The call for applications for the ninth edition of the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School (TENSS 2020) is open! TENSS is a worldwide initiative to train young brain researchers, from both developed and poor countries, in understanding and using the most advanced tools in brain research today. The school happens in an idyllic location, without any pre-existing infrastructure, where students and instructors alike enjoy the adventure, work hard, and build sophisticated research labs from scratch.

The main objective of TENSS is to provide participants top-level, hands-on training in experimental techniques used in neuroscience, from optical, electrophysiological, and behavioral methods to advanced data analysis based on techniques from artificial intelligence. The philosophy of the school is learning by doing and while doing so, openly sharing ideas and expertise.

This is TENSS, the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School: June 1-21, 2020, Pike Lake, Transylvania, Romania – www.tenss.ro.
• 3 weeks of 24/7 hands-on practical and theoretical courses in building, debugging, using and interpreting data from cutting-edge experimental methods in modern neuroscience.
• A select group of the best 12-14 applicants: for the 2019 edition, top 13 were selected from an excellent pool of more than 100 applicants from all over the world.
• A wide collection of experts: ~26 instructors and 19 dedicated teaching assistants from brain research institutes in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Poland, Romania, India, Switzerland, Portugal, Hungary and Slovakia.
• A knowledge base of Open-Source solutions to complex problems in brain research.

Coursework will take place in a land of myth and legend, beyond large forests (Transylvania), on the shores of a picturesque natural reserve called Pike Lake. Applications are welcome from interested (and interesting) graduate students and postdocs. Please note that there is a significant number of fee waivers and travel support grants available for supporting our applicants.

Application deadline – March 1st, 2020
Notification of acceptance – early April, 2020
Summer School – June 1-21st, 2020

Invited lecturers (preliminary):

Athena Akrami – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Upinder Bhalla – National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
Juan Burrone – King’s College London, UK
Federico Carnevale – DeepMind Technologies, London, UK
Michael Dickinson – California Institute of Technology, USA
Florian Engert – Harvard University, USA
Sonja Hofer – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Tomáš Hromádka – Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Mark Hübener – Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
Na Ji – Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm, USA
Benjamin Judkewitz – Einstein Center for Neuroscience, Germany
Georg Keller – Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland
Emilie Mace – Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
MacKenzie Mathis – Rowland Institute, Harvard University, USA
Hannah Monyer – University of Heidelberg, Germany
Tom Mrsic-Flögel – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Ruben Portugues – Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
Tobias Rose – Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
Botond Roska – IOB Basel, Switzerland
Rava da Silveira – Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France
Wolf Singer – Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Nao Uchida – Harvard University, USA
Daniela Vallentin – Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Germany
Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida – Harvard University, USA
Chris Xu – Cornell University, USA
Petr Znamenskiy – Francis Crick Institute, UK

Teaching assistants:

Harald Barzan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Antonin Blot – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Rob Campbell – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Andrei Ciuparu – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Medorian Gheorghiu – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Matías Goldin – Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, France
Priyanka Gupta – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA
Ana-Maria Ichim – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Mitra Javadzadeh – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Mateusz Kostecki – Nencki Institute for Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
Gonçalo Lopes – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Fred Marbach – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, UK
Vasile V. Moca – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Adriana Nagy-Dabacan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Jon Newman – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Bruno Pichler – INSS (Independent NeuroScience Services), UK
Nacho Sanguinetti – Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
Iuliu Vasilescu – Politechnica University, Bucharest, Romania
Jakob Voigts – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Organizers:
Florin Albeanu – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA
Adam Kampff – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, UK
Raul Muresan – Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Information about how to apply can be found here: http://tenss.ro/apply/.

TENSS Organizing Committee
contact@tenss.ro