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Bernstein Conference 2023

Bernstein Conference 2023

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Valentin Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience 2023

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Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience

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Welcome

The Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience connects experimental and theoretical scientists. It comprises more than 200 research groups and almost 350 individual scientists from all over the world who combine experimental neuroscientific approaches with theoretical models and computer simulations.

The Bernstein Network was launched in 2004 through a major funding initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) which aimed at advancing the transfer of theoretical knowledge to clinical and technical applications. The network is named after the German physiologist and biophysicist Julius Bernstein (1839-1917).

News

Tübingen February 7, 2023

Hertie Foundation establishes new institute combining artificial intelligence and neuroscience

Frankfurt am Main, February 7, 2023 - This month marks the launch of an outstanding project integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and neuromedicine – the Hertie Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Brain Health (Hertie AI). Founded on February 1 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Tübingen, it will be the first institute in Germany to research the prevention and early diagnosis of diseases of the nervous system using artificial intelligence methods.

Göttingen, Germany March 16, 2023

You or me: who gets the higher reward?

Humans and monkeys coordinate conflicting interest to maximize their profits

Bristol March 15, 2023

Memories could be lost if two key brain regions fail to sync together, study finds

Learning, remembering something, and recalling memories is supported by multiple separate groups of neurons connected inside and across key regions in the brain. If these neural assemblies fail to sync together at the right time, the memories are lost, a new study led by the universities of Bristol and Heidelberg has found.

Göttingen March 2, 2023

Insights into the evolution of the sense of fairness

A sense of fairness has long been considered purely human – but animals also react with frustration when they are treated unequally by a person. For instance, a well-known video shows monkeys throwing the offered cucumber at their trainer when a conspecific receives sweet grapes as a reward for the same task. Meanwhile, researchers have observed similarly frustrated reactions to unfair rewards in wolves, rats and crows. However, researchers still debate the reasons for this behavior: Does the frustration really stem from a dislike of unequal treatment, or is there another explanation? In a study with long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), researchers at the German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ) have now confirmed an alternative explanatory approach in a collaborative project involving the Departments of Cognitive Ethology and Neurobiology.

Events

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Calls

Klaus Tschira Boost Fund

Through the Klaus Tschira Boost Fund, we promote excellent researchers by providing 

- flexible funding to create scope for independent, higher risk, interdisciplinary projects,
- support in building (international) collaborations and networks,
- targeted mentoring and advice on professional and personal development.

The objective is to give (young) researchers greater flexibility in shaping their career paths, accelerate their careers, and promote early independence.

Deadline: 31.03.2023

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Artificial Intelligence

The Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is the most highly endowed German science award and is granted exclusively to top researchers who are world leaders in their field as well as working abroad.

Deadline: 15.04.2023

Begegnungszonen – Joachim Herz Stiftung

Interdisciplinary research calls for communication and the suitable networks. The program “Begegnungszonen” supports events for young scientists.

Deadline: 16.05.2023