[Comp-neuro] Call for applications: PGCN 2008 Course on The Hippocampus and Navigation

[Mate Lengyel]

Call for applications:

The Hippocampus and Navigation

31 March - 4 April 2008
Champalimaud Foundation Neuroscience Program

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Oerias, Portugal

This intensive, week-long course will explore one of the most 
intensively investigated and fascinating regions of the mammalian brain, 
the hippocampus. Leading researchers will provide background on 
classical and contemporary views of this structure, ranging from the 
microcircuit to the behavioral level. Topics of focus will include the 
anatomy and physiology of the hippocampal formation, navigation and 
spatial processing, neural maps and memory, and cortico-hippocampal 
replay of neural activity. The integration of experimental and 
theoretical/computational approaches will be emphasized. Tutorials and 
seminars will be complemented by debates, focus lectures and 
discussions. A final symposium will address the future of hippocampal 
research. A list of instructors is below; full schedule information is 
available at 
http://pgcn.igc.gulbenkian.pt/doku.php/pgcn:course:navigation_hippocampus:start.

Up to 10 places available for students for this course. Applications are 
especially encouraged from doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows 
with some general background in neuroscience. There will be no tuition 
charge but students will be expected to pay their own travel, board and 
accommodation. The course runs as part of the Gulbenkian-Champalimaud 
Neuroscience Program (PGCN), an PhD program in the biological bases of 
behavior. Logistical assistance for local accommodation will be 
provided. Further logistical information is available at the course web 
site.

Applications should be sent to Miguel Remondes (remondes at MIT.EDU) and 
include a CV, names and email of 2 references, and a short statement of 
interest (max 500 words).

Application deadline is 24 February, 2008.

Course organizers:
Miguel Remondes (MIT)
Mate Lengyel (U Cambridge)

Program director:
Zach Mainen (CFNP, IGC)

Course instructors:
Francesco Battaglia (U Amsterdam)
Sue Becker (McMaster U)
Verner Bingman (BGSU)
Neil Burgess (UCL)
József Csicsvári (U Oxford)
Anthony Dickinson (U Cambridge)
Howard Eichenbaum (BU)
Fred Gage (Salk I)
Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL)
Mike Hasselmo (BU)
Stefan Leutgeb (Trondheim)
Ole Paulsen (U Oxford)
Cosme Salas (U Sevilla)
Wendy Suzuki (NYU)
Alessandro Treves (SISSA)
Nachum Ulanovsky (Weizmann I)
Matt Wilson (MIT)
Menno Witter (Trondheim)

Sponsored by:
Champalimaud Foundation
Gulbenkian Foundation


-- 
Mate Lengyel, PhD
Computational and Biological Learning Lab
Cambridge University Engineering Department
Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK
tel +44 (0)1223 748 532, fax +44 (0)1223 332 662
lmate at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk, gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~lmate