Congratulations to Dr Chiara Galante who successfully got her Dr. rer. nat. on 9 October 2019! She had rehearsed her PhD defence “Factors determining competence for in vivo glia-to-neuron conversion” at NGC on 28 March.After your PhD in AG Berninger, we wish you good luck in your further career as a …

On 21 February Gautam Kumar Pramanik talked about Data Scientist careers at our Career Talks Series organized in cooperation with IPP. During his talk, he guided us through his journey from a PhD in neuroscience to a job as Data Scientist at Savedriod AG (Frankfurt am Main).

NGC opened 2019 with a talk on funding opportunities on 7 February. The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, a private foundation aimed at the promotion of basic research, offers Phd Fellowships, MD Fellowships and Travel Grants to applicants from the field of life sciences. Maria Placentino and George …

NGC concluded 2018 with a Neuro-Christmas party on 12 December. Thank you Fazi and Mirjam for organising such a nice event. We had fun and connected with long-unseen friends before the holidays. We are looking forward to seeing you all again in 2019!

On 21 November we launched the new Career Talks Series, organized in cooperation with IPP. Our first speaker, Florie Le Prieult, gave an engaging and informative talk about working as a R&D postdoctoral researcher at AbbVie. If you haven’t read it yet, take a look at the article she wrote for us.

We congratulate Dr. Kamran Yusifli, who successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 11 July 2019.  NGC hosted his PhD defense rehearsal last year, on 12 November. Kamran was a PhD student in AG Behl and worked on Neuronal Adaptation under Chronic Hypoperfusion.We wish you all the best for your …

On 15 October Sandra Ritz gave us insights into her work as head of a Core Facility. You’ll know her indeed if you have ever used microscopes at IMB. After telling us some interesting facts about the different Core Facilities at IMB, especially the Light Microscopy group, she talked about all the …

At the end of August, we celebrated our third year of life with such a great Neuro-BBQ hosted by Fazi. We were amazed to have so many of you joining to eat something together while having lots of relaxing, stimulating or provoking discussions. See you again at the next meetings!

Congratulations to Dr. Georg Payrhuber, who succsessfully defended his PhD thesis on 20 July! He rehearsed with us on 28 June. His work, supervised by Prof. Nitsch, Dr. Vogt and Prof. Stroh is titled “The role of PRG1 at the dendritic spine”.We wish him lots of success in his new industry job in …

If you were not there, on 24 May you missed a very engaging talk by the Nature News intern Giorgia Guglielmi. After a PhD at EMBL, she decided to change career and become a science communicator. During the meeting, she joined via Skype from her place in Boston to talk to us about Science Writing and …