NRSN Summer School in Neuroscience
NRSN offers an annual summer school that provides PhD students with theoretical and practical research training in current forefront areas of neuroscience. The summer school is organized each year by a different research institution in Norway drawing on local expertise combined with contributions from international faculty. The summer school is intended for PhD students in neuroscience, and priority will be given to members of NRSN. Other participants may be accepted if there are still places available.
Upcoming summer schools
12th - 18th August 2019
Molecular Genetic Tools for the Study of Neural Circuits
2nd - 6th of September 2019
Understanding the behaviour in animal models
With the rapid development of cutting edge methods and techniques in neuroscience, animal models are gaining more attention. With these novel techniques, scientists are able to investigate specific projections and functions in the brain in more detail, and on impressive spatial and temporal scales. But in order to understand these functions, it is undeniably necessary to link changes in neural activity to certain behaviors. For this purpose, scientists fall back on established behavioral tests that claim to study behaviors like memory, social behavior, depression, etc. However, do these behavioral tests actually test what we think they do? Are behavioral tests designed and used the right way? And what is behavior to start with?
The aim of the summer school is to learn more about the wide range of animal tests that exists for studying different neurological processes. What type of models are available and what do they study? How do you select the appropriate animal model for your research? But more importantly, what is it that we actually study? What behavior do our animal models really show, and how should we interpret them? Which factors are important to keep in mind to create the best optimal conditions to study the behavioral mechanisms we are really interested in?
Past summer schools
2017:
Circadian rythems and sleep
organized by the faculty of Psychology at UiB, Bergen
06-12 August 2017
Neural Circuits and Behavior
organized by the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU, Trondheim
13-19 August 2017
2016:
Neural Circuits and Behavior
organized by the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU, Trondheim
21-28 August 2016
Translational Animal Models in Neuroscience
Tromsø
8-12 August 2016
2015:
Understanding Measurements in Neuroscience
organized by Centre for Integrative Neuroplasticity (CINPLA) at the University of Oslo
16-22 August 2015
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Additional funding for NRSN international training grants!
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