We are pleased to share the Advanced Courses plan for the 1st edition of the International Doctoral Program in Integrative Neuroscience (idpIN), for the academic year 2025/2026.
The Advanced Courses are coordinated by senior researchers at CNC-UC and taught by experts from leading national and international research institutions.
Please find here the 2025/2026 – idpIN advanced courses calendar.
Advances in Integrative Neuroscience II: Tools in Neuroscience
Nature Seminars: Nature Portfolio and Science Careers | October 2 to 3, 2025
Coordinators: Filipe Almeida (Nature Biomedical Engineering), Mónica Santos (CNC-UC)
Introduction to Scientific Programming | October 10, 2025 to January 30, 2026
Coordinators: Renato Duarte (CNC-UC)
Building Scientific Culture through Science Communication | October 13 to 17, 2025
Coordinators: Sara Amaral (CNC-UC)
Workshop: From Keypoints to Behavior – Hands-on Pose Estimation and Behavior Analysis (external) | October 14 to 17, 2025
Coordinators: NenckiOpenLab, DYNA Brain team (CNC-UC)
Bridging the Gap: From Discovery to Market | October 20 to 24, 2025
Coordinators: Catarina Cunha Santos (CNC-UC)
Core Technologies @CNC | October 27 to 31, 2025
Coordinators: Luísa Cortes (CNC-UC)
Experimental Research Design & Responsible Practices | November 3 to 7, 2025
Coordinators: Teresa Cunha-Oliveira, Elsa Henriques (CNC-UC), Ana Duarte & Paulo Matafome (iCBR/FMUC)
Sensors, Electronics and Hardware | November 3 to 7, 2025
Coordinators: Hugo Marques (Champalimaud Foundation), Cristina Márquez (CNC-UC)
Electrophysiology | November 10 to 14, 2025
Coordinators: Paulo Pinheiro (CNC-UC)
Bioinformatics and Data Science for Neuroscience | December 2 to 10, 2025
Coordinators: Cesar Teixeira, Joel Arrais (CISUC/DEI-UC)
Principles and Practices in Drug Development | January 26 to 30, 2026
Coordinators: João Nuno Moreira, Luís P. Almeida, Sérgio Simões (CNC-UC), Stan Finkelstein (MIT, USA)
Ethics in Neuroscience Research | Late February, 2026
Coordinators: Ana Luísa Carvalho, Cristina Márquez (CNC-UC), Pim Haselager (Donders Institute, NL)
Advances in Integrative Neuroscience I: From neurons to circuits, behaviors and computations.
Synapse assemble, function and plasticity | January 5 to 9, 2026
Coordinators: Ana Luísa Carvalho, Carlos Duarte, Paulo Pinheiro (CNC-UC)
Neural circuits and behavior | January 12 to 16, 2026
Coordinators: João Peça, Ana Luísa Cardoso, Cristina Márquez (CNC-UC)
Unravelling Brain Disorders: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms from Development to Degeneration | January 19 to 23, 2026
Coordinators: Ana Cristina Rego, Cláudia Pereira, Sandra Morais Cardoso (CNC-UC)
Cognitive Neuroscience | January 26 to 30, 2026
Coordinators: Miguel Castelo Branco (FMUC/CIBIT)
Neuroscience and Mental Health | January 26 to 30, 2026
Coordinators: Ana Cristina Rego (CNC-UC), Maria Isabel Santana (FMUC)
Systems and computational neuroscience | February 2 to 6, 2026
Coordinators: Cristina Márquez, Renato Duarte (CNC-UC)
Neuromodulation | February 9 to 13, 2026
Coordinators: Rodrigo Cunha (CNC-UC)