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Newsletter November 2022

Dear Members and Colleagues,

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Project-specific activities are gathering momentum! In November, project A04 will host an SFB1315 lecture by Sheena Josselyn (University of Toronto/SickKids), and later in the month we will hold our first 2nd funding period retreat in Schorfheide.

Until then stay healthy!

PhD-Postdocs

Meet-the-Alumni

Jiyun Shin

New York University School of Medicine
(A04 alumna)

"During your PhD is the best time to learn about yourself – what you like or do not like to do, what you are good at and what is important to you. This will help you realize if an academic career is right for you or not. "
"...Also, most graduate programs offer science communication courses, such as poster presentation, paper writing, peer-reviewing and grant writing. Take advantage of these opportunities."
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Journal Club

November 4, 2022 | 15:00 CET | ZOOM I ID: 411 960 4364

Postdoc Mostafa Nashaat (project A04) will host journal club in preparation for Sheena Josselyn's talk in November.

For more information on suggested reading, see >>

SFB1315 Lecture Series

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Making memories in mice

Nov 8, 2022 | 16:00 CET | ZOOM ID: 7754910236
Understanding how the brain uses information is a fundamental goal of neuroscience. Several human disorders (ranging from autism spectrum disorder to PTSD to Alzheimer’s disease) may stem from disrupted information processing. Therefore, this basic knowledge is not only critical for understanding normal brain function, but also vital for the development of new treatment strategies for these disorders. Memory may be defined as the retention over time of internal representations gained through experience, and the capacity to reconstruct these representations at later times ... Read more >>

Visit the Josselyn-Frankland lab >>

DFG News: Equal Opportunity and Diversity

Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice
DFG and Diversity
Sex, Gender and Diversity in the Life Sciences (2020-2022)

Further information
Gendered Innovations (Stanford, NSF, European Commission)
Practical methods for sex, gender and intersectional analysis for innovation and discovery. >> Useful Links

DFG Launches New Initiative for Equal Opportunities and Diversity
July 5, 2022 | Press Release
"As a first concrete step, the Joint Committee recently adopted measures to raise awareness of explicit or implicit bias towards individuals with diversity characteristics. In addition, measures were adopted to expand the DFG’s database and provide factual information on diversity dimensions in research" (DFG Press release July 5, 2022)

DFG Code of Conduct (April 2022, V.1.1)
Offers modules on implicit bias in assessment and decision-making processes.
DFG Chancengleichheit

Recent open access publications

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Musical expertise shapes visual-melodic memory integration

Hoffmann M, Schmidt A and Ploner CJ
Front. Psychol. 13:973164 (2022)
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.973164

Post-encoding modulation of spatial memory consolidation by propofol

Iggena D, Maier PM, Häussler SM, Menk M, Olze H, Larkum ME, Finke C, Ploner CJ
Cortex 156:1-12 (2022)

doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.08.004

Postsynaptic plasticity of cholinergic synapses underlies the induction and expression of appetitive and familiarity memories in Drosophila

Carlotta Pribbenow, Yi-chun Chen, Michael-Marcel Heim, Desiree Laber, Silas Reubold, Eric Reynolds, Isabella Balles, Tania Fernández-d.V. Alquicira, Raquel Suárez-Grimalt, Lisa Scheunemann, Carolin Rauch, Tanja Matkovic, Jörg Rösner, Gregor Lichtner, Sridhar R Jagannathan, David Owald
eLife. 11:e80445 (2022)

doi: 10.7554/eLife.80445

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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