2018
Marija Markicevic participated at the 5th Research Day of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology
Marija Markicevic attended the 5th Research Day of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology that was held on Tuesday, 4 December 2018. There she presented her PhD project which is about understanding the neural basis of macroscopic connectivity.
Ernest Mihelj participated at the 5th Research Day of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology
Ernest Mihelj attended the 5th Research Day of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology that was held on Tuesday, 4 December 2018. There he presented his PhD project which is about TMS neurofeedback to decode movement intentions for single fingers.
Charles Lambelet participated at the 5th Research Day of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology
Charles Lambelet attended the 5th Research Day of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology that was held on Tuesday, 4 December 2018. There he presented the eWrist which is a wrist exoskeleton for home-based therapy after stroke.
NCM Lab pitch at Brain Hack Zurich
NCM Lab members pitched a project for the Brain Hack Zurich which took place on 25-26 of October 2018.
Marija Markicevic receives a ZNZ travel grant to attend Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego, USA
Congratulations to Marija Markicevic for receiving ZNZ travel grant for PhD students. She will be attending SFN in San Diego where she will present her work on "Loss of inhibitory control causes network-specific functional hypoconnectivity: a DREADD-fMRI study in C57BL/6J and PV-Cre mice".
Andreea Cretu participated in the two-weeks Summer School in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience (Minnesota, USA)
Andreea Cretu attended the 2018 edition of the Summer School in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience (CoSMo), which took place between July 29 and August 12 at the University of Minnesota, USA. Together with 3 other participants, she completed a project on 'Deviations of friction estimation in intuitive physics' applying computational tools learnt during the school.
Rea Lehner receives Young Investigator Award at this years European College of Sports Science annual congress
Congratulations to Rea Lehner for winning a Young Investigator Award from the European College of Sports Science at the annual congress in Dublin. She presented her recent work with the title “REWARD IMPROVES MOTOR PERFORMANCE BY MODULATING MOTOR NETWORK ACTIVITY”.
Andreea Cretu receives a ZNZ travel grant to attend the CoSMo Summer School in Minnesota, USA
Congratulations to Andreea Cretu for receiving ZNZ travel grant for PhD students. She will be attending the Summer School in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience (CoSMo 2018) at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
NCM Lab paper one of the top 10 downloaded articles in Chaos in 2017
Dr. Valerio Zerbi and Prof. Nici Wenderoth's Chaos paper titled Structural connectome topology relates to regional BOLD signal dynamics in the mouse brain is among the most dowloaded papers in the journal in 2017.
Rea Lehner receives Young Investigator Award at this years SGS annual meeting
More exciting news from us: our PhD-student Rea Lehner won the Swiss Society of Sport Science Young Investigator Award for her presentation on "Reward increases motor performance by modulating motor network activity".
Sanne Kikkert receives Volker Henn Poster Award at this years SSN annual meeting
Congratulations to our new postdoc Sanne Kikkert for winning the Volker Henn Poster Prize at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Neuroscience.