Brain Dynamics

Brain Dynamics Seminar Series

- - summer break - -

• 21.08. 15:00 Brain Dynamics Mini Symposium
  • Prof Dr Georg Nagel, Department of Neurophysiology, Institute of Physiology, Biocenter, Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
  • Prof Dr Susanne Schoch, Institute of Neuropathology, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn
  • Dr Giorgio Gilestro, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, UK
• 24.09. 09:00 Brain Dynamics Scientific Day

NEWS

• The third Brain Dynamics Science Speed Dating Meetup will be held on 29th May
• Open PhD position in Neurobiology and Metabolic Research in the research group Jais at the HI-MAG
• Brain Dynamics member Marius Lamberty successfully defended his thesis
• Registration prolonged for the Neurobiology Doctoral Students Workshop (NeuroDoWo) 2024
• Brain Dynamics member Alessandro Braga successfully defended his thesis
• Five small collaborative proposals receive Brain Dynamics Pilot Project grants
• 2nd Brain Dynamics Scientific Day held on 28th September 2023
• Brain dissection demonstration for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers on 20th July 2023
• The first Brain Dynamics Science Speed Dating Meetup held on 26th April 2023
• Microscopy course for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers on 24th and 25th May 2023
• Doctoral candidates share their impressions on having a Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC)

• 26.06.2024 17:00 Klinisch-Neurowissenschaftliches Kolloquium - Prof Dr Dr Eva Schulte from the Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics, LMU Munich & Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Bonn will give a talk titled „​Biologische Grundlagen psychotischer Erkrankungen: Von genetischem Risiko zu einem besseren Verständnis der Pathophysiologie“;
• 17.06.2024 16:00 MPSCog Cognition Colloquium - Prof Dr Lucia Melloni from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt will give a talk titled “Using Adversarial Collaboration to Harness Collective Intelligence”.
• 14.06.2024 12:00 Brain Dynamics Seminar Series - Prof Dr Dorothee Saur from the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Leipzig will talk about “Mapping mechanisms of reorganisation in the language network”;
• 12.06.2024 17:00 Klinisch-Neurowissenschaftliches Kolloquium - Prof Dr Matthias Klein from the Department of Neurology at the Ludwigs Maximilians University (LMU) Hospital in Munich will give a talk titled „​Neues zu schweren ZNS-Infektionen“;
• 12.06.2024 13:00 Language Circle - Dr Benjamin Morillon from Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS) of INSERM & Aix Marseille University in Marseille, France will talk about “Neural dynamics and computations constraining speech processing”;
• 05.06.2024 14:00 Guest lecture at the MPI CBS - Dr Robin Gerrits from the Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology at the Ghent University in Belgium will give a talk titled "Variability of brain hemispheric specialization: One side does not fit all";
• 05.06.2024 12:00 Guest lecture at the Faculty of Life Sciences - Prof Dr Fulvio Domini from the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences at the Brown University, Providence, RI, USA will give a talk titled “The case against probabilistic inference: A deterministic theory of 3D visual processing explains both perception and visually guided actions”;
• 23.05.2024 17:00 BILL Seminar Series - Prof Dr Christian Henneberger from the Institute of Cellular Neurosciences at the Medical Faculty at the University of Bonn will talk about “Multicellular control of plasticity in hippocampal circuits”;
• 23.05.2024 09:00 Brain Dynamics Open Lab Day - Research Group Schönwiesner from the Institute of Biology at the Faculty of Life Sciences will demonstrate their work on “Spatial hearing in different acoustic environments”.

Latest publications by our doctoral candidates:

• Tast V, Schröger E, Widmann A.
  Suppression and omission effects in auditory predictive processing-Two of the same?
  Eur J Neurosci. 2024 May 19. doi: 10.1111/ejn.16393.
• Burkart ME, Kurzke J, Jacobi R, Vera J, Ashcroft FM, Eilers J, Lippmann K.
  K_ATP channel mutation disrupts hippocampal network activity and nocturnal gamma shifts.
  Brain. 2024 May 15; awae157.
• Bullmann T, Kaas T, Ritzau-Jost A, Wöhner A, Kirmann T, Rizalar FS, Holzer M, Nerlich J, Puchkov D, Geis C, Eilers J, Kittel RJ, Arendt T, Haucke V, Hallermann S.
  Human iPSC-derived neurons with reliable synapses and large presynaptic action potentials.
  J Neurosci. 2024 May 9: e0971232024.
• Upadhya M, Kirmann T, Wilson MA, Simon CM, Dhangar D, Geis C, Williams R, Woodhall G, Hallermann S, Irani SR, Wright SK.
  Peripherally-derived LGI1-reactive monoclonal antibodies cause epileptic seizures in vivo.
  Brain. 2024 Apr 25: awae129.
• Richter V, Rist A, Kislinger G, Laumann M, Schoofs A, Miroschnikow A, Pankratz M, Cardona A, Thum AS.
  Morphology and ultrastructure of external sense organs of Drosophila larvae.
  eLife 12: RP91155.
• Simon M, Widdig A, Weiß BM.
  Sniffing behavior of semi free-ranging Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus).
  Am J Primatol. 2024 Feb 26: e23611. doi: 10.1002/ajp.23611.
• Marjieh R, Harrison PMC, Lee H, Deligiannaki F, Jacoby N.
  Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales.
  Nat Commun. 2024 Feb 19;15(1):1482. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45812-z.
• Svensson F, Zwick S, Exner C, Doering BK.
  Dyadic coping and illness adjustment after stroke: A longitudinal prospective study.
  Rehabil Psychol. 2024 Feb 15. doi: 10.1037/rep0000548.
• Vieira Contreras F, Auger GM, Müller L, Richter V, Huetteroth W, Seufert F, Hildebrand PW, Scholz N, Thum AS, Ljaschenko D, Blanco-Redondo B, Langenhan T.
  The adhesion G-protein-coupled receptor mayo/CG11318 controls midgut development in Drosophila.
  Cell Rep. 2024 Jan 4; 43(1): 113640. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113640.