events, seminars
June 7th – Brent Doiron – The circuit mechanics of neuronal variability
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Friday June 7th, 2019, 11:30, R229 (2nd floor), Centre Universitaire des Saints Pères, 45 rue des Saints Pères, 75006 Paris
Brent Doiron, PhD, Professor, Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh ,USA
Neuronal responses are notoriously… Continue reading
events, seminars
May 17 – Dimitri Krainc – Mechanistic insights into GBA1-associated Parkinson’s disease: therapeutic implications
There is an urgent need to identify effective neuroprotective therapies for synucleinopathies such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Diffuse Lewy Body Dementia (DLB). Recent emergence of genetic forms of PD has facilitated identification of potential targets for therapeutic development. One… Continue reading
grants, opportunities
Two Open Mind Masters student grants awarded in 2019
We are pleased to announce 2 grants have been awarded for 2018 to:
Rémi Baroux, whose project Recurrent dynamics and competition in basal ganglia is supervised by David Hansel (Team Cerebral Dynamics, Plasticity and Learning, UMR 8002 CNRS)Jules… Continue reading
events, seminars
March 22nd – Serge Przedborski – Role of non-neuronal cells in the death of neuronal cells in ALS and neurodegeneration
Cell-to-cell communications are critical determinants of pathophysiological phenotypes, but methodologies for their systematic elucidation are lacking. During this lecture, an integrative, systems biology approach that combines proteomics and regulatory network analysis to elucidate ligand-mediated interactions between distinct cellular compartments, will… Continue reading
events
Brain awareness week at INC – March 11-17, 2019
The researchers of the Institute for Neuroscience and Cognition organize with Nicolas Marie three events to explain and share their research on the brain.
Visit of the Sensorimotricity facility (Danping Wang and Pierre-Paul Vidal). Centre Universitaire des Saints-Pères, Tuesday March… Continue reading
events, seminars
February 15th – Michael Brecht – Ticklishness, Ambivalence and Play
In my talk I will describe neural and behavioral correlates of ticklishness and playfulness in rat somatosensory cortex. Rats greatly enjoy being tickled, as evident from approach behaviors, 50 kHz vocalizations and joy jumps (Freudensprünge). At the same time, rats… Continue reading
events, seminars, videos
February 8th – Mark Pagel – The Deep History of Counting Words
Neuroscience Seminar Series
February 8th. 2019, 11:30 am, R229 (2nd Floor), Centre Universitaire des Saints Pères, 45 rue des Saints Pères, 75006 Paris
Marc Pagel Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Reading University, UK… Continue reading
events, seminars, videos
January 18th – Virginie van Wassenhove – Making sense of time in the Human mind
Neuroscience Seminar Series
Friday, January 18th. 2018, 11:30 am, R229 (2rd Floor), Centre Universitaire des Saints-Pères, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris
Virginie van Wassenhove, Directeur de Recherche Inserm NeuroSpin center Gif/Yvette, France
Title: Making sense of time… Continue reading
grants, opportunities
Open Mind Masters student grants – 2019
The INC will fund two M2 internships this year. Applications should be sent to inc@parisdescartes.fr before March, 15. The decision will be made before the end of March. More information on the French version of our website.
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seminars
Seminar program for 2019 is now available!!
The Neuroscience Seminar Series is all booked for 2019, save your dates!
Friday at 11h30 Conference Room (R229)
18/01 Virginie van Wassenhove (NeuroSpin MEG – CEA – France) 08/02 Mark Pagel (School of Biological Sciences – University of Reading –… Continue reading