Year: 2019

Events

Marian Diamond movie screening

March 3, 2019
To celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, the Gender Equality Committee invites you for a free screening of an award-winning documentary that chronicles the life and scientific contribution of one of the most influential […]
Research News

Nightmare math

March 3, 2019
What can specific anxiety do to the developing brain? This question was asked by PD Dr. Karin Kucian and colleagues from the University Children’s Hospital. In their Nature Translational Psychiatry paper they report the remarkable […]
Videos

From brain waves to decisions

March 3, 2019
In his inaugural lecture, Prof. Rafael Polania, presented his work on understanding brain function and mechanisms and shared his research plans on early detection and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease. Rafael Polania was appointed Professor at […]
Services

Light-Sheet Microscopy Workshop

March 3, 2019
The Centre for Microscopy and Image Analysis (ZMB) invites you to the Swiss Light-Sheet Microscopy Workshop, to be held in Zurich on the 24-25 April 2019. Light-sheet microscopy enables long-term imaging of large biological samples. […]
Research News

Database for animal experimentation

March 3, 2019
Members of the UZH research community have joined hands to exchange information on animal experimentation licenses. They have set up the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) community, in which principle researchers can learn from each other’s […]
Calls for Proposals

Swiss Brain League Prize 2019

March 3, 2019
Interested in winning this year’s Swiss Brain League Research Prize? Submit your entries no later than 30 September 2019. The prize is awarded to outstanding contributions in the field of neurological research. Every two years, […]
Publications

Translating academic discovery

March 3, 2019
Research results are not optimally translated into new medical therapies, despite the huge resources invested in biomedical research. The difficulties and potential remedies are illuminated in a new report of the Swiss Academy of Medical […]
Awards

Eccellenza Fellowships

March 3, 2019
The future is bright for Patrick Freund and Salomé Kurth. They each won a SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship with which they are on the road to a permanent professorship. With its new Eccellenza funding scheme, […]
Publications

Recent publications by ZNZ members

March 1, 2019
Read here about recent papers published by members of the Neuroscience Center Zurich. A reevaluation of the electrophysiological correlates of absolute pitch and relative pitch: No evidence for an absolute pitch-specific negativity. Int J Psychophysiol. 2019 […]