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This year, conferences and courses that align with the scientific missions of any of the following programs will be prioritized: <a href=\"https://www.sfari.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)</a>, with a mission to advance the basic science of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders, <a href=\"https://www.simonsfoundation.org/collaborations/plasticity-and-the-aging-brain/mission-statement/\">Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain (SCPAB)</a>, with a focus on healthy cognitive aging, <a href=\"https://www.simonsfoundation.org/neuroscience/simons-collaboration-on-ecological-neuroscience/\">Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE)</a>, with a focus on understanding how interacting with the world shapes representations in the brain and mind, and the <a href=\"https://www.simonsfoundation.org/collaborations/global-brain/about/scientific-mission/\">Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB)</a>, with a focus on the fields of systems and computational neuroscience.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Duration</strong>: 3 years, max<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Funding</strong>: $25K / year, max<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Eligibility: </strong>Applications may be submitted by course or conference organizers who are employed by nonprofit organizations; public and private institutions, such as colleges, universities, hospitals, laboratories and units of state and local government; and eligible agencies of the federal government. There are no citizenship requirements.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo be eligible for funding through the 2026 RFA for the Conferences and Courses Award, at least <strong>one instance </strong>of the course or conference must occur between September 1, 2026 and August 31, 2027.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>How to Apply</strong>: Prospective applicants must first submit a letter of intent (LOI). LOIs must be completed electronically and submitted through <a href=\"https://sam.simonsfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Simons Award Manager</a> (SAM) and should contain a proposal narrative (1-2 pages) and budget. Notifications for full proposal requests will be made in late June.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Deadline: 15 April 2026</strong> (Letter of Intent)<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Further information</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>More information about the program is available <a href=\"https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-foundation-autism-neuroscience-conferences-and-courses-awards/?tab=rfa\">here</a>.</li>\r\n\t<li>The application portal SAM can be found <a href=\"https://sam.simonsfoundation.org/\">here</a>.</li>\r\n\t<li>For any other questions, please contact the <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Research Office</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-03-12T16:40:59", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-12T16:41:01", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]?subject=Simons%20Foundation%20-%20Neuroscience%20Conferences\">Research Office</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120062/", "category": { "id": 16, "code": "PROP", "fr_label": "Appel à proposition", "en_label": "Call for proposal", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/140/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 70899, "title": "Challenges in modelling ion channels: simulations meet experiments", "slug": "challenges-in-modelling-ion-channels-simulations-m", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/challenges-in-modelling-ion-channels-simulations-m", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32288/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32288/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32288/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-15", "end_date": "2026-04-17", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<p>You can apply to participate and find all the relevant information (speakers, abstracts, program,...) on the event website: <a href=\"https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/challenges-in-modelling-ion-channels-simulations-meet-experiments-1369\">https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/challenges-in-modelling-ion-channels-simulations-meet-experiments-1369</a>.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nRegistration is required to attend the full event, take part in the social activities and present a poster at the poster session (if any). However, the EPFL community is welcome to attend specific lectures without registration if the topic is of interest to their research. Do not hesitate to contact the <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">CECAM Event Manager</a> if you have any question.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Description</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe human genome includes more than 300 genes coding for ion channel proteins, representing approximately 2% of the total number of genes. This abundance of ion channels highlights their critical role in numerous biological processes and their involvement in diseases, underscoring their importance as potential drug targets. Ion channels exert their biological roles through three main functional characteristics: the highly efficient selective conduction of ions; the capacity to open and close in response to chemical/physical stimuli (gating); and the decrease in conductance upon sustained stimuli (inactivation). In the last 20 years, the number of experimental atomic structures of ion channels has increased from a few units to hundreds, now including representative structures for most of the ion channel families. Simulations based on these experimental structures have significantly contributed to the current understanding of conduction, selectivity, gating, and inactivation [1-2]. Strengthening the quantitative agreement between simulations and experiments is now essential for advancing in this field. This effort is currently hampered by common issues in biomolecular simulations, such as the limited timescales for observing biologically relevant events and the sub-optimal accuracy of the underlying physical models. Both of these shortcomings are expected to be mitigated by recent methodological developments. For instance, atomic simulations of ion channels with polarizable force fields have been recently reported [3]. Lack of polarization is a well-known limitation of classical force fields, especially when describing ion-protein and ion-water interactions in a crowded environment like the pore cavity. Consequently, the usage of polarizable force fields is considered a promising strategy for improving the agreement with experimental data about ion conduction and selectivity. An alternative strategy for enhancing the model accuracy in critical channel regions is to combine molecular mechanics with quantum approaches. Thanks to the ever-increasing computational resources, now combined with advancements in codes for hybrid QM/MM models, this approach is becoming feasible for ion channel research [4]. Increasing computational resources, coupled with improved algorithms for accelerating rare events and potentially harnessing machine learning, are also opening new possibilities in the study of state transitions. Gating and inactivation events of ion channels are finally becoming accessible to atomic simulations, offering important insights into the mechanistic functioning of this important protein superfamily [5]. The proposed workshop will foster further developments in the field by bringing together leading scientists in the experimental methodologies and computational techniques used in ion channel research in a stimulating and collaborative environment.<br>\r\n <br>\r\n<strong>References</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00630\" target=\"_blank\">[1] E. Flood, C. Boiteux, B. Lev, I. Vorobyov, T. Allen, Chem. Rev., <strong>119</strong>, 7737-7832 (2019)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23746149.2022.2080587\" target=\"_blank\">[2] C. Guardiani, F. Cecconi, L. Chiodo, G. Cottone, P. Malgaretti, L. Maragliano, M. Barabash, G. Camisasca, M. Ceccarelli, B. Corry, R. Roth, A. Giacomello, B. Roux, Advances in Physics: X, <strong>7</strong>, (2022)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00968\" target=\"_blank\">[3] V. Ngo, H. Li, A. MacKerell, T. Allen, B. Roux, S. Noskov, J. Chem. Theory Comput., <strong>17</strong>, 1726-1741 (2021)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.2c01494\" target=\"_blank\">[4] F. Schackert, J. Biedermann, S. Abdolvand, S. Minniberger, C. Song, A. Plested, P. Carloni, H. Sun, J. Chem. Inf. Model., <strong>63</strong>, 1293-1300 (2023)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.88403.1\" target=\"_blank\">[5] S. Pérez-Conesa, L. Delemotte, Free energy landscapes of KcsA inactivation, 2023</a></p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-01-19T10:04:13", "last_modification_date": "2026-01-26T16:38:05", "link_label": "Challenges in modelling ion channels: simulations meet experiments", "link_url": "https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/challenges-in-modelling-ion-channels-simulations-meet-experiments-1369", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BCH 2103", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BCH%202103", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "", "organizer": "<strong>Simone Furini</strong>, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna ; <strong>Alberto Giacomello</strong>, Sapienza University of Rome ; <strong>Luca Maragliano</strong>, Polytechnic University of Marche ; <strong>Matteo Masetti</strong>, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Cornelia Bujenita</strong></a>, CECAM Events and Operations Manager", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Sur inscription", "en_label": "Registration required" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/119362/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71449, "title": "N-fold groupoids and n-groupoids in semi-abelian categories", "slug": "n-fold-groupoids-and-n-groupoids-in-semi-abelian-c", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/n-fold-groupoids-and-n-groupoids-in-semi-abelian-c", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32797/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32797/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32797/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-16", "end_date": "2026-04-16", "start_time": "10:00:00", "end_time": "11:00:00", "description": "<p>The notion of semi-abelian category, introduced by G. Janelidze, L. Márki and W. Tholen in 2002, generalizes that of abelian category, and captures the homological properties that the categories of groups, associative algebras, Lie algebras and cocommutative Hopf algebras over a field have in common. Internal structures behave surprisingly well in semi-abelian categories. For example, any internal reflexive graph admits at most one internal category structure, and the categories of internal categories and internal groupoids are isomorphic. Moreover, the category of internal groupoids is equivalent to the category of internal crossed modules. The notion of internal crossed module in any semi-abelian category was introduced by G. Janelidze in 2003, and recovers in particular the classical notion of crossed module of groups. The fact that the category of internal groupoids in a semi-abelian category is itself semi-abelian implies that also the category of internal n-fold groupoids is well-behaved.<br>\r\n <br>\r\nIn this talk, I will prove that the full subcategory of internal n-groupoids in a semi-abelian category is a Birkhoff subcategory of the category of internal n-fold groupoids, and provide a simple description of the corresponding reflection for n=2. In the abelian context, the internal n-groupoids yield a torsion-free subcategory of the category of internal n-fold groupoids, and it is possible to characterize (higher) central extensions and compute generalized Hopf formulae for homology. <br>\r\n <br>\r\nPart of this talk is based on joint work with Marino Gran<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-03-25T12:18:18", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-25T12:25:27", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "MA B1 504", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MA%20B1%20504", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Nadja Egner, UC Louvain", "organizer": "Markus Kirolos", "contact": "Maroussia Schaffner", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120179/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/7/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 70694, "title": "SUPER SANDWICH SEMINAR", "slug": "super-sandwich-seminar-353", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/super-sandwich-seminar-353", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32114/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32114/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32114/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-16", "end_date": "2026-04-16", "start_time": "12:00:00", "end_time": "13:00:00", "description": "<p>Triple S (Super Sandwich Seminar) will feature 3 speakers per week, each presenting for 15 minutes, followed by a 5 minutes Q&A session.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2025-12-16T15:47:27", "last_modification_date": "2026-02-26T17:14:16", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "David Domjan, <em>Thomä Lab; </em>Estelle Deby, <em>Karthaus Lab</em>; Arthur Samurkas, <em>Van der Goot Lab</em>", "organizer": "Prof. Pierre Gönczy", "contact": "Lisa Smith, ISREC Administrative Assistant", "is_internal": "True", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "Super Sandwich, cancer", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/119047/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/26/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/111/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71446, "title": "Contributing to community-driven open-source in the age of agentic AI: my scikit-learn experience", "slug": "contributing-to-community-driven-open-source-in-th", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/contributing-to-community-driven-open-source-in-th", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32794/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32794/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32794/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-16", "end_date": "2026-04-16", "start_time": "14:00:00", "end_time": "15:00:00", "description": "<strong>The Keynote of the 3rd Lemanic Life Sciences Hackathon is open to the EPFL Community.</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nIn this talk, Guillaume will go back in time 10 years ago to my personal contributions to the scikit-learn project. He'll use this experience to make a state of play of how the different advancements in Generative AI and more recently agentic AI are disrupting, for the best and the worst, the way open-source communities are working day after day.<br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-03-24T17:22:18", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-24T17:22:18", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-lemaitre-b9404939/\">Guillaume Lemaître</a>", "organizer": "", "contact": "Eva Schier", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "open source, coding, innovaiton", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120176/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/416/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/111/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71499, "title": "IMX Talks - Value-added utilization of biomass and CO2 for sustainable aviation fuels and biomaterials", "slug": "imx-talks-value-added-utilization-of-biomass-and-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-talks-value-added-utilization-of-biomass-and-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32841/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32841/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32841/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-16", "end_date": "2026-04-16", "start_time": "15:30:00", "end_time": "16:15:00", "description": "<p>The conversion of low-carbon resources such as biomass and CO<sub>2</sub> into synthetic liquid fuels, value-added chemicals, and biomaterials is a crucial approach for global carbon emission reduction. In this context, this talk will focus on recent research advances on biomass and CO<sub>2</sub> conversion to sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), chemicals and bio-based materials. Considering the challenges associated with low-carbon resources, including dispersed distribution, significant fluctuations in raw material composition, and high conversion costs, a distributed-centralized system utilizing alcohols as key platform molecules has been proposed. Alcohol synthesis from biomass and CO<sub>2</sub> will be presented with the focus on catalysis for methanol (thermocatalysis) and ethanol synthesis (electrocatalysis) from CO<sub>2</sub>. Conversion of alcohol to SAF will be introduced with discussions on the design of multifunctional catalysts for alcohol conversion, the dynamic evolution of catalytic sites, and the strategies for tuning product distributions. Additionally, a few examples of biobased materials, such as cellulose nanofiber-based biomaterials and bio-based nylon precursor and polyester precursor, will be presented.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nBio: Dr. Zhenglong Li is the “Qiushi” Chair Professor of Zhejiang University. He is the lead of the sustainable aviation fuels research of the State Key Laboratory of Bio-based Transportation Fuel Technology, director of the Biomass Value-Added Utilization Research Center, and the director of the Bio-based Chemicals Division in the Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou. His research is dedicated to the high-value utilization of biomass and carbon dioxide to synthesize sustainable aviation fuel, chemicals, and bio-based materials. He was the team lead in the biomass conversion area at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (United States) prior to joining Zhejiang University. He was the committee member for the Chemical Catalysis for Bioenergy Consortium under the United States Department of Energy (DOE). His group focus on in-depth understanding of the catalytic processes of biomass and carbon dioxide at the molecular level to guide catalyst design, process development, and industrial application, especially R&D of SAF, bio-based chemicals, key bio-based polymer building blocks. His research group has published many high-impact scientific papers in top journals such as <em>J. Am. Chem. Soc., Nat. Commun., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., ACS Catal., Appl. Catal. B.,</em> and others. In terms of technology commercialization, he has developed new core technologies such as bio-based alcohols conversion for sustainable aviation fuel and bio-based biodegradable materials.<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-03-31T08:53:46", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-31T08:53:57", "link_label": "Website", "link_url": "https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/0021139", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "MXF 312", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MXF%20312", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Prof. Zhenglong Li, Zhejiang University, China", "organizer": "Prof. Tiffany Abitbol", "contact": "Prof. Tiffany Abitbol", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120243/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/314/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71500, "title": "IMX Talks - Sustainable green bio-polycarbonates from bio-based feedstocks and CO2 toward carbon-neutral goals", "slug": "imx-talks-sustainable-green-bio-polycarbonates-f-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-talks-sustainable-green-bio-polycarbonates-f-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32842/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32842/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32842/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-16", "end_date": "2026-04-16", "start_time": "16:15:00", "end_time": "17:00:00", "description": "<p>The growing challenges of plastic pollution, fossil resource depletion, and carbon emissions have accelerated the search for sustainable alternatives to polymers. 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