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july 2025
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Prof. Dr. Segio Neuenschwander from the Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Natal, Brazil will talk about “Entrainment of responses in the LGN
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Prof. Dr. Segio Neuenschwander from the Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Natal, Brazil will talk about “Entrainment of responses in the LGN reveals principles of perceptual integration” during the MBExC Lecture on July 21st, 2025 at 4:00 pm at the small lecture hall (behind the library) at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3.
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Gamma oscillations in the retina have been proposed as a mechanism for visual binding, with early studies showing transmission of fast signals from the retina to the LGN and cortex. However, recent findings in cats suggest that these oscillations may be induced by anesthesia and are absent in the awake state. Consistent with this, recordings from the LGN in conscious humans show no evidence of retinal gamma activity. In this study, we re-examined the phenomenon in anesthetized cats by presenting flickering stimuli and recording LGN responses. We found that neurons could follow high-frequency flicker (up to 60 Hz) when the stimulus was spatially continuous, but entrainment was disrupted by spatial discontinuities such as annular gaps. Using both CRT and LED setups, we showed that asynchronous flicker in the periphery could abolish central entrainment, suggesting a retinal mechanism for long-range synchronization. Future work will explore whether this mechanism depends on eye-specific input and varies by cell type or polarity.
Host: Prof. Dr. Fred Wolf, MPI-DS and University of Göttingen
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MBExC
august 2025
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The Hertha Sponer College Lecture Series is addressed to interested students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and PIs. The overall idea is to fundamentally explain research by providing an
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The Hertha Sponer College Lecture Series is addressed to interested students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and PIs. The overall idea is to fundamentally explain research by providing an overview about the general aims of the six MBExC Research Alliances with special focus on the specific techniques that are developed and applied. The lectures take place on Tuesdays at 5 pm within the semester term, and are offered by MBExC PIs. Subsequent to lecture and discussion, Hertha Sponer College members have the opportunity to “Meet-the-PI” and each other for asking more specific or general questions, networking and socializing.
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Hertha Sponer College
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Professor Karen Steel, PhD, FRS, FMedSci, from the Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, King’s College London will held a talk
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Professor Karen Steel, PhD, FRS, FMedSci, from the Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, King’s College London will held a talk about “Which types of hearing loss can be reversed?” during the MBExC Lecture on 20 August, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. at the Michael Lankeit lecture hall, German Primate Center (DPZ), Kellnerweg 4.
Abstract
Progressive hearing loss is very common, particularly as people get older, and there are no medical treatments to slow down or stop the progression for the vast majority of cases. Hearing loss is highly heterogeneous, both in its causes and in the resulting pathology. Therefore, we are likely to need a range of different therapies for different causes and different sites-of-lesion within the inner ear. Some types of pathology may be treatable, even reversible, while other pathologies may not be treatable. Therefore, diagnosis of the cause, or at least the site-of-lesion, will be important to stratify patients for clinical trials, then to select the best treatment for each person. In this talk, I will summarise our understanding of the different ways we can lose our hearing, our progress using model systems to establish which types of pathology could be reversed, and how mouse mutants are giving us clues to how to distinguish different sites-of-lesion.
Host: Dr. Barbara Vona, UMG
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MBExC
september 2025
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The Hertha Sponer College Lecture Series is addressed to interested students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and PIs. The overall idea is to fundamentally explain research by providing an
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The Hertha Sponer College Lecture Series is addressed to interested students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and PIs. The overall idea is to fundamentally explain research by providing an overview about the general aims of the six MBExC Research Alliances with special focus on the specific techniques that are developed and applied. The lectures take place on Tuesdays at 5 pm within the semester term, and are offered by MBExC PIs. Subsequent to lecture and discussion, Hertha Sponer College members have the opportunity to “Meet-the-PI” and each other for asking more specific or general questions, networking and socializing.
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Hertha Sponer College
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Internal Event of the Hertha Sponer College Hertha Sponer College Retreat 2025 DATE: 22 September 2025 VENUE: “Schlosshotel Blankenburg, Blankenburg, Harz Start is planned for the early afternoon.
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Internal Event of the Hertha Sponer College
Hertha Sponer College Retreat 2025
DATE: 22 September 2025
VENUE: “Schlosshotel Blankenburg, Blankenburg, Harz
Start is planned for the early afternoon. A joint journey will be organized. Information about the location will follow soon.
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Hertha Sponer College
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The MBExC will meet for it’s yearly Retreat at the “Schlosshotel Blankenburg in Blankenburg, Harz from September 23 until 25, 2025. A joint journey will be organized.
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The MBExC will meet for it’s yearly Retreat at the “Schlosshotel Blankenburg in Blankenburg, Harz from September 23 until 25, 2025.
A joint journey will be organized.
We are very much looking forward to meet you at the retreat.
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MBExC
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DATE: 27 – 30 September 2025 Location: Hotel Freizeit In, Göttingen Welcome to Göttingen: A Hub of Super-Resolution and Neuroscience Göttingen, a picturesque university town in Lower Saxony, Germany, is renowned for
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DATE: 27 – 30 September 2025
Location: Hotel Freizeit In, Göttingen
Welcome to Göttingen: A Hub of Super-Resolution and Neuroscience
Göttingen, a picturesque university town in Lower Saxony, Germany, is renowned for its rich scientific heritage and cutting-edge research in super-resolution microscopy and neuroscience.
Home to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, the city has been at the forefront of numerous groundbreaking discoveries, including numerous Nobel Prize-winning inventions, for example for electrophysiology or super-resolution microscopy.
The GEF25 conference will be held at the Hotel Freizeit In, a 4-star hotel just a short drive from the city center. The hotel boasts modern rooms, a state-of-the-art Vital Spa health center with an indoor pool, and a variety of dining options. With its excellent facilities and convenient location, including a bus station right at the entrance, the Hotel Freizeit Inn is the perfect venue for our scientific gathering.
Confirmed speakers: Stefan Hell, Edward Boyden, Markus Sauer, Stella Hurtley, Virginie Hamel, Joshua Vaughan, Radu Aricescu, Jae-Byum Chang, Paul Guichard, Helge Ewers, Sabrina Absalon, Ilaria Testa, Matthew Paszek, Julien Vermot, Bi-Chang Chen, Antonio Giraldez, Luis Alvarez, Chi Zhang, Sven Truckenbrodt, Eva Christensen Arnspang, John Danial, Katrin Heinze, Yongxin Zhao, Lu-Yang Wang, Ute Becherer, Barbara Cheifet, Steffen Frey, Magali Grison, Moe Mahjoub, Lukas Kapitein, Johan Hofkens, Hans Blom, Tiago Outeiro, Wei Min, Gabriela Segal Wasserman, Christophe Leterrier, Shahar Alon, Birgit Foltas, Jörg Enderlein, Stefan Jakobs, Jan Huisken, Eugenio Fornasiero, Felipe Opazo, Silvio Rizzoli, Ali Shaib
Join us in Göttingen for an unforgettable experience where science meets history and innovation meets comfort.
For further information please visit the website: https://www.rizzoli-lab.de/gef25/
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Silvio Rizzoli
october 2025
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DATE: 09 – 11 October 2025 Location: Landhotel Am Rothenberg, Volpriehausen This meeting follows the tradition of the Channelrhodopsin, SPP1926 Optogenetics and Optogenetics 2023 meetings and strives to gather the optogenetics
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DATE: 09 – 11 October 2025
Location: Landhotel Am Rothenberg, Volpriehausen
This meeting follows the tradition of the Channelrhodopsin, SPP1926 Optogenetics and Optogenetics 2023 meetings and strives to gather the optogenetics community and facilitate collaborations. It has been made possible by funding contributed by Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Optogenetic Therapies, FOR 5807, Göttingen CRCs, RTGs and MBExC. We are very excited about the list of already confirmed speakers (see below) and will cover the whole spectrum of tool development to control and image cellular behaviour and their applications in bacteria, eukaryotic cells, organs like the heart and brain to the translation of optogenetic approaches into clinics.
Please send your abstracts (max. 3000 signs/words) to this address: ed.negnitteog-inu.dem@zfke until 15th August 2025 if you would like to be selected for a talk in one of the sessions. For poster presentations only titles are sufficient and a short selection of suitable topics.
Confirmed speakers: Oliver Ernst, Timm Fehrentz, Thomas Frank, Christiane Grimm, Keiichi Inoue, Olivia Masseck, Andreas Möglich, Vlachesiav Nikolaev, Crystal M. Ripplinger, Eva Rog-Zielinska, Leonardo Sacconi, Philipp Sasse, Ali Shaib, Nadja A. Simeth-Crespi, Peter Soba, Philipp Tovote, Simon Wiegert, Jonas Wietek, Tania Zaglia
Further information can be found on the Optogenetics website: http://optogenetics2025.uni-goettingen.de.
Here you find the PDF of the the announcement poster:
We are looking forward to welcome you in Volpriehausen in fall 2025!
On behalf of the entire organizing team,
Emilie Macé, Tobias Brügmann and Tobias Moser
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EKFZ
november 2025
202505novAll Day07Ribbon Synapses Symposium 2025(All Day) MPI-NAT, City Campus, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3
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We would like to announce the upcoming Ribbon Synapses Symposium (RSS) 2025, a specialized international conference to be held in Göttingen, Germany, from November 5th till 7th, 2025. The RSS
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We would like to announce the upcoming Ribbon Synapses Symposium (RSS) 2025, a specialized international conference to be held in Göttingen, Germany, from November 5th till 7th, 2025. The RSS 2025 is organized by the Collaborative Research Centre 1690 and will be hosted at the City Campus of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences.
This meeting aims to not only bring together experts in the field, who will present and discuss novel data and provide a detailed overview of the current state of the art of ribbon synapse research, but additionally provide a platform for young scientists to present their work in form of either an oral presentation and/or a poster.
Confirmed Invited Speakers: Jonathan Demb, Elisabeth Glowatzki, Chad Grabner, Radha Kalluri, Katie Kindt, Sharon Kujawa, Régis Nouvian, Anthony J. Ricci
Posters and short talks are invited. Registration deadline for short talks is August 31st, 2025.
Please visit https://rss2025.uni-goettingen.de/ for registration.
For further information, please contact ed.negnitteog-inu.dem@0961bfs
Click here for the poster of the RSS 2025
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CRC1690
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The Hertha Sponer College Lecture Series is addressed to interested students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and PIs. The overall idea is to fundamentally explain research by providing an
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The Hertha Sponer College Lecture Series is addressed to interested students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and PIs. The overall idea is to fundamentally explain research by providing an overview about the general aims of the six MBExC Research Alliances with special focus on the specific techniques that are developed and applied. The lectures take place on Tuesdays at 5 pm within the semester term, and are offered by MBExC PIs. Subsequent to lecture and discussion, Hertha Sponer College members have the opportunity to “Meet-the-PI” and each other for asking more specific or general questions, networking and socializing.
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Hertha Sponer College
december 2025
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The Hertha Sponer College Lecture Series is addressed to interested students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and PIs. The overall idea is to fundamentally explain research by providing an
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The Hertha Sponer College Lecture Series is addressed to interested students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and PIs. The overall idea is to fundamentally explain research by providing an overview about the general aims of the six MBExC Research Alliances with special focus on the specific techniques that are developed and applied. The lectures take place on Tuesdays at 5 pm within the semester term, and are offered by MBExC PIs. Subsequent to lecture and discussion, Hertha Sponer College members have the opportunity to “Meet-the-PI” and each other for asking more specific or general questions, networking and socializing.
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Hertha Sponer College
