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IZN Scientific EventsIZN Lectures and Concepts Talks

Invite a speaker!

Everyone in the IZN community, including IZN doctoral students, is welcome to invite speakers from other universities and institutions to come to Heidelberg and share their research findings. Travel and accommodation expenses can be covered up to a maximum of 500€ by the IZN.

Contact the IZN coordinator to schedule your invited speaker: IZN.coordinator@uni-heidelberg.de

Contact the IZN secretary to help arrange travel: sekretariat@nbio.uni-heidelberg.de

Tell us about your research!

All IZN investigators are invited to give concepts talks explaining the big picture behind the work going on in their labs and how it fits into our broader understanding of the function and dysfunction of the nervous system.

Contact the IZN coordinator to schedule your concepts talk: IZN.coordinator@uni-heidelberg.de

Summer Semester 2024

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Date / TimeEventSpeakerTitle(s)Host
Date / TimeEventSpeakerTitle(s)Host
27.03.2024 / 13:00
Concepts Talk

Dr. Pei-Chi (Peggy) Wei

Brain Mosaicism and Tumorigenesis, DKFZ, Heidelberg

Cellularity loss as a driver for clonal expansion in the developing brain
10.04.2024 / 13:00
 
 
 
 
24.04.2024 / 13:00
Lecture

Dr. Paola Tognini

Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy

Changing the Gut, Changing the Brain: Exploring the Role of the Intestinal Microbiota in Neural Function and Plasticity
Dr. Annarita Patrizi
08.05.2024 / 13:00 
 
 
 
 
22.05.2024  / 13:00
Concepts Talk

Dr. Moritz Mall

Cell Fate Engineering and Disease Modeling, DKFZ, Heidelberg

Guardian of the Brain: How a Transcription Factor Prevents Rewiring of Neurodevelopmental Plasticity and the Initiation and Progression of Brain Disorders
05.06.2024 / 13:00
Concepts Talk

Dr. Radhika Puttagunta

Experimental Neurodegeneration, Clinic for Paraplegiologie, Heidelberg

How does regenerative biology approach Spinal Cord Injury? Overcoming the obstacles
19.06.2024 / 13:00
Lecture

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lisa Genzel

Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Semantic-like memory in rodents
IZN Doctoral Students (Stefanos Loizou)
03.07.2024 / 13:00
 
 
 
 
17.07.2024 / 13:00
 
 
 
 
31.07.2024 / 13:00
 
 
 
 

Winter Semester 2024-2025

Table

Date / TimeEventSpeakerTitleHost
Date / TimeEventSpeakerTitleHost
11.09.2024 / 13:00
 
 
 
 
25.09.2024 / 13:00
Lecture

Prof. Dr. Andreas Lüthi

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Title TBA
IZN Doctoral Students
09.10.2024 / 13:00
Lecture

Prof. Dr. Bill Wisden

Imperial College, London, UK

Title TBA
Prof. Dr. Hilmar Bading
23.10.2024 / 13:00
Lecture

Dr. David Brito

Algarve Biomedical Center Research Institute, Algarve, Portugal

Glutamate-mediated neurotoxicity drives disease progression in polyglutamine spinocerebellar ataxias
Dr. Ana Oliveira
06.11.2024 / 13:00
 
 
 
 
20.11.2024 / 13:00
 
 
 
 
04.12.2024 / 13:00
 
 
 
 
18.12.2024 / 13:00
 
 
 
 
15.01.2025 / 13:00
 
 
 
 
29.01.2025 /13:00
 
 
 
 
12.02.2025 / 13:00
 
 
 
 
26.02.2025 / 13:00
 
 
 
 
12.03.2025 / 13:00
 
 
 
 
26.03.2025 / 13:00
 
 
 
 
09.04.2025 / 13:00