News & Events

News

 

• Award of the Siegenthaler Foundation, 4 May 2012

  Jan Lünemann has received one of two Walter and Gertrud Siegenthaler Research Awards
  
  

• Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching, 30 April 2012
  Martin Meyer, assistant professor for “Plasticity and Learning of the normal aging Brain”, has received the Best Teaching Award at the Dies academicus 2012
  
  
• Deep brain stimulation for epilepsy patient, 17 April 2012
  The first patient in Switzerland has received deep brain stimulation
  electrodes at the University Hospital Zurich to reduce epileptic seizures.
  
  
• Mathematical model predicts neurological diseases, 12 April 2012

  The new Translational Neuromodeling Unit headed by Klaas Enno Stephan uses fMRI data and mathematical models to improve diagnosis of schizophrenia.
  
  

• Reduced neurogenesis in primates, 10 April 2012
  Olivier Rainteau and his colleagues show an early decline in progenitor diversity in the marmoset lateral ventricle.
  
  
• Brainbus Tour 2012, 10 April 2012
  Die rollende Ausstellung der “Association Decade of the Brain Switzerland“ startet ihre Tour 2012 am 10. April in Zürich. 
  
  
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Internal seminars and talks

 

• Weekly announcements, week 21, 21 - 25 May 2012 (pdf)
  
  
• Weekly announcements, week 20 - 14 - 19 May 2012 (pdf)
  
  
• Seminars and Colloquia Spring Term 2012
  
  

Conferences and symposia

 

• ZNZ and NCCR Neuro Joint Symposium 2012, 14 - 15 June 2012, ETH Zurich Central Campus
  
  
• Stepping Stone Symposia -First conference on Cancer Research (CR) and Neurodegenerative Diseases (NDD) 20 - 22 June 2012, ETH Zurich
  
  
• 8th FENS Forum of Neuroscience, 14 - 18 July 2012, Barcelona, Spain
  
  
• 3rd LIN Symposium 'Translating synaptic activity into neuronal plasticity',  27 - 30 August 2012, Tangermünde
  
  
• Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2012, 13 - 17 October 2012, New Orleans