Organisers

A meeting built by early-career researchers

The meeting is organized by two researchers at the Paris Brain Institute, brought together by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.

While our research programmes address different aspects of nervous-system function, our MSCA projects have provided a common framework for developing independent research programmes while building connections across disciplines.

Slow Variables in Nervous Systems is an initiative to extend these connections beyond our individual projects and create opportunities for interaction among researchers working across neuroscience, physiology and related fields.

Meet the organisers

Why Slow Variables in Nervous Systems?

Neural systems are shaped not only by the fast dynamics of neurons and circuits, but also by biological processes operating over much longer timescales. Metabolism, neuromodulation, sleep, endocrine signals, homeostasis and interactions with the rest of the organism can continuously modify the conditions under which nervous systems operate.

We came to this common question from different scientific directions. Our research spans complementary approaches to nervous-system physiology, but we share an interest in understanding how biological constraints and slow processes shape neural dynamics and function.

This meeting was created as a space to bring together researchers who approach these questions from different levels of biological organization, experimental systems and methodological perspectives.