organisation - the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

In 2011, CNP investigators began conducting their research at the recently inaugurated
Champalimaud Center for the Unknown (CCU). There, in September
2011, the first Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium was held, featuring lectures
by key neuroscientists from across the world. Soon after, the Ar monthly
event-series began. These outreach events, targeted at a general audience,
explore different aspects of scientific and science-related topics such as
human-machine interface and creativity.
In-house Principal Investigators:
• Megan Carey (Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
• Rui Costa (Neurobiology of Action)
• Inbal Israely (Neuronal Structure and Function)
• Susana Lima (Neuroethology)
• Christian Machens (Theoretical Neuroscience)
• Zach Mainen (Systems Neuroscience)
• Marta Moita (Behavioural Neuroscience)
• Michael Orger (Vision to Action)
• Joe Paton (Learning Laboratory)
• Leopoldo Petreanu (Cortical Circuits)
• Alfonso Renart (Circuit Dynamics & Computation)
• Carlos Ribeiro (Behaviour and Metabolism)
• Luísa Vasconcelos (Innate behaviour)
Research Fellows:
• Adam Kampff (Intelligent Systems)
External Principal Investigators:
• Domingos Henrique (Developmental Biology)
• Rui Oliveira (Animal Behaviour)
FLAD COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLABORATORIUM
Head: Luís Rocha
PhD in Systems Science, State University of New York, 1997
Principal Investigator - Complex Adaptive Systems and Computational Biology
The main aim of the FLAD Computational Biology Collaboratorium is to establish,
enable, and foster an international, collaborative network of associated
institutions and scientists. It is an open host organisation designed to enable
intense cooperation amongst researchers from national and international institutions:
the centre hub of a collaborative network of research institutions. Its
principal objectives are to provide suitable facilities for visiting scientists, and
to host informatics technology to enable continuing off-site collaboration and
research in mathematical and computational biology.
The Collaboratorium operates in close synergy with the PhD Programme in
Computational Biology: faculty is encouraged to stay longer periods of time to
participate in work groups and collaborative projects hosted by the Collaboratorium.
Likewise, visitors to the Collaboratorium are encouraged to give seminars
and interact with students and faculty of the PhD Programme. Furthermore,
the PhD programme will help identify research areas in mathematical and computational
biology that are not yet sufficiently developed in Portugal. Reciprocally,
the growing collaboration network fostered by the Collaboratorium, will facilitate
the insertion of the newly formed computational biology PhDs within the
Portuguese research and technology communities.
IGC ANNUAL REPORT ‘11
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