Building Bridges through Science

Thomas Lissek; Michelle Adams; John Adelman; Ehud Ahissar; Mohammed Akaaboune; Huda Akil; Mustafa al'Absi; Fazal Arain; Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla; Deniz Atasoy; Jesus Avila; Ashraf Badawi; Hilmar Bading; Abdul Mannan Baig; Jimena Baleriola; Carlos Belmonte; Ilaria Bertocchi; Heinrich Betz; Colin Blakemore; Olaf Blanke; Philipp Boehm-Sturm; Tobias Bonhoeffer; Paolo Bonifazi; Nils Brose; Patrizia Campolongo; Tansu Celikel; Cathy C Chang; Ta-Yuan Chang; Ami Citri; Hollis T Cline; Jesus M Cortes; Kathleen Cullen; Kellie Dean; José M Delgado-Garcia; Mathieu Desroches; John F Disterhoft; John E Dowling; Andreas Draguhn; Sherif F El-Khamisy; Abdeljabbar El Manira; S Ather Enam; Juan M Encinas; Asier Erramuzpe; José A Esteban; Isabel Fariñas; Edmond Fischer; Izumi Fukunaga; Iñigo Gabilondo; Detlev Ganten; Albert Gidon; Juan Carlos Gomez-Esteban; Paul Greengard; Valery Grinevich; Agnés Gruart; Roger Guillemin; Ahmad R Hariri; Bassem Hassan; Michael Häusser; Yasunori Hayashi; Natasha K Hussain; Adnan Abdul Jabbar; Mohamed Jaber; Reinhardt Jahn; Essam Mohammed Janahi; Mohamed Kabbaj; Helmut Kettenmann; Merel Kindt; Shira Knafo; Georg Köhr; Shoji Komai; Harm Krugers; Bernd Kuhn; Nouria Lakhdar Ghazal; Matthew E Larkum; Mickey London; Beat Lutz; Carlos Matute; Luis Martinez-Millan; Mouna Maroun; James McGaugh; Ahmed A Moustafa; Anwar Nasim; Klaus-Armin Nave; Erwin Neher; Karoly Nikolich; Tiago Outeiro; Lucy M Palmer; Olga Penagarikano; Isabel Perez-Otano; Donald W Pfaff; Bruno Poucet; Atta-Ur Rahman; Pedro Ramos-Cabrer; Ali Rashidy-Pour; Richard J Roberts; Serafim Rodrigues; Joshua R Sanes; Andreas T Schaefer; Menahem Segal; Idan Segev; Saad Shafqat; Nikhat Ahmed Siddiqui; Hermona Soreq; Eduardo Soriano-García; Rainer Spanagel; Rolf Sprengel; Greg Stuart; Thomas C Südhof; Jan Tønnesen; Mario Treviño; Basim M Uthman; J Craig Venter; Alexei Verkhratsky; Craig Weiss; Torsten N Wiesel; Emre Yaksi; Ofer Yizhar; Larry J Young; Paul Young; Nasser H Zawia; José L Zugaza; Mazahir T Hasan

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.028

Building Bridges through Science

Neuron. 2017 Nov 15;96(4):730-735. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.028.

Authors

Thomas Lissek¹, Michelle Adams², John Adelman³, Ehud Ahissar⁴, Mohammed Akaaboune⁵, Huda Akil⁵, Mustafa al'Absi⁶, Fazal Arain⁷, Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla⁸, Deniz Atasoy⁹, Jesus Avila¹⁰, Ashraf Badawi¹¹, Hilmar Bading¹, Abdul Mannan Baig⁷, Jimena Baleriola¹², Carlos Belmonte¹³, Ilaria Bertocchi¹⁴, Heinrich Betz¹⁵, Colin Blakemore¹⁶, Olaf Blanke¹⁷, Philipp Boehm-Sturm¹⁸, Tobias Bonhoeffer¹⁹, Paolo Bonifazi⁸, Nils Brose²⁰, Patrizia Campolongo²¹, Tansu Celikel²², Cathy C Chang²³, Ta-Yuan Chang²³, Ami Citri²⁴, Hollis T Cline²⁵, Jesus M Cortes⁸, Kathleen Cullen²⁶, Kellie Dean²⁷, José M Delgado-Garcia²⁸, Mathieu Desroches²⁹, John F Disterhoft³⁰, John E Dowling³¹, Andreas Draguhn¹, Sherif F El-Khamisy¹¹, Abdeljabbar El Manira³², S Ather Enam⁷, Juan M Encinas¹², Asier Erramuzpe⁸, José A Esteban³³, Isabel Fariñas³⁴, Edmond Fischer³⁵, Izumi Fukunaga³⁶, Iñigo Gabilondo³⁷, Detlev Ganten³⁸, Albert Gidon³⁸, Juan Carlos Gomez-Esteban³⁷, Paul Greengard³⁹, Valery Grinevich⁴⁰, Agnés Gruart²⁸, Roger Guillemin⁴¹, Ahmad R Hariri⁴², Bassem Hassan⁴³, Michael Häusser⁴⁴, Yasunori Hayashi⁴⁵, Natasha K Hussain²⁶, Adnan Abdul Jabbar⁷, Mohamed Jaber⁴⁶, Reinhardt Jahn⁴⁷, Essam Mohammed Janahi⁴⁸, Mohamed Kabbaj⁴⁹, Helmut Kettenmann⁵⁰, Merel Kindt⁵¹, Shira Knafo⁵², Georg Köhr⁵³, Shoji Komai⁵⁴, Harm Krugers⁵¹, Bernd Kuhn³⁶, Nouria Lakhdar Ghazal⁵⁵, Matthew E Larkum⁵⁶, Mickey London²⁴, Beat Lutz⁵⁷, Carlos Matute¹², Luis Martinez-Millan¹², Mouna Maroun⁵⁸, James McGaugh⁵⁹, Ahmed A Moustafa⁶⁰, Anwar Nasim⁶¹, Klaus-Armin Nave²⁰, Erwin Neher⁴⁷, Karoly Nikolich⁶², Tiago Outeiro⁶³, Lucy M Palmer⁶⁴, Olga Penagarikano⁶⁵, Isabel Perez-Otano¹³, Donald W Pfaff³⁹, Bruno Poucet⁶⁶, Atta-Ur Rahman⁶⁷, Pedro Ramos-Cabrer⁶⁸, Ali Rashidy-Pour⁶⁹, Richard J Roberts⁷⁰, Serafim Rodrigues⁷¹, Joshua R Sanes³¹, Andreas T Schaefer⁷², Menahem Segal⁴, Idan Segev²⁴, Saad Shafqat⁷, Nikhat Ahmed Siddiqui⁷³, Hermona Soreq²⁴, Eduardo Soriano-García⁷⁴, Rainer Spanagel⁵³, Rolf Sprengel¹⁵, Greg Stuart⁷⁵, Thomas C Südhof⁶², Jan Tønnesen¹², Mario Treviño⁷⁶, Basim M Uthman⁷⁷, J Craig Venter⁷⁸, Alexei Verkhratsky⁷⁹, Craig Weiss³⁰, Torsten N Wiesel³⁹, Emre Yaksi⁸⁰, Ofer Yizhar⁴, Larry J Young⁸¹, Paul Young²⁷, Nasser H Zawia⁸², José L Zugaza¹², Mazahir T Hasan⁸³

Affiliations

¹ Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
² Bilkent University, 06800 Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey.
³ Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
⁴ Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
⁵ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048, USA.
⁶ University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, MN 55812, USA.
⁷ Aga Khan University, Karachi 74800, Pakistan.
⁸ BioCruces Health Research Institute, 48903 Barakaldo, Spain.
⁹ Istanbul Medipol University, 34810 Beykoz/Istanbul, Turkey.
¹⁰ Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), ISCIII, 28031 Madrid, Spain.
¹¹ University of Science and Technology, Zewail City, 12578 Giza, Egypt.
¹² Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, 48940 Leioa, Spain.
¹³ Instituto de Neurociencias, UMH-CSIC, 03550 San Juan De Alicante, Spain.
¹⁴ Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi, 10043 Torino, Italy.
¹⁵ Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
¹⁶ School of Advanced Study, University of London, London WC1E 7HU, UK.
¹⁷ Center for Neuroprosthetics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1002 Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁸ Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
¹⁹ Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, 82152 Martinsried, Germany.
²⁰ Max-Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, 37075 Göttingen, Germany.
²¹ Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
²² Radboud University, 6525 HP Nijmegen, Netherlands.
²³ Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
²⁴ The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel.
²⁵ The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
²⁶ Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
²⁷ University College Cork, Cork T12 YN60, Ireland.
²⁸ Universidad Pablo de Olivide, 41013 Seville, Spain.
²⁹ Inria, Sophia Antipolis Research Centre, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France.
³⁰ Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
³¹ Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
³² Karolinska Institute, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
³³ Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC/UAM), 28049 Madrid, Spain.
³⁴ Universidad de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot, Spain.
³⁵ University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
³⁶ Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University Okinawa 904-0495, Japan.
³⁷ Hospital Universitario Cruces, 48903 Barakaldo, Spain.
³⁸ Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
³⁹ Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
⁴⁰ German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
⁴¹ Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
⁴² Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
⁴³ Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM) - Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, UPMC, Sorbonne Universités, Inserm, CNRS, 75013 Paris, France.
⁴⁴ University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
⁴⁵ Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
⁴⁶ INSERM U-1084, Université de Poitiers, 86073 Poitiers, France.
⁴⁷ Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
⁴⁸ Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Bahrain, Sakhir, P.O. Box 32038, Bahrain.
⁴⁹ Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.
⁵⁰ Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
⁵¹ University of Amsterdam, 1012 WX Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁵² Universidad del Pais Vasco, 48940 Leioa, Spain.
⁵³ Central Institute of Mental Health, 68159 Mannheim, Germany.
⁵⁴ NARA Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan.
⁵⁵ Mohammed V University of Rabat, 10500 Rabat, Morocco.
⁵⁶ Humboldt University, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
⁵⁷ University Medical Center, 55131 Mainz, Germany.
⁵⁸ University of Haifa, 3498838 Haifa, Israel.
⁵⁹ University of California Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
⁶⁰ Western Sydney University, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia.
⁶¹ Pakistan Academy of Sciences, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
⁶² Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
⁶³ University Medical Center Göttingen, 37075 Göttingen, Germany.
⁶⁴ Florey institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, 3010 Australia.
⁶⁵ University of the Basque Country, 48940 Leioa, Spain.
⁶⁶ Aix-Marseille Université - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 13331 Marseille, France.
⁶⁷ University of Karachi, 75270 Karachi, Pakistan.
⁶⁸ CIC biomaGUNE, 20014 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
⁶⁹ Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, P.O.Box 35131-19111, Iran.
⁷⁰ New England Biolabs Inc., Ipswich, MA 01938, USA.
⁷¹ Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, 48009 Bilbao, Spain.
⁷² The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK.
⁷³ Barrett Hodgson University, Karachi 74900, Pakistan.
⁷⁴ University of Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain.
⁷⁵ Australian National University, Acton ACT 2601, Australia.
⁷⁶ Universidad de Guadalajara, 44100 Guadalajara, Mexico.
⁷⁷ Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar, P.O. Box 24144, Doha, Qatar.
⁷⁸ J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
⁷⁹ The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
⁸⁰ Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, 7030 Trondheim, Norway.
⁸¹ Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
⁸² University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA.
⁸³ Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, 48940 Leioa, Spain. Electronic address: mazahir.hasan@achucarro.org.

PMID: 29144972
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.028

Abstract

Science is ideally suited to connect people from different cultures and thereby foster mutual understanding. To promote international life science collaboration, we have launched "The Science Bridge" initiative. Our current project focuses on partnership between Western and Middle Eastern neuroscience communities.

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Historical Article

MeSH terms

Europe
History, 15th Century
History, 21st Century
History, Ancient
History, Medieval
Humans
International Cooperation*
Middle East
Neurosciences / history*

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