Very proud of the team of the SciComm-Café, including some of the RTG's PhD researchers, for winning the university of Würzburg's Communicator Award!! 🥳🥳🥳Such a great initiative!
We're extremely happy and proud to announce that the RTG 2660 will be extended for a 2nd funding period of 4.5 years! 🥳https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/rtgs-11-2025/
Huge thank you to Dr. med. Maximilian Wessel for giving an interesting talk about transcranial temporal interference stimulation and neuroplasticity for our second Dinner Meeting this semester! 🎉🧠
After the talk, we continued our discussions over Pizza! 🍕
To start off the second semester of our second cohort of PhD students, Sophia Kekes-Szabo from the Hearing and Speech Lab at @vanderbilt.edu gave a fascinating talk about "Social Navigation in Adults with Chronic Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury", Thank you! 🎉
Thank you very much to Anna Beyeler for giving a fantastic talk about "Contributions of the insular cortex to emotional valence and anxiety" and joining us for our last Dinner Meeting of the semester! 🎉🌭
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❗️We have extended the application deadline for our open Ph.D. positions❗️
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We had another great Dinner Meeting yesterday!🍽️ Once a month we invite a guest speaker in the field of Approach-Avoidance and go to dinner afterwards! Join our RTG and take advantage of this and other great opportunities! www.uni-wuerzburg.de/grk2660/join... Huge Thank you to @clauslamm.bsky.social!
You can be part of this awesome team or one of our other great labs! 💙 Apply to join the RTG until June 15th!
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🎉Join the RTG! We have 13 PhD positions available in our translational Research Training Group 2660 on approach and avoidance behaviour 👀
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For our first Dinner Meeting of the semester, we had the honor of welcoming @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social for his talk about “Mapping the mental health landscape using computational-cognitive tasks on smartphones”- Thank you for an amazing talk! 🎉
📣New Preprint 📣
Excited to share my first immersive #VR study where @gamerlab.bsky.social and I investigated social approach-avoidance behavior after a one-trial social conditioning procedure 👉 osf.io/j2zds
🎉For our last Dinner Meeting of the semester we were honoured to welcome Juliana Sporrer and @alexandroskas.bsky.social who presented their current research in VR. Thank you for two amazing talks and for joining us for dinner at the franconian restaurant "Alter Kranen"!
What a great way to start off the new year with an insightful talk from Christoph Korn from the DNHI lab (Uni Heidelberg) about “Some neurocomputational models of social learning and decision-making” - Thank you for an amazing talk! 🎉
Happy to share our latest publication on the effectiveness of web-based mindfulness training on psychological outcomes, attentional performance, and neuroplastic changes 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Huge thank you to Laura Luyten from KU Leuven for her interesting talk on "Treating anxiety: from fear-conditioned rats to deep brain stimulation in patients and back" for our monthly dinner meeting! 🎉 Afterwards we headed to the Trattoria Lugana to continue discussions over dinner! 🍝
Last Thursday, we had the honour of welcoming Prof. Alan Kingstone from the UBC Department of Psychology lab for the first Dinner Meeting of the semester! Thank you so much for the exciting talk!
The RTG is well embedded in the highly active neuroscience community in Würzburg and focused on qualifying and supporting a cohort of PhD researchers, while doing state-of-the-art translational research!
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