News & Notes from CIDBN

News and Notes from CIDBN (04|22)

    Latest News

  • Save the Date: CIDBN’s next general assembly (Nov 23, 2022)
  • Congratulations, Jorge!
  • CIDBN’s festive opening on Sep 29: a retrospective glance
  • Upcoming CIDBN Related Events

  • Call for volunteers: CIDBN’s Christmas Party Planning Committee
  • Further Upcoming Events

  • Campus Covid Screen avaible again
  • Göttingen Science Slam (Nov 21, 2022)
  • Public lecture series (in German): The Consequences of the War in Ukraine
  • GWDG Academy’s course program
  • Recent Publications and Press Releases

  • Recent Publications
  • Dynamik biologischer Netzwerke – Feierliche Eröffnung des neuen Instituts am Göttingen Campus am 29. September 2022 (press release, Sep 29, 2022)
  • Miscellaneous

  • Protests in Iran: Interview with Encieh Erfani in Nature
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Latest News


Save the Date: CIDBN’s next general assembly (Nov 23, 2022)

CIDBN’s next general assembly will be taking place on Nov 23, 2022 (14:00-15:00). Please block the date. … Continued

Congratulations, Jorge!

Good news: Jorge Jaramillo’s research proposal was successful. Congratulations!!! His research project “Thalamus in the middle: computations in multi-neuronal circuits” will be funded by NIH (National Institutes of Health) as part of a collaborative component award to the Allen Institute. Jorge will be closely cooperating with Karel Svoboda and will be based at CIDBN. … Continued

CIDBN’s festive opening on Sep 29: a retrospective glance

On Sep 29 more than 100 guests from science, politics and industry came to the convention center “Alte Mensa” at Wilhelmsplatz to celebrate CIDBN’s festive opening with us. We began the afternoon with an interactive session explaining CIDBN’s research topics and cooperations to the audience with various posters, hands-on demonstrations, and other visual material. When the Bernstein Duo (Jorge Jaramillo: piano; … Continued

Upcoming CIDBN Related Events


Call for volunteers: CIDBN’s Christmas Party Planning Committee

For over a month the gingerbread and other Christmas delicacies have been on the supermarket shelves. Leaves are turning yellow and apples are ripe. Clear signs that summer is gone. Unlike last year, we would like to have a CIDBN Christmas party with you this year. Therefore, it is time to think about the when / where / what. … Continued

Further Upcoming Events


Campus Covid Screen avaible again

As of October the Campus Covid Screen for all students and staff of Göttingen University is available again. You can do a sensitive PCR test, free of charge. We strongly recommend to get tested regularly even if you are vaccinated or you just recovered. … Continued

Göttingen Science Slam (Nov 21, 2022)

It’s about time again: the next Göttingen Science Slam will be taking place on Nov 21. In just 10 minutes, the participants (usually junior scientists) give an exciting insight into their research – with equally entertaining and instructive presentations.
The program so far includes both Linguistics, History, Philosophy, and Neuroscience.
Ever thought about entertaining aspects in your research project or how you could explain it to somebody who does not know anything about your subject? … Continued

Public lecture series (in German): The Consequences of the War in Ukraine

The lecture series of the winter semester 22/23 deals with the consequences of the war in Ukraine. The first three lectures address the consequences for agricultural production, trade as well as food security and agricultural policy from the perspective of practical agriculture, international agricultural trade and science. A lecture on the question of the independence of the Ukrainian language from a scientific point of view is followed by a critical look at the domestic political development of Ukraine before the war and since the beginning of the war. … Continued

GWDG Academy’s course program

GWDG Academy offers various courses on coding, data analysis, and scientific computing/hpc. We recommend to take a close look at their program and choose a course according to your level of knowledge. … Continued

Recent Publications and Press Releases


Recent Publications

During the last months new papers by CIDBN members were published. Let us know, if you, too, published a paper. We will put it on the institute’s website (and in our next newsletter). The following papers came out recently: … Continued

Dynamik biologischer Netzwerke – Feierliche Eröffnung des neuen Instituts am Göttingen Campus am 29. September 2022 (press release, Sep 29, 2022)

Manche der interessantesten Forschungsfragen liegen genau zwischen den klassischen Wissenschaftsbereichen. Mit seiner engen Zusammenarbeit zwischen Universität und außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen sowie einer Vielzahl disziplinübergreifender Forschungsverbünde ist der Göttingen Campus in dieser Hinsicht exzellent aufgestellt. Mit dem Göttingen Campus Institut für Dynamik biologischer Netzwerke (CIDBN) stärkt nun ein neues transdisziplinäres Institut die computergestützte und mathematisch-theoretische Forschung zu komplexen Systemen im Grenzbereich von Physik, … Continued

Miscellaneous


Protests in Iran: Interview with Encieh Erfani in Nature

For the past four weeks, Iran has been convulsed by daily protests following the death in police custody of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, on 16 September. The authorities’ response has been beyond brutal. Nature just published an interview with the Iranian physicist Encieh Erfani who resigned from her post as professor at Zanjan to join the protest. … Continued

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