Into the Unknown is the title of the most recent film directed by Sankalp Meshram, on Charles Corrêa Architecture of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown.

Enjoy this beautiful film:

It’s a dramatic building, no doubt about it
Zachary Mainen

It’s a metaphor but you work inside a metaphor
Rui Costa

A new discovery shows that the two alternative characters of the desert locust exhibit different abilities to learn and remember. This study published on November 21st in the scientific journal Current Biology, is the product of the work of researchers from Portugal and the UK. It is titled ‘Phenotypic Transformation Affects Associative Learning in the Desert Locust.’

The third Congress of the Association of Tuberous Sclerosis in Portugal took place at the Champalimaud Foundation on the 17th and 18th of November. It was a unique occasion where patients, families, doctors and researchers could meet, exchange ideas and share the most up to date knowledge about this disease.

We have arrived at the end of another very full year, a year replete with plans, meetings, experiments and conversations, a year of accomplishments and also setbacks, large and small. As the seagull, we persevere in meeting the challenges and sticking to our vision. We aspire to show our endurance in work and in life.

Zach Mainen
Director, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme

Started in the 2012/2013 academic year, Sciencecalifragilistic is a science education initiative developed by a group of PhD students and post-doctoral researchers from the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme.

The INDP aims to provide students of diverse backgrounds with a foundation to perform innovative and interdisciplinary work in basic or applied neuroscience at an international level. The Programme is hosted at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, in Lisbon, Portugal, a leading centre for research, technology and clinical care.

Domingos Henrique, Tiago Marques and Ricardo Gonçalves, will participate on the São Silvestre Race in Lisbon, as a challenge to fundraise for the Maratona da Saúde.

Watch Rui Costa at “Bairro Alto” talking about his scientific path, his research and about his “obsession” to pose questions and to dig deeper and deeper to find the answers.

Watch the full video (PT) here

2014 is the Year of the Brain in Europe. The marking of this new year, is the perfect time to examine the short and long term challenges of the exciting field of Neuroscience research.

This week, eight new students started their training as INDP students. The new students comprise a diverse and dynamic group, with members arriving from Norway, Jamaica, Italy, Brazil, Germany and Portugal. Their educational backgrounds are also diverse and include, besides Neuroscience, Evolutionary Biology, Oncology and Biomedicine. The students are now beginning their first year of the programme, which is wholly dedicated to learning the basics of research.