Amsterdam institute for Immunology and Infectious diseases

During the Data Conversations at the VU on November 26th, the speakers will talk about the importance of collaboration for open science. They will share their experience with team science, recognition and reward system. Speakers are:
Trynke Hoekstra: "A team makes the dream or a dream makes the team? A talk about experiences with team science"
Anne Urai: "The International Brain Laboratory: building a global collaboration for more reproducible neuroscience" Join this event if you are interested in open science and research culture; if you want to learn about the work of your colleagues at other faculties and feel yourself part of a broader university community!
About the speakers: Trynke Hoekstra is appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit. She is an experienced lecturer in epidemiology and applied biostatistics to BSc and MSc Students in Health Sciences and Epidemiology. Trynke has a broad research interest, probably because she enjoys collaborating in multidisciplinary research teams. She aims to inspire her students (and colleagues) to be(come) critical, constructive academics.
Anne Urai studied cognitive neuroscience and philosophy at University College Utrecht, Xiamen University in China, University College London and École Normale Supérieure, Paris. During her doctoral research in the lab of Tobias Donner at the Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf and University of Amsterdam, she investigated how our previous choices bias the way we interpret later information, and how this process is affected by the confidence in our decisions. She joined Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York as a postdoctoral fellow, investigating the neurophysiology of decision-making using high-density neural recordings in the mouse brain. During this time she was a core member of the International Brain Laboratory collaboration, working as part of a global team of systems and computational neuroscientists. Her research in general focuses on the neural basis of decision-making across mammalian species, the interaction between learning and perception, and the neural basis of cognitive aging.