Munich Neuroscience Calendar

All Events

Mon, 05.10.2026, 14:00
Graduate School of Neuroscience: Symposium / Conference
(until 08.10.2026, 14:00)
GSN-LMU
GSN-LMU
Orientation at GSN-LMU   click for details
Foyer LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Mon, 05.10.2026, 17:00
Graduate School of Neuroscience: Talk

Giacomo Costalunga
Vallentin Lab, MPI-BI Seewiesen
Context-dependent song-matching flexibility in wild nightingales
B01.019
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: GSN
Tue, 06.10.2026, 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry: Talk

Joshua Johansen
University of California, Irvine
From Defense to Inference: How the Brain Constructs Emotional States, Actions & Memories   click for details
Lecture Hall
Kräpelinstr. 2, 10, 80804 München
Host: Nadine Gogolla
Tue, 06.10.2026, 18:30 IBZ - Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaften e.V.: Talk

Simon Jacob
TUM Translational NeuroTechnology Laboratory
Zwischen Nervensystem und digitaler Welt: Herausforderungen und Chancen der Brain-Computer Interfaces   click for details

Amalienstraße 38, 80799 München
Host: Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaft München e.V./BCCN
Wed, 07.10.2026, 09:00
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry: Talk

Muad Abd El Hay
Ernst Strüngmann Institute of the Max Planck Society
Beyond the Twitch: Towards a neuro-behavioural dictionary of psychedelic states in rodents   click for details
Conference Room 117
Kräpelinstr. 2, 10, 80804 München
Fri, 09.10.2026, 09:00
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry: Symposium / Conference

Various Speakers
ECNP Resilience Network
Understanding Resilience: From Conceptualization and Methodology to Clinical Implementation   click for details
Lecture Hall
Kräpelinstr. 2, 10, 80804 München
Fri, 09.10.2026, 09:30
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry: Talk

Christian Lüscher
University of Geneva
Modeling addiction-like behavior in mice: optogenetic mimicry to explore the neural mechanisms underlying a complex disease   click for details
Conference Room 310
Kraepelinstr. 2, 10, 80804 München
Host: Nadine Gogolla
Fri, 09.10.2026, 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry: Talk

Rachel Upthegrove
University of Oxford
Chronic inflammation and metabolic dysfunction in Severe Mental Illness   click for details
Lecture Hall
Kraepelinstr. 2, 10, 80804 Muenchen
Host: David Popovic
Mon, 12.10.2026, 16:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Donald Katz
Brandeis University
tba
Small lecture hall B01.019, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Avi Patel
Tue, 13.10.2026, 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry: Talk

Johannes Gräff
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Memory aids on the chromatin   click for details
Lecture Hall
Kräpelinstr. 2, 10, 80804 München
Host: Florencia Calderon
Thu, 15.10.2026, 14:00 BMC Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology: Talk

Luísa Pinto
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
New Cells, New Circuits: Rethinking Depression Through Adult Hippocampal Cytogenesis
N01.017
Großhaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Host: Physiologische Genomik / Magdalena Götz
Thu, 15.10.2026, 14:00 TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Timothy Friesen
University of Calgary
TBA   click for details
online
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Thu, 15.10.2026, 14:30
BMC Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology: Symposium / Conference

Jennifer Lippincott - Schwartz, and more...
Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Walter Neupert Symposium   click for details
Small Lecture Hall
Großhaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Host: Michael Kiebler
Fri, 16.10.2026, 10:00
Graduate School of Neuroscience: other Event
(until 18.10.2026, 14:00)
GSN-LMU
GSN-LMU
GSN Scientific Retreat in Bad Tölz   click for details

Bad Tölz, Bad Tölz
Sat, 17.10.2026, 09:00
TUM-Neurologische Klinik: other Event

Prof. Dr. Michael Ertl
Klinik für Neurologie und Neurologische Rehabilitation Bezirkskrankenhaus Günzburg
25. + 2. Refresher Seminar - Spezielle Ultraschalldiagnostik - DEGUM zertifiziert   click for details
Hörsaal D
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Dr. Johanna Härtl
Mon, 19.10.2026, 16:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Stefanie Jegelka
TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology
tba
Small lecture hall B01.019, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Anton Sirota
Tue, 20.10.2026, 11:00 Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Talk

Scott V. Edwards
Harvard University
Revealing the genetic drivers of loss of flight in birds using comparative and functional genomics
NQ105 and Streaming to Seewiesen
Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Maude Baldwin
Tue, 20.10.2026, 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry: Talk

Robert Ohlendorf
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen
Hemodynamic imaging of molecular brain function   click for details
Lecture Hall
Kraepelinstr. 2, 10, 80804 München
Host: Liya Niv
Thu, 22.10.2026, 14:00 BMC Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology: Talk

Daniel Tornero
Lab of Neural Stem Cells & Brain Damage, Barcelona
TBA
N02.017
Großhaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Host: Physiologische Genomik / Magdalena Götz
Thu, 22.10.2026, 14:00 TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Afra Wohlschläger
TUM Klinikum Rechts der Isar
TBA   click for details
Online & TranslaTUM, kleines Auditorium
Einsteinstr. 25, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Mon, 26.10.2026, 16:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Christian Mayer
MPI-BI
tba
B01.019, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Anton Sirota
Thu, 29.10.2026, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Anne Churchland
UCLA
Movements, decisions and large scale neural activity   click for details
Large lecture hall B00.019, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Talking Science team
Mon, 02.11.2026, 16:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Gitta Kutyniok
Department of Mathematics, LMU
tba
Small lecture hall B01.019, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Anton Sirota
Thu, 05.11.2026, 14:00 BMC Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology: Talk

Michèle Studer
Institut de Biologie Valrose, iBV Universite Cote d Azur (UniCA) Physiological and pathological mechanisms of neural development Lab Nice, France
Michèle Studer: How NR2F1 Shapes the Developing Brain: Lessons from BBSOAS
N02.017
Großhaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Host: Physiologische Genomik / Magdalena Götz
Thu, 05.11.2026, 14:00 BMC Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology: Talk

Michèle Studer
Institut de Biologie Valrose, iBV Universite Cote dAzur (UniCA) Physiological and pathological mechanisms of neural development Lab Nice, France
How NR2F1 Shapes the Developing Brain: Lessons from BBSOAS
N02.017
Großhaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Host: Physiologische Genomik / Magdalena Götz
Thu, 05.11.2026, 14:00 TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Samuel Sander
Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit Mannheim
Graded semantic similarity in the temporal pole and false memory formation: an RSA study at 7T   click for details
online
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Mon, 09.11.2026, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience - MCN - Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Munich Neuroscience Lecture Date/Time Changed !

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Sonja Hofer
University College London
Neural circuits for visual processing and visually-guided behaviour   click for details
Lecture Hall B01.019, Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Mark Hübener
Fri, 13.11.2026, 11:00 Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology: Talk

Jan Gründemann
Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e. V. (DZNE)
Imaging Deep: Multiscale Plasticity from Neuronal Populations to Axon Initial Segments
Seminarraum, Raum 3.1.7, Gebäude 60
Biedersteiner Straße 29, 80802 München
Host: Thomas Misgeld
Thu, 19.11.2026, 14:00 TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Benedikt Zoefel
CNRS Delegation Occitanie Ouest
Entrainment echoes in the cerebellum   click for details
online
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Mon, 23.11.2026, 16:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Marieke Schölvinck
ESI Frankfurt
tba
Small lecture hall B01.019, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Dennis Nestvogel
Thu, 26.11.2026, 14:00 TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Alex Hess
Technik Universität Zürich & ETH Zurich
Computational Modelling of Brain-Body Interactions for Mental Health   click for details
online
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Mon, 30.11.2026, 16:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Thomas Schreiner
Department of Psychology, LMU
tba
B01.019, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Anton Sirota
Thu, 03.12.2026, 14:00 BMC Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology: Talk

Luana Campos Soares
University Oxford, UK
TBA
N02.017
Großhaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Host: Physiologische Genomik / Swetlana Sirko
Thu, 03.12.2026, 14:00 TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Daniel Thayer
UC Santa Barbara
Mechanisms of attentional guidance and distractor suppression during visual search   click for details
online
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Mon, 07.12.2026, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience - MCN - Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Munich Neuroscience Lecture

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Martin Picard
Columbia University
The energy resistance principle across the body, brain, and mind
Lecture Hall B01.019, Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Angelika Harbauer
Thu, 10.12.2026, 14:00 TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Jasper Bischofberger
University of Tübingen
Real-Time fMRI of Midbrain Dopaminergic Activity During Effort-Based Decision-Making   click for details
online
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Wed, 16.12.2026, 17:00
TUM-Neurologische Klinik: Talk

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Rauer
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Neurologisches Kolloquium   click for details
Bibliothek Neuro Kopf Zentrum 4. OG
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: PD Dr. Emily Fenneberg
Thu, 17.12.2026, 14:00 BMC Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology: Talk

Stefanie Robel
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Astrocytes mediate prolonged blood-brain barrier disruption after mild traumatic brain injury/concussion
N02.017
Großhaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Host: Physiologische Genomik / Magdalena Götz
Thu, 17.12.2026, 14:00 TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Uyen Doan
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Disentangling the role of semantic priors and sensory details in autobiographical memory retrieval   click for details
online
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Thu, 07.01.2027, 14:00 TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Adam Culbreth
University of Maryland
TBA   click for details
online
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Thu, 14.01.2027, 14:00 TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Jacqueline Scholl
Lyon Neuroscience research Centre (CRNL), Inserm
TBA   click for details
online
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Mon, 18.01.2027, 16:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Ewelina Knapska
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw
tba
Small lecture hall B01.019, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Wiktor Mlynarski
Thu, 21.01.2027, 14:00 TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Daniela Gresch
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Behavioral and Neural Dynamics of External and Internal Attention   click for details
Online & TranslaTUM, kleines Auditorium
Einsteinstr. 25, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Thu, 21.01.2027, 17:00
TUM-Neurologische Klinik: Talk

Prof. Dr. Dr. Fabian Theis
TUM School of Computation, Computational Biology Helmholz Zentrum München
Neurologisches Kolloquium - Decoding cellular systems with AI - from observational atlases to generative interventions
Bibliothek / Neuro Kopf Zentrum / 4. OG
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: PD Dr. Emily Fenneberg
Thu, 28.01.2027, 14:00 TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Dominika Radziun
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour
Adaptive and maladaptive inference: What congenital blindness can teach us about schizophrenia   click for details
online
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Thu, 04.02.2027, 14:00 TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Rasmus Bruckner
Universität Hamburg and FU Berlin
Computational Psychiatry: Features and Bugs   click for details
online
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Mon, 15.02.2027, 16:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Richard Gao
Goethe University Frankfurt
tba
Small lecture hall B01.019, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Wiktor Mlynarski
Wed, 17.02.2027, 17:00
TUM-Neurologische Klinik: Talk

Prof. Dr. Tobias Ruck
Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil Bochum
Neurologisches Kolloquium - Dysimmune Polyneuropathien - Von Autoantikörpern und innovativen Therapiestrategien
Bibliothek / Neuro Kopf Zentrum / 4. OG
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: PD Dr. Emily Fenneberg
Mon, 01.03.2027, 16:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Julija Krupic
Dementia Research Institute, University College London
tba
B01.019, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Andreas Herz
Mon, 08.11.2027, 17:00
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience - MCN - Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Munich Neuroscience Lecture

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Gordon Fishell
Harvard Medical School & Broad Institute
TBA
B01.019
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Oriane Mauger