Events

All Society for Neuroscience annual meeting attendees are welcome to join Simons Investigators and scientific staff from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), Smons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB), and Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain (SCPAB) for an evening of socializing and updates.

All Society for Neuroscience annual meeting attendees are welcome to join Simons Investigators and scientific staff from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), Smons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB), and Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain (SCPAB) for an evening of socializing and updates.

The goal of this course is to help produce a community of leaders that is equally knowledgeable in neuroscience, cognitive science, and computer science and will lead the scientific understanding of intelligence and the development of true biologically inspired AI. Application due date: Apr 19, 2023

MCN introduces students to the computational and mathematical techniques that are used to address how the brain solves problems at levels of neural organization ranging from single membrane channels to operations of the entire brain. This course is appropriate for graduate students, postdocs and faculty in a variety of fields, from zoology, ethology, and neurobiology, to physics, engineering, and mathematics. Students are expected to have a strong background in one discipline, and to have made some effort to introduce themselves to a complementary discipline. Application due date: Mar 31, 2023

Understanding the links between activity in neural circuits and behavior is a fundamental problem in neuroscience. Attacking this problem requires detailed information about the cell types in neural circuits and their connectivity, and recording the spatiotemporal patterns of activity in the intact brain during behaviour. This course will highlight the new anatomical, genetic, optical, electrophysiological, optogenetic, and pharmacogenetic approaches that are available for addressing these challenges. The faculty will discuss tool development through to their implementation in diverse model systems, including mice and zebrafish. Students will learn the potential and limitations of these techniques, allowing them to both design and interpret experiments correctly. Application deadline: January 10, 2023

This conference will focus on how brains adjust information processing and optimize behaviors in response to ever-changing environmental demands. This astonishing flexibility relies on the modulation of brain functions in multifarious ways that can change neural excitability, synaptic communication and neural circuit output. The modulation of brain functions regulates basic biological states such as feeding, sleep or sex, and is of key importance for cognitive brain functions such as attention and learning. Mechanistic insights into neuromodulation are not only critical to understand the neural basis of intelligence and behavior but also to understand brain dysfunctions underlying disease. The 2023 GRC conference on “Modulation of Neural Circuits and Behavior” will bring together scientists with diverse backgrounds to discuss current concepts and exciting new results in this broad field. Applications for this meeting must be submitted by April 23, 2023.