28 September 2017
Who are today’s scientists? Inspired by the project “Humans of New York”, Ar Magazine turns the spotlight on individual humans of science every month.
Name: Bassam Atallah
Lab: Systems Neuroscience
Project Title: Olfactory predictive coding – How expectations shape sensation
Photo credit: Marina Fridman
26 October 2017
Humans of Science: Basma Husain
Who are today’s scientists? Inspired by the project “Humans of New York”, Ar Magazine turns the spotlight on individual humans of science every month.
Name: Basma Husain
Lab: Neuroethology Lab
Project title: The role of the medial hypothalamus in female sexual behavior
Photo credit: Marina Fridman
02 November 2017
Linda Partridge: “We want to tackle old age ill health”
Linda Partridge envisions a future where people would just die of old age and not of the diseases that so frequently plague or seriously incapacitate the ageing human population. She and her team at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne, Germany, are currently evaluating the health benefits of three different human drugs on ageing mice.
23 November 2017
John Krakauer: “We’re in the grips of a totalizing belief in data and techniques”
New technologies are giving neuroscientists a grip on the working brain that a few years ago would have seemed impossible to achieve. But, argues John Krakuer, as they marvel at the technological breakthroughs, they are ignoring a crucial component of the study of behavior: the careful “dissection” of the behavior itself.
30 November 2017
Humans of Science: Tony Bell
Who are today’s scientists? Inspired by the project “Humans of New York”, Ar Magazine turns the spotlight on individual humans of science every month.
Name: Tony Bell
Projects: Neural data analysis, multilayer unsupervised learning, the multilevel organization of living systems and the role of water.
Photo credit: Marina Fridman
07 December 2017
When parasites rule… some animals cannot refrain from doing pretty stupid things!
It is well-known that mice infected by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii lose their innate aversion to cats. New research is now starting to shed more light on the precise nature of the behavioral changes that this tiny unicellular organism elicits in rodents as it literally takes control of their brain.
_Imagine these animals in the wild. They have difficulties activating a cautious behavior._- Cristina Afonso
11 December 2017
Applications now open!
Applications for the 2017 INDP Programme are now open!
Applications for 8 Doctoral fellowships in the 2017-2018 class of the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP), hosted at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown (CCU) in Lisbon, Portugal will be open from December 11th, 2017 to January 11th, 2018. Selected students are guaranteed a stipend and tuition support for 4 years.
