DFG Research Unit 1581
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- IGSN - CONFERENCE
Learning and memory: mechanisms, functional correlates, control and extinction
4th - 5th of March 2013, Veranstaltungszentrum, Ruhr Universität Bochum
(in cooperation with SFB 874 and Extinction Learning Group)
programme
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award
On the 6th of December 2012 the Senate of the DFG awarded Onur Güntürkün (speaker of FOR1581) with the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award. The Leibniz-programme awards prizes to exceptional scientists for their outstanding achievements in the field of research. Congratulations Onur!!! Read more
- Congratulations Sarah Starosta! Sarah’s proposal for funds from the „Exploratory Treasure“ got accepted. She will conduct a behavioral experiment on the “Influence of attention on the context‐specificity of acquisition and extinction learning”.
- New Project! The DFG granted funds for a 9th project of the Research Group Extinction Learning: “Clinical Implications of Extinction Learning and Renewal in Specific Phobia”. Congratulations: Armin Zlomuzica, Silvia Schneider, Jürgen Margraf and Dirk Adolph. Welcome to our group!
Further information can be obtained under Projects.
- European Campus of Excellence – Week 3: “Extinction and Forgetting”
From September 4th – 25th, 2011, the first European Campus of Excellence Summer School in neuroscience will be held at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Week 3 will be dedicated to “Extinction and Forgetting”. Specialized Organizer of week 3 is Oliver Wolf – member of our Research Unit. The lectures of week 3 will be held by Karim Nader (McGill University, Canada) and Daniela Schiller (New York University, USA). The key note Speeches in the evenings by Joseph Huston, University of Düsseldorf, (19.09.2011, 6 p.m. “Extinction of positively and negatively reinforced behavior as a source of depression”); Faraneh Khadem, University College London: (20.09.2011, 6 p.m., “Memory Impairment due to Hippocampal Injury after Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischaemia”), Asaf Gilboa, University of Toronto , (20.09.2011, 6 p.m., “Neocortical plasticity in the adult human brain”)
EVENTS
- 10.09.2013: Lab Visit Project 9 (Bochum)
- 28.01.2013: Group Meeting (Herne)
- 27. - 28.09.2012: Symposium, Akademie Mont Cenis (Herne)
- 17.08.2012: Young Scientists Meeting – Renewal Café (Essen)
- 13.07.2012: Lab Visit (Bochum)
- 19.04.2012: First Lab Visit (Essen)
- 01.02.2012: Annual Group Meeting
- 20.12.2011: Young Scientists' Christmas Meeting (RUB)
- February 1st, 2011: Kick-Off Meeting
The research unit held their first official Meeting. The members decided on the agenda for the next 12 month.
- January 1st, 2011: Official Starting Date
January first 2011 is the official starting date of the DFG Research Unit "Extinction Learning". From this day on 8 different labs conduct research to explore the neural, the behavioral, and the clinical mechanisms of extinction learning.
- 7th December, 2010: Proposal for the DFG Research Unit "Extinction Learning" accepted!
It is official!! The DFG accepted our joint research proposal. For a total of 3 years (2011-2014) the research unit will receive funding to conduct research. Spokesman is Onur Güntürkün (Ruhr-University Bochum). Manfred Schedlowski (University Clinic Essen) and Harald Lachnit (Philipps University Marburg) are the associative spokesmen.
