Year: 2018

Events

Confessions at PhD Retreat

July 1, 2018
The annual PhD Retreat in the Clinic Valens offers the students a chance to exchange research ideas and results as well as learn more about the clinic. The program opened with a Confession Session, moderated […]
Research News

Fast signaling stars of the brain

July 1, 2018
Astrocyte calcium signals are fast enough to play a role in neuronal information processing and changes in local blood flow, research from Jill Stobart and Prof. Bruno Weber suggests. In their Neuron paper, they show […]
Videos

Brain doping

July 1, 2018
What can we do to optimize the performance of our brain? The Swiss television program Einstein asked this question and tested different approaches to brain doping. The episode features interviews with Prof. Boris Quednow of […]
Events

ART LAB 2018: Living Daylight

July 1, 2018
Prof. Shiva Tyagarajan and Science Xplore Suisse have organized the science-art collaborative ART LAB workshop “Living Daylight”. The science and art projects complement and stimulate each other to promote creative learning and interdisciplinary thinking. The […]
People

Meet the new ZNZ Group Leaders

July 1, 2018
A warm welcome to our new members Prof. Kleinjung, Prof. Polania and Prof. Stippich. Read on to learn about their research interests. Prof. Dr. Tobias Kleinjung Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Zurich Our main focus […]
Calls for Proposals

Grants for Alzheimer’s research

July 1, 2018
Synapsis Foundation – Alzheimer Research Switzerland ARS announces a competition for Research Grants and Career Development Awards. Deadline for submission of proposals is 31 July 2018. The goal of the Synapsis Foundation is to support […]
Publications

Recent publications by ZNZ members

July 1, 2018
Read here about recent papers published by members of the Neuroscience Center Zurich. Sex/gender differences in cognition, neurophysiology, and neuroanatomy. F1000Res. 2018 Jun 20;7 Authors: Jäncke L Syntactical regularities of action sequences in the infant […]
In the Spotlight

A fresh look at neuroradiology

March 1, 2018
Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Stippich is the new chairman of the Department of Neuroradiology at the University Hospital Zurich. He started his position in January 2018. We talked with Prof. Stippich about his research interests […]
Services

People behind the Science

March 1, 2018
Have you ever wondered what motivates other scientists and how they manage their “Work / Life balance”? Read on to find out about what motivates and inspires these two scientists in their work. This series […]
Research News

Live birth of a neuron

March 1, 2018
For the first time, researchers have been able to follow the fate of neuronal stem cells in the intact adult mouse brain. The new study by the group of Prof. Jessberger and colleagues, published in […]