Bernstein Network News. Find the latest news from our researchers regarding current research results, new research projects and initiatives as well as awards and prizes.
Viola Priesemann receives communication award of the German Physical Society
With this award, the German Physical Society recognizes the scientist for her outstanding commitment to communicating scientific findings on the corona pandemic.
Neurobiology: How mice see the world
Researchers based in Munich and Tübingen have developed an open-source camera system that images natural habitats as they appear to rodents.
Wiring up neural circuits at subcellular precision
Researchers unravel a mechanism behind distinct organizational features in the visual cortex of mice and ferrets
Competing bursts
Freiburg researchers uncover the link between bursts of beta brain waves and reduced stimulus recognition
Eve Marder receives Valentin Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience 2021
Eve Marder, pioneering neuroscientist and internationally renowned for her work on the lobster and crab nervous system will receive this year's Valentin Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience. The award ceremony will take place during the online Bernstein Conference on September 23.
From pandemics to climate change, study of collective behavior must become ‘crisis discipline,’ researchers argue
Our ability to confront global crises depends on how we interact and share information.
Einstein Professorship for Susanne Schreiber, Chair of the Bernstein Network
The Einstein Foundation will be supporting neurobiologist Susanne Schreiber as an Einstein Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. With the help of additional funding from the Einstein Foundation, the university was able to counter an offer from another university, thus ensuring that the expert in theoretical neurophysiology will remain in Berlin.
Colorful images – seen through the eyes of mice
Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen have studied how nerve cells in the eye react to different color combinations. They found special cells in the eyes of mice that respond particularly well to contrasts between green and ultraviolet light. This could enable the animals to see the horizon clearly and use it for orientation. The scientific paper was published in "Nature Communications".
Better hearing with optical cochlear implants
Imaging techniques enable decisive step toward development of novel hearing prostheses
From individual receptors towards whole-brain function
Researchers regard the overall distribution of receptors in the brain – the receptome – as a new approach for computer models that reproduce the function of the brain, and for diagnostics and therapy of mental disorders.