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Current & Upcoming Events
Here you find a list of the current and upcoming events that our lab or members of our lab are involved in.
24/06/2025 - 24/06/2025 Katja at IBNS Annual Meeting in Tromso
Katja will speak at the symposium "The best defense is a good PAG: New advances in understanding threat perception and defensive response integration in rodents and humans" at the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Meeting in Norway. Our chair is Jason Radley and we're joined by Philip Tovote and Joana Vieira.
10/09/2025 - 13/09/2025 Lucia co-chairs Symposium at SINS!
Lucia will co-chair with Serena Riccittelli a symposium at the Italian Neuroscience Society Meeting. The title is "The Retina and Beyond: Linking Vision to Behavior" featuring Norma Kühn, Santiago Rompani, Max Joesch and Stefano Di Marco.
Outreach
It is an important part of our duties to inform the public about newest insights in a format that is understandable, and to explain the value of our work. Tax payers' money is the main funding source for many science labs and we should make the outcome of that science accessible to the general public. Furthermore, voices against experiments that involve animals have become louder in the past years, often due to a lack of information and understanding of what is done and why. We aim to inform interested laymen, voters and policy makers about our research to provide them with a better understanding and illustrate the knowledge we can gain from those experiments.
Here you can find information about our recent outreach events. If you are interested in our research for an event for non-scientists, please contact katja.reinhard[at]sissa.it.
Skype a Scientist
Skype a scientist (https://www.skypeascientist.com/, https://twitter.com/skypescientist) is a platform that brings together school classes and other interested laymen with scientists. We have so far participated twice:
January 2022: 4th graders in California, USA, were part of an interactive lecture about the brain of toads and how it allows them to avoid danger and identify interesting things like food. The students asked excellent questions ("If the toad can distinguish between a horizontal stimulus, which means food like a worm, and a vertical stimulus, which means danger like a stork, what would happen if the stork was lying down?").
May 2022: Several classes of 4th graders in Florida, USA, were part of a similar lecture where they learned about animals avoiding danger and approaching food.
Trieste Next
Trieste Next is an annual festival for science. SISSA's contributions are organized by our press office and our lab is usually involved either in planning of activities and/or by volunteering during the festival itself. This year's topic is "La vita dentro. Dialoghi tra Scienze e Tecnologie" (The life within. Dialogues between Science and Technology). Katja has helped with the scientific and practical aspects of the SISSA Neuroscience booth for the 2023-2024 editions, and lab members have been involved during the festival. .
Past Events
11/02/2025 - 14/02/2025 EMBL Subcortical Meeting: Lucia, Po and Katja attended the 2nd edition of this meeting in Assisi.
28/07/2024 - 2/08/2024 Symposium at ICN2024: Karl Farrow and Katja are co-chairing a symposium on "Neural Basis of Flexible Innate Behaviors" at the Neuroethology meeting in Berlin!
4-6/07/2023 TEX2023 Symposium: Together with colleagues from the cognitive neuroscience area, we are organizing a small symposium at SISSA on Efficient coding and processing for perception and action with a great speaker line-up!
21/09/2023 - 22/10/2023 Questa Volta metti in scena… L’ESSERE
An anual photo exhibition, organized by Opera Viva and the artist Lorena Matic. This year, Alessia Soldano, with help from Katja, is overseeing the scientific aspects.
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