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Dear Members and Colleagues,
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Images - middle: Urania Berlin Brains event announcement, Ivana Tomášková auf Pixabay; bottom, courtesy Martin Both
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International Brain Awareness Week (BAW) Berlin takes place this year from March 10 to 16. Led by organisers at BCCN, NeuroCure, and ECN, members of the Berlin neuroscience community will engage with numerous target groups. From a school class discussion of a film on Alzheimer's with Susanne Wegmann (DZNE) to a Berlin Brains talk at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium held by PI Benjamin Lindner and PhD Jakob Stubenrauch (B01), this year's BAW is guaranteed to be a success. As part of the programme, please join us for the SFB1315's annual jointly hosted BAW lecture with Martin Both (Medizinische Fakultät Heidelberg).
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Read about these events and more in this month's issue.
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Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance ECR Meeting, Berlin 2025
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Every year, we alternate locations of our Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance meeting. This year, we are very pleased to host the annual meeting in Berlin, with a special focus on early career researchers (ECRs). ECR participants this year will continue to focus on strengthening existing ties, and fostering scientific exchange using a number of formats, on campus and on tour during the 2-day meeting. We are looking forward to hearing about their themed discussions, poster creations, as well as about their work on the SFB's smart figure gallery with INF@HU PhD Anna Nasr.
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Adaptive dynamics of single neurons in small networks
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March 11, 2025 4:00 pm CET | BCCN Lecture Hall Philippstraße 13, 10115 | ZOOM ID: 7754910236
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A hallmark of neuronal network activity is the selective recruitment of neurons into active ensembles, which form transiently stable patterns of activity. In the mammalian hippocampus, the activation of such neuronal ensembles is orchestrated by network oscillations. A central question is how individual neurons are selected for participation in these patterns of coactivity. The prevailing concept is that activation of specific neurons results from the convergence and use-dependent plasticity of excitatory synapses. In this view, the strong rhythmic perisomatic inhibition during network oscillations provides a global gain control mechanism for all local neurons, and a temporal scaffold for the embedded spatiotemporal activity patterns. Read more >>
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This Brain Awareness Week lecture is jointly hosted by BCCN, ECN and NeuroCure.
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Equal Opportunity and Diversity
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Feb 11- Mar 11, 2025 | BIH Charité
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A whole month dedicated to diversity, equal opportunities and commitment to an inclusive working and research environment.
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Wissenschaft trifft Fürsorge: Der Care-Gap in der Wissenschaft - und wie wir ihn schließen können.
Dr. Lena Eckert und Dr. Sarah Czerney
Mar 19, 2025, 10 am – 12 pm | Online TU Braunschweig
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Die Corona-Pandemie hat deutlich gemacht, was schon vorher sichtbar war: Von Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und Vereinbarkeit in der Wissenschaft sind wir weit entfernt. Vor allem Mütter* tragen die Hauptlast der zusätzlichen Sorgearbeit – mit direkten Folgen für ihre wissenschaftliche Karriere. Der sogenannte Care-Gap beeinflusst nicht nur individuelle Lebensläufe, sondern auch die Chancengleichheit im Wissenschaftssystem insgesamt. Doch nicht erst seit der Pandemie stellen sich viele Wissenschaftler*innen mit Kindern oder Kinderwunsch die Frage: Sind Elternschaft und eine akademische Laufbahn überhaupt vereinbar? Mehr lesen
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Anmeldeschluss: 17.03.2025
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WINS Adlershof - Presentation skills for scientists
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Dr. Jane Bormeister (rhetoric coach and health professional)
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Make an impact: Body, voice, arguments
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Mar 27, 2025 | 9:30am - 5pm | Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin, Room 1.410
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Science needs confident presenters who can convey their results effectively. But delivering content convincingly involves more than just knowledge — it’s about how you speak, use your voice, stand, and move. Presentation skills, like clear and engaging rhetoric, often matter more than the content itself in capturing the audience’s attention. Still, having solid subject knowledge remains the foundation of any good presentation.
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Spaces limited - please register by 17 March here >>
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Women in Natural Sciences (WINS Adlershof) aims to increase visibility of female scientists in math and science.
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Berlin Brains on tour - Rauschen im Kopf
Mar 11, 2025 | 19:30 | Talk in German, Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin
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This talk explores how our experiences, decisions, and actions are driven by electrical impulses in our nerve cells. Surprisingly, the patterns of these impulses are heavily influenced by randomness — they occur not just in response to incoming signals but also spontaneously. The discussion will address questions like: Where does this spontaneous variability come from? Does it serve a purpose? And how can information be transmitted despite this "neural noise"?
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Foto – Ivana-Tomaskova-Pixabay
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Project B04 in ZDF documentary
The German documentary "Unser Leben – Wie es beginnt" explores the remarkable journey of human development before birth. Delving into latest findings in prenatal, infant, and early childhood research, host Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim interviews a number of experts in the field. PI Claudia Buss (B04) explains the impacts of prenatal stress on fetal brain development (@timestamp 35:40), noting that severe stress can enlarge the amygdala potentially increasing the risk of future anxiety disorders and depression.
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Watch the documentary in German here >>
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The Excellent Pub Quiz
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Mar 10, 2025 | 19:00 - 21:00 | Fahimi, Skalitzer Str. 133, 10999 Berlin
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The "Excellent Pub Quiz" at Fahimi Bar is an event organized by Berlin’s seven Excellence Clusters. It’s a fun and relaxing evening where teams can test their knowledge with unexpected and thought-provoking questions from various fields like physics, literature, biology, and sociology.
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Each quiz night is hosted by one of the Clusters of Excellence, and this time NeuroCure will focus on neuroscience, with a special live contribution and some exciting surprises. The event highlights research from all seven clusters, covering topics such as mathematics, intelligent systems, green chemistry, and more. Read all about the Pub Quiz here >>
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Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance
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GEM 2025 - Generative Episodic Memory
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June 2 - 4, 2025 | Ruhr University Bochum | Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum
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https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.041047
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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 >>
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The call for abstracts is open!
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Deadlines: Call for abstracts 15.03.2025 | Registration 30.04.2025
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For more information visit >>
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Interneuronal modulations as a functional switch for cortical computations: mechanisms and implication for disease
Front Cell Neurosci. 18:1479579 (2025)
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Perspective article: Interneurons in pathological conditions
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Social play behavior is driven by glycine-dependent mechanisms
Curr Biol. 34(16):3654-3664.e6 (2024)
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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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