Activities of the SFB 1280
Whether at the cinema, in the theater, at plenary discussions, civil society initiatives or public congresses – as the SFB 1280, we want to bring science to the public and make it understandable and interesting for as wide an audience as possible. And, of course, we also want to promote dialog within the neuroscience community and exchange ideas with other researchers. To this end, we have come up with a variety of formats with which we take a step out of the lab and talk about our work. Here is a selection of the events that we have organized alone or in cooperation with other institutions.
Planned: 20.11.2024
Postponed to early 2025
Sex and Gender in the Life Sciences
"SFB 1280 Presents" at UDE
In cooperation with the lecture series “Sex and Gender in the Life Sciences” of the Essener Kolleg für Geschlechterforschung at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), the SFB 1280 invites you to the next “SFB 1280 presents” colloquium. On November 20, 2024 from 13:00 to 14:00 Birgit Derntl from the University Hospital Tübingen will speak on the topic “Making sense of sex and gender in neuroscience”.
25.06.2024
FENS Forum 2024
Ambassador for the "Network of German Neurocenters"
At the 2024 Forum of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, the SFB 1280, together with other members of the Network of German Neurocenters, will represent and promote Germany as a location for cutting-edge neuroscience.
18.06.2024
eigen.regie
An evening because of and against loneliness
„eigen.regie – Ein Abend wegen und gegen Einsamkeit“ was a stage discussion with people who are confronted with the topic of loneliness through their work, their personal commitment and their experiences. Because they want to research it scientifically, solve it politically, make it more bearable through commitment or problematize it in the media and artistically.
At eigen.regie, protagonists from the fields of science, culture, sport, journalism and social volunteering spoke about loneliness as a problem and how it can be solved – in an entertaining way and yet appropriate to the seriousness of the topic. The SFB 1280 Ö project provided intensive support for the organization and conception of the evening event and the workshop week on the occasion of the nationwide campaign week “Gemeinsam aus der Einsamkeit”.
11.06 - 02.07.2024
Lecture Series
SFB 1280 meets "Kognition & Gehirn"
We are very pleased to support the lecture “Kognition & Gehirn” at the Ruhr-University Bochum in the summer semester 2024 with four contributions about the research in the SFB 1280. From 11.06.2024 to 02.07.2024, four of our researchers will give insights into their work and show the diversity of extinction research. It is a great honor to be involved in teaching to this extent!
25.04.2024
Third joint Girls' Day
Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance
The third joint Girls’ Day of the Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance will finally take place on April 25, 2024, not remotely via zoom, but on site at Charité Berlin.
Jaël Caviola (A09) was connected online with her contribution on “Stress & Memory”. Interested in what a Girl’s Day presentation looks like? You can watch Jaël’s presentation as a video on our YouTube channel: >>
22.04.2024
Fourth Memory Symposium
Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance
The Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance is meeting for the fourth time – we are particularly pleased to welcome our Berlin colleagues to RUB this time.
11.11.2023
SfN – Neuroscience 2023
Ambassador for the "Network of German Neurocenters"
At Neuroscience 2023 of the Society for Neuroscience, the CRC 1280, together with other members of the Network of German Neurocenters, will represent and promote Germany as a location for cutting-edge neuroscience.
07.10.2023
BRAINTALKS
An evening on forgetting
On October 7, 2023, we reached one of our biggest milestones in SFB outreach and science communication: a full-length stage program in one of the most renowned and internationally renowned German theaters – with our science live on the big stage in front of 800 people.
27.04.2023
Second joint Girls' Day
Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance
The second annual Girls’ Day, coordinated by SFB 1315 in cooperation with the Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance, will take place digitally on Thursday, April 27, 2023.
20.03.2024
Third Memory Symposium
Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance
The next Berlin-Bochum Memory Symposium is coming up. For the third time, on March 20 and 21, 2023, the symposium will offer two days of exchange together with the International Graduate School of Neuroscience (“IGSN”), the CRC 1315 (“Mechanisms and Disturbances in memory consolidation”) and FOR 2812 (“Constructing scenarios of the past”).
07.03.2023
Movie and VR-Evening
Seeing variety - diversity and virtuality
Under the title Vielfalt sehen – Diversität und Virtualität (Seeing Variety – Diversity and Virtuality), we want to watch short films together with the SFB 1567 (Virtual Living Environments) on campus and try out selected VR applications. The productions offer a variety of approaches to the topic: some address the possibility of becoming someone else or being perceived as someone else, some already refer to aspects of diversity in their production. In a discussion from different professional perspectives, we would like to look together at which realities appear in the virtual and what diversity the virtual promises and can deliver.
16.01.2023
Michelle Craske
SFB 1280 Presents
This time’s guest: Michelle Craske from the University of California. She gives an insight into her current research on the dysregulation of fear acquisition, fear generalization and fear extinction as risk factors for anxiety disorders.
12.11.2022
SfN – Neuroscience 2022
Ambassador for the "Network of German Neurocenters"
Together with other members of the Network of German Neurocenters, the SFB 1280 represents and promotes Germany as a location for cutting-edge neuroscience at Neuroscience 2022 of the Society for Neuroscience.
20.08.2022
Haus des Wissens
SFB 1280 in downtown Bochum
Over the next few years, the “Haus des Wissens” will be a new location in Bochum’s city center that could not be more contemporary and exciting. 11,000 square meters full of opportunities relating to knowledge, education, encounters and enjoyment. On Saturday, August 20 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the future participants will give us a first glimpse of what we can already look forward to! The SFB 1280 will also be on site with a mini brain lab and a podcast lounge to get Bochum’s citizens excited about neuroscience.
09.07.2022
FENS Forum 2022
Ambassador for the "Network of German Neurocenters"
At the 2022 Forum of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, the SFB 1280, together with other members of the Network of German Neurocenters, will represent and promote Germany as a location for cutting-edge neuroscience.
07.07.2022
Herta Flor
SFB 1280 Presents
We are pleased to welcome Herta Flor from the Institute of Neuropsychology and Clinical Psychology Mannheim at Heidelberg University as the next guest at SFB 1280 Presents. Her work deals with chronic pain from a mechanistic perspective with a focus on the learning process from habituation, acquisition to extinction learning.
01.07.2022
Cineman Evening "TICS"
With Tourette's to Lapland
A doctor invites his patients to join him on a journey through Lapland. An adventure? A crazy idea? Maybe a bit of both. The true story can be seen in the cinema as “TICS – With Tourette’s to Lapland”, a sensitive documentary. We are particularly pleased to bring the premiere series of the film to Bochum, and even more: to organize a special cinema evening together with the director Thomas Oswald, the two scientific advisors of the film Prof. Dr. Alexander Münchau and Prof. Dr. Christian Beste as well as the Bochum hosts Prof. Dr. Onur Güntürkün and Prof. Dr. Carsten Saft.
13.05.2022
Taking Chances
Interdisciplinary Shortfilm Evening
Short films from the repertoire of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival and inspiring impulses from film and neuroscientists – as guests at the legendary Langendreer station. Anyone who makes the journey is a guest of the SFB 1280 and is welcome to stay longer for an exchange of ideas in the lab. We would like to thank the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Magdeburg (LIM) and the Institute for Media Studies at RUB (IFM) for their cooperation!
04.05.2022
Gregory J. Quirk
SFB 1280 Presents
SFB 1280 Presents enters its second round, this time with guest Gregory J. Quirk from the University of Phillipines. Gregory J. Quirk gives insights into his latest work and shows how extinction research, after many years of focusing on simple Pavlovian fear paradigms, is now moving towards more realistic behavioral scenarios.
Seit 28.04.2022
First joint Girls' Day
Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance
On 28.04.2022 the international Girls’ Day will take place and we are happy to participate in the event as part of the Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance. In the digital meeting from 09:15 to 14:00, female scientists from the SFB 1280, among others, will give insights into their careers in neuroscience and their current work in the Collaborative Research Centers.
We are all the more pleased that the joint Girls’ Day has been held annually since 2022. After the digital beginnings, our Berlin colleagues were finally able to welcome inquisitive schoolgirls on site again in 2024.
14.03.2022
RUB Worldfactory
The SFB 1280 passes on its podcast knowledge
The SFB 1280 is part of the RUB Worldfactory seminar series “How to transfer”, under the topic “Planning and creating podcasts – tips from the SFB 1280”, an insight into the background processes of the podcast series “Kannste Vergessen? – The podcast about learning, forgetting and remembering”.
10.03.2022
Second Memory Symposium
Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance
The Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance is coming together for a second meeting. On March 10 and 11, 2022, the symposium will offer two days of exchange together with the CRC 874 (“Integration and Representation of Sensory Processes”), the CRC 1315 (“Mechanisms and Disturbances in memory consolidation”) and FOR 2812 (“Constructing scenarios of the past”).
Seit 04.03.2022
SFB 1280 Presents: Joseph E. LeDoux
Colloquium Series
SFB 1280 presents offers researchers and interested laypeople the opportunity to exchange ideas in exciting international discussions and to discover and highlight current perspectives in the world of neuroscience.
We look forward to welcoming many interesting guests!
To kick off our new colloquium series, Joseph E. LeDoux from New York University will be joining us for an open Zoom call to talk about his work, share his views on evolutionary psychology and shed light on the importance of fear for the emergence of consciousness.
04.03.2021
First Memory Symposium
Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance
The first meeting of the Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance together with CRC 874 (“Integration and Representation of Sensory Processes”), CRC 1315 (“Mechanisms and Disturbances in memory consolidation”) and FOR 2812 (“Constructing scenarios of the past”) heralds the start of an inter-university partnership planned for the coming years. From March 4 to 5, 2021, all alliance partners will come together via Zoom to discuss the future of memory research.
Including PhD Student Memory Symposium: more info here >>
Seit 17.01.2021
"Kannste Vergessen?"
The podcast about learning, forgetting and remembering
Learning is hard. Forgetting is sometimes even harder. How do you get rid of what you’ve learned? That’s what Rainer Holl, author, presenter and poetry slammer, wants to know and understand. To find out, he interviews scientists from the Collaborative Research Center “Extinction Learning” about their research. Look forward to peeking into the brain’s cards! You can expect fascinating insights from the fields of psychology, biopsychology and neuroscience, a look behind the scenes of everyday scientific life and a poetic recording at the end of each episode.
28.07.2020
Vidcast
Introducing the sub-projects of the first funding period
In the short vidcasts, the sub-projects describe their work, explain what they are researching and give an insight into how the knowledge gained can help people in the future. Each project brings its own perspective and approach to the topic of extinction learning and attempts to make new discoveries using a wide variety of methods.
18.10.2019
Network of German Neurocenters
SFB 1280 joins in!
The “Neurocenters in Germany” are an association of research centers and funding institutions in the neurosciences in Germany that pursue the common structural goal of strengthening Germany as a research location in the neurosciences.
The SFB 1280 officially joined the “Society for Neuroscience” during Neuroscience 2019 as an ambassador for neuroscience in Germany and supports the association at international trade fairs.
10.05.2019
Remember, forget, repress
Short film workshop
Sometimes, looking at the same research topic from two different disciplines can lead to shared and new insights. This time we did this with the Institute of Media Studies and looked at the respective research topic from the comfort of a movie theater. The location: the Endstation cinema in the legendary Langendreer station in Bochum after an exchange of ideas in the biopsychology laboratory.
28.09.2018
WissensNacht Ruhr
Joint campaign by educational institutions in the Ruhr region
At the third WissensNacht Ruhr on September 28, 2018, scientists will offer interesting lectures and discussions, hands-on activities, presentations, excursions, guided tours and many other program items. A total of 16,000 visitors will enjoy the varied program.
The SFB 1280 is also represented with a “Brainlab” at this year’s WissensNacht Ruhr in the Blue Square. During the WissensNacht, the Ruhr metropolis becomes a fascinating and extraordinary center of science.
Since the start of the SFB 1280 in May 2017
Alfried-Krupp-Schülerlabor
Laboratory course on cognitive neuroscience
The Alfried Krupp Student Laboratory invites you to take a look around its wide range of courses at any time. Initiated back in 2001 by Roland Fischer together with Onur Güntürkün, speaker of the SFB 1280, the lab now offers over 80 courses in the natural sciences and humanities.
The SFB 1280 has also been involved in the school laboratory since its foundation with its course “Crime Scene Bochum – or the mysterious case of who knew too much”, in which students are taught both DNA analysis and how to use the EEG.