Please see below a call for applications for TENSS – the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School, happening around Cluj Napoca, Romania.
https://shoutout.wix.com/so/2fOrVl0Sp?languageTag=en
At its 12th edition, TENSS is renowned worldwide for a life changing event in the career of young neuroscience researchers.
We are at a point where we want to encourage researchers from a wide cultural and economical background to join our event, immerse in the best international scientific environment and learn experimental techniques in neuroscience from the very best experts.
June 1-19, 2024, Pike Lake, Transylvania, Romania – https://tenss.ro/.
Application deadline – March 10th, 2024
Notification of acceptance – April, 2024
Summer School – June 1-19th, 2024
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 behavioral 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:
• ~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 2023 edition, top 14 were selected from an excellent pool of more than 100 applicants from all over the world.
• A wide collection of experts: ~26 instructors and 19 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.
Invited lecturers (tentative):
Upinder Bhalla – National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
Ashesh Dhawale – Centre for Neuroscience, IISc Bangalore, India
Florian Engert – Harvard University, USA
Nadine Gogolla – Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
Sonja Hofer – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Tomáš Hromádka – Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Na Ji – UC Berkeley, USA
Benjamin Judkewitz – Einstein Center for Neuroscience, Germany
Georg Keller – Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland
Emilie Mace – Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
Hannah Monyer – University of Heidelberg, Germany
Tom Mrsic-Flögel – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Venkatesh Murthy – Harvard University, USA
Xaq Pitkow – Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ruben Portugues – Technical University Munich, Germany
Tobias Rose – University of Bonn, Germany
Wolf Singer – Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, 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
Teaching assistants:
Aditya Asopa – National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
Harald Bârzan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Antonin Blot – Francis Crick Institute, UK
Rob Campbell – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Andrei Ciuparu – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Loredana Dan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Medorian Gheorghiu – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Matías Goldin – Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, France
Priyanka Gupta – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA
Yiran He – Francis Crick Institute, UK
Ana-Maria Ichim – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Mitra Javadzadeh – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Mateusz Kostecki – Nencki Institute for Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
Mathias Mahn – Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Fred Marbach – Francis Crick Institute, UK
Vasile V. Moca – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Adriana Nagy-Dabâcan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Sriram Naranayan – National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), India
Jon Newman – OpenEphys, USA
Bruno Pichler – INSS (Independent NeuroScience Services), UK
Nacho Sanguinetti – Harvard, USA
Pavithraa Seenivasan – Janelia Farms, HHMI, USA
Iuliu Vasilescu – Politechnica University, Bucharest, Romania
Anqi Zhang – Harvard University, USA
Information about how to apply can be found here: http://tenss.ro/apply/.
Organizers:
Florin Albeanu – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA
Adam Kampff – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, UK
Raul Muresan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Support and administration:
Laura Rus – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Cosmina Pavel – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Attila Kelemen – Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Gabriel Pavel – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Best regards,
TENSS Organizing Committee
contact@tenss.ro