✨ Celebrating DYNABrain project! Last week, the DYNAbrain Final Symposium brought the #CiBB community together to celebrate the project's scientific achievements and collaborations as it approaches its conclusion. A big thank you to all the speakers and participants for making it such a great day!

This week at "IN & OUT Academia workshop" with Manolo Castellano, we explored career paths, transferable skills and entrepreneurship beyond academia. Thank you Nico, Gonçalo and Cindy for sharing your transition stories and making the conversations even more inspiring!

🚀 Last week, DYNAbrain brought the EMBO Lab Leadership course to the @ucoimbra.bsky.social, supporting 10 junior PIs and senior postdocs at @cnc-uc.bsky.social. A great and rewarding experience - because better leaders build better research environments. 💪 @embolableadership.bsky.social

Don’t miss next Thursday’s CiBB Seminar by Stamatina Tzanoulinou at 12h at UC-Biotech Auditorium 🧠

New RTP1 Linha da Frente episode that explores the neuroscience of altruism: from feel-good hormones to brain circuits. Proud to see Cristina Márquez and Flavia Ricciardi contributing their expertise and bringing our lab’s research to a wider audience 🧠 www.rtp.pt/play/p16136/...

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A Magia de Saber Dar - Numa altura em que o país está a atravessar uma catástrofe sem precedentes e uma onda de solidariedade nunca, antes, vista,

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🎓 Registration is OPEN! idpIN / PDBEB Advanced Course: Neuronal Circuits & Behavior 🧠 Brain function & dysfunction 🔬 Hands-on projects: • Brain organoids • Electrophysiology • Behavioral tracking & ML 📅 12–16 Jan 2026 📍 @ucoimbra.bsky.social & UC-Biotech, Cantanhede ⏰ Deadline: 5 Jan 2026

🎓 Registration is now open for the #idpIN Advanced Course: Cognitive Neuroscience! 🧠 Explore neural circuits & computational principles behind perception, cognition, and behavior 📅 26–30 Jan 2026 📍 ICNAS, Polo III, @ucoimbra.bsky.social ⏰ Deadline: 19 Jan 2026 📩 idpin@cnc.uc.pt

Registration is open for the idpIN/PDBEB Advanced Course “Synapse Assembly, Function and Plasticity”! 🧠 A week of cutting-edge neuroscience: synaptogenesis, plasticity, inhibition, glial control, neuromodulation & more.

✨ We’re happy to share the highlights from the #HealthResearch Ceremony 2025! We celebrate researchers pushing science forward, incl. our team leader @crismarquez.bsky.social, who, together with Alexandre Charlet will study how the brain processes emotions & drives prosocial decisions.

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1/ 🔬✨ At the #HealthResearch Ceremony 2025, we celebrated the researchers who push science forward with curiosity, bold ideas and a shared commitment to improving people’s health. A day of talent, dialogue and collaboration. What were the highlights of the day? 👀⬇️

19/ 🔚We have reached the end of the event! Thank you for joining us and for your commitment to the future of health. Congratulations to all the selected projects!🎉👏 Stay tuned, we’ll be sharing more highlights and details from the ceremony soon!👀

Renato Duarte (@dynabrain.bsky.social) teams up with UC Exploratório for the Talking Brains op-ed: “Between Neurons & Algorithms: Language as Computation.”🧠 Explore how neuroscience & AI rethink intelligence. Full article (PT, p.10): campeaoprovincias.pt/pdf/Campeaod... @ucoimbra.bsky.social

As investigadoras da @ucoimbra.bsky.social, Ana Eulálio e Cristina Márquez, vão ser apoiadas pela Fundação ”la Caixa”, no âmbito do concurso Investigação em Saúde. Parabéns! 👏 👏 👏 #UCoimbra #HealthResearch #laCaixaFoundation @caixaresearch.bsky.social @dynabrain.bsky.social

Duas cientistas da UC conquistam 1,5 milhões de euros para estudar comportamento social e resistência de bactéria

Ana Eulálio e Cristina Márquez vão ser apoiadas pela Fundação ”la Caixa”, no âmbito do concurso de Investigação em Saúde. Os seus projetos investigam a sobrevivência intracelular e resistência microbi...

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🧠 Big news: @caixaresearch.bsky.social 2025 Health Call has funded a project to decode how the brain processes others’ emotions & guides prosocial decisions. Led by @crismarquez.bsky.social, DYNABrain leader, and supported by cutting-edge neuroscience tools. 👏To the team for this important step!

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1/ 💭🤔 The brain mechanisms that allow us to understand and respond to others’ emotions are still largely unknown. With a #HealthResearch grant, @crismarquez.bsky.social will use advanced techniques to study them and expand our understanding of decision-making. 👇 https://tinyurl.com/5eux8p6d

🎓 Registration is open for the idpIN Advanced Course: “Bioinformatics & Data Science for Neuroscience”! 🧠 Learn interpretable ML tools to boost your neuroscience research. 📅 Dec 2–4 & 9–10, Univ. of Coimbra ⏰ Deadline: Nov 25 🔗 idpin.cnc.uc.pt?page_id=899

🎓Registration now open for the idpIN Advanced Course “Sensors, Electronics and Hardware”! 🧠 From #Arduino and #HARP to #BonsaiSoftware, learn to integrate and synchronize devices for behavioral and neural experiments with sub-millisecond precision.

🔬 From Keypoints to Behavior – A Successful Workshop!🧠🐭 Last week, DYNA Brain and Nencki OpenLab hosted “From Keypoints to Behavior: Pose Estimation and Behavior Analysis”, part of the #idpIN doctoral program, at CNC-UC in Cantanhede. #DYNAbrain #NenckiOpenLab #ResearchTraining

Proud to support the hybrid “Biotech Transfer Step-by-Step” course (30 Sept–3 Oct), organized by Catarina Cunha at #CNC-UC, promoting skills in biotechnology innovation and tech transfer. #Biotech #Innovation @ucoimbra.bsky.social

Exciting news! idpIN (International Doctoral Program in Integrative Neurosciences) has officially started! We’re proud to welcome the first cohort of students beginning their journey in neuroscience with CNC and IIIUC. Here’s to the next generation of brain researchers! 🧠 #Neuroscience #PhD #idpIN

👏 Our teammate @flaviaricciardi.bsky.social is leading the ARROW project at #CNC-UC, uncovering how the brain processes others’ positive emotions & what this means for social decisions 🧠✨ 🔗 Learn more here cnc.uc.pt/en/research-... @ucoimbra.bsky.social #MSCActions #MSCA

Research at the University of Coimbra aims to understand how the brain computes the positive emotions of others

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Peter Stern, senior editor at Science, visited CNC-UC & University of Coimbra for the European Social Club 2025, discussing the challenges science faces today. 🔗 Read his Público interview: www.publico.pt/2025/06/22/c...

Editor da revista Science: “Isto é um ataque à ciência a muitos níveis”

Peter Stern, editor da prestigiada revista Science, esteve em Coimbra e falou ao PÚBLICO sobre o ataque à ciência por parte do Governo de Donald Trump e o impacto que poderá ter no futuro.

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Ilaria Sarnicola has been awarded the competitive Doctoral INPhINIT fellowship by the “la caixa” foundation. Congratulations 🎉

Day 3 of #escCoimbra25: we started with a guided tour and treasure hunt through the most iconic landmarks of Coimbra, then wrapped it up with a magical lunch at Quinta das Lágrimas. What a day!

Day 2 at #escCoimbra25 : great talks, sunny lunch in the garden, and we wrapped up with the second poster session. More learning and connections ahead!

The first poster session was a success! Great discussions, new connections and exciting feedback amongst the #escCoimbra25 community!

It’s happening! #escCoimbra25

Back from Madeira after an incredible week of sci-comm! We kicked off with hands-on activities at Fundação N.S. da Conceição with Fala-me Neuro, then 3 inspiring days at #SciComPT2025 where Tiffany presented Neurocurios@, our co-created book project. Grateful and inspired!

🎙️ Today, Bárbara Canijo joined the Meet My Science event to share insights about her PhD research! #MeetMyScience

Today, @crismarquez.bsky.social took part in the round table discussion at the Public Session Presentation of the Report on the State of Application of New Technologies: Neurotechnology, hosted by the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences (CNECV)

Extended deadline to apply for idpIN recruitment day! 📢 idpIN is a new PhD program in Integrative Neurosciences designed to shape the next generation of neuroscientists. 📅 Join us for Recruitment Day on Feb 24, 2025! 🔗 Register by Feb 18: idpin.cnc.uc.pt

Great moments from the PDBEB course "Neuronal Circuits and Behavior" this week! 🧠Our students explored the fascinating world of neuronal networks and behavior through engaging discussions and hands-on sessions. #Neuroscience #NeuronalCircuits