RTG 2660

@rtg2660.bsky.social

Official account of the Research Training Group 2660 - Neural mechanisms of (mal)adaptive approach and avoidance behaviour

Very proud of the team of the SciComm-Café, including some of the RTG's PhD researchers, for winning the university of Würzburg's Communicator Award!! 🥳🥳🥳Such a great initiative!

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Huge thank you to Dr. med. Maximilian Wessel for giving an interesting talk about transcranial temporal interference stimulation and neuroplasticity for our second Dinner Meeting this semester! 🎉🧠

To start off the second semester of our second cohort of PhD students, Sophia Kekes-Szabo from the Hearing and Speech Lab at @vanderbilt.edu gave a fascinating talk about "Social Navigation in Adults with Chronic Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury", Thank you! 🎉

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Thank you very much to Anna Beyeler for giving a fantastic talk about "Contributions of the insular cortex to emotional valence and anxiety" and joining us for our last Dinner Meeting of the semester! 🎉🌭

What a great way to start off the new year with an insightful talk from Christoph Korn from the DNHI lab (Uni Heidelberg) about “Some neurocomputational models of social learning and decision-making” - Thank you for an amazing talk! 🎉

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Huge thank you to Laura Luyten from KU Leuven for her interesting talk on "Treating anxiety: from fear-conditioned rats to deep brain stimulation in patients and back" for our monthly dinner meeting! 🎉 Afterwards we headed to the Trattoria Lugana to continue discussions over dinner! 🍝

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Last Thursday, we had the honour of welcoming Prof. Alan Kingstone from the UBC Department of Psychology lab for the first Dinner Meeting of the semester! Thank you so much for the exciting talk!

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The RTG is well embedded in the highly active neuroscience community in Würzburg and focused on qualifying and supporting a cohort of PhD researchers, while doing state-of-the-art translational research! You can find more details on our website: uni-wuerzburg.de/grk2660/ or follow here for updates!