Munich Neuroscience Calendar

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Mon, 15.12.2025, 09:00
Graduate School of Neuroscience: PhD Oral Defense

Amalya Hakobyan
Scheuss lab
Functional Assessment of Neural Circuits in iPSC-derived Neuronal Cultures   click for details
LMU Biocenter GSN seminar room D00.003, and on Zoom
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: GSN
Mon, 15.12.2025, 16:00
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry: Talk

Ann Kennedy
Scripps Research Institute
Theoretical insights into state-dependent and goal-directed behavior   click for details
Lecture Hall
Kräpelinstr. 2, 10, 80804 München
Host: Lisa Rottenfußer
Tue, 16.12.2025, 09:00
Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Symposium / Conference

Gabrielle Pouchelon and Benjamin Judkewitz
CSHL, NY and Charité Berlin
Symposium Frontiers in Biological Intelligence, Session 1
Large lecture hall, T-building + streamed to MPI BI Seewiesen, house 4
Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Manfred Gahr
Tue, 16.12.2025, 11:00
Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Symposium / Conference

Andrés Bendesky and Ann Kennedy
Columbia University, New York and The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego
Symposium Frontiers in Biological Intelligence, Session 2
Large lecture hall, T-building + streamed to MPI BI Seewiesen, house 4
Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Manfred Gahr
Tue, 16.12.2025, 14:00
Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Symposium / Conference

Brady Weissbourd and Johanna Kowalko
MIT, Cambridge and Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Symposium Frontiers in Biological Intelligence, Session 3
Large lecture hall, T-building + streamed to MPI BI Seewiesen, house 4
Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Manfred Gahr
Tue, 16.12.2025, 16:00
Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Symposium / Conference

Yuko Emilie Ulrich and Arnau Sébé-Pédros
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena and CRG, Barcelona
Symposium Frontiers in Biological Intelligence, Session 4
Large lecture hall, T-building + streamed to MPI BI Seewiesen, house 4
Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Manfred Gahr
Wed, 17.12.2025, 08:30
Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Symposium / Conference

Daisy Dent and Meital Oren-Suissa
ETH, Zürich and Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
Symposium Frontiers in Biological Intelligence, Session 5
Large lecture hall, T-building + streamed to MPI BI Seewiesen, house 4
Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Manfred Gahr
Wed, 17.12.2025, 10:30
Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Symposium / Conference

Nathaniel Sawtell and Frances Bonier
Columbia University, New York and Queen’s University, Kingston
Symposium Frontiers in Biological Intelligence, Session 6
Large lecture hall, T-building + streamed to MPI BI Seewiesen, house 4
Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Manfred Gahr
Wed, 17.12.2025, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

György Buzsáki
NYU Neuroscience Institute
From Actions to Cognition in the Hippocampal System   click for details
Large lecture hall B00.019, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Talking Science team
Thu, 18.12.2025, 14:00
TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

William Palmer
Yale University
Discovering Cognitive and Computational Mechanisms underlying Visual Disturbances in Early Psychosis using Ecologically Valid Scenes   click for details
Online - Zoom
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Thu, 18.12.2025, 17:15 TUM Lehrstuhl für Bewegungswissenschaft - Fakultät für Sport- und Gesundheitswissenschaft: Talk

Eva Josse
Future Health Technologies, Singapore ETH-Centre and Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zurich
Tracking Functional Arm Use After Stroke: From Algorithm Optimization to Understanding Recovery with Inertial Measurement Units   click for details
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Am Olympiacampus 11, 80809 München
Host: Joachim Hermsdörfer
Thu, 08.01.2026, 14:00
TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Gerard Derosiere
Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL)
Neural bases of action decisions   click for details
Online - Zoom
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Fri, 09.01.2026, 11:00
Graduate School of Neuroscience: PhD Oral Defense

Maren Giersiepen
Schütz-Bosbach Lab, LMU General and Experimental Psychology
Control and Consequence: The Interplay of Agency and Affective Processing During Goal-Directed Behavior   click for details
Raum 3221, Haus 3, Stockwerk 2, and on Zoom
Leopoldstrasse 13, 80802 München
Host: GSN
Mon, 12.01.2026, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience - MCN - Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Munich Neuroscience Lecture

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Daniel Baldauf
University of Trento
Connectivity profiles of prefrontal cortex for spatial vs. non-spatial control
Lecture Hall B01.027, Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: tba
Tue, 13.01.2026, 11:00
Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Talk

Eric Schulz
Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI, München
Bridging biological and artificial intelligence with foundation models
MPI BI, Seminar room NQ105
Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Manfred Gahr
Thu, 15.01.2026, 14:00
TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Micah Allen
Aarhus University
TBA   click for details
Online - Zoom
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Mon, 19.01.2026, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Jozsef Fiser
Central European University, Budapest
tba
Small lecture hall B01.027, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Wiktor Mlynarski
Thu, 22.01.2026, 14:00
TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Vincent Wohlfarth
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Deep Learning-based Segmentation of Perfusion MRI   click for details
Online - Zoom
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Mon, 26.01.2026, 14:00
Graduate School of Neuroscience: PhD Oral Defense

Amirmasoud Ahmadi
Gahr lab, MPI-BI
Neural Decoding of Spectro-Temporal Features of Zebra Finch Song   click for details
LMU Biocenter, GSN seminar room D00.003 and on Zoom
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: GSN
Tue, 27.01.2026, 11:00
Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Talk

Josh Huang
Duke University School of Medicine, Durham
Genetic dissection of cortical neuron type trajectories: from developmental origin to behavioral function   click for details
MPI BI, Seminar room NQ105
Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Christian Mayer
Thu, 29.01.2026, 14:00
TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Ondrej Zika
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
The role of internalizing symtpoms in contextual inference   click for details
Online - Zoom
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Mon, 02.02.2026, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience - MCN - Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Munich Neuroscience Lecture

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Veronika Egger
University of Regensburg
Rhythms in the olfactory bulb: From neuronal network oscillations to heartbeat interoception
Lecture Hall B01.027, Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Andreas Herz
Thu, 05.02.2026, 14:00
TUM-NeuroImaging Center: Talk

Bernadette Jansma
Maastricht University
Fixation related potential in natural reading   click for details
Online - Zoom
Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 München
Host: Franziska Knolle
Mon, 09.02.2026, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Jennifer Li
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
tba
Small lecture hall B01.027, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Anton Sirota
Mon, 02.03.2026, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Andrea Burgalossi
University of Tübingen
tba
Small lecture hall B01.027, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Andreas Herz
Mon, 09.03.2026, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience: Talk

Franziska Knolle
Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM
Computational Account of Language Processing Across the Psychosis Spectrum: Links to Dopamine and Glutamate
Small lecture hall B01.027, LMU Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Andreas Herz
Mon, 04.05.2026, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience - MCN - Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Munich Neuroscience Lecture

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Matthew Larkum
University of Berlin
Flexible learning and memory through 2-compartment pyramidal neurons
Lecture Hall B01.019, Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Julijana Gjorgjieva / Steffen Schneider
Mon, 08.06.2026, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience - MCN - Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Munich Neuroscience Lecture

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Karin Roelofs
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Heart-brain interactions and decision making under threat
Lecture Hall B01.019, Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Simone Schuetz-Bosbach
Fri, 12.06.2026, 09:00
MCN - Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Symposium / Conference

Several Speaker
tba
Munich Brain Day 2027   click for details
tbc T-Building MPI for Biological Intelligence
Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried
Host: D. Keays, O. Behrend, S. Capello, l. Fenk, A. Harbauer, S. Jacob, O. Mauger, G. Nordmann
Mon, 13.07.2026, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience - MCN - Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Munich Neuroscience Lecture

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Melissa Vo
Departement of Psychology, LMU
Reading scenes: A hierarchical view on attentional guidance in real-world environments
Lecture Hall B01.019, Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Thomas Geyer
Mon, 09.11.2026, 17:00 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience - MCN - Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence Campus Martinsried: Munich Neuroscience Lecture

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Sonja Hofer
University College London
Neural circuits for visual processing and visually-guided behaviour
Lecture Hall B01.019, Biocenter
Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Martinsried
Host: Mark Hübener
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