The Brain Prize Course – Neurobiology of Pain and Touch

Three-week hands-on course on how the nervous system encodes, integrates and modulates touch and pain and how these circuits change in chronic pain. Training covers tissue clearing and light-sheet neuroanatomy, molecular tools to target cell types and sense neuromodulators, in vivo and ex vivo electrophysiology, two-photon calcium imaging, miniscopes, fibre photometry, optogenetics and chemogenetics, linking neuronal activity to perception and behaviour. The fee of €4,500 includes tuition, accommodation and meals; stipends are available.