Note: Financial assistance from the Organizing Committee will be limited to a refund, to symposium, tutorial and plenary speakers only, concerning accommodation for 2 nights in Búzios (Hotel Atlântico) and previously scheduled transfer from and to Rio de Janeiro's airports.

Regional COURSES and WORKSHOPS:
(From April 1st to April 30th, 2008)

IBRO’s Latin America Regional Committee will evaluate possible funding (up to US$ 5000) for basic Neuroscience courses or workshops to take place between July and December 2008. The application must include: (1) Title of course or workshop, (2) place and dates, (3) coordinator’s CV, (4) tentative program, (5) list of Faculty, (6) number and level of students or participants, (7) detailed intended use of IBRO-LARC funds, (8) other sources of funding (including amounts), and (9) previous funding by IBRO-LARC (including year and use). NOTE: This activity should foster cooperation among regional neuroscientists (students and researchers). Failure to incorporate participants from the region handicap chances for approval. Contact any LARC member if you have doubts about your proposal. Important: For this year, preference will be given to courses or workshops carried out within or next to the I Congreso IBRO-LARC de Neurociencias de Latinoamérica, el Caribe y la Península Ibérica (Neurolatam I), to be held in Buzios, Brazil, September 2-4, 2008.

Within 60 days after the activity, its coordinator must submit a report of activities, participants and use of IBRO-LARC funds. A summary in English should also be prepared to be posted at the IBRO website. Both the report and the English summary must be sent to Carlos Mas (carlos@mail.fcq.unc.edu.ar), collaborative webmaster for the IBRO-LARC website. Receipt of applications will open on April 01 and will close on April 30, 2008. Send your electronic application as an attachment to both of the following addresses:

Luiz Carlos de Lima Silveira, Universidade Federal do Para, Centro de Ciencias Biologicas, CEP 66.075 - 900, Belem, Para, Brazil, E-mail: luiz@ufpa.br

Osvaldo Uchitel, IFIBYNE CONICET, Fisiologia, Biologia Molecular y Celular, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellon II Piso 2, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina, E-mail: odu@fbmc.fcen.uba.ar

These two addressees will acknowledge reception of the application. The applicant who does not receive such acknowledgement should inform the addressees. Decisions on the applications will be communicated to applicants on May 30, 2008.

Fellowships for SHORT VISIT (PASANTIAS):
(From April 1st to May 20th, 2008)

IBRO’s Latin America Regional Committee will evaluate possible funding (up to US$ 1000) for attendance to courses, workshops or short visits within the region to take place between July and December 2008. Depending on the travel’s distance, funding will be up to US$ 1000. Candidates should not be older than 40 years. In general, priority is given to doctoral students and early postdocs doing short scientific stays within the region. Important: For this year, priority will be given to travel grants leading to first author presentation of results at the I Congreso IBRO-LARC de Neurociencias de Latinoamérica, el Caribe y la Península Ibérica (Neurolatam I), to be held in Buzios, Brazil, September 2-4, 2008. Priority will be likewise given to participation in courses or workshops held within the congress or as satellites thereof. Each applicant must submit a CV, an activities plan, a letter of support from his/her director, and a letter of acceptance from his/her host, course director or Neurolatam I poster committee. Please also mention any previous support received from IBRO-LARC, including the year. Receipt of applications will close on May 20, 2008.

Applications must be sent as an e-mail message with attachments, preferably all attachments in one message, and sent only once. Disperse and/or repeated messages only create chaos and invite deletion of apparently similar documents. Preferably use MS-Word; please avoid using the “pdf” format.

Send your application to the following addresses: Horacio Vanegas, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Apartado 21827, Caracas 1020A, Venezuela, E-mail: horaciovan@gmail.com, to José Alonso Fernández-Guasti CINVESTAV-IPN, Department of Pharmacobiology, Czda. de los Tenorios 235 Granjas Coapa C.P. 14330, México, D.F. MEXICO, E-mail: jfernand@cinvestav.mx and Fernando Torrealba López Laboratorio de Neurobiología, Departamento de Ciencias Fisiológicas, 3er. Piso. Edificio Decanato.,Santiago- Chile E-mail: ftorrealba@bio.puc.cl

These three addressees are obliged to acknowledge receipt. The applicant who does not receive such acknowledgment should inform the applicant. Decisions on the applications will be communicated to applicants before June 30th, 2008. Requests for reconsideration will not be accepted.