September 7, 2012

SISSA is once again a reference point in the Italian scenery of science communication and journalism: an article entitled "Il racconto pubblico della scienza" (the public dissemination of science) by Nico Pitrelli, co-director of SISSA Master's in Science Communication and of SISSA Master's in Digital Science Journalism, has been published in the journal "Il Mulino".

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18th and 19th September, 2012 
SISSA - Main Lecture Hall 

On 18th and 19th September in Trieste a workshop was held by some of the most important cognitive neuroscientists. After granting an honorary PhD to the famous scientist Noam Chomsky, over the next two days SISSA summed up what is at the forefront of cognitive science.

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The internationally known scientist Noam Chomsky received on 17th September an honorary PhD in Neuroscience from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste. During his visit, the scientist held a Lectio Magistralis with the title "The minimalist program and language acquisition" in the Main Lecture Hall of the school.

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July 24, 2012

Neurobiologists at SISSA have discovered the regulation mechanism of a particular group of ionic channels which have been deceiving scientists for twenty years. Transmission of electric signals carried by neurons and many other physiological mechanisms are due to the action of ionic channels. A SISSA study, that unveils new details on a specific group of these molecules, important for the sensory system, has now been published in Nature Communications (A. Marchesi, M. Mazzolini, V. Torre, "Gating of cyclic nucleotide gated channels is voltage dependent", Nat. Commun., 24 July 2012).

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