On July 23, 2016, a farewell party of the 4th Neural and Cognitive Sciences Summer School was held in Dengyoucai Hall, Jinguang Life Sciences Building of Peking University. With all the awesome shows and beautiful blessings, the challenging and fully scheduled week came to the end, making every participant enjoyed and benefited a lot.

2016 Summer Program of neural & cognitive sciences, co-funded by PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Center for Life Sciences, appealed 92 students from more than 40 universities all over the country. The program invited world-class neuroscientists to introduce cutting-edge progress in several fields. What is more, the students also took laboratory visiting, lunch talk with scientists, paper presentation and team reports.

The first class, Overview of Neurobiology, was kicked off right after the welcome-dinner, given by Dr. Yi Rao. Drs. Yi Zhong, Jisong Guan, Jing Yang, Qin Shen, Chen Zhang, Yichang Jia, Jian Li, Yulong Li, Bailong Xiao, Zengcai Guo, Shihui Han, William Yang (from UCLA) took turns to present in the subsequent days. The presentation includes the fields of forgetting, memory code, neural development, human empathy, synaptic transmission, tactile sense, axonal death and neuropsychiatric diseases/disorders. Hopefully, these lectures will enlighten the way of neuroscience to the students.

In the end, many students said that they not only had a peer of the latest results in neuroscience but their curiosity towards sicence deep down inside were aroused up. Moreover, they have spent a dreamy week with new friends all over the country. A portion of students grabbed this opportunity to dig deeper and they decided to learn lab skills in their interested labs for a couple of weeks.