Sinem, Defne, Ece, Zeynep and Bahar presented their work with 3 posters at the 21st National Neuroscience Congress organized by Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University.
Furthermore, explaining the role of ketamine on different phases of fear conditioning, Zeynep and Bahar received a poster prize!
Sinem, Deren, Dilan and Cem received their first research grant. They have submitted excellent proposals to the A2-YL Program of the Health Institutes of Turkey, which is to support each work with ₺60.000. Congratulations to our researchers!
We reviewed the algorithms, capability, functionality and features of open-source AI-based behavioral analysis tools used in rodent research.
Our EMBO-funded work on ventral pallidum is published in Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry !
Our 2-year work on the prophylactic effect of ketamine on anhedonia is published in Neuropharmacology!
We congratulate Ege and Cem for overcoming an over-extended chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) paradigm.
Prof. György Buzsáki visited us at Boğaziçi despite his busy schedule; after giving a stimulating keynote lecture at the National Neuroscience Congress and before heading for Budapest to celebrate the 110th birthday of János Szentágothai.
We attended the 20th National Neuroscience Congress at Acıbadem Unviersity (http://www.usk2022.org/) as a large group (Dilan, Cem, Deren, Sinem, Sena, Defne, Zeynep and Bahar).
Assoc. Prof. Ünal gave an invited talk on the basal forebrain neuromodulatory systems, while Dilan and Cem presented their recent results in the poster session.
Sama, Sinem, Defne and Deren attended the German-Turkish Summer School on Comparative Neuroscience of Brain Evolution.
We are happy to announce that Defne was awarded with a TÜBİTAK 2247-C Fellowship, joining our “STAR Team” led by Sena!
