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MARCH 2014 DANDRITE NEWSLETTER

DANDRITE'S FIRST YEAR!

DANDRITE has now existed for 1 year since the official opening on 5

March, 2013. It has truly been a fabulous start, and we are looking very

much forward to continue our development in 2014. The first two group

leaders (to be five in total) are now busy setting up their labs - Drs. Mark

Denham (stem cells) and Anne von Philipsborn (Drosophila models).

Another recruitment campaign is currently on-going and is expected to

conclude during the spring 2014. The organizational framework, principles

and practice of governance are also coming together well, and the network

of the four nodes (DANDRITE, NCMM, MIMS, and FIMM) of the Nordic-EMBL

Partnership offers a range of new opportunities.

We thank you all for your support during a great first year for DANDRITE -

the Danish Research Institute for Translational Neuroscience.

We are also happy to announce that core group leader and founding

director Poul Nissen will continue as the official director of DANDRITE for

the forthcoming four years.

DANDRITE SYMPOSIUM - MONDAY 17 MARCH 2014

DANDRITE hosts the symposium “New Frontiers in Molecular and

Translational Neuroscience”, where eigth top neuro-scientists from around

the world will present their current research. The symposium is open for

all, and takes place on Monday 17 March 2014 from 12.15 – 17.00 in

the auditorium at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center

(iNANO), Aarhus University. See poster announcement at

www.dandrite.au.dk.

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DANDRITE STAFF NEWS

Begoña López Arias started in a one year postdoc position in Group

Leader Anne von Philipsborn's group 1 March, 2014. Begoña López Arias

will explore neuronal circuits implicated in Drosophila courtship behavior

with optogenetic tools.

Florian Hilbers has been appointed a postdoc position in Core Group

Leader Poul Nissen's group for two years from 15 February, 2014. Florian

Hilbers is working with the Na,K-ATPase, the main energy consumer in

brain. His research is focusing on identifying the consequences of hypoxia

on the two subunit (α and β) membrane embedded Na,K-ATPase. The

results of this project will add to a better understanding of the basic

mechanism of the Na,K-ATPase and might lead to the discovery of drugs

preventing cell death after i.e., a stroke.

Antoni Kowalski started in Core Group Leader Poul Nissen's group 1

March, 2014, where he will be working for three years as a postdoctoral

fellow with a “Mobility Plus” scholarship funding by the Polish government.

Antoni Kowalski is working with plasma membrane calcium ATPases and

calcium homeostasis and signaling in brain cells.

DANDRITE ASSOCIATE RESEARCH PROGRAM – DARE

DANDRITE invites applications for collaborative projects in neuroscience.

The projects are expected to have their main activity in DANDRITE

laboratories and to be within the scope and aims of DANDRITE in

translational neuroscience or in basic research of transport and signaling

networks across membranes and among cells in the brain. Funding is

given to both postdoc projects, PhD projects, and equipment. Next

application deadline is 2 June 2014. Read more here

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PHD POSITIONS AT DANDRITE

If you want to pursue a PhD degree within the neuroscience research field,

DANDRITE offers the eminent opportunity by advertising several PhD

student positions each year, both as specific projects and open calls.

DANDRITE PhD students are under the supervision of at least one of the

Group Leaders at DANDRITE. Read more here

Application deadlines in May, August, and November 2014

NEW DANDRITE LOGO

The official DANDRITE logo has changed its color to the dark marine blue,

which you also see in the logo of Aarhus University. It is requested that all

future usage of the DANDRITE logo is with the new dark blue logo. The

new logo as well as updated poster and powerpoint templates will be send

out to you all in a separate email. The new logo is also downloadable here

UPDATES AT DANDRITE WEB

The DANDRITE website is continually being updated, and now includes

features such as “How to find us” and "Logo" download options. Job

opportunities at DANDRITE, PhD calls, news and publications are of

course also posted at our website, so remember to visit

www.dandrite.au.dk

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NEUROCAMPUS SOCIAL – FIRST FRIDAY EACH MONTH

The first Friday each month the NeuroCampus community at Aarhus

University and Aarhus University Hospital arranges a “NeuroCampus

Social” event, where all neuro-scientists and others interested in

neuroscience are welcome to attend. There are a couple of short informal

talks on hot neuro-related topics each time, starting at 14.30. The

NeuroCampus Social takes place the first Friday each month from

14-16 at Dale’s Café, which is located right next to the International

Centre at Aarhus University.

INANO COMPETITION “SCIENCE AS ART”

Is your research beautiful?

Many of you think so, but rarely get the chance to show it to people

outside your group. That is why we are announcing the first Science as

Art competition. The best pictures will be featured in the coming iNANO

Bi-annual Report.

Read the rules and conditions of the competition

Deadline for submission of images is 21 March 2014 at 1 pm.

NEUROCAMPUS EVENTS SPRING 2014

The NeuroCampus community at Aarhus University and Aarhus University

Hospital has several seminars and events planned for the spring 2014.

Below is listed upcoming events. For further information on the events,

visit NeuroCampus' website.

26 March 2014 - NeuroCampus Aarhus / DNC Seminar

Professor Fiedemann Pulvermüller from Freie Universität Berlin will

visit Aarhus and give a guest talk, entitled "Aphasia research and therapy"

26 March 2014 - Danish Society for Neuroscience - Spring Meeting 2014

DSfN are having their annual spring meeting Parkinson’s Disease: A

multifactorial degenerative disease in Aarhus with guest talks and

discussion.

2 April 2014 - NeuroCampus Aarhus / DNC Seminar

Professor Peter Drummond from Murdoch University, Perth, Western

Australia is currently visiting the Danish Pain Research Center (DPRC) at

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Australia is currently visiting the Danish Pain Research Center (DPRC) at

Aarhus University Hospital, and will give a guest talk entitled "Involvement

of the sympathetic nervous system in complex regional pain syndrome"

4-6 May 2014 - XXVIII Sandbjerg Symposium, Danish Society for

Neuroscience

Neuroinflammation in Health and Disease

Guest talk by: BRAIN PRIZE AWARDEE, Edward Boyden.

Deadline for early registration is 20 march 2014

22-23 May 2014 - Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Neuropathological

Society

Key note lecture by Professor Guido Reifenberger, Germany on the

latest news on the WHO tumor classification “WHO's next- The emerging

role of molecular biomarkers in brain tumor classification”

Deadline for early registration deadline 14 March 2014

OTHER EVENTS

Seminar Series by Centre for Integrative Sequencing (iSEQ)

The iSEQ centre has started their own seminar series taking place each

month called "iSEQ lunch seminars". The next iSEQ lunch seminar is

on Wednesday, 2 April 2014 at 12.00 – 13.00.

Title and speaker will be announced soon.

Venue: Merete Barker Auditoriet, Søauditorierne.

Refreshments: Sandwiches will be provided. Therefore, please email Anne

Hedemand (anneh@hum-gen.au.dk) not later than 1 April 2014 , if you

would like to participate.

12-14 May 2014 - 46th Sandbjerg Meeting on Membrane

Transport

This year´s programme will include the following oral sessions, all with a

series of excellent invited speakers:

- Regulation and roles of proteases at the plasma membrane I

(coordinator: Mette Madsen, Aarhus, Denmark)

- Regulation and roles of proteases at the plasma membrane II

(coordinators: Marie Kveiborg, Copenhagen, Denmark and Stine Falsig

Pedersen Copenhagen, Denmark)

- How lipids cross cellular membranes (coordinator Thomas Günther-

Pomorsky, Copenhagen, Denmark)

- Free communications in membrane transport (coordinators:

Markus Bleich, Kiel, Germany and Jens Leipziger, Aarhus, Denmark)

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21 March 2014 - Symposium celebrating 40 Years of Biostructural

Chemistry

In 1974, Professor Clark came to Aarhus to form the Biostructural

Chemistry Division of the Department of Chemistry. In the following

years, he greatly expanded the research activities, and started the first

protein crystallography group in Denmark. In 1996, the Biostructural

Chemistry Division, consisting of about 50 people, merged with the

Department of Molecular Biology. Today the group - now called Structural

Biology - is the largest group of the department with 94 staff and students.

Registration deadline 17 March 2014

22 March 2014 - AU celebrates The International Year of

Crystallography

UNESCO has appointed 2014 as the "International Year of Crystallography

". The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University,

celebrates this with a number of short lectures, which provides all -

regardless of background - an insight into how crystallography benefits us

all in everyday life.

Registration deadline 19 March 2014 (registration is free)

Seminars by the International Centre at Aarhus University

The International Centre at Aarhus University has several seminars and

events planned for the spring 2014. Below is listed upcoming events. For

further information visit the IC website

12 March 2014 - TAX SEMINAR IN AARHUS

HOW TO NAVIGATE THE DANISH TAX SYSTEM?

The Danish tax authorities, SKAT, will give an presentation on the tax

system in Denmark. Focus will particularly be on tax issues related to

experts/researchers.

Sign up by Monday 10 March 2014

26 March 2014 - Dealing with the Danes

Learn to navigate among and with Danes and make your stay in Denmark

more fruitful.

Sign up by Friday 7 March 2014

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