Schedule for the BBS Springschool 2022

The final schedule, yet still a bit tentative and subject to change. If you are interested to present your work related to the general topic of the BBS Springschool within one of the Unconference session, please contact the committee.

Tuesday (5^th of April):

• 09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Registration
• 09:30 – 10:00 Introduction to Springschool and presentation of venue and projects
• 10:00 – 17:00 Time to work on your projects
• 14:00 – 17:00 Science Communication, Design and Plain Language
  • 14:00 “The art of storytelling in scientific papers” Gayannee Kedia (details)
  • 15:00 “Visualization and Visual Design” Verena Resch (details)
  • 16:00 “Simple, not rough. How to communicate your science in plain – yet accurate – language” Anna D’Errico (details)
• 17:00 – 18:00 Unconference

Wednesday (6^th of April):

• 08:30 – 09:00 Breakfast with Coffee & Tea
• 09:00 – 17:00 Open Hacking intermixed with educationals
• 09:00 – 11:00 “Common challenges of microbiome data analysis” Alexander Mahnert (details) followed by a Lab-Visit
  “Basics of the wet lab in microbiome research - From sampling to raw data.” Christina Kumpitsch (details)
• 09:00 – 11:00 “Measuring neuronal activation using MRI – a visit at the MRI-Lab Graz” Karl Koschutnig (details)
• 13:30 – 17:00 Modelling Brain, Behavior & Society
  • 13:30 “Together, not alone: A walk through the landscape of agent-based modelling” Marie Kapeller (details)
  • 14:30 “Flexible behavior under uncertainty in autism spectrum disorders through the lens of simple reinforcement learning models” Lei Zhang (details)
  • 15:30 “Game theory: a mathematical toolkit for the analysis of strategic interaction.” Christoph Kuzmics (details)
  • 16:30 “Using Machine/Deep Learning in Medical Imaging for Precision Medicine” Philipp Seeböck (details)
• 19:00 Keynote “Explanation and prediction of cultural change” by Igor Grossmann (further information plus registration)

Thursday (7^th of April):

• 08:30 – 09:00 Breakfast with Coffee & Tea
• 09:00 – 17:00 Open Hacking intermixed with educationals
• 09:00 – 12:30 Reproducibility in Science
  • 09:00 “Research Data Management to make your data FAIR” Sarah Stryeck (details)
  • 10:00 “Preregistration for Beginners” Hilmar Brohmer (details)
• 13:00 – 14:30 “Getting to know Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS): A Hands-on Tutorial” Thomas Kanatschnig (details)
• 14:00 – 17:00 Life after Academia – unfortunately cancelled
• 14:30 – 16:00 “Meet and Greet with Electroencephalography and Virtual Reality” Lisa Berger (details) CAVE: rescheduled
• 17:00 – 18:00 Unconference

Friday (8^th of April):

• 08:30 – 09:00 Breakfast and Coffee
• 09:00 – 12:00 Symposium “Change”
  • 09:00 “Predicting Change in Integrated Information - on the example of Early Warning Signals in assortative spin-shifting networks” Manfred Füllsack (details)
  • 10:00 “Understanding educational games: Multimodal investigations of cognitive and emotional factors when learning with games” Manuel Ninaus (details)
  • 11:00 “Behavioral Change from a Psychological Point of View” Dietrich Albert, Michael Bedek, Jochen Mosbacher (details)
• 12:00 – 13:00 Wrap-Up and Project Presentations
• 13:30 – 15:00 Artifical Life Lab Tour
  • “Robocoenosis: Living creatures act as sensors in underwater robots for environmental monitoring.” Ronald Thenius (details)
  • “Hiveopolis: Searching for the digital beehive of the future \dots smart beehives for smart bees.” Matthias Becher (details)
  • “RoboRoyale: Queen bee + autonomous robots, tracking the queen with computer vision.” Martin Stefanec (details)