BRAIN Blog

Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI)’s Biennial Neural Circuits Research Conference – known as the Sunposium – brings together neuroscience experts to discuss the latest findings and challenges regarding understanding neural circuits in March 2023.  

Dr. Mai-Anh Vu is an F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to investigate the patterns of dopamine release during behavior. The F32 funding opportunity supports the research training of promising researchers early in their postdoctoral training period. 

The workshop will be held online December 14-15, 2022 to discuss scientific and technical challenges associated with three complementary BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) reissued funding opportunities. 

Have you read the latest BRAIN Initiative Alliance newsletter? BRAIN scientists are invited to share their tools with the scientific community in the Toolmakers Newsletter.

The 2022 Next Generation of NIH BRAIN Initiative Leaders: Making the Transition Workshop was held on Wednesday, October 26 and provided early-stage investigators with a place to openly discuss and ask questions about future career opportunities.  

Please join us in-person or online for exciting BRAIN-relevant events at this week’s annual Society for Neuroscience meeting. 

This funding opportunity, with the next due date of February 14, 2023, is part of the Brain-Behavior Quantification and Synchronization (BBQS) program.

The BRAIN Initiative® remains in a unique position to lead cross-cutting and accelerated discovery in neuroscience across a diverse network of institutions and organizations, laboratories, researcher fields, and geographic locations.

Applications for this funding opportunity are due on December 15, 2022, with subsequent application due dates on September 12, 2023, and September 12, 2024, and require a Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDP). 

In my daily discussions with the BRAIN community, I hear the tension between small and big science: a proxy argument for exploring biology versus building tools. Individual labs do creative biology, so why fund large teams that churn out lots of data but aren’t testing hypotheses?…