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Newsletter April 2023

Dear Members and Colleagues,

Photo by Sedef Karayel (A04), Courtesy of FOR2812, Sen Cheng

Thanks again to all for your participation in the 3rd Annual Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance symposium at CCO. We are looking forward to meeting again in Bochum next year.

This month, spread the news and join us April 18, for a B04-hosted talk at BCCN, with Tomás Ryan (Trinity College Dublin). And please also share our Berlin-Bochum Girls'Day2023 announcement. Our 3rd Annual event on April 27, will feature talks from Berlin and Bochum PhDs and postdocs, and more!

PhD-Postdocs: Meet -the-alumni

Natalie Schieferstein (A01)

03.04.2023 | University of Bonn
Neuroscience is a very wide field so I guess I would start by also reminding undergraduates in other disciplines (mathematics, physics, biology, psychology, computer science…) that they could consider getting into neuroscience! To me, the vast interdisciplinarity of neuroscience is both its most inspiring and daunting aspect. So I would recommend undergraduate or master students to not be discouraged by that and explore the many different subfields of neuroscience .... (read more)

SFB1315 Events

Information storage in memory engrams

April 18, 2023 | 16:00 | hybrid: BCCN Lecture Hall Philippstraße 13 Haus 6, 10115 Berlin | https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/7754910236

Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance

3rd Annual #Girls'Day digital

Apr 27, 2023 | 09:00-14:30 | ZOOM Meeting-ID: 775 491 0236

Spread the word! Questions? Contact the coordination office.

DFG News: Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany

Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice
The DFG is a member of the Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen.

Keywords: Science policy in Germany, WissZeitVG, scientific staff, scientific careers, career paths, legislation.

Position paper here (in German).

Position paper:

March 30, 2023 | Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen

"Limiting the postdoc phase to three years unduly restricts researchers on their career path - with the possible consequence that highly qualified scientists in early and mid-career phases (R2) are not yet able to reach a position on the next career level and therefore have to decide to leave science." (translated from the German).

Equal opportunity and diversity: focus on literature

Source (left) eaf (Berlin). Adapted from English sources, to combat oppression and racism; see also notes for the educational setting.

Where do you fit on the Wheel of Power?

At a recent Charité-hosted workshop on unconscious bias (eaf), we took a moment to reflect on our privilege and to exercise tolerance, empathy and acceptance of others. It is a great starting point and worth the effort!

Diversity Journal Club

April 3, 11 am | The club will discuss
Policy proposals to promote inclusion of caregivers in the research funding system: a call for change, I. L. Torres, et al., preprint.
Join on the first Monday of the month (a BIH, ECN, NeuroCure initiative. Contact NeuroCure's Equal Opportunity representative, Kim Mason

The International Memory Reading Group

Contact the reading group here.

Share your EO&D literature

Send the coordination office relevant papers for our resource pages on Promoting Diversity & Inclusion in the Lab.

Recent open access publication

Large-Scale Mapping of Vocalization-Related Activity in the Functionally Diverse Nuclei in Rat Posterior Brainstem

Miguel Concha-Miranda, Wei Tang, Konstantin Hartmann, Michael Brecht
J Neurosci 42 (44) 8252-8261 (2022)

DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0813-22.2022

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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