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GSC 82:  Graduate School Of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN-LMU)

Subject Area Neurosciences
Term from 2006 to 2019
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24184143
 
Final Report Year 2020

Final Report Abstract

Founded in 2006, within the framework of the German Excellence Initiative, the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSNLMU) is the teaching entity in Munich dedicated to providing innovative and comprehensive neuroscience education. The school is embedded within the world-class neuroscience research network of the Munich Center for Neurosciences (MCNLMU) and works in tight collaboration with the master programs Neurosciences and Neurocognitive Psychology, offering an integrated teaching program, taking students from their bachelor degree studies to a Master or Ph.D. degree and spanning all areas of neuroscience. The neurosciences represent a fast developing, interdisciplinary research area with rapidly increasing significance for our society. Broad education, beyond traditional borders, is essential for preparing a new generation of neuroscientists. MCNLMU, one of the broadest academic environments that Europe has to offer in the field of neurosciences, exposes students via seminars, workshops, lab visits and special lectures on cutting-edge topics to a combination of the most varied methodological approaches in biology, computational neuroscience, neurophysiology, neuropsychology, philosophy of science and neurophilosophy. Rather than focusing on small research areas within the neurosciences, the GSNLMU had been designed to provide the educational framework for intense and interdisciplinary training. This opens up greater capacity for new questions, innovative approaches and concepts. Most GSNLMU students conduct their Ph.D. dissertation in one of the hotspots of neuroscience research within Munich, e.g. the Collaborative Research Center Neuronal Circuits (SFB 870), the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Munich, or the Excellence Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy). The scientific center of gravity of the GSNLMU particularly distinguishes Munich from other German and European neuroscience communities – reaching from neuronal circuits to complex systems. A combination of conceptual questions (assembly, regeneration, theory and function of neuronal circuits) with up-to date methods allows reaching out from molecular and cellular properties to their function at the systemic-organismic level. As an interdisciplinary institution of LMU Munich, the GSNLMU is governed independently, awarding an internationally recognized Ph.D. degree. Students may carry out research with faculty members at LMU Munich, as well as partner institutions, i.e. the Technical University Munich (TUM), Helmholtz Center Munich (HMGU) and Max Planck Institutes (MPI), while benefiting from comprehensive academic, administrative and personal support from GSNLMU staff and structures. It is planned that, in the long run, the majority of neuroscience doctoral students will be enrolled in GSNLMU. In October 2011 ~100 students were enrolled. In October 2019, the number of enrolled students will increase to 265.

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