From May 3rd to May 5th, 2023, the FENS Regional Meeting 2023 (FRM 2023) took place at the Congress Center of Hotel Salgados Palace in Algarve, Portugal. The aim of this symposium was to bring together researchers from around the world and provide the latest insights from various areas of neuroscience. Our institute had active…

The ERA-NET NEURON Foresight Symposium “Bidirectional Brain-Body Interactions” took place on Wednesday, 10th May 2023, organised within the ERA-NET NEURON Cofund2 project (Horizon 2020, European Neuroscience Research Funding Network). The Slovak Academy of Sciences, in particular the Department of International Cooperation, was one of 35 partners from 30 countries involved in the preparation of this…

Our colleagues Dr. Ruslan Paliokha and MMedSc. Eliyahu Dremencov, DrSc. have co-authored a review on Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its role in perinatal depression published in Drug Discovery Today. Perinatal depression, with its detrimental effects on maternal and infant health, is the most common psychiatric complication of pregnancy. There is an urgent need for…

An article on metaplasticity and catastrophic forgetting in artificial neural networks, on which our colleague Matúš Tomko worked as a co-author, is featured on the cover of the September edition of Trends in Neurosciences. Artificial neural networks suffer from so-called catastrophic forgetting, when they continually learn multiple tasks in sequence. Our brains are capable of…

Within the Science and Technology Week 2019, a science-popularizing seminar “Science is asking for more” was held in the diction of the Cancer Research Foundation. At the seminar, Lucia Messingerova was also as a representative of Slovakia in Shadow sub-group on Mission Area Cancer at EC. The aim of the seminar was to promote the…

Daniil Grinchii, MD, a PhD student in the Department of Biophysics and Electrophysiology, won the Travel Award of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP). ECNP is a pan-European, scientific association that serves as a platform to exchange and promote research in the field of neuropsychopharmacology. ECNP organizes annual conferences across the Europe and grants travel…

PhD student from Department of Biochemistry and Cytochemistry IPMG, Ing. Ivana Borovska, based on a letter of motivation and an abstract titled: “Mutations in RNA Recognition Motifs of PUF60 and U2AF65 Occurrence in Cancer and their Impact on 3 ‘Splice Site Selection” received a travel grant for the upcoming 16th International Symposium “Horizons in Molecular…

The Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics (IMPG), Centre for Biosciences (CBs), Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) is glad to host this summer (July/August 2019) three foreign medical students, which arrive in Slovakia under the summer exchange program of the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA). In picture (right to left): the students Rania…

On May 20, 2019, the  new Director of the Center of Sciences of SAS was elected . The academic community of the Center of Biosciences elected the only candidate for this post, the current director of the Center of Biosciences – Ing. Zdena Sulova, DrSc. She is the current director of the IMPG. We congratulate her…

On February 27, 2019, the Science Slam of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) took place in Nova Cvernovka, Bratislava. In the evening, 5 SAS young scientists introduced themselves, explaining to the public why ‘there is no science to understand science’. Science Slam SAS is a part of other popularizing activities among of SAS environment. During the…