Connectionists: Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School (TENSS 2023)

[Tomas Hromadka]

Dear colleagues,

Please find below an announcement about the 11th edition of the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School (TENSS 2023). We would be very grateful if you forwarded this announcement to potentially interested people.

We have started a worldwide initiative to train young brain researchers, from both developed and less developed countries, in understanding and using the most advanced tools in brain research today. We do this in an idyllic location, without any pre-existing infrastructure, where students and instructors alike enjoy the adventure, work hard, and build sophisticated research labs from scratch.

The main objective of TENSS is to provide participants top-level, hands-on training in experimental techniques used in neuroscience, from optical, electrophysiological, and behavioural methods to advanced data analysis and machine learning. The philosophy of the school is learning by doing and while doing so, openly sharing ideas and expertise.

This is TENSS, the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School:

June 1-21, 2023, Pike Lake, Transylvania, Romania – https://tenss.ro/.

• 3 weeks of 24/7 hands-on practical and theoretical courses in building, debugging, using and interpreting data from cutting-edge experimental methods in modern neuroscience.

• A select group of the best 12-14 applicants: for the 2022 edition, top 14 were selected from an excellent pool of more than 100 applicants from all over the world.

• A wide collection of experts: ~29 lecturers and 16 dedicated teaching assistants from brain research institutes in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Poland, Romania, India, Switzerland, Portugal, Hungary, and Slovakia.

• A knowledge base of Open-Source solutions to complex problems in brain research.

Coursework will take place in a land of myth and legend, beyond large forests (Transylvania), on the shores of a picturesque natural reserve called Pike Lake. Applications are welcome from interested (and interesting) graduate students and postdocs. Please note that there is a significant number of fee waivers and travel support grants available for supporting our applicants.

Application deadline – March 5th, 2023

Notification of acceptance – April, 2023

Summer School – June 1-21st, 2023
  

Invited lecturers (tentative):

Athena Akrami – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Upinder Bhalla – National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
Federico Carnevale – DeepMind Technologies, London, UK
Ann Clemens – University of Edinburgh, UK
Ashesh Dhawale – Centre for Neuroscience, IISc Bangalore, India
Michael Dickinson – California Institute of Technology, USA
Florian Engert – Harvard University, USA
Nadine Gogolla – Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany
Sonja Hofer – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Helen Xun Hou – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Tomáš Hromádka – Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Benjamin Judkewitz – Einstein Center for Neuroscience, Germany
Georg Keller – Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland
Emilie Mace – Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
Eve Marder – Brandeis Unversity, USA
Hannah Monyer – University of Heidelberg, Germany
Tom Mrsic-Flögel – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Bence Ölveczky – Harvard University, USA
Ruben Portugues – Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
Tobias Rose – University of Bonn, Germany
Wolf Singer – Ernst Strüngmann Institute, Germany
Daniela Vallentin – Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Germany
Jakob Voigts – HHMI, Janelia Research Campus, USA
Chris Xu – Cornell University, USA
Petr Znamenskiy – Francis Crick Institute, UK
Tony Zador – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA

Teaching Assistants & Organizing Team:

Harald Bârzan
Antonin Blot
Rob Campbell
Andrei Ciuparu
Loredana Dan
Medorian Gheorghiu
Matías Goldin
Priyanka Gupta
Yiran He
Ana Maria Ichim
Mitra Javadzadeh
Mateusz Kostecki
Fred Marbach
Vasile V. Moca
Adriana Nagy-Dăbâcan
Jon Newman
Cosmina Pavel
Bruno Pichler
Laura Rus
Nacho Sanguinetti
Pavithraa Seenivasan
Iuliu Vasilescu
Anqi Zhang
  

Best regards,

TENSS Organizing Committee

contact [at] tenss.ro