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Dear colleagues,

Please find below an announcement about the 12th edition of the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School (TENSS 2024). We would be very grateful if you forwarded this announcement to potentially interested people.

June 1-19, 2024, Pike Lake, Transylvania, Romania – https://tenss.ro/.

Application deadline – March 10th, 2024

Notification of acceptance – April, 2024

Summer School – June 1-19th, 2024

We have started a worldwide initiative to train young brain researchers, from both developed and less developed 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, electrophysiological, and behavioral methods to advanced data analysis and machine learning. 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:

• ~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 2023 edition, top 14 were selected from an excellent pool of more than 100 applicants from all over the world.

• A wide collection of experts: ~26 instructors and 19 dedicated teaching assistants from brain research institutes in the USA, UK, Germany, France, 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.

Invited lecturers (tentative):

Upinder Bhalla – National Centre for Biological Sciences, India

Ashesh Dhawale – Centre for Neuroscience, IISc Bangalore, India

Florian Engert – Harvard University, USA

Nadine Gogolla – Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany

Sonja Hofer – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK

Tomáš Hromádka – Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia

Na Ji – UC Berkeley, USA

Benjamin Judkewitz – Einstein Center for Neuroscience, Germany

Georg Keller – Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland

Emilie Mace – Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany

Hannah Monyer – University of Heidelberg, Germany

Tom Mrsic-Flögel – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK

Venkatesh Murthy – Harvard University, USA

Xaq Pitkow – Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Ruben Portugues – Technical University Munich, Germany

Tobias Rose – University of Bonn, Germany

Wolf Singer – Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany

Daniela Vallentin – Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany

Jakob Voigts – HHMI, Janelia Research Campus, USA

Chris Xu – Cornell University, USA

Petr Znamenskiy – Francis Crick Institute, UK

Teaching assistants:

Aditya Asopa – National Centre for Biological Sciences, India

Harald Bârzan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Antonin Blot – Francis Crick Institute, UK

Rob Campbell – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK

Andrei Ciuparu – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Loredana Dan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Medorian Gheorghiu – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Matías Goldin – Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, France

Priyanka Gupta – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA

Yiran He – Francis Crick Institute, UK

Ana-Maria Ichim – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Mitra Javadzadeh – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK

Mateusz Kostecki – Nencki Institute for Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland

Mathias Mahn – Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Fred Marbach – Francis Crick Institute, UK

Vasile V. Moca – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Adriana Nagy-Dabâcan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Sriram Naranayan – National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), India

Jon Newman – OpenEphys, USA

Bruno Pichler – INSS (Independent NeuroScience Services), UK

Nacho Sanguinetti – Harvard, USA

Pavithraa Seenivasan – Janelia Farms, HHMI, USA

Iuliu Vasilescu – Politechnica University, Bucharest, Romania

Anqi Zhang – Harvard University, USA

Information about how to apply can be found here: http://tenss.ro/apply/.

Organizers:

Florin Albeanu – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA

Adam Kampff – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, UK

Raul Muresan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Support and administration:

Laura Rus – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Cosmina Pavel – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Attila Kelemen – Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Gabriel Pavel – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Best regards,

TENSS Organizing Committee

contact@tenss.ro