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2026

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The Training Village is now available as an open-source tool for rodent training!
The Training Village is now available as an open-source tool for rodent training!

The preprint is now published in BioRxiv

BCB celebrates the Brain Awareness Week
BCB celebrates the Brain Awareness Week

We developed a new game to test the cognitive biases of the students.

Alexis Cervan kills it in his PhD Defense!
Alexis Cervan kills it in his PhD Defense!

Dr Cervan did a fantastic job defending his work

2025

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Workshop on NMDAR Hypofunction
Workshop on NMDAR Hypofunction

BCB organizes “NMDAR Hypofunction at the Crossroads of Psychosis and Cognition: Insights from Schizophrenia and Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis”

Laura Ribalta's Thesis defense
Laura Ribalta's Thesis defense

On Friday Nov 7th Laura Ribalta defended her thesis successfuly!! Cogratulations Laura!

Multidisciplinary Workshop on Autoimmune Encephalitis with the families
Multidisciplinary Workshop on Autoimmune Encephalitis with the families

BCB members explain their research to the families of autoimmune encephalitis patients

Albert Compte organizes the 1st Simons-BioRTC school in Damaturu (Nigeria)
Albert Compte organizes the 1st Simons-BioRTC school in Damaturu (Nigeria)

Several BCB members participate in this Computational Neuroscience course

The BCB collaborates in the '18th Science Festival of Barcelona 2025'
The BCB collaborates in the '18th Science Festival of Barcelona 2025'

BCB Outreach activity in the Festa de la Ciència de Barcelona 2025

Balma Serrano defends her PhD thesis!
Balma Serrano defends her PhD thesis!

2024

 
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The BCB collaborates in the '17th Science Festival of Barcelona 2024'
The BCB collaborates in the '17th Science Festival of Barcelona 2024'

BCB Outreach activity in the Festa de la Ciència de Barcelona 2024

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Juliette's Goodbye party
Hernando M. Vergara joins the BCB Lab as a Ramon y Cajal fellow
Hernando M. Vergara joins the BCB Lab as a Ramon y Cajal fellow
Jaime visits Grossman Center for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior
Jaime visits Grossman Center for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior

2023

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ERA-NET Final Meeting Barcelona
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The BCB participates in the 'Festa de la Ciencia'
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Tíffany's Goodbye Calçotada

2022

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Open Position: Animal Research Lab Technician
Open Position: Animal Research Lab Technician
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Open-Brains, a new project started by BCB alumni David Bestué and Dani Duque.
Open-Brains, a new project started by BCB alumni David Bestué and Dani Duque.
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Mouse Village funded by the ERC-PoC
Mouse Village funded by the ERC-PoC
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The lab moves to the Rostower!
The lab moves to the Rostower!
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Albert gives an invited talk at COSYNE 2022
Albert gives an invited talk at COSYNE 2022

Albert’s invited talk at COSYNE 2022

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2021

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Tíffany defends her PhD thesis!
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Evolving Neural Networks workshop
Evolving Neural Networks workshop

1st Evolving Neural Networks Workshop will take place on the 17th of June, 2021.

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Virtual Outreach in pandemic times
Virtual Outreach in pandemic times
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Environmentally Friendly Science
Environmentally Friendly Science

Watch now the video or our FENS Forum event Environmetantally Friendly Science.

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Genís defends his PhD thesis!
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2018- 2020

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2 Open PhD positions to investigate the neural basis of learning and working memory.
2 Open PhD positions to investigate the neural basis of learning and working memory.
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Open PhD position: Cortical dynamics during decision making in schizophrenia [This position is already Filled]
Open PhD position: Cortical dynamics during decision making in schizophrenia [This position is already Filled]

Open position: Animal Technician at the Brain Circuits and Behavior Lab.

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Open position: animal technician [This position is already Filled]
Open position: animal technician [This position is already Filled]

Open position: Animal Technician at the Brain Circuits and Behavior Lab.

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Outreach activity at Festa de la Ciència
Outreach activity at Festa de la Ciència

In this science dissemination activity for high-school students in the Barcelona area, we demonstrated how our nervous system sustains computation and communication via electrical signals. We used the excellent kits of Backyard Brains.

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BCB Lab at SENC/SINC2 meetings
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Congratulations Dr Hermoso-Mendizabal
Congratulations Dr Hermoso-Mendizabal

Dr. Ainhoa Hermoso-Medizabal defended her thesis. She did a great presentation and discussed the implications and limitations of her work with her thesis committee composed of Laura Busse, Alfonso Renart and Gemma Huguet.

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Dani's spring school experience in Paris, France
Dani's spring school experience in Paris, France

Daniel Duque attended the "Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience" Spring School, held in Paris, France

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Manuel's visit to the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, New York
Manuel's visit to the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, New York

Manuel Molano visited The Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in New York, to collaborate with Dr. Robert Yang.

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Visions-STEAM Anella outreach and BCB
Visions-STEAM Anella outreach and BCB

We participated in the Visions-STEAM ANELLA 2019

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BCB Lab at COSYNE 2019 conference
BCB Lab at COSYNE 2019 conference

Ainhoa, Genís and Lluís presented their research at Cosyne.

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BCB Lab annual retreat
BCB Lab annual retreat

We had our annual retreat in Cardona!

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Neurochats with Albert and Jaime
Neurochats with Albert and Jaime

Jaime participated in the last Neurochats.

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Cosyne 2019, here we go!
Cosyne 2019, here we go!

We got three abstracts accepted for Cosyne 2019!

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BCB Lab is celebrating the holidays

BCB Lab gathered to celebrate the holidays and the end of the year together with the members of the Puig, Wimmer, and Hyafil labs.

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BCB Lab visits Institut Pau Claris to celebrate Science Week

We visited Institut Pau Claris Middle School during the Science Week to share our research and the scientific experience with its students.

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Lab collective outreach activity at Festival de la Ciència (June 2018)
Lab collective outreach activity at Festival de la Ciència (June 2018)

In this science dissemination activity for the general public taking place in the Ciutadella Park in the center of Barcelona, we prepared games for people to learn concepts about brain function such as neural code, working memory, neuroprosthetics, etc.

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