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Tampere Brain & Mind holds a variety of events for its members. Check here for the latest information or sign up to our newsletter. You can also follow us on LinkedIn.

Upcoming: 2025

Tampere Brain & Mind Neuroscience Seminar Series

Tampere Brain & Mind Neuroscience Seminar Series

When: 17.12.2025 at 15:00-16:00

Where: Arvo F114

PI, Adjunct Professor Susanna NarkilahtiBrain-on-Chip models for a variety of applications

PI, Adjunct Professor Sanna HagmanStem Cell Models to Study Neuroinflammation and Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Neuro Journal Club

A monthly journal group that discusses (preferably recent) papers on modeling, connectivity and things related to neural signal processing. 

Specifically directed for the FAME Flagship doctoral students, papers that are discussed broadly relate to the doctoral research topics around modeling, inverse problems, connectivity estimation, EEG/DBS theory, neuronal dynamics etc., with the students themselves taking shared responsibility of reading the paper and discussing the results / critically analysing the paper during the meeting.

For more information contact PhD Narayan P Subramaniyam from the
Computational Biophysics and Imaging Group via email narayan.subramaniyam (at) tuni.fi

Past: 2025

Tampere Brain & Mind Networking Event

Come and network with Tampere’s local clinicians, researchers, and businesses interested in brain health.

Hear what Tampere Brain & Mind has been up to over the past year and where we are heading.

When: October 30th from 5-7pm

Where: the former library at Arvo building in Kauppi campus

What: Some fingerfood & networking

Tampere Brain & Mind Neuroscience Seminar Series

Tampere Brain & Mind Neuroscience Seminar Series teams up with MET Seminar Series and TAYS Cancer Centre for an international guest speaker!

When: 22.10.2025 at 15:00-16:00

Where: Arvo F114 or Teams

Professor Michael Taylor: Sex and Death in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology.

Also students: you can get a credit for attending all our lectures and writing a learning diary – contact Eloise for more information.

More information: https://events.tuni.fi/met-seminar-series/programme-autumn-2025/

Tampere Brain & Mind Neuroscience Seminar Series

Tampere Brain & Mind Neuroscience Seminar Series

When: 17.9.2025 at 14:00-15:00

Where: Arvo F115

Professor Sampsa PursiainenSolving the spatiotemporal inverse problem of EEG source imaging

Professor Jari Hyttinen: Brain stimulation from electric fields to complex responses of neuronal dynamics

MET Seminar Series: Tampere Brain & Mind

MET Seminar Series: Tampere Brain & Mind

When: 30.4.2025 at 14:00-15:00

Where: Arvo F115

MD, Professor Jukka Peltola: The clinical efficacy and mechanisms of actions of ATN DBS in drug resistant epilepsy

MD, Adjunct Professor Kaija Järventausta: Precision Psychiatry for Severe Depression: Focusing ECT and Rapid-Acting Antidepressants

MET Seminar Series: Tampere Brain & Mind

MET Seminar Series: Tampere Brain & Mind

When: 27.3.2025 at 14:00-15:00

Where: FM5 Auditorium (Biokatu 12)

PI, Adjunct Professor Kirsi Rautajoki: The nonmalignant surroundings of adult diffuse astrocytoma tumours

PI, Adjunct Professor & Neurosurgeon Joonas Haapasalo: Brain tumour surgery

Neurological Treatment Registries & Monitoring

Neurological Treatment Registries & Monitoring

When: 21.-22.3.2025

What: Neurological disease treatment registries and high-quality care monitoring: Improving research and supporting shared decision-making

Seminar and Workshop

Organised by Neurocentre Finland together with sponsors Merck, Novartis, BioArctic-Eisai, Angelini Pharma, Teva, Argenx, and Eli Lilly.

Ministry of Social Affairs and Health funding

January 2025

Tampere Brain & Mind are proud to be a part of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health funded project under Neurocentre Finland, together with the Finnish Cancer Centre and the national Finnish Biobanks.

More information (only in Finnish).