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Newsletter June 2022

Dear Members and Colleagues,

We are pleased to share that the DFG will fund the SFB1315 for 4 more years! Many thanks to colleagues in Berlin, Frankfurt, Greifswald, Magdeburg and Seewiesen. Special thanks to our coordinating university the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Charité-Universitätsmedizin, as well as the SFB's Steering Committee, Deputy Speaker Richard Kempter and our Speaker Matthew Larkum!

We wish all the best to our departing PIs and hope to collaborate further in the future. Looking forward to fruitful collaborations in round two!

Upcoming events

LOOPS International Conference

Subcortico-cortical loops in sensory processing and perception

June 6-8, 2022 | Hörsaal der Nervenklinik, Bonhoefferweg 3, Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin & Online

Five sessions and 22 speakers, explore brain loops across sensory modalities.
Programme >> Flyer and registration >>.
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The LOOPS International Conference is part of the SPP2411, which is coordinated by SFB1315/1associate PI Livia de Hoz and is funded by the DFG.

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This SFB1315 lecture series talk is hosted by Matthew Larkum (A04).

Jaan Aru (University of Tartu)

The intricate relationship between memory and consciousness

June 27, 2022 | 16:00 | BCCN Philippstraße 13/Haus 6

The afternoon starts at 15:00 with a Kick-Off business meeting for SFB1315/2, followed by Jaan Aru's talk at 16:00 and wrapped up with food and refreshments around 17:00.
Guests are welcome!
Register with an email to >>
Emilie Macé (MPI Neurobiology/Biological Intelligence, Munich)

Brain-wide circuits underlying behavior: insights from functional ultrasound imaging

Neuroscience Colloquium, June 30, 2022 | 16:30- | Paul-Ehrlich-Hörsaal (Virchowweg 4)

Emilie Macé's talk is hosted by A05 PI Benjamin Judkewitz and is followed by a real-world get-together on the CCO terrace. Please let us know if you want to meet the speaker.

More June talks: June 2 Giovanna Mallucci; June 9 Genevieve Konopka; June 16 Christelle Rochefort; June 23 Angelika Lampert; and June 30 Emilie Macé.

Outreach

BB June 2022
The 7th season of the Charité and Urania's collaboration is presented by ECN, NeuroCure, MDC, SFB1315, and BCCN Berlin.
Tickets here >>
Susanne Wegmann, Maximilian Franck (Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

Tau: Was ein janusköpfiges Protein in Gesundheit und Krankheit für uns macht

June 3, 2022 at 19:30 | Urania Berlin, An der Urania 17 & Livestream (in German)

Die Ursache der Alzheimer-Krankheit und anderer Demenzen liegt unter anderem darin, dass sich das Protein „Tau“ im Gehirn fehlerhaft verhält. Was ist Tau für ein Protein, welche Funktionen übernimmt es im gesunden Gehirn, und was macht Tau (nicht mehr) wenn es zur Demenz kommt? Susanne Wegmann und Maximilian Franck berichten in ihrem Vortrag, wie und warum ein und dasselbe Protein gut oder schlecht für die Hirnfunktion sein kann und wie versucht wird, die positiven Einflüsse zu verstärken.

Equal Opportunity

Soapbox Science

June 18, 2022 | 14:00-16:00 | Washington Platz, Berlin Hauptbahnhof

Visit the Soapbox Science event and see women* in science in action!
Organized by the Berlin Soapbox Team
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Photo: Franziska Sattler

Daphna Joel (Tel Aviv University)

Gender & Neuroscience Lecture series:

Rethinking sex, brain, and gender beyond the binary

June 7, 2022 | 15:00 CET | ONLINE

Are the brains of women and men the same or different? Or maybe it’s the wrong question? Sex-related variables affect brain structure and function and there are group-level differences between women and men in specific measures of brain and behavior. These are often taken as supporting the existence of ‘male’ and ‘female’ brains. [..] Read more >>

Berlin Bochum Memory Alliance - FOR2812 talks

Maureen Ritchey (Boston University)

Making memories: The role of brain networks in filtering and reconstructing past experience
June 3, 2022 | 14:00 CET | ZOOM

Markus Wening (Ruhr University Bochum)

Episodic and vicarious memories – a difference in kind?

June 26, 2022 | 14:00 CET | GA 04/187 RUB & Hybrid

Recent publication

Convergent behavioral strategies and neural computations during vocal turn-taking across diverse species

Arkarup Banerjee and Daniela Vallentin

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 73:102529 (2022)

doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2022.102529

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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