International Graduate School of Neuroscience
Calendar
The International Graduate School of Neuroscience Calendar provides an overview of upcoming events, including symposia, research presentations, and key academic milestones such as Graduation Day. Explore the schedule to stay informed about our activities throughout the year.
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November 2025
- Symposium
- Novel Approaches for Behavioral Assessment of Rodents
- Speakers: Pia Kahnau*, Megan Jackson, Markus Wöhr*
- Host: Patrick Reinhardt
October 2025
- Symposium
- From Bench to Bedside: Advances in Understanding Chronic Pain
- Speakers: Sam Hughes*, Jessica van Oosterwijck, Marina López-Solà*
- Host: Lionel Butry
- Symposium
- Human Brain Development and the Use of Cerebral Organoids to Decipher Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms
- Speakers: Silvia Cappello*, Magdalena Götz*, Madeline Lancaster*
- Host: Asisa Muchamedin
September 2025
- Conference
- NeuroImmunoCon 2025: Navigating Autoimmune Interactions in the Nervous System
- Speakers: Melissa Sgodzai, Thomas Korn, Susan Schwab, Jeremias Motte, Vijay Kuchroo, Pia Renk, Baffour Sarpong, Kalliopi Pitarokoili, Fabian Preisner, Rafael Klimas, Claire Jacob, Gerd Meyer zu Hörste, Niklas Rilke, Peter Arthur-Farraj
- Hosts: Niklas Rilke, Melissa Sgodzai
May 2025
- Symposium
- Catecholaminergic Control of Hippocampal Function, Tau Pathology and Cortex
- Speakers: Nelson Totah, Simon Wiegert, Susan Walling
- Host: Celina Böse
April 2025
- Symposium
- MoNN&Di — International Symposium 2025 — Current Perspectives In Neuroscience
- Speakers: Robert Campbell, Deniz Dalkara, Michael (Mike) Devine, Graziella Di Cristo, Maren Engelhardt, Pauline Lafenêtre, Stephan Lammel, Katja Nowick, Silke Patz, Mahmoud Pouladi, Arundhati Ray
- Host: Research Training Group MoNN&Di
December 2024
- Graduation Day
- IGSN Graduation Day 2024
- Featuring PhD research presentations, poster sessions, awards, and networking, with a varied program highlighting the achievements of IGSN PhD researchers.
- Host: Denise Manahan-Vaughan
September 2024
- Symposium
- AI-based Analyses of Narratives and their Role for Cognitive Function
- Speakers: Jean-Rémi King, Avital Hahamy
- Host: Nikolai Axmacher
June 2024
- Symposium
- Multisensory Integration and Cross-modal Plasticity with Emphasis in Hearing and Touch
- Speakers: Lars Riecke, Michael Proulx, Shu-Chen Li
- Host: Fatima Sofia Avila Cascajares
May 2024
- Symposium
- The Neuroscience of Unconscious Bias
- Speakers: David Amodio, Jennifer Kubota
- Hosts: Beyza Bozkurt, Alaleh Sadraee
April 2024
- Conference
- Extinction Learning
- Speakers: Matthew Larkum, Sarah Ayash, Florian Freudenberg, Tom Smulders, Hannah Payne, Uwe Mayer, Grant S. Shields, Marloes Henckens, Franziska Bröker, Diana Burk, Lorenzo Fontolan
- Hosts: Denise Manahan-Vaughan, Onur Güntürkün
March 2024
- Symposium
- Brain Dynamics in Behavior and Stimulation
- Speakers: Björn Kampa, Ivo Vanzetta, Hamutal Slovin
- Hosts: Dirk Jancke, Fatma Karama
February 2024
- Symposium
- Deeper Underground: Opportunities and Challenges of Noninvasive or Minimally Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation Techniques
- Speakers: Sarah-Anna Hescham, Til Ole Bergmann, Nir Grossman
- Host: Vuk Markovic
January 2024
- Symposium
- Effects of stress on cognitive function
- Speakers: Tom Smeets, Susanne Vogel, Anne Bierbrauer
- Hosts: Tobias Rüttgens, Osman Akan
December 2023
- Graduation Day
- IGSN Graduation Day 2023
- Featuring PhD research presentations, poster sessions, awards, and networking, with a varied program highlighting the achievements of IGSN PhD researchers.
- Hosts: Denise Manahan-Vaughan, Carsten Theiss
November 2023
- Symposium
- From Minibrains to Thinking Brains: Studying Cognition Across Levels of Neural System Complexity
- Speakers: João Peça, Cristina Márquez, Jorge Almeida
- Host: Christian Klaes
October 2023
- Symposium
- Stress and Memory Accuracy
- Speakers: Benno Roozendaal, Erno Hermans, Conny Quaedflieg
- Host: Lianne Wolsink
June 2023
- Symposium
- Towards Magnetic Nanoparticle-assisted Brain Repair
- Speakers: Vittoria Raffa, Peter Blümler, Roland Brandt
- Host: Rolf Heumann
May 2023
- Symposium
- Advances in Layer Specific fMRI
- Speakers: Wietske van der Zwaag, Lars Muckli, Federico de Martino
- Host: Nikolai Axmacher