening speech
.
He extended warm congratulations on the convening of the conference, thanked the SRCA Board of Governors for its trust and strong support, and introduced the long history of Nanjing University and the life sciences of our university In particular, the contribution and status
of brain science research at the international and national level.
He pointed out that Nanjing University was the first to carry out cerebellar neurobiology research in China, and has been passed down and developed to this day, and has made many research results that have attracted the attention of cerebellar peers at home and abroad.

At the same time, he pointed out that we hope to carry out more international academic exchanges and cooperation in the future and explore together The cerebellum, which has the largest number of neurons and is an important brain structure with a very unique neural circuit structure, functions and operates on
a principle.

Professor Wang Jianjun, Honorary Chairman of the conference, reviewed the history of the pioneering and development of China's cerebellar research trail, as well as the vigorous development of China's cerebellar neurobiology research team in recent years, and hoped for Chinese and international cerebellar research Able to thrive
like the magnificent dendritic of Purkinje cells, the main neurons of the cerebellar cortex.

SRCA President Professor Jean Mariani expressed his heartfelt thanks
to our university and the organizing committee for their excellent organizational work.
He reviewed the development of SRCA, summarized the current situation and trend of the increasingly vigorous development of international cerebellar neurobiology research, and reiterated the society Committed to gathering cerebellar research experts and scholars, promoting cerebellar basic and clinical research, promoting the purpose of cerebellar science education, and for this conference There are high hopes
for promoting the development of international cerebellar neurobiology.

Opening Ceremony (Vice President Zhang Junfeng (top left), SRCA President Professor Jean Mariani (top right) and Professor Wang Jianjun (bottom left) speech, Professor Zhu Jingning (bottom right) presided over the opening ceremony).

The theme of this year's SRCA Annual Meeting is The multifaceted cerebellum: motor control and beyond and many more features).

TimOthyJ.
, chair of the Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota Professor Ebner and Professor Chris I.
De Zeeuw, Academician of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Head of the Department of Neuroscience at the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands, were invited to give Ferdinando Rossi respectively Memorial lecture and Cerebellum lecture.

Represented by Professor Michael E.
Goldberg of Columbia University, Academician of the American Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences1 6 Experts and scholars revolve around Motor control and motor learning, Development and diseases (Development and Disease), Nonmotor functions and Cell type diversity and circuit architecture Four topics (cell type diversity and neural circuit construction) made wonderful academic presentations and talked to the audience on cerebellar motor control Models, clinical research progress of cerebellar ataxia, cerebellar cognition and emotion and other high-level functional regulation, as well as the structure and function of novel neuronal types and circuit structures in the cerebellum were discussed in depth
.
Among them, Chinese scholar, Professor Wu Zhiying from Zhejiang University School of Medicine, hereditary ataxia-Chinese experience and Professor Shen Ying's Different structural abnormalities of the cerebellum-brain connections in autism model mice sparked heated discussions
.

Professor Tim Ebner and Professor Chris I.
De Zeeuw presented the conference

The conference carried out 16 keynote presentations on 4 topics

The successful holding of this SRCA International Symposium will further contribute to the promotion of international scholarship in the field of cerebellar research Exchange and academic cooperation, which will help promote the development of
cerebellar research in China.
Experts and scholars attending the meeting also enjoyed two videos introducing Nanjing University and Nanjing on the cloud at the opening ceremony, which was fully enjoyed They have appreciated the beautiful scenery of Nanjing's landscape and forest, historical and modern reflection, as well as the profound historical heritage, disciplinary strength and cultural connotation
of our university.