Brain Matters NISER

The world's largest brain research prize is Danish and is awarded by the Lundbeck Foundation. Each year, we award 10 million DKK (approx. 1,3 million€) to one or more brain researchers who have had a ground-breaking impact on brain research.
Professor Huda Zoghbi and Professor Sir Adrian Bird have been awarded The Brain Prize 2020.
They received the prize for their insights in identifying the gene responsible for Rett syndrome, known as MECP2, and for showing how it regulates brain function.

MECP2 was discovered in 1992 by Professor Bird, and later shown by Professor Zoghbi to be the cause of the condition.

Their surprising discovery that some symptoms may be reversible has brought researchers closer to identifying a treatment for the disease and has helped reveal that other developmental disorders affecting the brain may also be treatable.

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Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity, NCBS, Bangalore, 2020
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What a begining it was for the faculty talk series!!!
Thank you for such a "Merrily stressful talk", Dr. Palok Aich !!!
Let us all change our perspective towards stress.
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Dangerous liaisons as tumour cells form synapses with neurons A connection between glioma cells and neurons boosts cancer growth.

Interesting!!!

The brain’s default network: updated anatomy, physiology and evolving insights Nature Reviews Neuroscience

An interesting review.. Argues that the high interpretational flexibility in such analyses undermines the validity of them.
A nice read nonetheless....

Assessing inter-individual differences with task-related functional neuroimaging Nature Human Behaviour

What a way to start!!! A nice talk by Omprakash Singh supported by inquisitive neuro enthusiasts!!

https://www.janelia.org/news/slap-microscopy-smashes-speed-barriers

SLAP Microscopy Smashes Speed Barriers | Janelia Research Campus A new two-photon microscope captures videos of the brain faster than ever, revealing voltage changes and neurotransmitter release.

Brains revived 4 hours after the pig's death

Pig brains kept alive outside body for hours after death Revival of disembodied organs raises slew of ethical and legal questions about the nature of death and consciousness.

This Nature NEWS feature talks about a new method - Genetically Encoded Voltage Indicators (GEVIs) that has been brewing in the field for the past few years, as well as the limitations of the classical techniques such as electrophysiology and calcium imaging used to record activities of neurons.

A new way to capture the brain’s electrical symphony How voltage readings from individual neurons could power the next revolution in neuroscience.

Congratulations to Dr. Upinder Bhalla on this momentous achievement !.This is nothing but a recognition of decades of outstanding work in the field of Neuroscience from the Bhalla lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences - NCBS. We hope you'll be back again soon at NISER for another one of your gripping lectures

Congratulations to NCBS Dean, Upinder Singh Bhalla, the 2017 Infosys Prize Laureate for Life Sciences! May the beauty and the mysteries of the brain reveal themselves to you in their entirety.

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