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Alexandra Stein new head of BCOS
Since February 1, 2017, Alexandra Stein heads the Bernstein Coordination Site (February 2017).
Fred Wolf receives funding from the Volkswagen Foundation
The Volkswagen Foundation funds Fred Wolf's project "On the way to a neurobiology of hybrid neuronal circuits" with 100,000 euros (January 2017).
Tobias Moser receives Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine
The Jung Foundation for Science and Research honors Tobias Moser (BCCN and BFNT Göttingen, University Medical Center Göttingen, German Primate Center, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry) for his groundbreaking work on signal transmission in the inner ear and his innovative therapy concepts for the treatment of hearing loss (January 2017).
Call for applications: Ready for a SMARTSTART into Computational Neuroscience?
Application for SMART START - a joint training program in Computational Neuroscience for young researchers - possible from January, 2017, on.
New CRC in Tübingen
From January 2017 onwards, the new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) "Robust Vision" will start in Tübingen (December 2016).
A life for physics and music
Theo Geisel, Director at the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, founder of the Bernstein Center Göttingen and Professor for Theoretical Physics at the University of Göttingen, retired after 20 years of working in Göttingen.
Jens Kremkow and Richard Naud are Next Generation Leaders 2016 at Allen Institute for Brain Science
Distinguished early-career scientists invited to participate in Allen Institute advisory council (November 2016).
Benedikt Grothe new member of Leopoldina
Benedikt Grothe (BCCN and LMU Munich, BFNL plasticity of neural dynamics) was elected new member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (November 2016).
12th International Neural Coding Workshop held in Cologne
The workshop took place at the University of Cologne from August 29 till September 2, 2016 (October 2016).
Brains for Brains Awardee 2016
For the seventh time, the Bernstein Association for Computational Neuroscience awarded the "Brains for Brains Young Researchers' Computational Neuroscience Award". The prize was presented during the Bernstein Conference in Berlin (October 2016).