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Faculty of Medical Science

National University of Asuncion

Asuncion, Paraguay

October 10-16, 2013

The local organizers were Dr. Claudia Centurion-Wenninger, MD (Pathophysiology Department, Medical School,National University of Asuncion, Paraguay) and Prof. Ramon Battaglia, MD (Faculty of Medical Sciences, NationalUniversity of Asuncion, Paraguay). The VLTP organizers were Professor Elaine Del Bel, PhD (Department of

Physiology FORP, University of So Paulo, Ribeirao, Sao Paulo, Brazil), Professor Cilene Lino-de-Oliveira, PhD,(Department of Physiology, University of Santa Catarina- University Campus, Trindade, Florianopolis, Brazil) andProfessor U.J. McMahan, PhD. (Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.).

The VLTP lecturers were:

Professor Elaine Del Bel (Department of Physiology FORP, University of So Paulo, Ribeirao, Sao Paulo,Brazil)

Professor Cilene Lino-de-Oliveira (Department of Physiology, University of Santa Catarina- UniversityCampus, Trindade, Florianopolis, Brazil)

ProfessorU.J. McMahan(Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.) ProfessorLawrence Cohen (Department of Physiology, Yale University School Of Medicine, New Haven, CT,

U.S.)

ProfessorJohn Nicholls(SISSA, Trieste, Italy) ProfessorOsvaldo Uchitel (Director, IFIBYNE -UBA CONICET FCEyN, UBA. Pab. II, University of Buenos

Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Dra Rbia Maria Weffort de Oliveira(University of Maring, Maringa Parana, Brazil)There were 85 enrolled students, representing two universities in Paraguay and two universities in Brazil. Most of the

students were medical students at the National University of Asuncion. Those from Brazil were PhD students.

The course extended over 7 days, comprising 28 fifty-minute lectures covering the following topics: methodologies usedin molecular biology, electrophysiology and developmental biology, principles of neural signaling, synaptic transmission

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