Organization
The Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN) was established by Göttingen University and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, with contributions from partners of the Göttingen Campus, supported by the Niedersächsisches Vorab of the VolkswagenStiftung and Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony. The CIDBN has three departments spanning physics and biology, as well as two central research platforms: a High Performance Computing (HPC) Platform and the Laboratory Neurophysics. To foster innovative research by young investigator groups, the CIDBN is designed to physically host and to administratively and scientifically support up to four additional groups.
The CIDBN also maintains the coordination for Göttingen’s Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Göttingen initiated by the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization. CIDBN research contributes to three Göttingen CRCs, the Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) and the new cognitive science research center HuCaB. Nationally, the CIDBN is the coordination site of the DFG priority program 2205 "Evolutionary Optimization of Neuronal Processing" (speaker Fred Wolf). Internationally, it is the German theory hub of the transnational research network NeuroNex funded jointly by the National Science Foundation (USA), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the DFG.
The Göttingen Campus Institute was founded as a central scientific institution of the University of Göttingen as also declared in the bylaws (in German).
