Highlights of news regarding our Center
The PNC congratulates our PhD student Francesco Bettella on his excellent performance at the Paralympic Games Paris 2024, where he won a silver and a bronze medal in Paraswimming Backstroke – S1.
Bravo!
Full articles here (Italian only): Bettella, che impresa: alla sua quarta paraolimpiade vince la quinta medaglia (PadovaOggi) and Immenso Francesco Bettella: argento nei 50 dorso alle Paralimpiadi, è la seconda medaglia (PadovaOggi)
The PNC Project INSIGHTS has been awarded (PNRR Cascading Grant) within the Research and Innovation Program titled “MNESYS” (ref. PE00000006) and it is funded by the European Union in the framework of PNRR NextGenerationEU Project.
The Project MNESYS, as a whole, aims at developing new approaches for experimental and clinical neuroscience to enable personalized and predictive precision medicine relevant to the neurological system and behaviour. The project integrates medicine, biology, technology, and computational data to deeply understand some of the key aspects of the functioning of the nervous system.
Full information about the Project MNESYS is available at https://mnesys.eu.
EBRAINS is pleased to announce that the University of Padua has joined the EBRAINS AISBL as an associate member.
The membership will give the University of Padua the opportunity to co-design future iterations of EBRAINS’ cutting-edge tools and services. These state-of-the-art capabilities – which include an extensive range of brain data sets, a multilevel brain atlas, modelling and simulation tools, and access to high-performance computing resources and robotics and neuromorphic platforms – aim to help European researchers to address major challenges in brain health.
Founded in 1222, the University of Padua (UNIPD) is one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious seats of learning and has a long tradition and consolidated reputation for scientific excellence.
“Glioblastoma and brain connectivity: the need for a paradigm shift” by Alessandro Salvalaggio, Lorenzo Pini, Alessandra Bertoldo and Maurizio Corbetta has been published on the prestigious journal “The Lancet Neurology”.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(24)00160-1
The new call for applying for the PhD Course in Neuroscience (40th cohort) will run from April 9, 2024, to May 13, 2024, 1:00 pm CEST.
The Neuroscience PhD course covers diverse neuroscience fields, such as circuits and systems, affective, computational, translational and clinical neuroscience, cognitive, behavioral and neuroimaging. PhD students will find a multidisciplinary environment, ranging from bioengineering to medicine, from mathematics to neurobiology, from physics to psychology and statics, and cutting-edge facilities.
For this call there are at least 10 positions available and more than 45 research lines to choose from for planning the research project.
General information about PhD calls and admissions
Admission information about PhD in Neuroscience
Research lines for project proposal
Deadline for submitting your application: 13 May 2024, 1:00 pm CEST.
When: March 11, 2024, and March 14-15, 2024
Where: Archivio Antico, Palazzo Bo (March 11 and 14), and Sala dei Giganti, Palazzo Liviano, Padova (March 15)
Abstract: All’interno della “Brain Awareness Week”, ricorrenza annuale dedicata a sollecitare la pubblica consapevolezza nei confronti della ricerca sul cervello, l’Università di Padova propone una serie di iniziative che esplorano il funzionamento del cervello, con particolare attenzione a tre temi principali: “Arte e cervello” (Palazzo del Bo, 11 marzo, ore 17), “Cervello sano e cervello malato: prevenzione e intercettazione dei primi sintomi” (Palazzo del Bo, 14 marzo, ore 17) e “Il cervello plastico” (Sala dei Giganti, 15 marzo, ore 10).
The European Commission has signed a grant agreement to fund EBRAINS with €38 million from January 2024 to 2026. The project involves 59 partner institutions from 16 European countries, and the University of Padua, through the PNC, is one of the WP leaders.
EBRAINS (European Brain Research Infrastructures) is an EU co-funded collaborative research platform designed to advance neuroscience and brain health. The new project aims to establish a new standard for brain atlases, gather, and connect multimodal neuroscientific and clinical data, and advance the development of digital twin approaches.
When: January 26, 2024, 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
Where: Aula Nievo, Palazzo Bo (Via VIII Febbraio, Padova)
Developments in robotics allow people with profound neuromuscular deficits after stroke to walk with assistance (during the gait cycle) using an exoskeleton robot. Integrating a robotic device with individualised user electroencephalography (EEG /electrical activity in the motor areas in the brain) and EMG (muscle) feedback would allow more physiological and targeted gait parameters in response to effort and confer neuroplastic training effects including neuromodulation of temporal and spatial features of gait.
PRO GAIT is funded by Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union
The PNC is proud to announce that Prof. Maurizio Corbetta has been appointed Corresponding Fellow (FIELD V: Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, founded in 1603 and located in Rome, Italy.
Full article here (Italian only): All’Accademia dei Lincei due docenti dell’Università di Padova (ANSA)
The PNC is extremely proud of the excellent results achieved by our PhD student Francesco Bettella, who has recently won 3 medals at Manchester 2023 Para Swimming World Championships.
Congratulations!
Full article here (Italian only): Nuoto, Mondiali paralimpici: Bettella torna da Manchester con tre medaglie (PadovaOggi)
(Italian only) Prof. Corbetta was interviewed on June 2, 2023
The “Padova Neuroscience Center – PNC” is glad to inform that one of our members, Alessandro Salvalaggio, has been recently awarded a “Poster Award” for the 2022 ANA Annual Meeting in Chicago. Congratulations!
Neuroscience PhD Retreat will take place on 20 and 21 May in Asiago, Vicenza: the right moment for PhD students and faculty for sharing their ideas, perspectives and experience. There will be a focus on the goals already achieved, improvement suggestions and the path ahead.
(Italian Only) Prof. Corbetta was interviewed on March 31th, 2022
(Italian version only) Article on “Il Gazzettino”, March 31th, 2022
Avviso di indagine di mercato
Indagine di mercato finalizzata all’affidamento diretto tramite mercato elettronico (MEPA) ai sensi dell’art. 1, comma 2,lett. a) del D.L. 76/2020 (convertito con Legge 11 settembre 2020, n. 120) della fornitura di un Elettroencefalografo (EEG) e di un Eye-Tracker portatili ed integrati in modo che sia possibile la sincronizzazione del segnale EEG con quello dell’Eye-Tracker per l’Universita’ degli Studi di Padova – Centro di Ateneo Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC) – CUP C24I19002710006
Scadenza per la presentazione delle istanze è il 30 aprile 2021 alle ore 12:00
The videos of the 2021 Distinguished Lecture Series of the “Padova Neuroscience Center-PNC” are now available on PNC Mediaspace
“Many animals fall for the same optical illusions we do, providing clues about how evolution shapes visual perception.”
The work of prof. Agrillo has been cited on the National Geographic site
A talk by Claudia A. M. Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott, University College London.
When: June 28th, 2018
May 17th, 2018: “The importance of central-peripheral communication: a neurovisceral integration perspective”
A talk by Prof. Julian F. Thayer, Ohio State University, OH, USA.
May 31st, 2018: “Brain networks and neuropsychological disorders in stroke”
A talk by Dr. Antonello Baldassarre: IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo – Neuromed, Italy.
May 7th, 2018: “Advances in Placebo Effects”
A talk by Prof. Irving Kirsch, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, MA, USA.
May 24th, 2018: “Detection costs and Identification benefits for cued objects: From peripheral cueing to semantic congruency”
A talk by Prof. Juan Lupiañez Castillo, Universidad de Granada, Spain
April 12nd, 2018: “A computational model of shared fine-scale structure in high-dimensional cortical information spaces”
A talk by Prof. James Haxby, Dartmouth College, NH, USA.
March 29th, 2018: “Optical dissection of the neural circuits underlying sensory perception in the mouse cortex”
A talk by Prof. Tommaso Fellin, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (GE).
