Graduate Program in Neuroscience – University of Copenhagen

Graduate Program in Neuroscience

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It was all about neuroscience, communication, creativity, and motivation

2024.01.29

As per usual, the NeuroGrads did an amazing job at presenting their science concisely, clearly,…
Loved it! NeuroGrad Winter School F-2-F

2023.01.30

After two years of corona-zoom versions – were the PhD students in neuroscience, the NeuroGrads,…
Finally time for the corona-delayed part of the NeuroGrad Winter School

2022.06.24

Great to see all our wonderful NeuroGrads F2F again for the ‘fun part’ of our annual NeuroGrad…
NeuroGrad Winter School rocks online again

2022.01.27

More than 100 PhD students in neuroscience at SUND, the NeuroGrads, joined in the yearly NeuroGrad…
NeuroGrad Winter School rocks online again

2022.01.27

More than 100 PhD students in neuroscience at SUND, the NeuroGrads, joined in the yearly NeuroGrad…
NeuroGrads get together – finally

2021.08.26

NeuroGrads and their supervisors enjoyed a great presentation from Denmark’s leading science…

Courses & Conferences

22 Sept. - 26 Sept. 2025

PhD course in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Gene-editing and Brain Cell Models

The course is taking place September 22-26, 2025, at Frederiksberg Campus.

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Upcoming PhD Defences

22 Aug. 2025, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence: Signe Bille

Circadian rhythms in plasticity markers are regulated by the suprachiasmatic nucleus, glucocorticoid rhythms, and local oscillators in the rat neocortex

25 Aug. 2025, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence: Vytautas Labanauskas

Motivational and inhibitory aspects of executive motor control - Insights from healthy individuals and pediatric OCD

28 Aug. 2025, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence: Joakim Nils Erik Krogh Ölmestig

Cognition and blood flow in cerebral small vessel disease.

4 Sept. 2025, 14:02-17:02

PhD defence: Eva Rudjord Therkildsen

From mouse to man: Is it possible to replicate the antispastic effects of the calcium channel blocker Nimodipine in humans?

5 Sept. 2025, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence: Sam Kris Vanspauwen

Proteomic and Structural Insights into Axon Initial Segment Plasticity and Organization

9 Sept. 2025, 7:00-10:00

PhD defence: Daniel Philip Middleton

Identification of residues in the GPCR-G-protein interface encoding G-protein subtype specificity.

12 Sept. 2025, 16:00-19:00

PhD defence: Maibritt Karin Horning

Investigating non-invasive gamma stimulation as a therapeutic approach in Alzheimer's disease - An exploratory framework for light- based interventions in the clinical setting and their adaptability to study astrocyte function

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