Our research training group SynAGE is a very active community. Scientifically we focus on healthy aging and cognitive decline in normal aging. Apart from our daily research we offer a number of activities, events and opportunities for our members. They are in the focus!
Here our members get a chance to tell their SynAGE stories …
SynAGE International Mentoring 2024
by Larissa Fischer – Boston, Massachusetts
In July 2024, I had the opportunity to spend three weeks at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, working with Prof Jonathan Peelle in his Speech, Hearing, and Communication (SHAC) Lab. Their work on aging and changes in cognitive functions with higher task demands is highly relevant for our SynAGE project D1. They investigate how hearing difficulties with age cause higher demands on the aging brain, necessitating more effort to succeed at tasks. We aim to better understand how Alzheimer’s pathology in cognitively unimpaired older adults poses higher demands and whether there are potential compensatory brain mechanisms during ageing. The SHAC lab is, fittingly with the interdisciplinary focus of SynAGE, located at the ISEC (Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex).
SynAGE Retreat and Alumni Gathering 2024
by Dana Zöllner
From May 29th to 31st, 2024 we, that is 17 PhD and MD students, five postdocs and five PIs, have travelled to Thale for our yearly SynAGE retreat. The aim was an intense exchange on the current state of the PhD/MD projects as well as in-depth discussions on future plans. To that aim, we had prepared a very diverse program.
We started together on the morning of the 29th of May at the central station in Magdeburg, where we took the local train to Thale. The city of Thale is just about 65 km from Magdeburg sitting at the foot of the Harz mountains. With slightly less than 20,000 residents it is a lovely little town, where the Bode Valley starts.
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