TENSS 2016 Call for Applications

[Tomas Hromadka <tomas.hromadka@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear colleagues,

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

Also, if you want to support TENSS, please check our crowdfunding 
campaign: http://igg.me/at/tenss-ed/x.

Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School (TENSS)
June 1-19, 2016. The Pike Lake, Transylvania, Romania
www.tenss.ro

TENSS will concentrate top-level international expertise to teach a 
dozen students techniques and concepts in experimental systems 
neuroscience. We will focus on modern optical and electrophysiological 
methods to study the connectivity and function of neuronal circuits. The 
course is designed to be intensive and highly interactive, including 
both lab sessions and theoretical lectures. 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.

Application deadline – March 20th, 2016
Notification of acceptance – April 7th, 2016
Summer School – June 1-19th, 2016

Confirmed lecturers:

    Albeanu, Florin – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA
    Bhalla, Upinder – National Centre for Biological Sciences, 
Bangalore, India
    Burrone, Juan – King’s College, London, UK
    Dickinson, Michael – Caltech, USA
    Engert, Florian – Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    Freund, Tamás –  Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian 
Academy of Sciences, Hungary
    Hangya, Balázs – Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian 
Academy of Sciences, Hungary
    Hromádka, Tomáš – Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
    Hübener, Mark – Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, 
Germany
    Ji, Na – HHMI, Janelia Research Campus, VA, USA
    Kampff, Adam – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, UK
    Keller, Georg – Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
    Kodandaramaiah, Suhasa – University of Minnesota, MN, USA
    Monyer, Hannah - University of Heidelberg, Germany
    Mrsic-Flögel, Tom – Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
    Mureșan, Raul – Romanian Institute of Science and Technology, 
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    Murthy, Venkatesh – Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    Portugues, Ruben - Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, 
Martinsried, Germany
    Singer, Wolf – Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, 
Germany
    Svoboda, Karel – HHMI, Janelia Research Campus, VA, USA
    Watson, James – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA
    Zador, Tony - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA

Organizers:

    Mureșan, Raul – Romanian Institute of Science and Technology, 
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    Kampff, Adam – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, UK
    Albeanu, Florin – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA

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

Best regards,
TENSS Organizing Committee
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400487 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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