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Restoring visual functions of the brain - project funded by EU
An international team of scientists around Udo Ernst (University of Bremen) and Dirk Jancke (Ruhr University Bochum) is researching possibilities for implants that are intended to directly target areas of the brain responsible for processing visual information.
Scientific Grand Prize awarded to Tobias Moser
Foundation Pour l'Audition recognizes his pioneering work towards the optical cochlear implant for the treatment of hearing loss.
Learning computational tricks from neurons
University of Göttingen coordinates new European research project on ultra-fast, fibre-optic technology
Bernstein-CorTec Award presented for the first time
Prof. Kerstin Krieglstein, Rector of the University of Freiburg, presented the first edition of the newly established Bernstein-CorTec Prize for Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology
Bernstein Conference 2020 – conferencing around the globe
This year’s online version of the Bernstein Conference was a great success. It counted more participants (about 2800) than ever before in its history.
ELLIS inaugurates 30 research units at leading institutions across Europe
At a virtual event on Tuesday, the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems presented the broad scope of research its units will cover in the field of modern AI.
ERC Starting Grant for Tatjana Tchumatchenko
Tatjana Tchumatchenko has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to investigate neural circuit function to gain new insights into neurological diseases like Huntington’s Disease. Tchumatchenko is Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and a committed member of the Bernstein Network’s steering committee.
First virtual joint Research in Germany appearance at the FENS Virtual Forum
It was supposed to be a summer event in Glasgow, Scotland. The former industrial city and the United Kingdom’s third largest city was meant to be the destination for countless neuroscientists from Europe and other parts of the world. However, the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic changed everything. The organisers of the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) decided early on to convert the conference of European neuroscience societies into a virtual event. Instead of meeting at a conference venue, participants came together on an animated virtual conference platform with elaborately designed graphics.
MidsummerBrains Webinar Series reaches international audience
This year, the MidsummerBrains lecture series of the SMARTSTART program is offered as a webinar series. Since it was shifted into virtual space, many young scientists take the opportunity to participate from different international locations. Until mid-July there will be two more exciting lectures on 'computational neuroscience from my point of view'.
Bernstein Center Berlin on its way to becoming a permanent institution
The Bernstein Center Berlin has been successfully evaluated by Charité, TU Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. This entails the extension of the cooperation agreement between the three institutions reconfirming the institutionalisation of the BCCN Berlin.