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Newsletter January 2025

Dear Members and Colleagues,

Image (top) Brenda Milner, courtesy of Meera Paleja; Images (bottom) courtesy Lisa Scheunemann (l), Seija Lehnardt (r).

Pleased join us in congratulating this year's Brenda Milner Award winners Lisa Scheunemann (associate PI, A08) and Seija Lehnardt (associate PI, A01/A02). Read about these two outstanding researchers in this month's newsletter.
We would also like to extend a warm welcome to new SFB associates Smriti Sharma (PhD AG Poulet), and to Jonas Rose (Speaker RDN, RUB Bochum) who will take over the role of Denise Manahan-Vaughan in the Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance!

Wishing all our readers the best for 2025!

PhDPostdocs

Einstein Postdoctoral Grant
The Einstein foundation has published its programme information

FAQs and forms, as well as further
information:
antrag@einsteinfoundation.de
Please mark your calendars:
March 10-11, 2025 | BCCN & campus
Thanks to those of you who joined the planning team for this year's Berlin-Bochum Early Career Researcher meeting in Berlin. If you have not yet signed up and want to, please contact Lisa Velenosi.

SFB1315 Events

Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time

Jan 14, 2025 | 4:00 pm CET | ZOOM ID: 7754910236
There is a fundamental tension between storing discrete traces of individual experiences, which allows recall of particular moments in our past without interference, and extracting regularities across these experiences, which supports generalization and prediction in similar situations in the future. One influential proposal for how the brain resolves this tension is that it separates the processes anatomically into Complementary Learning Systems [...] Read more >>

(Please let us know if you wish to meet the speaker after her talk.)
Lecture Poster

Equal Opportunity and Diversity

Brenda Milner Award 2025
The CRC1315 Steering Committee voted in favor of awarding two candidates with a monetary award of 7.500 EUR each, to support their career development, including support for travel related to their SFB1315 collaborations. Please join us in congratulating winners of the Brenda Milner Award 2025, Lisa Scheunemann (above left) FU Berlin, and Seija Lehnardt (above right) Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin! Read the full release here >>.
Learn more about the SFB1315's Brenda Milner Award.

Image, courtesy GDJ pixabay

Mental health and stress in the academic world – improving coping skills
for PhD students & academic staff - link
Jan 17, 2025 | 9:00-16:30 | TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Rm H1035
The workshop will be provided by Dr. Nathalie Meuwly, a psychologist and licensed psychotherapist. Her research is focused on stress and personal relationships.
Hosted by
Charité, Institute of Gender in Medicine (GiM)
Register via nathalie.meuwly(at)unifr.ch.

Outreach

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2025

Professor Dr. Volker Haucke from the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology in Berlin has been awarded the prestigious Leibniz Prize for his groundbreaking research on the molecular mechanisms of lipid signaling and synaptic signal transmission in the nervous system.

Image, Volker Haucke

Many thanks again to the "Neuroscience in Germany" Team who promotes the work of the SFB1315, among others, at SfN's annual meeting. Read more about the team's activities and the DFG-Büro Nord Amerika in the DFG report.
See also the Network of German Neuroscenters.
Call for speakers GirlsDay 2025
April 3, 2025 | ca. 10-3 pm | CCO & campus
We aim to have one or two speakers from each consortium for the event. Please let us know if you would like to participate as speaker in 2025 (programme details may differ, but talks will be similar in length to those in previous years 2024 and 2023.

Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance

GEM 2025 - Generative Episodic Memory

June 2 - 4, 2025 | Ruhr University Bochum | Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum
https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.041047
Episodic memories are widely regarded as memories of personally experienced events. Early concepts about episodic memory were based on the storage model, according to which experiential content is preserved in memory and later retrieved. However, overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that the content of episodic memory is – at least to a certain degree – constructed in the act of remembering. [...] Read more here >>
The call for abstracts is open!
Deadlines: Call for abstracts 15.03.2025 | Registration 30.04.2025
For more information visit >>

Open Access Publications

Mnemonic but not contextual feedback signals defy dedifferentiation in the aging early visual cortex

Ehrlich I, Ortiz-Tudela J, Tan YY, Muckli L, Shing YL
J Neurosci. 44(16):e0607232023 (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0607-23.2023

Variable and slow-paced neural dynamics in HVC underlie plastic song production in juvenile zebra finches

Bistere L, Wilczek S & Vallentin D
BMC Neurosci. 25, 76 (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12868-024-00915-7

Institut für Biologie
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
SFB1315 Speaker Matthew Larkum, Deputy Speaker Richard Kempter.

Management & Coordination
Mary Louise Grossman.
Office:
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin

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