Global Brain

TENSS concentrates top-level international expertise to teach a dozen students techniques and concepts in experimental systems neuroscience. We focus on modern optical and electrophysiological methods to study the connectivity and function of neuronal circuits.

Explore Outstanding Phenomena in Animal Behavior
Jointly hosted by Janelia and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), this program will bring together 15-20 advanced PhD students with complementary expertise who are interested in working at the interface of mathematics and biology.

The AREADNE conferences bring scientific leaders from around the world to present their recent findings on the functioning of neuronal ensembles in an informal yet spectacular setting on Santorini. The conference series emphasizes interaction with a size and pace that encourages in-depth discussion. Interested researchers are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract for poster presentation as attendance is strictly limited, and the conference typically sells out.
Abstract submission deadline: tentatively Feb., 2018 (attendance limited, presenters gain priority)

Designed to emphasize higher cognitive functions and their underlying neural circuit mechanisms, the course aims at training talented and highly motivated students and postdoctoral fellows from Asia and other countries in the world.

Organized by the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies. Hosted by the German Neuroscience Society.
SCGB investigator Dr. Thomas Mrsic-Flogel and chair of the Programme Committee for the FENS Forum 2018 encourages innovative abstracts that address a broad range of neuroscience topics and themes.

Through a combination of lectures and hands-on experience with MATLAB-based computer tutorials and projects, this intensive course will examine visual information processing from the retina to higher cortical areas, spatial pattern analysis, motion analysis, neuronal coding and decoding, attention, and decision-making. Applications due: March 31

Equally emphasizes experimental, model based, and more theoretical approaches to understanding neurobiological computation.

The annual CNS conference 2018 in Seattle will bring together the community of computational neuroscience, neural theory and brain data analysis to share their research. This year’s keynotes are given by Eve Marder, Nancy Kopell, Daniel Wolpert and Rajesh Rao. The conference is co-hosted by the University of Washington and the Allen Institute.

The sessions within the 2018 Gordon Conference for the Neurobiology of Cognition span areas of cognitive neuroscience most relevant for understanding how circuits in the brain give rise to important elements of how we think, feel, act, decide, plan, and learn. The conference casts a wide net and is designed to spark new avenues for discussion among participants whose paths might not normally cross. Application deadline: June 24, 2018

Speakers:
Lowry Kirkby University of California, San Francisco
Neural encoding of mood in the human brain

Stéphane Deny, Salk Institute, Stanford University
A dual code in retinal ganglion cells of a single type: moving beyond the feature detector hypothesis