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Newsletter September 2025
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Dear Members and Colleagues,
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Image, medieval solar symbol. Castelvecchio Verona, Grossman.
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Shorter days signal the approach of the winter semester, and with it, an excellent line-up of speakers hosted by SFB members and associates: Niels Niethard (U Tübingen), Ioannis Papaioannou (EMBO), Oriane Mauger (MPI Psychiatry), Flavio Donato (Biozentrum, U Basel), and Marieke Scholvinck (ESI Neuroscience). Highlights of the winter semester also feature lively science communication at Berlin Science Week (Nov 1–10), and at Berlin Brains on Tour (Nov 4, with Matthew Larkum & junior at the Urania) and much more. Looking forward to meeting soon!
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Image, courtesy of C.Whitmire.
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Meet-the-Alumna | Clarissa Whitmire
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Clarissa Whitmire, A05 postdoc and SFB alumna, is currently Group Leader and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. Read her inspiring interview.
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DFG Online: "Funding Opportunities for Postdocs"
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Learn more about the Walter Benjamin, Emmy Noether and Heisenberg Programmes, as well as Individual Research Grant Programmes with temporary positions for principal investigators.
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Postdoc Job Shadowing Programme
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Sept 18, 2025 | 17:00 | Ballhaus Wedding – Wriezener Str. 6, 13359 Berlin
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Focusing on diversity-sensitive leadership, join the programme!
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Open call “Hit the Jackpot 2025”
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Oct 10, 2025 (Application deadline)
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Up to €10,000 for Postdoc Networking Projects, fostering Career Growth!
Info Sessions: Sept 2 & Sept 19, 9:30 am. No registration required. Info >> here
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Sleep-dependent mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and memory consolidation
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Oct 14, 2025 | 16:00 | BCCN Lecture Hall Philippstr 13, 10115 Berlin | ZOOM ID: 7754910236
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Sleep plays a crucial role in regulating cortical circuits in ways that support synaptic plasticity and memory consolidation. This talk will highlight three central aspects of how sleep contributes to these processes: (I) Brain Oscillations: The characteristic rhythms of slow-wave and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep that coordinate information flows across distributed brain networks and modulate local synaptic plasticity. (II) Mechanisms Modulating Oscillations: I will explore potential mechanisms that shape these sleep-related oscillations and, in turn, influence memory consolidation. (III) Excitation-Inhibition Balance: changes in the balance between excitation and inhibition during sleep help maintain network stability and prevent information overload... read more
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This invited talk is hosted by SFB1315 project A01.
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Certificate of attendance: Please contact team assistant serenella.brinati.1(at)hu-berlin.de.
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Workshop, Women Among Themselves
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Successfully Mastering Speaking Situations (German)
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Sept 4, 2025 | 9:30 – 16:30 | Fraunhofstraße 33-36, FH1004
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Sept 5, 2025 | 9:30 – 13:30 | Fraunhofstraße 33-36, FH1004
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Brief input, including small group work, exchange of experiences, practical exercises, and video feedback.
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Image, SFB image library, Grossman
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Equal opportunity monitoring 2025
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Equal opportunities concern us all, and the DFG. The DFG's monitoring report gives you an overview of #s of female researchers in proposal submissions, success rates, participation of women in reviews, and of women in DFG committees. Get the most out of the statistics, including the appended database here: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15363816
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Image, Livia de Hoz, courtesy Berlin Science Week 2024
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Nov 1, 2025 | 12:00–14:00 | Museum für Naturkunde
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Nov 9, 2025 | 17:00–19:00 | Holzmarkt 25
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Soapbox@BerlinScienceWeek
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Women* and LGBTIQA+ scientists (working towards a PhD or above) are invited to showcase their research to a diverse audience in a relaxed environment.
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Sept 9, 2025 | 19:30–21:00 | Zeiss-Großplanetarium Berlin, Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin
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Speakers: Dr. Claudia Männel, Head of the Early Language Development Research Group, and Clara Menze, Doctoral Researcher, both at the Dept. of Audiology and Phoniatrics, Charité, Berlin.
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Moderator: Dr. Jochen Müller
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Berlin Brains is a joint event series by Urania Berlin, Stiftung Planetarium Berlin, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Excellence Cluster NeuroCure, Science of Intelligence, Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, and Collaborative Research Center SFB 1315.
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Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance
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Sept 17, 2025 | 13:00–17:00 | RUB Veranstaltungszentrum, Bochum
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BrainDay 2025
Die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei. Anmeldung bitte unter:
brain-news-igsn@rub.de
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Network synchrony creates neural filters promoting quiescence in Drosophila
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Raccuglia D, Suárez-Grimalt R, Krumm L, Ender A, Brodersen CB, Jagannathan SR, Freire Krück M, Pampaloni NP, Rauch C, Winter Y, Yvon-Durocher G, Kempter R, Geiger JRP, Owald D
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Stimulate to remember? The effects of short burst of
transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) on
memory performance and pupil dilation
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Psychophysiology 2025. 62:e14753
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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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