On 28 March we had a very engaging and helpful discussion on how to prepare a paper manuscript. Our speakers Michael Van Der Kooij, Steffen Storck and Isabelle Arnoux shared with us their expertise, gained during their PhDs and their Postdocs.Where to start from? Your data, of course. So, take a …

On the 26 February 2018 we hosted Daniela Scholten, who talked about Project Management. After telling us about her journey from the bench as a PhD student to the Scientific Management office of international institutions like TRON and IMB, she led us through the possibilities offered by this …

On the 26 January, 2018, Sadhna Sahani successfully gave her PhD defense! We would like to congratulate Dr. Sahani for her success and wish her luck in her future scientific career! She had rehearsed with us on January 18th.Check out her cool publication: Cheng and Sahani et al., 2016 ”Precise …

We celebrated a Neuro-Christmas, with Margaryta welcoming this second Neuro-social event. There was a lot of delicious food and drinks, coupled with thought provoking discussions. Thanks to everyone who joined and see you after the holidays at our regular meetings!

On the 21 June our NGC Designer Margaryta Tevosian gave an interesting talk about tissue clearing techniques. Within the past few years different techniques have been developed. Clarity and Cubic use acqueous buffers, whereas Disco uses organic solvents. All of them require weeks to prepare the …

On the 30 May we had two special guests who talked us about Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and EMBO Fellowships. Andrea Gamir Morralla is a Postdoc in AG Berninger and is currently working on a project involving brain organoids funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. Our second speaker, Vidhya …

On the 20 April Gabriela Plucinska and Chiara Galante talked us about posters and power point presentations. They showed us with practical example what to do and not to do when preparing material to present our data. You can find more suggestions from Gabriela in her blog Figure Makeover.

On the 4 April 2017 Tina Zimmermann successfully defended her PhD: Congratulations Dr. Zimmermann!  Tina was a PhD student in AG Lutz and she defended her thesis Deciphering application potentials and basic principles of neural stem cells – implications for BDNF and CB1 after rehearsing with us …

Congratulations to Dr. Carine Thalman who completed her PhD on the 20 March. Carine was a PhD student in AG Nietsch and we are glad we could help her getting ready during her defense rehearsal on the 21st February.

We opened 2017 with a thesis defense rehearsal: on the 26 January Katja Weckmann gave her talk from the title Ketamine’s fast antidepressant drug response: biosignature and pathways. Katja did her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich and has now joined AG Behl as a postdoctoral …