The magazine you’re reading right now, Neuromag, was founded at the University of Tübingen by graduate students of the Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience (GTC). The seeds were planted in 2015 by Michael Paolillo, a PhD student at the GTC by means of creating a blog for graduate students to Read more…
The University of Tuebingen and the University of Uppsala are carrying out a study in which maternal and fetal changes during pregnancy and the infants’ development after birth are investigated. This will shed light on a sensitive phase where all of our life started. Pregnancy is a crucial period for Read more…
Any discussion on prosthetic arms must inevitably start (or end) with Luke’s hand from The Empire Strikes Back. It was, for any prosthetics researcher or aficionado, the holy grail of the field: a hand that looks like a human hand, moves like a human hand, and responds to stimuli like Read more…
How to find a disease signature in DNA The German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases or DZNE is part of the Helmholz Association and one of the German Centers for Health Research established to combat the most important common diseases. The DZNE investigates the causes of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s Read more…
NeNa came alive again this October, embracing evolution, artificial neural networks, and brain scaling. Eighteen years in the making, the conference organized for junior scientists by junior scientists celebrated its birthday with many friendly companions: 45+ bright, young neuroscientists, Prof. Günther Palm, and brain soup master, Prof. Suzana Herculano-Houzel. It’s Read more…
Introducing new scientists in Tübingen – presenting: Dr. Ivana Nikić- Spiegel The Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) is part of the Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen and provides space for many renowned, systems-oriented neuroscientists. In this article, I interview Dr. Ivana Nikić-Spiegel, a new Junior Read more…
Leon Gatys is a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Matthias Bethge at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience in Tübingen. In his PhD work, he uses deep convolutional neural networks, computational algorithms inspired by our knowledge of how the visual cortex is organized. They contain multiple layers of ‘neurons’ Read more…
By Eric James McDermott Do you see it? Look around. If you can see —if you can see anything at all— from the words you are reading to the trees outside to your steaming cup of coffee, it is because you have, among other things, a fully functioning retina. The Read more…
Pro-Test Deutschland e.V. started out as a small grassroots organization, fueled by the disinclination of scientists to speak openly about the use of animals in research. It was the reluctance to open up about science to the general public, whether because of poor communication strategies or fear of rebuke by Read more…
On a cool September day, a handful of young neuroscientists gathered in Tübingen to kick-off the start to another NeNa conference (in German, Neurowissenschaftliche Nachwuchskonferenz). Like the year before, and the year before that, we congregated at the central train station and boarded a coach bus to Schramberg, a quaint Read more…