Catarina Ramos, CNP Science Communication coordinator, talks about her path and her role at CNP.

What kind of research happens at the CNP? How much do you need to know about it in order to communicate it to public? What initiatives does the CNP Science Communication coordinate and how does one become a science communicator in the first place?

CNP Graduate students speak about what it means to be a neuroscientist in an event for high-school students held at Centro Ciência Viva in Sintra.

Megan Carey, principal investigator at the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, receives a Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros, from the European Research Council (ERC), to study the neural circuits that coordinate locomotion in mice, over the next 5 years.

A new study shows that increasing sugar in the diet of male fruit flies for just 1 or 2 days before mating can cause obesity in their offspring through alterations that affect gene expression in the embryo.

There is also evidence that a similar system regulates obesity susceptibility in mice and humans. The research, which is published online December 4 in the Cell Press journal Cell, provides insights into how certain metabolic traits are inherited and may help investigators determine whether they can be altered.

But keep the trust, walk and think
with always and ever patent eyes, and minds, and hearts, and the world will continue to twirl,
a never ceasing kaleidoscopic confetti
of glittering, spinning dreams.

Zachary Mainen
Director, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme.

Applications should be submitted through this Application Form Application deadline: Feb 15, 2015.

As part of an editorial project called Project 20 + 20, Portuguese journal Expresso joins the field of research and innovation with the business sector in a focused event.

The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and The Kavli Foundation have announced the first FENS-Kavli Scholars – 20 young European neuroscience researchers chosen for the excellence of their research, as well as promise to be among the field’s newest generation of extraordinary pioneers.

In a study published today (January 15, 2015) in the journal Current Biology, a team of scientists, led by Zachary Mainen, found a causal link between the activation of serotonin neurons and the amount of time mice are willing to wait, and rejected a possible link between increased serotonin neuron activation and reward.

This month 8 new students began their first year at the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP).

Each year, 8-10 new graduate students join the INDP, a PhD programme of the Champalimaud Foundation that trains future neuroscientists within the community of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme (CNP).