MNS Best Poster and Best presentation prizes at IBRO-ARC
MNS Best Poster and Best presentation prizes at IBRO-ARC

MNS awarded Best Poster and Best presentation prizes at the third IBRO-ARC workshop

"Central Nervous System Developmental Remodeling and Neuroplasticity"

Faculty of Science, Alexandria University EGYPT with the support of IBRO and MNS

17 to 19 December 2020

Alexandria University, Egypt

Virtual Workshop    


The Workshop

The workshop was held over three days from 17 to 19 December 2020 on Zoom platform. A group of young researchers from Egypt, Tunis, Morocco, Lebanon, Jordan, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and India actively participated in this event.

Furthermore, the sessions were delivered by distinguished professors from Egypt, France, Malta, Nigeria and South Africa.

To maximize the benefit, the lectures were live-streamed over two days through the portals of IBRO and MNS:

https://www.facebook.com/IBROarc

https://www.facebook.com/MedNeuroSociety/

 

The workshop curriculum included ten sessions ranging from educational lectures and academic research to the presentation of the opportunities available to students and the current challenges of the COVID-19 outbreak, treatments from cannabinoid-derivatives and its relation with the central nervous system.

The workshop also introduced the best methods of scientific publishing, with a commitment to the ethics of scientific research and publication.

The workshop reviewed the opportunities available through the participating organizations.

The workshop covered three practical sessions on molecular biology techniques, western blotting and brain anatomy.

The prizes

The workshop also included competitions among young researchers on their research presentations and the design of research posters.

 

The workshop concluded with a review of the results of the competitions, and MNS President Prof. Giuseppe Di Giovanni awarded a financial prize (€150) funded by MNS to Mustapha Oluwaseun from Nigeria for his excellence in all his contributions.

The first best research presentation prize and the first best poster design were also funded by MNS.

 

The best research presentation prize

The first prize (€150) was awarded to Fatma Ahmed from Lebanon

The second prize was awarded to Nour-Eddine Kaikai from Morocco as a certificate of appreciation

The third prize was awarded to Islam Ayman from Egypt and as a certificate of appreciation

The best poster designs.

The first prize (€150) was awarded to Sarah Mahfouz from Egypt

The second prize was awarded to Isaac Henneh from Ghana as a certificate of appreciation

The third prize was awarded to Yvette Nguizeye from Cameroon as a certificate of appreciation

The workshop concluded with congratulating on the success of the workshop and thanking all funding organizations, lecturers, organizing committees, participants and wishes of a happy new year.




Amira-Report.pdf