Current events

22
January

15:00 - 18:15, FNO - 01/117
IGSN-Symposium
Effects of stress on cognitive function
Tom Smeets, Anne Bierbrauer, Susanne Vogel

26
February

15:00
IGSN-Symposium
Deeper underground: Opportunities and challenges of noninvasive or minimally invasive deep brain stimulation techniques
Til Ole Bergmann, Nir Grossman, Sarah-Anna Hescham

18
March

IGSN-Symposium
Brain Dynamics in Behavior and Stimulation
Ivo Vanzetta, Björn Kampa, Hamutal Slovin

21
March

Neuropsycholgy Research Colloquium
The Neuroscience Behind Resistance to Brain Aging
Dr. Ramunė Dirvanskienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)

12
April

FOR 2812-Colloquium
Plasticity of brain resilience mechanisms
Pierre Gagnepain (Inserm-EPHE-UNICAEN)

16
April

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
A taxonomy of spatial navigation processes
Eloy Parra Barrero (Instituto Cajal CSIC)

23 – 24
April

IGSN-Conference
Extinction Learning
Sarah Ayash, Franziska Bröker, Diana Burk, Sarthak Chandra, Lorenzo Fontolan, Stephen Maren, Uwe Mayer, Hannah Payne, Grant Shields, Nadine Skoluda*, Tom Smulders

26
April

FOR 2812-Colloquium
Episodic memory and counterfactual causal reasoning
Sofiia Rappe (Ruhr University Bochum)

29
April

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
From 'Who said it?' to '"Who" heard it?'
Dr. Bernhard Englitz (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen)

30
April

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
Learning effective perception and action in space
Marko Nardini (Durham University)

02 – 03
May

SFB Targeted Protein Degradation-Symposium
Ubiquitin & Friends 2024
Elvan Böke (CRG Barcelona, Spain), Rubén Fernández-Busnadiego (University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany), Daniel Finley (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA), Fumiyo Ikeda (Osaka University, Japan), Yogesh Kulathu (MRC PPU, University of Dundee, UK), Andreas Martin (UC Berkeley, USA), Yifat Merbl (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel), Nicolas Thomä (FMI Basel & EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland), Konstanze Winklhofer (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)

06
May

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
How smart was T. rex? - Current debates in dinosaur neurology and cognition
Dr. Kai R. Caspar (Cell Biology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

13
May

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Tectofugal visual processing, visual search, and methods to investigate it
Dorian Röders (Neural Basis of Learning, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum)

13
May

IGSN-Symposium
The Neuroscience of Unconscious bias
David Amodio, Jennifer Kubota

14
May

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
Learning, aging, and individual differences in human spatial navigation
Elizabeth Chrastil (University of California at Irvine)

16
May

Neuropsychologie - Colloquium
Neuronal representations of temporal memory formation and recall in the human medial temporal lobe
Dr. Mohammad Khazali (Universitätsklinikum Freiburg)

24
May

FOR 2812-Colloquium
Normative theories of two-way interactions between episodic and semantic memories
Gergo Orban (Wigner Research Centre for Physics)

28
May

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
Cerebellum and disorientation
Laure Rondi-Reig (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

03
June

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Learning in Living Networks
Prof. Dr. Viola Priesemann (Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization & University of Göttingen)

07
June

FOR 2812-Colloquium
Enhancing Real-World Memory: A Smartphone Intervention that Promotes Differentiation of Hippocampal Activity in Older Adults
Morgan Barense (University of Toronto)

10
June

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Avian cognitive networks
Prof. Dr. Jonas Rose & Dr. Roland Pusch (Neural Basis of Learning & Biopsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum)

11
June

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
Impact of aging on human spatial navigation: the role of landmarks and geometry
Denis Sheynikhovich (CNRS – INSERM)

14
June

KIDSDEM-Fachtag
WEITERDENKEN an die Kinder demenzerkrankter junger Eltern (in German)
Antje Arnolds, Barbara Crombach, Anna Schorling, Jana Weikamp, Ute Brüne-Cohrs, Juliane Tausch

17
June

15:00, FNO - 01/117
IGSN-Symposium
Multisensory integration and cross-modal plasticity with emphasis in hearing and touch
Shu-Chen Li, Michael Proulx, Lars Riecke

19
June

Inaugural lecture
Hacking the brain: Deciphering and manipulating the brain’s algorithms
Prof. Dirk Jancke (Ruhr University Bochum)

02
July

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
From path integration to distance estimation: role of the medial entorhinal cortex
Francesca Sargolini (Aix Marseille Université)

03
July

BrainBusiness: Neuroscience meets healthcare industry
(Research Department of Neuroscience, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, GesundheitsCampus Bochum, MedEcon Ruhr)
Mental Health & Neurodegenerative Diseases
Prof. Dr. Dirk Scheele, Prof. Dr. Sylvia Schneider, Dr. Luka Popp, Prof. Dr. Konstanze Winklhofer (Ruhr-University Bochum), Arnd Jäger (Healthy Projects GmbH), Prof. Dr. Klaus Gerwert (betaSENSE GmbH), Prof. Dr. Lars Tönges (Katholisches Klinikum of Ruhr-University Bochum)

08
July

Molecular Neurobiochemistry Seminar
Stem Cell Engineering for Regenerative Medicine
Prof. Knut Woltjen, Prof. Fabian Raudzus

08
July

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Pigeons as a Model to Investigate Age Related Cognitive Decline
Dr. Mary Flaim (Biopsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum)

15
July

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
How does the memory system of birds differ from mammals? Investigating the von Restorff effect in Pigeons
Fatma Öksüz (Biopsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum)

16
July

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
A parietal-hippocampal network for figuring out where you are and what to do next is dysfunctional in AD
Aaron Wilber (Florida State University)

19
July

FOR 2812-Colloquium
Predictive Memory Structures in Brains and AI
Ida Momennejad (Microsoft)

31
July

INI Colloquium
Memristive and CMOS Technologies for Advanced Cognitive Systems
Prof. Erika Covi (University of Groningen)

18
September

Brain Day 2024
Brain Day: Von der Grundlagenforschung zur Therapie
PD Dr. Veronika Matschke, Prof. Dr. Markus Reichert, Prof. Dr. Stephanie Joachim, Prof. Dr. Martin Brüne

23
September

IGSN-Symposium
AI-based analyses of narratives and their role for cognitive function
Avital Hahamy, Jean-Rémi King, Jessica Peter

26 – 27
September

GBM Compact
Focus on Imaging
Konstanze Winklhofer (Bochum), Johannes Herrmann (Kaiserslautern), Stefan Jakobs (Göttingen), Christian Münch (Frankfurt)

27 – 29
September

VR Summit 2024
Real Minds in Virtual Worlds
Skip Rizzo, Anthony Steed, Zillah Watson, Joann Halpern, Pedro Lopes, Oliver Kannape

07 – 08
October

Avian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference
The bird's eye view on the evolution of cognition

16
October

Seminar Series LOOPS
Animal Research: Time to Talk!
Kirk Leech (Executive Director of the European Animal Research Association)

22
October

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
The cost of behavioral flexibility in spatial navigation - insights from closed loop simulations
Behnam Ghazinouri (Ruhr University Bochum)

22
October

Cognitive Psychology Research Colloquium
I knew I would see you! Predictions in face recognition
Helen Blank (Predictive Cognition, Ruhr University Bochum)

25
October

FOR 2812-Colloquium
The probabilistic nature of coding and using structured episodic memories
Jozsef Fiser (Central European University)

28
October

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Brain networks of cognitive flexibility in humans and mice
Prof. Dr. med. Burkhard Pleger (Department of Neurology, BG University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

29
October

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
Mobile Brain/Body Imaging in Actively Navigating Humans
Klaus Gramann (TU Berlin)

29
October

Cognitive Psychology Research Colloquium
Exploring neural representations of trauma-analogue experiences during memory intrusions and narratives
Malte Kobelt (Neuropsychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

05
November

Cognitive Psychology Research Colloquium
Release of Cell-Free DNA and Small Extracellular Vesicles in Response to Stressful Conditions
Dirk Moser (Genetic Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

08
November

FOR 2812-Colloquium
Naturalistic paradigms to model emotional memory modification
Renée Visser (University of Amsterdam)

13
November

Seminar Series LOOPS
The VBC framework on how vision works in primate brain, and its extension to multisensory domains across species
Zhaoping Li (Max Planck Institut für biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen)

15
November

Research Colloquium - Neural Basis of Learning
Direction-specific spatial coding mechanisms in the pigeon hippocampus
Masahiro Inda (Ruhr University Bochum)

19
November

Cognitive Psychology Research Colloquium
Neural correlates of semantic effects on temporal memory
Henry Soldan (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

19
November

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
Spatial knowledge and navigational strategies in the human brain
Russell Epstein (U Penn)

22
November

Research Colloquium - Neural Basis of Learning
Machine learning for studying corvid vocal abilities: from detecting and individually identifying rooks to quantifying their vocal complexity
Killian Martin (Université de Tours, France)

22
November

FOR 2812-Colloquium
Connecting minds: The development of shared memories in social groups
Magdelena Abel (University of Regensburg)

22
November

FOR 2812-Colloquium
Memory modification vs. stability - fMRI results on episodic prediction error strength and type
Nina Liedtke (Münster University)

22
November

Symposium der LWL-Universitätsklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie
Kreativität – Motor des Lebens
31. Wissenschaftliches Symposium für Psychotherapie:

25
November

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
New advances in brain imaging of avian REM sleep
Gianina Ungurean (Max-Planck-Institute for biological intelligence, Research group “Avian Sleep”, Seewiesen, Germany)

26
November

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
Quo vadis? – Spatial disorientation in preclinical and clinical Alzheimer’s disease
Michael Hornberger (University of East Anglia)

26
November

Cognitive Psychology Research Colloquium
Cerebellum and fear learning with a focus on extinction
Dagmar Timmann-Braun (Uniklinikum Essen)

03
December

Cognitive Psychology Research Colloquium
Stress and memory effects in congruent and incongruent naturalistic contexts
Jaël Caviola & Lena Pfeifer (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

03
December

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
Geography and the mind
Ed Manley (University of Leeds)

06
December

Research Colloquium - Neural Basis of Learning
Neural representations of cues and context during fear conditioning studied with 3T and 7T fMRI
Antoine Bouyeure (Ruhr University Bochum)

09
December

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Science Communication - Why and how?
Lars Dittrich

10
December

Cognitive Psychology Research Colloquium
Creating strong and context-independent extinction memories with physical exercise vs. psychosocial stress
Lianne Wolsink (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

10
December

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
The cost of behavioral flexibility in spatial navigation - insights from closed loop simulations
Behnam Ghazinouri (Ruhr University Bochum)

11
December

Seminar Series LOOPS
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13
December

Research Colloquium - Neural Basis of Learning
Neural representation of color in the pigeon brain
Simon Nimpf (Ludwig-Maximilians-Uni, Germany)

13
December

FOR 2812-Colloquium
Patterns of self-memory dynamics in depression
Francesco Fanti Rovetta

16
December

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Limb preferences in non-human vertebrates – More than 10 years later
Sebastian Ocklenburg (MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg)
Felix Ströckens (Cecile & Oskar Vogt Institute of Brain Research, University Düsseldorf, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf)

20
December

Research Colloquium - Neural Basis of Learning
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Sophie Siestrup (Universität Münster, Germany)

08
January

Seminar Series LOOPS
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09
January

Neuropsychology
Update on laminar profiles of HC subregions during navigation and/or NIH-visit update
Khazar Ahmadi (Ruhr University Bochum)

10
January

Research Colloquium - Neural Basis of Learning
From cues to context: How saliency influences pigeons’ ability to distinguish different settings
Farina Lingstädt (Ruhr University Bochum)

10
January

FOR 2812-Colloquium
An episodicity score for free recall data? Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Emil Eva Rosina

13
January

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Exploration and Exploitation in Human Joint Decisions
Bahador Bahrami (Chair of General and Experimental Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Munich, Germany)

17
January

Research Colloquium - Neural Basis of Learning
Caroline Evers (Ruhr University Bochum)
Öykü Akal (Ruhr University Bochum)

20
January

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Cognitive and neuronal mechanisms of adaptive learning within a signal detection theory framework
Maik Stüttgen (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, University Medical Center Mainz, Institute of Pathophysiology)

21
January

Cognitive Psychology Research Colloquium
The relationship between cortisol, grid-like representations and path integration
Osman Akan (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

24
January

Research Colloquium - Neural Basis of Learning
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Yannik Neukirch (Ruhr University Bochum)

24
January

FOR 2812-Colloquium
The Ethics of Engrams
Sven Bernecker (University of Cologne)

27
January

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Auditory learning across the processing hierarchy: representational changes from midbrain to A1
Livia de Hoz Garcia-Bellido (Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Neuroscience Research Center, Berlin)

28
January

Brains in Space: An Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium on Spatial Navigation
(Institute of Neural Computation)
Navigating beyond the cognitive map
Arne Ekstrom (University of Arizona)

12
February

Seminar Series LOOPS
Vision for perception versus vision for action: dissociable contributions of visual sensory drives from primary visual cortex and superior colliculus neurons to orienting behaviors
Ziad Hafed (Centrum für integrative Neurowissenschaften, Universität Tübingen)

13
February

Online-Seminarreihe 2024/2025 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Biologische Psychiatrie e.V. (DGBP)
Neuronale Mechanismen der psychomotorischen Verlangsamung bei Psychosen
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Walther, Würzburg

06
March

Online-Seminarreihe 2024/2025 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Biologische Psychiatrie e.V. (DGBP)
Die neuronalen Korrelate von Psychotherapie bei Angststörungen
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube, Marburg

12
March

Seminar Series LOOPS
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26
March

INI Seminar
Spatial Coding with Augmented Memory
Jon Recalde, M.Sc.

02
April

INI Colloquium
Combining modeling and experimentation to investigate and optimize non-invasive brain stimulation
Dr. Han Lu (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

02
April

Neuropsychologie Colloquium
Combining modeling and experimentation to investigate and optimize non-invasive brain stimulation
Dr. Han Lu (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

09
April

Seminar Series LOOPS
Retinal input integration in excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the mouse superior colliculus in vivo
Prof. Dr. Jens Kremkow (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg)

11
April

Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Motor Codes and Visual Working Memory
D. Schneider, PhD & Ş. Özdemir, MSc.

17
April

Neuropsychologie Colloquium
Some single-neuron results (fear extinction)
M.Sc. George Jacob (Ruhr-Uni Bochum)

28 – 29
April

MoNN&Di – INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 2025
Current perspectives in Neuroscience
Robert Campbell, Deniz Dalkara, Michael Devine, Graziella Di Cristo, Maren Engelhardt, Pauline Lafenêtre, Stephan Lammel, Katja Nowick, Silke Patz, Mahmoud Pouladi, Arundhati Ray

29
April

Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology Research Colloquium
The influence of acute stress on the performance in an IQ-Test
Osman Akan & Mustafa Yildirim (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

06
May

Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology Research Colloquium
A toaster in the bathroom: Neural correlates of semantic construction during episodic memory recall
Carina Zöllner (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

07
May

Colloquium of the Departments of Medical Psychology and Translational Neuroscience
From interviews with genocide perpetrators and rescuers to the neuroscience of (dis)obedience
Prof. Emilie Caspar (Ghent University)

14
May

Seminar Series LOOPS
Single-neuron correlates of perception and memory in the human medial temporal lobe
Prof. Dr. Dr. Florian Mormann (Universitätsklinikum Bonn)

19
May

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Exploration and Exploitation in Human Joint Decisions
Dr. Bahador Bahrami (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

20
May

Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology Research Colloquium
Endogenous cortisol and cognitive emotion regulation: Do we even need stress?
Mustafa Yildirim (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

22
May

Neuropsychologie Colloquium
Update: cross-disorder polygenic risk, structural connectivity, and psychopathology
Javier Schneider Penate, M.Sc.

23
May

Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
How training environment affects visual perceptual learning
Giorgio Maneti, PhD

26
May

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
A brain in spikes: single cell recordings of the avian visual associative system during extinction
Robert Reichert (AE Biopsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum)

26
May

IGSN-Symposium
Catecholaminergic Control of Hippocampal Function, Tau Pathology and Cortex
Nelson Totah, Simon Wiegert, Susan Walling

27
May

Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology Research Colloquium
Semantic reconstruction in episodic memory: Evidence from a VR-based study in school children
Henry Soldan (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

28
May

Neuropsychologie Colloquium
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Yuchi Yan, Beijing Normal University

30
May

Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Uncovering Attention with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging
S. Chota, PhD & K. Arora MSc.

02 – 04
June

FOR 2812-Conference
GEM 2025 - Generative Episodic Memory: Interdisciplinary perspectives from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy
Prof. Dr. Sen Cheng (Ruhr University Bochum)

04
June

Inaugural lecture
Advancing the Science and Theory of Consciousness through Adversarial Collaboration
Prof. Dr. Lucia Melloni (Ruhr University Bochum)

05
June

Cognitive Neurobiology Colloquium
Neural model of compositionality
Prof. Dr. Alexandre Pouget (University of Geneva)

05
June

Neuropsychologie Colloquium
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11
June

Seminar Series LOOPS
Developmental and evolutionary perspectives on thalamic function
Dr. Bruno Averbeck (National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA)

12
June

Neuropsychologie Colloquium
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Xueyao Zheng, Beijing Normal University

13
June

Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Comparison of the Neuronal Firing Rates in the Avian Tectofugal System and Mammalian V5 Region & Social learning of pecking sequences in pigeons
J. Drießen & T. Clemens

16
June

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Effects of Sleep on Consolidation and Forgetting
Dr. Gordon Feld (Psychology and Neurobiology of Sleep and Memory, Mannheim)

17
June

BrainBusiness: Neuroscience meets healthcare industry
(Research Department of Neuroscience, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, GesundheitsCampus Bochum, MedEcon Ruhr)
Mental Health & Visuelle Wahrnehmung und zugehörige Erkrankungen
Dr. Andreas Erbslöh, Prof. Dr. Dirk Jancke, PD Dr. Sabrina Reinehr, Dr. Georg Gerten/Nico Kutschenko, Laurin Plank, Prof. Dr. Anna Mikhof, Magnus Schückes

23
June

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
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Prof. Onur Güntürkün, Dr. Patrick Anselme (AE Biopsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum)

26
June

Neuropsychologie Colloquium
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Dr. Oded Mayo

27
June

Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Neural correlates of arbitrary visuomotor mapping
M. Flaim and S. S. Silva

01
July

Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology Research Colloquium
The effects of cognitive emotion regulation on repeated exposure to stress
Katja Langer (Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

03
July

Neuropsychologie Colloquium
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Dr. Carlos A. Gomes, RUB

04
July

Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Neural Signature of Extinction Learning in the Visual System of Pigeons
Robert Reichert, MSc.

04
July

Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Rhythms Beyond Words: Using deep learning to explore temporal structures in & Jackdaw vocal communication
Lutz Wehrland

09
July

Seminar Series LOOPS
Using Precision Functional Mapping to study motor cortex plasticity
Dr. Roselyne Chauvin

15
July

Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology Research Colloquium
Discourses of climate delay and their relation to pro-environmental behaviour
Dorothea Metzen (Klinische und Biologische Psychologie, TU Dortmund)

18
July

Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Social stimuli as context in extinction learning & Social learning of foraging sequences in pigeons
J. Diekmann & D. Rabi

30
July

Colloquium Molecular Cell Biology
The Transcription Factor Hif1α Moonlights as a Translation Modulator
Prof. Dr. Gunnar Dittmar (Luxembourg Institute of Health, Department of Infection and Immunity)

06
August

Research Colloquium Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience
Neural circuits underlying episodic memory
Prof. Dr. Flávio Freitas Barbosa

17
September

Brain Day 2025
Brain Day: Von der Grundlagenforschung zur Therapie
Prof. Dr. Helen Blank, PD Dr. Kalliopi Pitarokoili, Prof. Dr. Carsten Theiss

23 – 24
September

NeuroImmunoCon 2025
Navigating Autoimmune Interactions in the Nervous System
Melissa Sgodzai, Thomas Korn, Susan Schwab, Jeremias Motte, Vijay Kuchroo, Pia Renk, Baffour Sarpong, Kalliopi Pitarokoili, Fabian Preisner, Rafael Klimas, Claire Jacob, Gerd Meyer zu Hörste, Niklas Rilke, Peter Arthur-Farraj

06
October

IGSN-Symposium
Human Brain Development and the Use of Cerebral Organoids to Decipher Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms
Wieland Huttner, Victor Borrell Franco, Victor Tarabykin*

08
October

Seminar Series LOOPS
Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment.
Dr. Yuranni Cabral-Calderin (Freie Universität Berlin)

09 – 11
October

Monoaminergic Neuronal Networks & Disease (MoNN&Di)
Optogenetics Meeting 2025
Emilie Macé, Tobias Brügmann, Tobias Moser

15
October

INI Seminar
Perspectives on Neural Dynamic Principles for Goal-Directed Sequences in Dynamic Field Theory
Stephan Sehring, M.Sc.

15
October

SFB 1280 Kolloquium
The multi-level brain atlas: greater than the sum of its parts
Katrin Amunts (Forschungszentrum Jülich and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

18 – 21
October

VR Summit 2025
Real Minds in Virtual Worlds
Mel Slater, Mavi Vives, Doron Friedman, Martin Edwards, Zillah Watson, Anthony Steed

21
October

MoNN&Di Seminar Series
Sensitive genetically engineered light sensors for tracking a broad-spectrum of neurotransmitter signaling
Dr. Lin Tian (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter)

22
October

INI Seminar
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Raul Grieben, M.Sc.

23
October

Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
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Obed Apochi, M.Sc. (Neuropsychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

27
October

IGSN-Symposium
From Bench to Bedside: Advances in Understanding Chronic Pain
Marina López-Solá, Jessica van Oosterwijck, Bálint Kincses

28
October

MoNN&Di Seminar Series
Reconstructing the psychedelic synapse
Prof. Bryan Roth (Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

28
October

Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
The effects of rumination and reappraisal on repeated exposure to stress
Katja Langer (Cognitive Psychology, RUB)

29
October

Research Talk
What do "Look but Fail to See" Errors Tell Us About Awareness and/or Consciousness?
Jeremy M. Wolfe, PhD (Harvard Medical School & Visual Attention Lab, Brigham & Women's Hospital)

29
October

INI Colloquium
What do “Look but Fail to See” Errors Tell Us About Awareness and/or Consciousness?
Prof. Jeremy M. Wolfe (Harvard Medical School, Visual Attention Lab)

30
October

Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
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Prof. Dr. Jessica Peter (Universität Bern, Switzerland)

04
November

Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
The Response of Cell-Free DNA to acute physiological and psychological stress
Maike Kneist & Aliso Menga (Genetic Psycholog & Cognitive Psychology, RUB)

05
November

INI Seminar
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Alexander Jungeilges, M.Sc.

06
November

Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
Update: Cross-disorder polygenic risk, structural connectivity, and psychopathology
Javier Schneider Penate, M.Sc. (Neuropsychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

10
November

Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Hemispheric communication in a lateralised brain: the impact of stimulus features on metacontrol in pigeons
Prof. Dr. Martina Manns (Research Division Experimental and Molecular Psychiatry)

11
November

INI Seminar
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Alex Mosig

11
November

Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
Mind bends under pressure: How stress shapes different memory systems and executive functions
Selen Soylu (Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden)

12
November

Seminar Series LOOPS
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13
November

Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
Unpublished project: a novel behavioral paradigm to study grid-like representation in human brains
Dr. Wei Liu (Central China Normal University, Wuhan)

14
November

Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
The hippocampus promotes long-term memory formation by preventing sensory interference after learning
Isabelle Groves, PhD (Dept. Neurophysiology, RUB)

20
November

Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
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PD Dr. Dr. Cornelia McCormick (University hospital Bonn)

24
November

IGSN-Symposium
Novel Approaches for Behavioral Assessment of Rodents
Pia Kahnau, Megan Jackson, Markus Wöhr

25
November

Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
Personality, habitual emotion regulation, and cognitive flexibility as determinants of intra- and interpersonal emotion regulation
Lena Pfeifer (Cognitive Psychology, RUB)

27
November

Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
APOE effects on memory consolidation and brain connectivity during sleep in a simultaneous EEG-fMRI study
Dr. Carlos Gomes (Neuropsychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

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