I would like to invite
you to have a look at this neuroscience winter school on
Neural Control of
Behaviour, with a focus on Navigation, which I will be
co-chairing with
Professors Nachum Ulanovsky and Henrik Mouritsen.
This school is a FENS
schools, organised in collaboration with the Hertie
Foundation.
In this FENS Winter
School, we will aim to bridge the gap between two approaches
used to study the
neurobiology of navigation: research coming from ethology
and ecology examining
how animals such as insects or birds navigate in the wild
over long distances,
and what sensory cues they are using; and research coming
from neuroscience and
psychology mostly studying navigation in rats and mice in
laboratory mazes,
consequently discovering several spatial cell types,
including place cells, grid
cells and head-direction cells.
The school is meant
for PhD students and postdocs, preferably with some
knowledge of the
subject.
Date and
Location:
10-16
December 2017
Obergurgl, Austria
Scientific
chairs:
Henrik Mouritsen,
Oldenburg University, Germany
Nachum Ulanovsky,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Eric Warrant, Lund
University, Sweden
Faculty
members:
Nikita Chernetsov, Department of
Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State
University,
Russia
Marie Dacke, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Lund University, Sweden
David Foster, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Anna Gagliardo, Department of Biology, Pisa University, Italy
Stanley Heinze, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Lund University, Sweden
Peter Hore, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK
Vivek Jayaraman, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Ashburn, Virginia, USA
Edvard Moser, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norway
Hugo Spiers, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL, UK
Marie Dacke, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Lund University, Sweden
David Foster, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Anna Gagliardo, Department of Biology, Pisa University, Italy
Stanley Heinze, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Lund University, Sweden
Peter Hore, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK
Vivek Jayaraman, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Ashburn, Virginia, USA
Edvard Moser, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norway
Hugo Spiers, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL, UK
Stipends are
available.
Application
deadline: 5 July 2017.
Your help to inform
your professional network about this enriching opportunity
is highly
appreciated.