<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">This year's FENS-SfN neuroscience summer school
on <b><i><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline">Brain reading and writing: new perspectives of
neurotechnology</span></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. </span></p>

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chairs</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="https://nin.nl/research/researchgroups/roelfsema-group/" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">Dr. Pieter Roelfsema</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, The
Netherlands</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="http://motorlab.neurobio.pitt.edu/schwartz.php" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">Dr. Andrew B. Schwartz</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, Department of Neurobiology, School of
Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">School Programme Description</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">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.</span></p>

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members</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="https://www.carandinilab.net/" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">Matteo
Carandini</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">,
Cortexlab, UCL, UK</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/cui/" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">Xinyan Tracy Cui</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="https://www.umh.es/contenido/pdi/:persona_4122/datos_en.html" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">Eduardo Fernandez</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, Institute of Bioengineering, Universidad
Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="https://www.janelia.org/lab/harris-lab" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">Tim Harris</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, USA</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="https://www.umcutrecht.nl/en/Research/Researchers/Jongsma-Karin-KR" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">Karin Jongsma</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, Julius Center, University Medical Center
Utrecht, The Netherlands</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="https://www.caesar.de/en/our-research/behavior-and-brain-organization/director.html" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">Jason Kerr</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, Department of Behavior and Brain
Organization, Research Center caesar, Bonn, Germany</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="https://cnp.epfl.ch/Lacourlab" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">Stephanie
Lacour</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, Center
for Neuroprosthetics, EPFL, Switzerland</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/profile/antonio-regalado/" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">Antonio Regalado</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, MIT Technology Review, USA</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/our-people/faculty-staff-bios/jose-alain-sahel-md/" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">José-Alain Sahel</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, Department of Ophthalmology, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="https://elsc.huji.ac.il/index.php?q=vaadia/home" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">Eilon Vaadia</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Israel</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="http://www.ziint.zju.edu.cn/index.php/Index/index.html" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">Anna Wang Roe</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, Zhejiang University Interdisciplinary
Institute of Neuroscience and Technology (ZIINT), China</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~byronyu/" style="color:blue"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none">Byron
Yu</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">, Electrical & Computer
Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Application form</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">: <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><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></span></p>

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available stipends can be found </span><a href="https://www.fens.org/Training/FENS-Schools/Summer-School-2019/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">here</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">. Feel free to share this enriching opportunity with your
professional network.</span></p>

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