The eight edition of the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School (TENSS 2019). Please note that we have extended the application deadline to the 10th of March, 2019.
We have started a worldwide initiative to train young brain researchers, from both developed and poor countries, in understanding and using the most advanced tools in brain research today. We do this in an idyllic location, without any pre-existing infrastructure, where students and instructors alike enjoy the adventure, work hard, and build sophisticated research labs from scratch.
The main objective of TENSS is to provide participants top-level, hands-on training in experimental techniques used in neuroscience, from optical to electrophysiological and behavioral methods. The philosophy of the school is learning by doing and while doing so, openly sharing ideas and expertise.
This is TENSS, the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School: June 1-21, 2019, Pike Lake, Transylvania, Romania –
www.tenss.ro.
• 3 weeks of 24/7 hands-on practical and theoretical courses in building, debugging, using and interpreting data from cutting-edge experimental methods in modern neuroscience.
• A select group of the best 12-14 applicants: for the 2018 edition, top 14 were selected from an excellent pool of 120 applicants from all over the world – 40 countries across 6 continents.
• A wide collection of experts: ~25 instructors and 21 dedicated teaching assistants from Brain research institutes in the USA, UK, Germany, Poland, Romania, India, Switzerland, Portugal, Hungary and Slovakia.
• A knowledge base of Open-Source solutions to complex problems in brain research.
Coursework will take place in a land of myth and legend, beyond large forests (Transylvania), on the shores of a picturesque natural reserve called Pike Lake. Applications are welcome from interested (and interesting) graduate students and postdocs. Please note that there is a significant number of fee waivers and travel support grants available for supporting our applicants.
Application deadline – March 10th, 2019
Notification of acceptance – early April, 2019
Summer School – June 1-21st, 2019
Invited lecturers:
- Upinder Bhalla – National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
- Juan Burrone – King’s College London, UK
- Michael Dickinson – Caltech, Pasadena, USA
- Florian Engert – Harvard University, USA
- Sonja Hofer – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, UK
- Tomáš Hromádka – Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
- Na Ji – Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm, USA
- Benjamin Judkewitz – Einstein Center for Neuroscience, Germany
- Georg Keller – Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland
- Christian Machens – Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal
- MacKenzie Mathis – Rowland Institute, Harvard University
- Marta Moita – Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal
- Hannah Monyer – DKFZ, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Tom Mrsic-Flögel – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, UK
- Venkatesh Murthy – Harvard University, USA
- Ruben Portugues – Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
- Tobias Rose – Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
- Botond Roska – Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland
- Wolf Singer – Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
- Ramesh Srinivasan – University of California Irvine, USA
- Nao Uchida – Harvard University, USA
- Daniela Vallentin – Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Germany
- Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida – Harvard University, USA
- Chris Xu – Cornell University, USA
Teaching assistants:
- Harald Bârzan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Antonin Blot – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
- Rob Campbell – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
- Andrei Ciuparu – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Aleena Garner – Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- Medorian Gheorghiu – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Priyanka Gupta – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA
- Mitra Javadzadeh – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
- Mateusz Kostecki – Nencki Institute for Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
- Gonçalo Lopes – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
- Fred Marbach – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
- Vasile V. Moca – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Mehrab Modi – Janelia Research Campus, USA
- Adriana Nagy-Dăbâcan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Jon Newman – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Bruno Pichler – INSS (Independent NeuroScience Services), UK
- Nacho Sanguinetti – Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
- Hande Tunbak – Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research – Division of Medicine, UCL, UK
- Iuliu Vasilescu – Politechnica University, Bucharest, Romania
- Jakob Voigts – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Petr Znamenskiy – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Organizers:
- Florin Albeanu – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA
- Adam Kampff – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, UK
- Raul Mureșan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Please see the attached poster for the event. Information about how to apply can be found here:
http://tenss.ro/apply/.
Best regards,
TENSS Organizing Committee
