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Crowdfunding campaign for the Transylvanian Neuroscience Summer School

The philosophy of the school is learning by doing and while doing so, openly sharing ideas and expertise. TENSS is unique in that most of the experimental (hardware and software) tools are assembled from scratch, with minimal costs leading to a deeply personal transfer of information from first principles. Your support is vital for the continuity of TENSS itself, and for accomplishing one if its main goals to support neuroscience research in Eastern Europe and Romania, to raise community awareness and support in the matter. Donate on Indiegogo.

A new class of spike train metrics

Cătălin Rusu and Răzvan Florian have developed a series of several new metrics for quantifying the differences between spike trains. The new metrics are inspired by the Pompeiu-Hausdorff distance.

Digi24 TV showcases the Romanian Institute of Science and Technology

Raul Mureşan and Răzvan Florian have talked about the institute’s history and results.

Nature, about TENSS: „a rare beacon of research excellence in Romania”

The prestigious weekly journal of science has published an editorial about the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School, co-organized by our institute’s Center for Cognitive and Neural Studies.

3 Day Startup Cluj – November 2014

A video of the event organized by Research for Industry, a project of the Romanian Institute of Science and Technology

Neuronal membrane resonance enables stable and robust gamma oscillations in the brain

Vasile V. Moca, Raul C. Mureșan and colleagues have recently shown that membrane resonance, a property of inhibitory neurons, may hold the key to the emergence of robust and stable gamma oscillations in the brain.

Seminar on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in partnership with researchforindustry.ro, a project of the Romanian Institute of Science and Technology, organized with the support of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) a seminar regarding the exchange of best practices and consulting in intelectual property.

The third edition of the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School

The third edition of TENSS will take place between 1-17 July, 2014
See the school’s website

The institute launches the researchforindustry.ro platform

The Romanian Institute of Science and Technology announces the launch of the web platform researchforindustry.ro for supporting technology transfer and entrepreneurship in Romania. The platform’s objective is to increase the international visibility of Romanian applied research, to accelerate its international interconnectedness, and to offer the training and mentorship that researchers and institutions need in order to make measurable improvements in the technology transfer field.

RIST launches the Research for Industry project

RIST is launching the Research for Industry project, in partnership with the Technology Transfer Office of the Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne (EPFL-TTO). The project aims to stimulate contacts between academia and the private sector, both Romanian and foreign, as well as to support high-tech entrepreneurship in higher education and research institutions in Romania.