jeudi 18 mai 2017

ISN Members - Education Opportunity in Austria

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 
 
 
Stipends are available.
 
Application deadline: 5 July 2017.
 
Your help to inform your professional network about this enriching opportunity is highly appreciated.