Eugenia Chiappe, principal investigator of the Sensorimotor Integration Lab, is one of the five scientists in Portugal who have been awarded this year a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

The use of identical experimental procedures will eliminate the differences that normally hinder replication of data across laboratories. In this way, we will be able to pool data as if it were a single giant experiment, even though it is in fact distributed between two continents. – Zachary Mainen

To understand how billions of neurons work together in a single brain, twenty-one laboratories join forces under the umbrella of the International Brain Laboratory to conduct a unique joint experiment.

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

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To celebrate Champalimaud Research’s tenth anniversary, a photo exhibit and an accompanying video series bring you snapshots of its scientists and their work.

SNAPSHOT 1: TO FLEE, OR NOT TO FLEE?

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

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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.

To celebrate Champalimaud Research’s tenth anniversary, a photo exhibit and an accompanying video series bring you snapshots of its scientists and their work.

SNAPSHOT 2: INTERCEPTING TUMOUR COMMUNICATIONS

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.

Three investigators from the Champalimaud Research (CR) Programme were awarded European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants, each for the sum of two million euros.

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.

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