Seminars and Events

Seminar Series “PhD Career Perspective Event”

The 7^th event titled
“Career Tracks in Pharma Industry"
will take place on
Thursday, 21^st September 2023at 5 p.m via zoom.

This time we will have the pleasure to listen to:

• Dr. Derk Pannen - Medical Strategy Lead UCB Pharma

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After the talk, we invite you to participate in the Q&A session where you will have the opportunity to discuss any matter with them. Don´t miss it!

We are looking forward to a series of fantastic talks and we hope to see many of you there!

The Organizing Committee
 

Seminar Series “PhD Career Perspective Event”

The 6^th event titled
“Scientific Coordination of Graduate Programmes & More - Edition 1"
will take place on
Thursday, 29^th June 2023at 5 p.m via zoom.

This time we will have the pleasure to listen to:

• Dr. Isabell Witt - Scientific Coordinator GSfBS, University of Cologne
• Dr. Emmi Wachsmuth - Managing Coordinator CRC 1403, University of Cologne

RegistrationLink

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After the talk, we invite you to participate in the Q&A session where you will have the opportunity to discuss any matter with them. Don´t miss it!

We are looking forward to a series of fantastic talks and we hope to see many of you there!

The Organizing Committee

Seminar Series “PhD Career Perspective Event”

The 5^th event titled “Scientific Publishing"will take place on
Thursday, 13^th April 2023at 5 p.m via zoom.

This time we will have the pleasure to listen to:

• Dr. Lucie Laurien - Editor at Cell Reports
• Dr. Sara Murru - Publishing and Development Specialist at Frontiers

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After the talk, we invite you to participate in the Q&A session where you will have the opportunity to discuss any matter with them. Don´t miss it!

We are looking forward to a series of fantastic talks and we hope to see many of you there!

The Organizing Committee

Seminar Series “PhD Career Perspective Event”

The 4^th event titled “Science Communication will take place on
Thursday, 9^th February 2023at 5 p.m via zoom.

This time we will have the pleasure to listen to:

• Dr. Anna Euteneuer- Science Communication Officer, University of Cologne
• Dr. Mihaela Bozukova - Science Social Media Officer eLife Science Publications & Freelance Science Journalist, Science Communicator

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After the talk, we invite you to participate in the Q&A session where you will have the opportunity to discuss any matter with them. Don´t miss it!

We are looking forward to a series of fantastic talks and we hope to see many of you there!

The Organizing Committee

Seminar Series “PhD Career Perspective Event”

The next event titled “Transfer & Start-up” will take place on
Thursday, 10^th November 2022at 5 p.m via zoom.

This time we will have the pleasure to listen to:

• Bernhard Röck
  PhD Candidate in the laboratory of Prof. García-Sáez, University of Cologne &
  winner of the "Startup your idea" Contest for "Cell ImAIging"
• Dr. Reza Esmaillie
  Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nephrolab, University Hospital Cologne
  & CEO of "Detechgene"

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After the talk, we invite you to participate in the Q&A session where you will have the opportunity to discuss any matter with them. Don´t miss it!

We are looking forward to a series of fantastic talks and we hope to see many of you there!

The Organizing Committee
 

Seminar Series “PhD Career Perspective Event”

The 3^rd event titled “Research in Industry” will take place on

Thursday, 6^th October 2022at 5 p.m via zoom.

This time we will have the pleasure to listen to:

• Dr. Anna Geueke
  Research Postdoc at Beiersdorf, Dermatological Skin Care
• Dr. Fiona C. Mayer
  Postdoc at Bayer Pharamceuticals,
  CRISPR/Cas9 and Genome Engineering

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After the talk, we invite you to participate in the Q&A session where you will have the opportunity to discuss any matter with them. Don´t miss it!

Please use the following link to register in advance: LINK

We are looking forward to a series of fantastic talks and we hope to see many of you there!

The Organizing Committee
Arushi Gupta, Carolina Montoro Gámez, Giada Mantellato, Hao Chen,
Leonie Müller, Lisa Wolff, Madhuri Puvvada, Michael Bell-Simons,
Mila Daoud, Nora Rautenberg, Sarah Buchholz
 

Seminar Series “PhD Career Perspective Event”

The 2^nd event titled “Management in Industry” will take place on
Thursday, 30^th June2022at 5 p.m via zoom.

This time we will have the pleasure to listen to:

• Dr. Vipin Babu Medical Affairs Manager Oncology at Roche
• Dr. Diletta Edifizi Scientific Project Manager at Taconic Biosciences

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After the talk, we invite you to participate in the Q&A session where you will have the opportunity to discuss any matter with them. Don´t miss it!

We are looking forward to a series of fantastic talks and we hope to see many of you there!

The Organizing Committee
Arushi Gupta, Carolina Montoro Gámez, Giada Mantellato, Hao Chen,
Katharina Ried, Leonie Müller, Lisa Wolff, Madhuri Puvvada, Michael Bell,
Mila Daoud, Nora Rautenberg, Sarah Buchholz
 

Meeting Alumni of the RTG-NCA

Dr. Philip Reinoß, alumnus of Prof. Hammerschmidt's lab

Current position: Database and Systems Developer at Henkel (Düsseldorf)

Wednesday, 22.06.2022at 3 p.m via zoom.

After the talk, participants will have the opportunity to discuss with Philip.

Seminars in Neuroscience

Virtual seminar (Zoom)

Prof. Manuel Zimmer

Division Neural Network Dynamics and Behaviour,
Department for Neuroscience and Behaviour,
University of Vienna, Austria
 

Title: “From connectome to function:
         connectivity features underlying neuronal
         population dynamics in the nematode C. elegans”   

Day and Time: Monday, 13.06.2022 at 15:00 s.t.
Host: Seminars in Neuroscience & RTG-NCA

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Günes Birdal and the RTG-NCA
go KölnerKinderUni
^{_{March 23 and 24, 2022}}

Günes Birdal, doctoral candidate in the laboratory of Prof. Korsching,
is contributing a workshop to the 2022’s “KölnerKinderUni” programme
(course no. 20 and 21).
In his workshop
“Beobachtungen in der Tierwelt:
Wie bei Fischlarven beim Schmecken ein Licht angeht“ –
„Observations in the animal kingdom: How tasting turns on a light
in fish larvae”
pupils at 5^th and 6^th grade will be introduced to taste sensation in zebra fish larvae and how scientists employ Calcium Imaging to investigate sensory processes in model organisms.

KölnerKinderUni 2022 - Events:
https://kinderuni.uni-koeln.de/programminfo/veranstaltungen2022

KölnerKinderUni Flyer 2022
 

New Seminar Series “PhD Career Perspective Event”

We’re excited to share the good news with you: “PhD Career Perspective Event” is starting this spring!
In this series of events we will introduce you to fellow experts of different fields to provide first-hand insights into diverse positions inside and outside of academia after completion of your doctoral or postdoctoral phase.

The kick-off event titled “Advanced trainers and lecturers” will take place on
Thursday, 10^th March 2022at 5 p.m via zoom.

This time we will have the pleasure to listen to:

• Dr. Anja Neuber Lecturer at Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne
• Dr. Michaela Höhne Postdoctoral researcher and freelance trainer
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After the talk, we invite you to participate in the Q&A session where you will have the opportunity to discuss any matter with them. Don´t miss it!

We are looking forward to a series of fantastic talks and we hope to see many of you there!

The Organizing Committee
Arushi Gupta, Carolina Montoro Gámez, Giada Mantellato, Hao Chen,
Katharina Ried, Leonie Müller, Lisa Wolff, Madhuri Puvvada, Michael Bell,
Mila Daoud, Nora Rautenberg, Sarah Bachmann

Seminars in Neuroscience

Virtual seminar (Zoom)

Dr. Jennifer Li & Dr. Drew Robson

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics,
Tübingen, Germany

Title: “A nested dynamical system organizes quiescent
         brain states in the vertebrate brain”   

Day and Time: Monday, 09.05.2022 at 15:00 s.t.
Host: Madhuri Puvvada, PhD candidate, laboratory of Prof. Hammerschmidt

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Seminars in Neuroscience

Virtual seminar (Zoom)

Prof. Emre Yaksi

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, Norway

Title: “Integration of sensory-evoked and
          spontaneous activity
          in zebrafish forebrain”   

Day and Time: Monday, 07.03.2022 at 15:00 s.t.
Venue: online seminar - access via Zoom
Host:Günes Birdal, PhD candidate, laboratory of Prof. Korsching

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Seminars in Neuroscience

Virtual seminar (Zoom)

Ass. Prof. Flavio Donato

Biozentrum at the University of Basel, Switzerland

Title: “Assembling Circuits to Navigate
         through Space and Create Memories”   

Day and Time: Monday, 14.02.2022 at 15:00 s.t.
Venue: online seminar - access via Zoom

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Seminars in Neuroscience

Virtual seminar (Zoom)

Dr. Jasmine A. Nirody

Independent Research Fellow at the University of Oxford &
The Rockefeller University

Title: “Shared features in panarthropod inter-limb coordination across walking speeds and terrains”   

Day and Time: Monday, 08.11.2021 at 15:00 s.t.
Venue: online seminar - access via Zoom

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Seminars in Neuroscience

Virtual seminar (Zoom)

Dr. Basil el Jundi

Biozentrum, Universität Würzburg

Title: “The Monarch butterfly compass -
         from neurons to behavior”   

Day and Time: Monday, 04.10.2021 at 15:00 s.t.
Venue: online seminar - access via Zoom

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Seminars in Neuroscience

Virtual seminar (Zoom)

Prof. Jessica Fox

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA

Title: “Combining sensory information
         for flexible behaviors at high speeds ”   

Day and Time: Monday, 20.09.2021 at 16:00 s.t.
Venue: online seminar - access via Zoom

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Seminars in Neuroscience

In the context of its 2020's annual retreat, the RTG-NCA hosts
five internationally renowned scientists, members of the graduate programme's scientific advisory board, to present their recent research findings.

All interested scientists are welcome to attend these online seminars via Zoom.

_{^{Day and time:}} Monday, November 16^th 2020
                 at 15:30 s.t. to 19:00

(15 min break at 16:30, 45 min break at 17:45)

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at 15:30

Albena Jordanova

VIB-Uantwerp Center for Molecular Neurology, Antwerp, Belgium

Title: “Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases and their Role
          in Neurodegeneration: Let’s Go to the Nucleus”

at 16:00

Kevin Briggman

Department of Computational Neuroethology, caesar, Bonn, Germany

Title: “Molecularly Distinct Wiring Specificity in the
          Mouse Olfactory Bulb”  

at 16:45

Astrid Prinz

Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Title: “Mechanisms of Neuronal Homeostasis”  

at 17:15

Bruce R. Johnson

Department of Neurobiology & Behaviour, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY, USA

Title: “Studying Neuronal Excitability in both
         the Research Lab and the Practical Classroom”  

at 18:30

Tamàs Horvath

Department of Comparative Medicine Neuroscience and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Title: “Hunger Feeds Life” 

Seminars in Neurosciences

Prof. Dr. Abdel El Manira

Department of Neuroscience,
Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Title: “ Neuronal and circuit diversity controlling motor actions ”   

Day and Time: Monday, 25.11.2019 at 1:00 p.m. (s.t.)
Venue: Lecture Hall 0.024, Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b

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Seminars in Neurosciences

Prof. Dr. Yimin Zou

Division of Biology, Section of Neuroscience,
University of California, San Diego, USA

Title: “Signaling Mechanisms for Glutamatergic Synapse Formation and Function”   

Day and Time: Monday, 16.09.2019 at 2:00 p.m. (s.t.)
Venue: Lecture Hall ground floor, CECAD Research Centre, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 26

POSTING

RTG-NCA meets MSc Students

Wednesday, 26.06.2019

To promote networking and exchange of experience between different stages of scientific education the RTG-NCA is organising an event that aims at bringing together current doctoral candidates of the RTG with M.Sc. candidates of the subject module "Neurobiology".

In an interactive session doctoral candidates will pitch their thesis topics (research foci, methodology, supervision, project relevance in the contemporary neuroscience, structured education programme) and will furthermore provide an insight to their tracks focusing on topics like:

1. What to consider during Master studies in preparation for a PhD
2. When to start looking for a PhD position
3. What do coordinated PhD programmes offer
4. What criteria are important when choosing a PhD programme
5. What to consider when choosing the research area of a Masters project

The event will offer ample time for scientific and strategic questions and informal exchange.

Venue: Seminar room 1^st floor 1.007 –
             Biocenter (Zülpicher Str. 47b, building 304)

Programme

11:15 – 11:30          Prof. Dr. Ansgar Büschges
                              Introduction to Structured Graduate Education at UoC

11:30 – 12:30         5 brief talks by doctoral students
                              (groups of Büschges, Wellmann, Nawrot)

12:30 – 13:45         lunch break

13:45 – 14:30         RTG-NCA: 7 brief talks by doctoral students from RTG-NCA
                              (covering different RTG research foci and different ways of entry)

14:30 – 15:30         Questions of master students to doctoral students

Informal exchange

Seminars in Neurosciences

Prof. Dr. John Tuthill

Department of Physiology and Biophysics,
University of Washington, USA

Title: “ Neural mechanisms of leg proprioception and
           motor control in Drosophila ”   

Day and Time: Wednesday, 10.04.2019 at 12:30 p.m. (s.t.)
Venue: Lecture Hall 0.024, Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b

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The RTG-NCA at the 13^th Göttingen Meeting
of the German Neuroscience Society

20.03.-23.03.2019

At the 13^th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society
the RTG-NCA | RTG-1960 supports

Symposium 27 
"Neurodegenerative diseases: shaping neuronal circuits by membrane trafficking"
chaired by Natalia Kononenko and Brunhilde Wirth

Several doctoral candidates of the RTG-NCA will be presenting their work
during the poster sessions.

For more information, visit the meeting's website:
https://www.nwg-goettingen.de/2019

Seminars in Neurosciences

Dr. Eugenia Chiappe

Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown,
Lisbon, Portugal

Title: “Motor context tunes active visual control of locomotion in Drosophila”   

Day and Time: Monday, 04.02.2019 at 5 p.m. (s.t.)
Venue: Lecture Hall 0.024, Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b

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RTG-NCA on tour in Bonn

1^st Bonn-Köln Neuroscience Symposium

On Wednesday, 03.07.2019 a joint symposium will be organised at the DZNE in Bonn:

To foster interaction between the different colleagues, groups and topics in the neurosciences in Bonn and Cologne a joint conference is organized. The choice of speakers and their topics reflects the span of neuroscientific areas of research at both locations.

During the talk sessions, lunch break and poster sessions there will be ample of time for fruitful scientific interaction and exchange.
The one day conference will be wrapped-up by an informal get-together, a Summer BBQ.

PROGRAMME

POSTER

Venue:

Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e. V. (DZNE)
Venusberg, Bonn
Sigmund-Freud-Straße 27, 53127 Bonn

Feel cordially invited to attend the meeting.
To register please follow this link: 1^st Bonn-Köln Neuroscience Symposium

The meeting is generously supported by the Bonn SFB1089, ImmunoSensation2 and
the Cologne RTG-NCA | RTG 1960.

Participation is free of charge, however prior registration is required.

Certificates of attendance will be issued upon request after 15.07.2019.
If you are interested, please contact the scientific coordinator.

Seminars in Neurosciences

Dr. Vivek Jayaraman

HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Ashburn, Virginia, USA

Title: “Towards a mechanistic understanding of
          navigational neural dynamics in Drosophila”   

Day and Time: Monday, 07.06.2018 at 1 p.m. (s.t.)
Venue: Lecture Hall 0.024, Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b

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Workshop on Compatibility of Family and Career

Happiness with Kid(s) and Career

Prof. Dr. Soei-Winkels

PhD in Neuroscience, Dipl.-Psych., Systemische Management Coach,
Professor for Industrial and Occupational Psychology at the FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management

Quereinstieg-Netzwerk & Quereinstieg-Wegbegleiter

Day and Time: Tuesday, 05.06.2018 at 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 0.46, Ground Floor, Institute for Genetics, Zülpicher Str. 47a

Description

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Seminar in Good Scientific Practice

Ethics in Science and Good Scientific Practice

Prof. Dr. Pflüger
Institute for Biology - Neurobiology
Freie Universität Berlin, DE

Day and Time: Monday, 07.05.2018 at 4 p.m. (s.t.)
Venue: Lecture Hall Ground Floor, Institute for Genetics, Zülpicher Str. 47a

THIS SEMINAR IS MANDATORY FOR RTG-NCA MEMBERS

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Seminars in Neurosciences

Prof. Dr. Pflüger

Institute for Biology - Neurobiology
Freie Universität Berlin, DE

Title: “Postembryonic development and function of a windsensitive interneuron
            and its receptive field in the locust”   

Day and Time: Monday, 07.05.2018 at 12 p.m. (s.t.)
Venue: Lecture Hall 0.024, Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b

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Training Course

Effective Debating in Research

by: Karsten Stölzgen, DebateConsult

Day and Time: Monday, 23.04.2018
Venue: Institute for Genetics, Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47a

One-day scientific symposium

fully organised by doctoral candidates of the RTG-NCA

Speakers  

Aristides Arrenberg       University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Sigrun Korsching          University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Michael Krashes           NIDDK, Maryland, USA

Susana Lima                Fundação Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal

Helen Mayberg             Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, USA

Carlos Ribeiro              Fundação Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal

Anja Schneider             DZNE, Bonn, Germany

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Meeting venue

Biocenter (building 304)
Lecture Hall ground floor (0.024)
Zülpicher Str. 47b
D-50674 Cologne

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Organising committee

Nasim Biglari
Anca Mihaela Corbu
Milan Dieris
Merle Hönig
Katharina Kastenholz
Mafalda Pereira
Philip Reinoß
Laura Schläger
Manish Tomar

Seminars in Neurosciences

Prof. Dr. Bruce R. Johnson,

Department of Neurobiology and Behavior,
Cornell University, Ithaka, NY, USA

Title: “Sources of Muscle Spasticity in the
           Spinal Cord Injured Animal”   

Day and Time: Friday, 01.12.2017 - 10:00 a.m.
Venue: lecture hall 0.24, Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b

Seminar Flyer

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Seminars in Neurosciences

Prof. Dr. Klaas Enno Stephan,

Translational Neuromodeling Unit,
Institute for Biomedical Engineering,
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich,
Zurich, Switzerland

Title: “Translational Neuromodeling for Computational Psychiatry
             and Computational Psychosomatics”   

Day and Time: Tuesday, 21.11.2017 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Library 1^st Floor, Nuclear Medicine, Uni Clinics
(Building No. 60; Kerpener Str. 62, Cologne 50937)

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Seminar on Research Data Management

by the DFG-funded German Federation for Biological Data (GFBio). 

GFBio – Supporting researchers throughout the data life cycle

Abstract: The German Federation for Biological Data (GFBio) is a consortium of 19 institutions within Germany, currently funded by DFG. Its mission is to build and maintain a central platform of expertise and infrastructure for the management of biological and environmental data to facilitate data sharing and stimulate data intensive biological and environmental sciences. GFBio brings together Germany's key players in the field of biological data and information management to harmonize the national biological data landscape. For researchers GFBio offers a central access point with support for all aspects of data management – from the proposal stage to the long term archival of research data.

Speaker: Tina Astor

Date: Thursday, 16.11., 2017 – 4 p.m.
Location: Lecture Hall 0.024, Biocenter, Zülpicherstr. 47b

More information about this project can be found here: www.gfbio.org

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2^nd CEWIS symposium

on 05.10. - 06.10.2017

This event is organised by PhD candidates of the GSfBS and is supported by the GSfBS office.

List of speakers

   Preliminary program                
Further information can be found on theCEWIS website.

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Seminars in Neurosciences

Prof. Dr. Karen Mesce

Departments of
Neuroscience and Entomology,
University of Minnesota Saint Paul, MN, USA

Title: “Small Steps and Larger Strides in Understanding
          Locomotor Circuits and their Functional Recovery
          after Injury”   
Day and Time: Wednesday, 04.10.2017 - 09:30 a.m.
Venue: lecture hall 0.24 at the Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b

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Seminars in Neurosciences

Prof. Dr. Calvin Zhang,

Department of Mathematics,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Title: “Optimal Limp Coordination in Crustacean Swimming:
          the Underlying Dynamical Mechanisms and Fluid Mechanics”   

Day and Time: Wednesday, 09.08.2017 - 9:30 a.m.
Venue: Seminar room 1.007 Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b.

For more information about Prof. Zhang's research, please follow thelink to his webpage.

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Seminars in Neurosciences

Prof. Dr. Abdel El Manira,
Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Title: “Modularity and modulation
          of the locomotor circuits in zebrafish”    

Day and Time: Monday,27.03.2017 - 9:30 a.m.
Venue: lecture hall 0.24 at the Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b.
 

Prof. Dr. Keith Sillar,
St Andrews University, Scotland

Title: “The Na⁺ pump revisited - a conserved memory device
           embedded in spinal locomotor networks”

Day and Time: Monday, 27.03.2017 - 10.30 a.m.
Venue: lecture hall 0.24 at the Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b.

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Seminars in Neurosciences

Prof. Konstantinos Ampatzis,
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Title: “Neuronal networks controlling locomotor speed”    

Day and Time: Tuesday, 11.07.2016 - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: seminar room 1.007 at the Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b

Prof. Ivan Manzini,
CNMPB Research Group, University of Göttingen

Title: “Olfactory network formation and function”    

Day and Time: Tuesday, 24.05.2016 - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: lecture hall 0.24 at the Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b
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1^st RTG-NCA Symposium on November 3^rd, 2015

hosting the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Members

Day and time: 03.11.2015 at 9:00 a.m.
Venue: lecture hall 0.24 at the Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b

For more detailed information open this LINK

Seminars in Neurosciences

Prof. Dr. Marlene Bartos,
Institute of Physiology, University of Freiburg

Title: “Synaptic plasticity of fast spiking interneurons in rat dentate gyrus”    

Day and Time: Monday, 24.11.2014 - 12:00 p.m.
Venue: lecture hall 0.24 at the Biocenter, Zülpicher Str. 47b