CAJAL Neuroscience Training Courses 2020

The CAJAL course programme in 2020 includes six high-level courses. Click on each course title to view more information.

Courses at the Bordeaux School of Neuroscience.

Advanced imaging techniques for cellular and systems neuroscience

– in partnership with the Bordeaux Imaging Center

Venue:   Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Date:      23 March – 10 April 2020
Course directors:
• Director: Dmitri Rusakov (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UK)
• Co-director: Tatiana Korotkova (Neuronal circuits and behaviour, MPI for Metabolism Research, Germany)
• Local director: Grégory Giannone (CNRS, IINS – UMR 5297, University of Bordeaux, France)

Singlecell profiling and analysis in neuroscience

Venue:   Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Date:      15 June – 3 July 2020
Course directors:
• Director: Jens Hjerling-Leffler (Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
• Co-director: Peter Kharchenko (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
• Local director: Alexandre Favereaux (CNRS – IINS, University of Bordeaux, France)

Ageing cognition

Venue:   Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Date:      14 September – 2 October 2020
Course directors:
• Director: Luísa Lopes (Neurobiology of Ageing & Disease, iMM Lisboa, Portugal)
• Co-director: Cheryl Grady (The Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Canada)
• Local director: Nora Abrous (Neurocentre Magendie – INSERM U 1215, University of Bordeaux, France)

Neural circuit basis of computation and behaviour

Venue:   Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Date:2-20 November 2020
Course directors:
• Director: Fritjof Helmchen (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
• Co-director: Andreas Frick (Neurocentre Magendie – INSERM U1215, University of Bordeaux, France)
• Local director: Cyril Herry (Neurocentre Magendie – INSERM U1215, University of Bordeaux, France)

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Courses at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown:

Quantitative approaches to behaviour

Venue:   Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Date:19 July – 8 August 2020
Course directors:
• Gonzalo G. de Polavieja (Champalimaud Research, Portugal)
• Benjamin de Bivort (Harvard University, USA)
• Megan Carey (Champalimaud Research, Portugal)
• Greg Stephens (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Gordon Berman (Emory University, USA)

Computational Neuroscience

Venue:   Champalimaud Centre for the Unknownd
Date:      10-28 August 2020
Course directors:
• Brent Doiron (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
• Maria Geffen (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Julijana Gjorgjieva (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany)
• Joe Paton (Champalimaud Research, Portugal)