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Newsletter February 2022

Dear Members and Colleagues,

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We hope you are all staying healthy!

This month, we invite you to join us for a virtual tour of the Sigrist Lab (FU Berlin), including short talks on A08 project work. We are also pleased to invite you to our February lecture with Erich Jarvis (HHMI, Rockefeller University). See you soon!

PhD-Postdocs

Journal Club

February 10, 2022 | 16:00 CET | ZOOM ID: 86148031070 | PASSCODE: 649220

Meet-the-Speaker

February 15, 2022 | ca. 17:00 CET | ZOOM ID: 7754910236

Postdoc Fabian Heim (project A06, MPI Seewiesen) will introduce speaker Erich Jarvis, host journal club, and meet-the-speaker!

Lab Tour

February 22, 2022 | 16:00 CET | ZOOM

Join Stephan Sigrist and project members for a tour of the lab and highlights of their project A08.
Programme coming soon >>
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SFB1315 Lecture Series

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Evolution and neural mechanisms of vocal learning

February 15, 2022 | 16:00 CET | ZOOM ID: 7754910236

Vocal learning is one of the most critical components of spoken language. It has evolved several independent times among mammals and birds. Although all vocal learning species are distantly related and have closer relatives that are non-vocal learners, humans and the vocal learning birds have evolved convergent forebrain pathways that control song and speech imitation and production... Read more >>
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Berlin–Bochum Memory Alliance

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2nd Annual Berlin-Bochum Memory Symposium

PhD Memory Symposium: March 9, 2022 | ONLINE
Berlin-Bochum Memory Symposium: March 10-11, 2022 | ONLINE

Thanks so much to Patrizia Maier and Tanja Fenandez for joining the symposium organisation team for the 2nd Annual Berlin-Bochum PhD Memory Symposium. And many thanks to Yee Lee Shing, Marina Mikhaylova and Livia de Hoz for agreeing to present highlights of their research projects during the main symposium.
More info >>

Equal Opportunity and Outreach

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Inter-university programme for female scholars preparing for a professorship September 2022 to October 2023

Application deadline: February 25, 2022
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The Caroline von Humboldt Professorship 2023 and the Caroline von Humboldt Award 2022 support the work of outstanding female professors at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and excellent junior researchers.

Application deadline: April 30, 2022
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Evolution des menschlichen Gehirns: Wie aus genetischen Änderungen kognitive Leistungen werden

February 24, 2022 at 19:30 | Urania Berlin

Prof. Dr. Katja Nowick, Freie Universität Berlin and postdoc Jeong-Eun Lee, Freie Universität Berlin
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Recent publications

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Spatiotemporal patterns of adaptation-induced slow oscillations in a whole-brain model of slow-wave sleep
Caglar Cakan, Cristiana Dimulescu, Liliia Khakimova, Daniela Obst, Agnes Flöel, Klaus Obermayer
Front Comput Neurosci 15:800101
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The stop signal task for measuring behavioral inhibition in mice with increased sensitivity and high-throughput operation
Alican Caglayan, Katharina Stumpenhorst, York Winter
Front. Behav. Neurosci. 15:777767

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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