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FENS Regional Meeting, Pecs

We were active at the FENS Regional Meeting at Pecs, Hungary – participating in multiple events. Balazs was moderating a career forum at the satellite PhD conference HuNDoC Tomi gave a talk at HuNDoC titled Bursting cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain show synchronous activity in an auditory detection task Kati had a mini-poster at…

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Talks of Jolien Pas and Gerwin Dijk

Dear Colleagues, I am excited to advertise the talks of Jolien Pas and Gerwin Dijk from Department of Bioelectronics, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France. They will talk about the (probably near) future of electrophysiology, which still sounds a bit like science fiction – organic based electrodes and biodegradable guiding elements. The talks…

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Talks by Filippo Del Bene, Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi and Emre Yaksi on 7 July at IEM HAS

Dear Colleagues, On 7 July (Friday), we will host three excellent colleagues working on the zebrafish model system. 10:00-11:00 – Filippo Del Bene: Deciphering anatomy and function of an inter-hemispheric neural circuit in the zebrafish optic tectum 15:00-15:45 – Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi: The role of motile cilia-generated flow in olfaction 15:45-16:30 – Emre Yaksi: Studying the…

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SYNDI 2017

Systems Neuroscience and Decision Making = SYNDI: We had our first joint conference + lab retreat with the Kvitsiani lab! Invited speakers included Peter Bartho and Zoltan Somogyvari from Budapest, Arash Fassihi from Trieste and Laura Jimenez from Munich.

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Adam Williamson’s visit

Adam is at the forefront of developing tools combining in vivo recording and drug delivery with high potential for future clinical use in collaboration with prof. George Malliaras. We are collaborating with Adam’s lab on testing these tools and judging their usefulness in neurodegenerative dementias like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. See below the abstract of Adam’s…