The “CAJAL Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme” represents commitment by the five partner institutions Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, the university of Bordeaux and the Champalimaud Foundation, which offers state-of-the-art hands-on training courses in neuroscience.
Take advantage of this new European training programme, which provides two-or-three-week hands-on courses to a group of about 20 international advanced students (early career scientists: PhD students and early postdocs) in two major European neuroscience facilities. Courses are project-based and designed by first-class neuroscientists.
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Past trainings courses
Cajal Course “Frontiers in Neural Organoids Modelling”
June 22 to July 10
Cajal Course “Neuromics – Single-Cell and Spatial omics in the Nervous System”
September 28 to October 16
Cajal Course “The Neurovascular Unit and Beyond – How CNS Border Sites Dynamically Regulate Brain Homeostasis”
November 19 to December 8
Cajal Course “Neurobiology of Sleep”
23 June to 11 July 2025
Cajal Course, The Brain Prize Course: Advanced Techniques for Synapse Biology
22 September to 10 October 2025
Cajal Course, Cancer Neuroscience
24 November to 6 December 2025
Cajal Course “Neuroimmunology in Physiology and Disease: From Fundamental Concepts to Hands-on Training “
2 to 20 April 2024
Cajal Course: Optogenetics, chemogenetics, and biosensors for neural circuit research
30 September to 18 October 2024
Cajal Course: Advanced imaging techniques for cellular and systems neuroscience
18 November to 6 December 2024
Cajal Course, The Brain Prize Course: Movement and motor control in health and disease
February 28 to March 18
Cajal course “Bioenergetics for brain function” #BBF
May 2 to 22
Cajal course “Neural circuit basis of computation and behaviour” #NCBCB
June 13 to July 1
Cajal course “Single cell profiling and analysis in neuroscience” #SCPAN
October 10 to 28
Cajal course “Brain Organoids” #BO
November 21 to December 9
Cajal course “Neuroepigenetics : writing, reading and erasing the epigenome” #NE
September 20 to October 8
Cajal course “Ageing cognition” #AC
October 18 to November 5
Cajal course “Advanced imaging techniques for cellular and systems neuroscience” #AITCSN
November 22 to December 10
Cajal course “Optogenetics, chemogenetics and biosensors for cellular and circuit neuroscience” #OCB
November 2 to 6
Cajal online lecture series “Single Cell Transcriptomics” #SCT
May 19 to June 8
Cajal course “Brain homeostasis and neurovascular coupling” #BHNC
June 23 to July 13
Cajal course “Biosensors and actuators for cellular and systems neuroscience” #BACSN
8 to 28 September
Cajal course “Whole brain imaging” #WBI
October 13 to November 1
Cajal course “Advanced techniques for synapse biology” #ATSB
April 3 to 21
Cajal course “Developmental neurobiology and pathologies” #DNP (in partnership with ERA-NET Neuron)
June 25 to July 7
Cajal course “Neuroinflammation and how to study it” #NHSI
September 10 to 28
Cajal course “Advanced imaging methods for cellular neuroscience” #AIMCN
October 8 to 26
Cajal course “Linking neural circuits and behaviour” #LNCB
July 3 to 23
Cajal course “Advanced techniques in synapse biology” #ATSB (in partnership with the Brain Prize)
September 4 to 22
Cajal course “Ion channels in the brain in health and disease” #ICBHD
October 2 to 21
Cajal course “Connectomics: from micro-to meso-and macro-scales” #CMMMS
July 10 to 31
Cajal course “Neuronal cell biology – Cytoskeleton and trafficking” #NCBCT
September 19 to October 7
Cajal course “Nutrition and brain functions” #NBF
October 10 to 31
Cajal course “The hippocampus: from circuits to cognition” #HCC (in partnership with the Brain Prize)
November 27 to December 10
Cajal course “Glial cells in health and disease” #GCHD (in partnership with ISN)
September 21 to October 2
Cajal course “Bio-informatics for the neuroscientist” #BIN
October 10 to 31
Cajal course “Advanced techniques for synapse biology” #ATSB


