by Linda Faye Tidwell
Berlin Neuroscience Meeting 2022
After two years of pandemics, we were finally able to hold the Berlin Neuroscience Meeting as an in-person event!
It started on October 13th with a keynote lecture from Anne McKinney, from McGill University, and a get-together with students and postdocs at the BCCN lecture hall. On October 14th, a large crowd met at the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus.
by Linda Faye Tidwell
How visual information travels from the retina to the midbrain
For the first time, neuroscientists from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (currently in the process of being established) have revealed the precise connections between sensory neurons inside the retina and the superior colliculus, a structure in the midbrain. Neuropixels probes are a relatively recent development, representing the next generation of electrodes. Densely packed with recording points, Neuropixels probes are used to record the activity of nerve cells, and have facilitated these recent insights into neuronal circuits. Writing in Nature Communications*, the researchers describe a fundamental principle which is common to the visual systems of mammals and birds.
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by Linda Faye Tidwell
The Einstein Foundation will fund PhD program Computational Neuroscience for three years
After a competitive selection process, the BCCN PhD program will be funded with 300,000 € for three years by the Berlin Einstein Foundation as Einstein Foundation Doctoral Program.
Read more … The Einstein Foundation will fund PhD program Computational Neuroscience for three years
by Linda Faye Tidwell
Long Night of Sciences 2022
During the Long Night of the Sciences (LNDW) 2022 on July 2nd, from 5 pm to midnight, scientific and science-related institutions in Berlin and Potsdam opened their doors and invited visitors to more than 2,000 experiments, lectures, science shows, guided tours and much more. This year, the guiding idea of the LNDW was Science as a response to fake news, conspiracy theories and fatal errors.