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Bernstein Coordination Site visits Research Centre Jülich
Following a joint initiative of Markus Diesmann (Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 6 Computational and Systems Neuroscience (INM-6) at Research Centre Jülich) and Andreas Herz (Spokesman of the Bernstein Network, LMU Munich), Sebastian M. Schmidt, member of the board of directors of Jülich, offered to fund the Bernstein Coordination Site (BCOS) in accordance with the mission of the Helmholtz Association (September 2015).
New call: Multilateral Collaboration in Computational Neuroscience: Germany - USA - Israel - France
On August 10, 2015, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) published the guidelines of the funding scheme "Multilateral Collaborations in Computational Neuroscience: Germany - USA - Israel - France" (August 2015).
Tobias Moser and Matthew Larkum receive ERC Advanced Grants
Tobias Moser and Matthew Larkum have successfully applied for Advanced Grants of the European Research Council, ERC (August 2015).
Marcel Oberländer receives ERC Starting Grant
Marcel Oberländer has successfully applied to one of the highly endowed 'Starting Grants' of the European Research Council (ERC). For his research, he now receives 1.5 million € over five years (August 2015).
Julia Fischer elected Member of DFG Senate
On July 1, the General Assembly of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) elected six new Senate members, among them Julia Fischer (August 2015).
Herta Flor receives honorary doctorate from VU University Amsterdam
She receives the award in recognition of her exceptional contributions to science and society (August 2015).
Walter Stühmer awarded with Kenneth S. Cole Award 2015
Walter Stühmer, together with two more scientists, was awarded with the 2015 Cole Award of the Membrane Biophysics Subgroup from the Biophysical Society (August 2015).
Maximilian Puelma Touzel and Julijana Gjorgjieva receive Bernstein - Sloan Swartz travel grant
In 2008, the Bernstein Network and the US-American Sloan Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neuroscience launched an exchange program to allow their young scientists to attend the annual conference of the partner organization (August 2015).
Paul Szyszka receives HFSP Program Grant
The bee researcher from Constance receives the funding for the investigation of olfactory discrimination of insects (June 2015).
New Research Training Group in Göttingen
Starting on October 1st, 2015, the new Research Training Group "understanding of social relations" will be established (June 2015).