Coordination Project

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Giovanni Galizia
• Subject Area: Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology
• Term: from 2009 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 123290411

The priority program “Integrative Analysis of Olfaction” is applying for the second round of three years, and will build on a very successful initial phase. Our goals are to understand how olfactory coding works, across species, through the integration of molecular, physiological, neuroanatomical, behavioral and computational research projects in olfactory coding. Our vision is a “flat world” for olfactory research that has a high visibility and is sustainable and lasting even beyond the funding period. Our tools to achieve this are, from the point of view of the central administrative project (this application), to foster communication, scientific exchange, personal contacts and acquaintances at all levels: PIs as well as PhDs, who will form tomorrow’s community. We aim at creating a culture of cooperativity without loss in competitiveness, and provide support (e.g. maternity support) to prevent good researchers from leaving science. We will integrate the SPP and the German olfactory community in a large network across the world through a number of high-level scientific Meetings.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 1392: Integrative Analysis of Olfaction