Events

Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Chicago, 19.-23. October, 2019

Our student Zohre Azimi participated with a poster of her study via the "Science Knows No Borders" program.

Unfortunately, she did not get a Visa in time to present her work personally. The foto shows her poster that was printed at the conference site and tagged with a hint to the SFN "Science Knows No Borders" program.

BRAIN DAY 2019

Under the motto "From Fundamental Research to Therapy", the ninth BRAIN DAY will take place on the 25^th September 2019. The programme can be found here.

New "THINK" building

The Joint Science Conference (GWK) approved funding for a new research facility at the Ruhr University Bochum. THINK, Center for Theoretical and Integrative Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. THINK will facilitate a novel integrative and interdisciplinary approach to understanding cognition and the underlying neural mechanisms. Dirk Jancke participated as principal investigator in the grant application. The initiative is coordinated by Onur Güntürkün (speaker) and Sen Cheng (deputy speaker). For oficial press release from the Ruhr University Bochum see (in German only).

Concluding Colloquium - DFG Priority Program SPP1656

How tools and models resolve the neuronal networks in the mammalian brain: six years of collaborative research

Program

Our lab organizes an IGSN Symposium entiteld "Psychophysics in humans and optogenetics in mice"

Guest speakers:

Thomas Knöpfel and Chenchen Song from Imperial College, London (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/t.knopfel)

Michael Herzog, EPFL SV, Brain and Mind Institute, Lausanne (https://lpsy.epfl.ch/people/herzog/)

Titles of talks tba - for futher info see International Graduate School of Neuroscience (IGSN)

Dirk Jancke gives a "Global Excellence Lecture" at the Hvidovre Hospital - Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR)

The DRCMR is one of the leading research centres in Europe within the field of biomedical MRI. A highly profiled international research team translates the latest advances in MRI to examine the brain's function, metabolism and structure.

Host: Hartwig R. Siebner, Axel Thielscher

Our PhD Student Zohre Azimi participates in the G-Node Advanced Neural Data Analysis (ANDA) Course, Jülich-Barmen, Germany.

The course is addressed to excellent master and PhD students and young researchers who are interested in learning advanced techniques in data analytics and in getting hands-on experience in the analysis of electrophysiological data. Internationally renowned researchers will give lectures on statistical data analysis and data mining methods with accompanying exercises.

Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience

Dirk Jancke held a Plenary Lecture at the 3rd International Brain Stimulation Conference, 24.-27. February 2019, Vancoucer, Canada

Brain stimulation methods, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), offer new approaches to therapeutics for brain disorders. Jancke's group uses an innovative imaging method with voltage-sensitive dye to track at submilimeter range and high temporal resolution, TMS-induced plastic functional changes across the brain.

The conference program included 30 distinct 2-hour symposia, along with 12 plenary lectures, 3 poster sessions, and 4 Meet the Expert workshops.

Dirk Jancke presents work from the lab at the Satellite Workshop entitled “Sensory neurons: Predictive coding or coding for predictions?"

Bernstein Conference - Satellite Workshops

Our PhD students Zohre Azimi and Ruxandra Barzan present their results at the FENS Meeting in Berlin.
https://forum2018.fens.org/

Past, future, present: All-in V1. Satellite FENS Meeting - ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function. Organized by Michael Ibbotson and Ulf Eysel. Berlin

Dirk Jancke presents recent work from the lab at FENS Satellite Symposium entitled “Receptive fields: analysis, models and applications.

Abstracts

Co-organized by the Australian Brain Function Centre of Excellence and Ruhr-University Bochum

FENS Satellite Symposium Homepage

INI Seminar: Dirk Jancke talks about current developments in optical imaging.

https://www.ini.rub.de/events/#archive

We are glad to welcome Matthew Chalk presenting his recent findings in our SFB 874 Colloquium.

https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/sfb874/downloads/Symposium%202018/sfb-colloquium-chalk-may-2018.pdf

Viktor Studenyak joins our lab for his Bachelor Thesis

V1 Population Dynamics and Plasticity.

Host: Thomas Knöpfel, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.

Shaping activity patterns in V1: TMS-induced plasticity and context-dependent dynamics.

Host: Michael Herzog, Carl Petersen, Brain Mind Institute (BMI), Lausanne, Switzerland.

Context-dependent changes of V1 population dynamics.

Host: John-Dylan Haynes, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Charité, Berlin.

Voltage-sensitive Dye Imaging of Brain Dynamics. Research Department Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum.

Gonda Brain Research Colloquium, Dirk Jancke reports work of the German-Israeli Project "Decoding visual content and perception from neuronal population activity in visual cortex: VSDI, fMRI and computational modelling"

at Gonda Multidisciplinary Research Center Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Our lab organizes an IGSN Symposium entiteld "Decoding Visual Content and Perception from Neuronal Population Activity in Visual Cortex: VSDI, fMRI and Computational Modelling"

Guest speakers:

Hamutal Slovin
Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

John-Dylan Haynes
Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin

Shimon Ullman
Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Population dynamics across the visual brain imaged with voltage-sensitive dye.

Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK.

VSD imaging as a tool to study functional activity at mesoscopic population levels.

Host: Frederic Chavane, C.N.R.S. Marseille, France.

Voltage-sensitive dye imaging of the visual brain: Capturing neuronal activity dynamics at the population level.

Symposium Perspectives of Molecular Imaging in Systems Neuroscience, MPI für Biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen.

Spatio-temporal dynamics of brain activity captured with voltage-sensitive dye imaging. Symposium Systems Neurobiology, University of Göttingen, 28-29. September, 2009.

Voltage-sensitive dye imaging as a tool to capture large-scale activation dynamics across the brain.

Host: Gustavo Deco, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Dynamic computation in early visual cortex captured by VSD imaging and parallel electrophysiology. International Workshop - Aspects of adaptive dynamics - Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst.

From Luminance changes to Natural Scenes: Voltage-sensitive Dye Imaging in Primary Visual Brain Areas. German-USA Collaborative Symposium on Computational Neuroscience, Munich.

Population dynamics induced by local motion visualized with voltage-sensitive dye imaging in primary visual cortex.

Host: Thomas Wennekers, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Plymouth, UK.

Kortikale Aktivitätswellen in primären visuellen Arealen optisch registriert mittels fluoreszenter spannungsabhängiger Farbstoffe. Otto Witte, Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Klinische Forschung (IZKF) Jena Klinikum der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena.

Cortical Activity Streaks evoked by Fast Moving Stimuli form to Patterns that Map Orientation of Motion Trajectories - Voltage-Sensitive Dye Imaging across Cat Primary Visual Cortex. Soc Neurosci Abstr 37.

San Diego, CA, USA

Population dynamics in cat early visual cortex evoked by local motion.

Symposium 22: Real-time voltage-sensitive dye imaging of cortical network activities across sensory modalities.

Shaping visual space from subthreshold activity in primary visual cortex: Combined voltage-sensitive dye imaging and electrophysiology in cat area 18.

Host: Fred Wolf, Max-Planck Institut für Strömungsforschung, Bernstein Center Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen.

Cortical activity visualized by voltage-sensitive dye imaging: Dynamics of subthreshold and suprathreshold activity patterns across primary visual cortex. Center for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CNNR) – University of Sussex, England.

Shaping visual space from propagating subthreshold activity in early visual cortex - Voltage-sensitive dye imaging of neural network dynamics in real time.

In: Symposium on Dynamical motion processing: new insights into the neuronal machinery, Uwe Ilg & Guillaume Masson.

5th Forum of European Neuroscience, FENS, Vienna, Austria.

Shifting of position in primary visual cortex: Studying local stimuli dynamics using voltage-sensitive dyes. Andreas Engel, Inst. of Neurophysiology, Universitätskliniken Eppendorf (UKE) - Hamburg.

Studying positional effects in cat primary visual cortex using voltage-sensitive dyes. Ray Dolan, Hakwan Lau, Wellcome Trust Functional Imaging Laborator, Institute of Neurology, University College London (UCL), England.

Visualizing the Invisible: The functinal role of subthreshold cortical spread for the processing of local objects. Voltage-sensitive dye imaging in cat primary visual cortex. Henning Scheich, Leibnitz Institute of Neurobiology – Center for Learning and Memory Research, Magdeburg.

Visualizing the invisible – Voltage-sensitive dye imaging of shaping suprathreshold activity from emerging cortical spread in early visual cortex. Satellite Symposium, ASSC9 Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Imaging the influence of subthreshold activity on the representation of stimulus location in cat visual cortex. Uwe Ilg, University Hospital, Clinic for Neurology, Dept. Cognitive Neurology, Tübingen.

Our lab organizes an IGSN Symposium entiteld "Modeling Cortical Information Processing"

Guest speakers:

Misha Tsodyks
Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Wolfram Erlhagen
Departameno de Matemática para a Ciencia e Tecnologla (DMCT)), Universidade do Minho, Guimares, Portugal

Thomas Wennekers
Computational Neuroscience, Univetsity of Plymouth, UK

Our lab organizes an IGSN Symposium entiteld "The Brain in Action: Optical Imaging of Vision and Touch"

Speakers:

Dirk Jancke
Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of Biology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Thomas Hahn
Department of Cell Physiology, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany

Hubert Dinse
Theoretical Biology, Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany