<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:9.5pt;text-align:justify">Dear Colleagues,</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial">This year's FENS-SfN neuroscience summer school </span>on <b><i><a href="https://www.fens.org/Training/FENS-Schools/Summer-School-2019/" target="_blank">Brain reading and writing: new perspectives of neurotechnology</a> </i></b>will take place on 2-8 June in Bertinoro, Italy. We would like to invite you to have a look at the programme below. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial">Scientific chairs</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><u><a href="https://nin.nl/research/researchgroups/roelfsema-group/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;text-align:center" target="_blank"><b>Dr. Pieter Roelfsema,</b> Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, The Netherlands</a><br></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><u><a href="http://motorlab.neurobio.pitt.edu/schwartz.php" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;text-align:center" target="_blank"><b>Dr. </b></a><a href="http://motorlab.neurobio.pitt.edu/schwartz.php" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;text-align:center" target="_blank"><b>Andrew B. Schwartz</b>, Department of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh,USA</a></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>School Programme Description</b><br></p>During this school, we will discuss the intracortical methods being developed for reading from, and writing to, the brain. A set of international lectures will provide an overview of the emerging therapeutic applications made possible with this technology. In addition to being exposed to new hardware, students will learn about, and apply new computational approaches to facilitate brain-device communication. We will discuss some of the interesting ethical ramifications of a neuro-technologically assisted future.<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Faculty members</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.carandinilab.net/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Matteo Carandini</a>, Cortexlab, UCL, UK<br><a href="https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/cui/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Xinyan Tracy Cui</a>, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA<br><a href="https://www.janelia.org/lab/harris-lab" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Tim Harris</a>, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, USA<br><a href="https://www.umcutrecht.nl/en/Research/Researchers/Jongsma-Karin-KR" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Karin Jongsma</a>, Julius Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands<br><a href="https://www.caesar.de/en/our-research/behavior-and-brain-organization/director.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Jason Kerr</a>, Department of Behavior and Brain Organization, Research Center caesar, Bonn, Germany<br><a href="https://cnp.epfl.ch/Lacourlab" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Stephanie Lacour</a>, Center for Neuroprosthetics, EPFL, Switzerland<br><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/profile/antonio-regalado/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Antonio Regalado</a>, MIT Technology Review, USA<br><a href="http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/our-people/faculty-staff-bios/jose-alain-sahel-md/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">José-Alain Sahel</a>, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA<br><a href="https://elsc.huji.ac.il/index.php?q=vaadia/home" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Eilon Vaadia</a>, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Israel<br><a href="http://www.ziint.zju.edu.cn/index.php/Index/index.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Anna Wang</a> <a href="http://www.ziint.zju.edu.cn/index.php/Index/index.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Roe</a>, Zhejiang University Interdisciplinary Institute of Neuroscience and Technology (ZIINT), China<br><a href="https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~byronyu/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Byron Yu</a>, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</font><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial">Application form: </span><font face="arial"><span style="font-size:12.6667px"><a href="http://www.fens.org/Training/FENS-Schools/Summer-School-2019/Application-Form/">http://www.fens.org/Training/FENS-Schools/Summer-School-2019/Application-Form/</a> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial">Deadline: 4 February 2019</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:9.5pt;text-align:justify">Further information about the school and available stipends can be found <a href="https://www.fens.org/Training/FENS-Schools/Summer-School-2019/" target="_blank">here</a>. Feel free to share this enriching opportunity with your professional network.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial">Best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial">FENS Schools Administration</span></p></div>
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