Dear members of the ILCB community,

My message will be brief because summer break is lurking behind the hill.

Before we get there, I am delighted to announce that 3 new PhD students will join the ILCB after the summer, and that 6 other PhD students working on ILCB topics were successful in securing funding from diverse sources: 2 from Ampiric, 2 from EDs, and 2 from inter-ED. All of them will be joining the ILCB family. Congrats to each one of them! Nothing seems to stop us! You’ll find their portraits in one of the next Newsletters.

To welcome these new members of the ILCB, and to celebrate our two CNRS talent medal winners, we are planning on having a little garden party on September 22nd (around noon) at the LPL. Please save the date.

Now it’s time to relax and enjoy the summer... I'll see you again at the ILCB summer school!

Best wishes,

Johannes

"Through this research, the Temporo-polar region (TPR) has been transformed from terra incognita of behavioural neurology to a Mecca for cognitive neuroscience.

Indeed, nowhere else in the brain can focal neurodegeneration in such a small region of cortex undermine the conceptualization of percepts and trigger the almost unimaginable failure to understand words as familiar as ‘orange’ or ‘grass’.

Had Descartes known about the TPR, he might have chosen it over the pineal gland."

M.-Marsel Mesulam (2023)

Temporopolar Regions of the Human Brain

Brain 146 (1): 20–41

The defence will be streamed on Zoom through this link.