She arrived on December 28, 2022, longing for adventure and a home, and I think she got both. She wandered off once or twice, but we always managed to find her that same day. Today, April 20, she could no longer walk, so we had to take her in and let her go for good. A small tree will keep her memory alive, and so will we.
Just as it is never boring when "our team" wins at a world championship, we are always happy to celebrate the successes of our colleagues. Éva Mikics' award is special in many ways.
At the award ceremony for the Hungarian Academy of Science's most prestigious research prize for researchers under the age of 35, Balázs Pósfai represented our institute among this year's winners. What does this award mean to a young person who has won practically every prize available in his age group?
Just as Pompeius the Great's ships carrying grain had to sail from Sicily to Rome even when the sea was stormy, is the whole world with cooperation. As the old saying goes, "navigare necesse est (it is necessary to sail) – and despite all kinds of wild winds, both small and large, we must try to cooperate. Although this famous saying ends with . . ."vivere non est necesse" (it is not necessary to live), just like ancient sailors, today's researchers and research institutes also want to live.
The XXV Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Talented Students, the second of this type of event in this year'swas held in Szeged between November 23 and 25, 2025. Since we participated in this first meeting in April, we were surprised by the new invitation. However, the success justified our invitations!
An extraordinary report on an extraordinary observation! How do the place cells of the hippocampus work? The Nusser group's discovery was published in the journal eLife and the first author Máté Sümegi reports on it.
Just a week ago, students from five high schools visited us as part of the MTÜ program, where they attended lectures and visited laboratories. On Wednesday and Thursday (November 19-20), students from Semmelweis University's Talent Development Program will visit us, and we may welcome some of them as TDK students in a few years' time, as their visit here has inspired them to pursue neuroscience.
