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Dynamic Brain Function: ERA Chair project at CNC-UC https://dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt/

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Linha da Frente A Magia de Saber Dar - Numa altura em que o país está a atravessar uma catástrofe sem precedentes e uma onda de solidariedade nunca, antes, vista,

New RTP1 Linha da Frente episode that explores the neuroscience of altruism: from feel-good hormones to brain circuits.
Proud to see Cristina Márquez and Flavia Ricciardi contributing their expertise and bringing our lab’s research to a wider audience 🧠
www.rtp.pt/play/p16136/...

13.02.2026 09:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🔗 Apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

ℹ️ Info: idpin.cnc.uc.pt?page_id=956

#Neuroscience #Behavior #NeuralCircuits #ResearchTraining #idpIN #PDBEB

16.12.2025 10:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎓 Registration is OPEN!
idpIN / PDBEB Advanced Course: Neuronal Circuits & Behavior

🧠 Brain function & dysfunction
🔬 Hands-on projects:
• Brain organoids
• Electrophysiology
• Behavioral tracking & ML

📅 12–16 Jan 2026
📍 @ucoimbra.bsky.social & UC-Biotech, Cantanhede
⏰ Deadline: 5 Jan 2026

16.12.2025 10:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🔗 Program: lnkd.in/euM5Rh9T
🔗 Registration: forms.gle/1tM4tYnNqdTH...

09.12.2025 11:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎓 Registration is now open for the #idpIN Advanced Course: Cognitive Neuroscience!

🧠 Explore neural circuits & computational principles behind perception, cognition, and behavior

📅 26–30 Jan 2026
📍 ICNAS, Polo III, @ucoimbra.bsky.social
⏰ Deadline: 19 Jan 2026
📩 idpin@cnc.uc.pt

09.12.2025 11:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

📅 5–9 Jan 2026
⏰ Deadline: 19 Dec 2025

🔗 Program: lnkd.in/duQcc9sq
🔗 Register: lnkd.in/d6ptmtFM

@ucoimbra.bsky.social

#Neuroscience #Synapses #PDBEB #idpIN

02.12.2025 13:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Registration is open for the idpIN/PDBEB Advanced Course “Synapse Assembly, Function and Plasticity”!

🧠 A week of cutting-edge neuroscience: synaptogenesis, plasticity, inhibition, glial control, neuromodulation & more.

02.12.2025 13:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🎥 Watch the full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovvv...

@caixaresearch.bsky.social
@ucoimbra.bsky.social
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#HealthResearch #FundaciónlaCaixa #AwardCeremony #CIBB #CNC-UC

28.11.2025 13:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

✨ We’re happy to share the highlights from the #HealthResearch Ceremony 2025!

We celebrate researchers pushing science forward, incl. our team leader @crismarquez.bsky.social, who, together with Alexandre Charlet will study how the brain processes emotions & drives prosocial decisions.

28.11.2025 13:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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19/ 🔚We have reached the end of the event!

Thank you for joining us and for your commitment to the future of health. Congratulations to all the selected projects!🎉👏

Stay tuned, we’ll be sharing more highlights and details from the ceremony soon!👀

20.11.2025 21:14 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Renato Duarte (@dynabrain.bsky.social) teams up with UC Exploratório for the Talking Brains op-ed: “Between Neurons & Algorithms: Language as Computation.”🧠
Explore how neuroscience & AI rethink intelligence.
Full article (PT, p.10): campeaoprovincias.pt/pdf/Campeaod...
@ucoimbra.bsky.social

20.11.2025 14:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Duas cientistas da UC conquistam 1,5 milhões de euros para estudar comportamento social e resistência de bactéria Ana Eulálio e Cristina Márquez vão ser apoiadas pela Fundação ”la Caixa”, no âmbito do concurso de Investigação em Saúde. Os seus projetos investigam a sobrevivência intracelular e resistência microbi...

As investigadoras da @ucoimbra.bsky.social, Ana Eulálio e Cristina Márquez, vão ser apoiadas pela Fundação ”la Caixa”, no âmbito do concurso Investigação em Saúde.

Parabéns! 👏 👏 👏

#UCoimbra #HealthResearch #laCaixaFoundation @caixaresearch.bsky.social @dynabrain.bsky.social

20.11.2025 12:28 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

🧠 Big news: @caixaresearch.bsky.social 2025 Health Call has funded a project to decode how the brain processes others’ emotions & guides prosocial decisions.

Led by @crismarquez.bsky.social, DYNABrain leader, and supported by cutting-edge neuroscience tools.

👏To the team for this important step!

20.11.2025 10:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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🎓 Registration is open for the idpIN Advanced Course: “Bioinformatics & Data Science for Neuroscience”!
🧠 Learn interpretable ML tools to boost your neuroscience research.
📅 Dec 2–4 & 9–10, Univ. of Coimbra
⏰ Deadline: Nov 25
🔗 idpin.cnc.uc.pt?page_id=899

12.11.2025 10:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A big thank you to our tutors Konrad Danielewski (Nencki Institute), Flavia Ricciardi and Ilaria Adua Sarnicola (CNC-UC) for their expertise and guidance.
👏 Congratulations to all participants for your enthusiasm and curiosity!

21.10.2025 11:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📅 3–7 Nov 2025 | 📍 UC-Biotech, Cantanhede
🕒 Registration closes 28 Oct 2025
👩‍🏫Coordinators: Hugo Marques (Champalimaud Foundation) & Cristina Márquez (CNC-UC)
🔗 Program & Register: forms.gle/LGb5ofuZP6WF...
📩 idpin@cnc.uc.pt
#Neuroscience #ResearchTraining #idpIN

21.10.2025 11:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎓Registration now open for the idpIN Advanced Course “Sensors, Electronics and Hardware”!

🧠 From #Arduino and #HARP to #BonsaiSoftware, learn to integrate and synchronize devices for behavioral and neural experiments with sub-millisecond precision.

21.10.2025 11:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Over 4 days, participants from institutions across the globe explored #DeepLabCut and #KeypointMoSeq, learning to turn video data into real behavioral insights, from annotation and training to advanced motif discovery.

20.10.2025 10:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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🔬 From Keypoints to Behavior – A Successful Workshop!🧠🐭

Last week, DYNA Brain and Nencki OpenLab hosted “From Keypoints to Behavior: Pose Estimation and Behavior Analysis”, part of the #idpIN doctoral program, at CNC-UC in Cantanhede.

#DYNAbrain #NenckiOpenLab #ResearchTraining

20.10.2025 10:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Proud to support the hybrid “Biotech Transfer Step-by-Step” course (30 Sept–3 Oct), organized by Catarina Cunha at #CNC-UC, promoting skills in biotechnology innovation and tech transfer.
#Biotech #Innovation @ucoimbra.bsky.social

14.10.2025 06:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exciting news!
idpIN (International Doctoral Program in Integrative Neurosciences) has officially started!
We’re proud to welcome the first cohort of students beginning their journey in neuroscience with CNC and IIIUC.
Here’s to the next generation of brain researchers! 🧠

#Neuroscience #PhD #idpIN

08.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Research at the University of Coimbra aims to understand how the brain computes the positive emotions of others

👏 Our teammate @flaviaricciardi.bsky.social is leading the ARROW project at #CNC-UC, uncovering how the brain processes others’ positive emotions & what this means for social decisions 🧠✨

🔗 Learn more here cnc.uc.pt/en/research-...

@ucoimbra.bsky.social #MSCActions #MSCA

06.10.2025 06:56 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Editor da revista Science: “Isto é um ataque à ciência a muitos níveis” Peter Stern, editor da prestigiada revista Science, esteve em Coimbra e falou ao PÚBLICO sobre o ataque à ciência por parte do Governo de Donald Trump e o impacto que poderá ter no futuro.

Peter Stern, senior editor at Science, visited CNC-UC & University of Coimbra for the European Social Club 2025, discussing the challenges science faces today.

🔗 Read his Público interview: www.publico.pt/2025/06/22/c...

28.07.2025 09:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ilaria Sarnicola has been awarded the competitive Doctoral INPhINIT fellowship by the “la caixa” foundation. Congratulations 🎉

14.07.2025 14:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Day 3 of #escCoimbra25: we started with a guided tour and treasure hunt through the most iconic landmarks of Coimbra, then wrapped it up with a magical lunch at Quinta das Lágrimas. What a day!

12.06.2025 07:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Day 2 at #escCoimbra25 : great talks, sunny lunch in the garden, and we wrapped up with the second poster session. More learning and connections ahead!

11.06.2025 08:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The first poster session was a success! Great discussions, new connections and exciting feedback amongst the #escCoimbra25 community!

09.06.2025 20:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s happening!
#escCoimbra25

09.06.2025 13:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Back from Madeira after an incredible week of sci-comm! We kicked off with hands-on activities at Fundação N.S. da Conceição with Fala-me Neuro, then 3 inspiring days at #SciComPT2025 where Tiffany presented Neurocurios@, our co-created book project.
Grateful and inspired!

14.04.2025 13:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎙️ Today, Bárbara Canijo joined the Meet My Science event to share insights about her PhD research! #MeetMyScience

25.02.2025 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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