Connectionists: Transatlantic Behavioural Neuroscience Summer School

[Mateusz Kostecki]

Hello!

We are super happy to announce our flagship event for 2022 - *Transatlantic
Behavioural Neuroscience Summer School *(Sept 1-10 2022) that we are
organizing in cooperation with our friends from the *University of Buenos
Aires and NeuroElectronics Research Flanders.*

The field of behavioural neuroscience is changing. It’s changing on the
conceptual level – “neuroscience needs behaviour”, a bold claim in 2017,
has become a truism. Behavioural paradigms became much more complex. This
change is driven by the recent explosion of new tools. With stunning
precision, we can record both the behaviour and neural activity of an
animal performing various complex tasks. And the most important aspect of
the tool revolution is its open and worldwide character  – the field of
behavioural neuroscience is being democratised on an unprecedented scale.
Since money is becoming less of a constraint, the exploration of new
theories and ideas is not limited anymore to privileged institutions.

Our Transatlantic Behavioural Neuroscience Summer School is designed to
embrace and foster these changes. *Our school will be composed of intense,
hands-on tutorials on behavioural experiment design and data analysis*. The
main project of the school will be the assembly and configuration of a
setup for fruit flies. This project will show how to design a setup to be
versatile, and how to build it from scratch. These experiments will also
provide data for more complex offline analysis using machine learning tools
like DeepLabCut. We want to give the students the knowledge and tools to
modify and improve their own setups and remove obstacles when designing
future experiments.

We will also host fantastic lecturers specializing in different aspects of
behavioural studies:

- Anne von Philipsborn (Aarhus University)
- Ahmed el Hady (University of Konstanz)
- Daniel Tomsic (University of Buenos Aires)
- Karolina Socha (Uiversity College London)
- Basil el Jundi (University of Wuerzburg)
- Irene Jacobsen (Kavli Institute)
- Alicja Puścian (Nencki Institute)
- Ofer Yizhar (Weizmann Instiute)

The school will be organized on Sept 1-10th 2022 in Wojciechy, in a
beautiful lake region of Masuria. The fee is EUR 750 (we are now also
securing funds for fee waivers). The deadline for applications will be* March
29th 2022*. If you have any questions, contact us at openlab at nencki.edu.pl.
Please find the application form and kmore info here *-
https://nenckiopenlab.org/tbnss/
<https://nenckiopenlab.org/tbnss/>.* Please help us to spread the news!

See you there!
Nencki Open Lab Team
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