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mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US">Each year the Bernstein Network invites the international computational
neuroscience community to the annual Bernstein Conference for intensive scientific exchange. It has established itself as one of the most renown conferences worldwide in this field, attracting students, postdocs and PIs from around the world to meet and discuss
new scientific discoveries.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <br>
In 2020, the conference will be held entirely online for the first time. <br>
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EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="bit.ly/BC_online">www.bernstein-conference.de</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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DATES</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<ul>
<li><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US">Bernstein Conference:
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">September 29 – October 1, 2020</b></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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</li><li><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Abstract submission open<b>:</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
June 5, 2020</b></span> </li><li><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Deadline</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">
</b></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">submission of abstracts to be considered for Contributed Talks:
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">July 1, 2020</b></span> </li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Deadline for abstract submission:
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">August 1, 2020</b></span> </li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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We invite the computational neuroscience community to submit their abstracts:<br>
The<span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"> timeline </span>for the online Bernstein Conference 2020 schedules four talk and poster sessions. Submitted abtracts can either be considered as contributed talks or posters.<br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Abstract submission will open on June 5</b>. Further information can be found here:
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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SPEAKERS<br>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">William Bialek</span> (Princeton University, USA)<br>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Michael Brecht</span> (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)<br>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Laura Busse</span> (LMU Munich, Germany)<br>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Megan Carey</span> (Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal)<br>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Rosa Cossart</span> (Institut de neurobiologie de la méditerranée, Marseille, France)<br>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Ann Hermundstad</span> (Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, USA)<br>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Roozbeh Kiani</span> (New York University, New York City, USA)<br>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Vanessa Ruta</span> (The Rockefeller University, New York City, USA)<br>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">David Sussillo</span> (Google AI, Mountain View, USA)<br>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Srdjan Ostojic</span> (L'École normale supérieure, Paris, France)<br>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Fred Wolf</span> (Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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COMMITTEE<br>
Udo Ernst (Conference Chair)<br>
Elad Schneidmann (Program Chair)<br>
Julijana Gjiorgjieva (Program Vice Chair)<br>
Tim Vogels (Workshop Chair)<br>
Marion Silies (Workshop Vice Chair)<br>
Henning Sprekeler (Conference Host)<br>
Danielle Bassett, Matthew Botvinick, Peter Dayan, Alain Destexhe, Tim Gollisch, Stephanie Palmer, Nathalie Rochefort, Nicole Rust, Gasper Tkacik</span></p>
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Dr. Anja Dorrn
Scientific Coordinator
Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience | Bernstein Coordination Site (BCOS)
Branch Office of the Forschungszentrum Juelich
at the Univerity of Freiburg
Hansastr. 9A | 79104 Freiburg, Germany
phone: (+49) 0761 203 9589
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:a.dorrn@fz-juelich.de">a.dorrn@fz-juelich.de</a>
web: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.bernstein-network.de">www.bernstein-network.de</a></pre>
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