Events

coming up

• book club, to be discussed: Sterling & Laughlin (2015), Principles of Neural Design, next session Aug 7, 2025 (online)
• Gutenberg Workshop Flexibility and robustness of nervous system function, Sep 2-4, 2025 (Ingelheim)
• hands-on workshop: How to learn from complex data II: simulation-based inference in Physics and Life Sciences, Sep 9-10, 2025 (Göttingen)
  
• SPP 2205 Retreat, Sep 17-19, 2025 (Zeitz)

2026

• Workshop: Phylogenetic systematics, phylogenomics, tree of life, Apr (exact days t.b.a.), 2026 (Göttingen)

retrospection

• The Future of the Bee and Fly: Neuroethology, Modeling and Robotics, Aug 25-27, 2025 (Berlin)
• Crustacean Sensory Systems, symposium at the Summer Meeting of the Crustacean Society, Jul 7-8, 2025 (Paris)
• Symposium 29: Neural circuits and decision strategies for behavioral trade-off, 16th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, Mar 28, 2025 (Göttingen)
• Symposium 24: Evolution and behavior: From genes to circuits, 16th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, Mar 28, 2025 (Göttingen)
• Diversity-sensitive recruiting, a workshop for PIs and postdocs, Mar 19, 2025 (online)

2024

• SPP 2205 Retreat (Göttingen, Oct 7-9, 2024)
• Bernstein Satellite Workshop Multisensory integration along the sensorimotor pathway (Frankfurt a.M., Sep 29, 2024)
• Bernstein Satellite Workshop Emerging models in the evolution of neural systems and circuits (Frankfurt a.M., Sep 29, 2024)
• Workshop How to learn from complex data I: simulation-based inference in Physics and Life Sciences (Göttingen Sep 9-10, 2024)
• ICN Satellite Event Electric fish: neural systems, behaviour, and evolution (Berlin, Jul 27-28, 2024)
• Mini-Symposium Frontiers in Crustacean Neuroscience (Berlin, Aug 5, 2024)
• CNS*2024 Workshop Social Behavior: Evolution, Ecology, Neural Circuit (Natal, Brazil, Jul 23, 2024)
• FENS Satellite Event Convergence, divergence, and computational optimization in neural circuit evolution (Vienna, Jun 23-24, 2024)

2023

• A career is nothing that just happens... Career event for female / non-male PhD students and postdocs within SPP 2205 (Göttingen, Nov 22-23, 2023)
  
• SPP 2205 / GönomiX colloquium series: Andreas Hejnol (Jena), “Open Questions about Questionable Openings: The mouth, the anus and the blastopore”, Apr 27, 2023 (14:15-15:45), Göttingen
• SPP 2205 Retreat (Mar 1-3, 2023), Göttingen
• SPP 2205 / GönomiX colloquium series: Pawel Burkhardt (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen), “The ancestry of the synaptic toolkit and appearance of first neurons”, Feb 2, 2023 (14:15-15:45), Göttingen
• SPP 2205 / GönomiX colloquium series: Gaspar Jekely (University of Exeter), “Light- and mechanosensory ciliary photoreceptors in the annelid brain and evolution of sensory cell types”, Jan 26, 2023 (14:15-15:45), Göttingen

2022

• DZG Satellite Event 6th Meeting of the ANN “Evolution of the Arthropod Brain – From Development to Structure" (Sep 12-13, 2022), Bonn
• Bernstein Conference Satellite Event "Major transitions in cortical circuit evolution" (Sep 13-14, 2022), Berlin
• FENS Satellite Event "Understanding neural circuit evolution" (Jul 8, 2022), Paris
• SPP Retreat, online (March 1 & 16, 2022)
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2021

• Gülpe II Electric Fish Meeting (Oct 13-15, 2021)
  Scientists from Berlin, Potsdam, Tuebingen, Bayreuth and Stralsund present and discuss their current research on electrophysiology, genetics, ecology and behaviour of these specific fish.
  program
• Symposium "Revealing the evolutionary trajectory of the first nervous systems: genomics, structure and dynamics", 14th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (March 22, 2021)

2020

• Satellite Workshop on Frontiers in the Evolution of Neuronal Computation
  at the Online Bernstein Conference 2020
• Kick-Off Meeting, online (Oct 12-14, 2020)
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