Ties van de Werff will defend his PhD dissertation ‘Practicing the Plastic Brain: popular neuroscience and the good life’ in the Aula, Minderbroedersberg 4-6, on Wednesday 16 May at 10.00, followed by a reception at Cafe de Poort, between 12.00 and 16.00. Further details are available through paranymph Sarah Weingartz, and through his website. Ties’s supervisors are prof.dr. T. Swierstra and prof.dr. H. Pott.