FENS Voices | Alexandros Tsimpolis: Learning from a heat blocker

28 October 2022

This week's FENS Voices guest is Alexandros Tsimpolis, a PhD student from the Medical Department of University of Crete, Greece. In 2022 he received a fellowship from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation for the continuation of his work and was awarded with a NENS exchange grant to visit and collaborate with the Gene Regulation and Adaptive Behaviours lab in the University of Sorbonne, France. Read the full interview! [...] Read More

FENS Voices | Rui Rodrigues: Choosing the right calls

14 October 2022

We caught up with FENS member Dr Rui Rodrigues from Portugal, to find out about his research endeavours after he was awarded a FENS Brain Awareness Week 2022 grant. He started as a researcher in Dr Ana Sebastião’s lab, at Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, but is currently moving to Bordeaux, France, as a postdoctoral fellow in Giovanni Marsicano’s lab at Neurocentre Magendie. Read the full interview below. [...] Read More

Running a Brain Awareness Week event in 2023

13 October 2022

Registration for the FENS live flash webinar on “Running a Brain Awareness Week event in 2023” is now open. [...] Read More

Call for applications: FENS-Dana Brain Awareness Week 2023 Grants

12 October 2022

The FENS-Dana Brain Awareness Week 2023 Grants are now open! [...] Read More

Join FENS at Neuroscience 2022

10 October 2022

FENS is exhibiting at Neuroscience 2022, the SfN annual meeting in San Diego. [...] Read More

Call for Nominations: The 2023 Gruber International Neuroscience Prize

07 October 2022

The Gruber Foundation invites nominations on behalf of individuals whose achievements in Cosmology, Genetics or Neuroscience. [...] Read More

Join FENS during Brain Innovation Days 2022

05 October 2022

FENS is exhibiting at Brain Innovation Days 2022 from 11-12 October. [...] Read More

FENS Voices | Nana Voitenko: Neuroscience on the frontline

30 September 2022

Dr Voitenko obtained her PhD in Biophysics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and then married and moved to Kyiv when it was still part of the USSR. Facing challenge after challenge, her personal story is an extraordinary, inspiring example of the courage and commitment of all scientists who continue their research with hopeful resolve under the most daunting conditions. Read the full interview below. [...] Read More

The Brain Awareness Week 2023 grants will open in October!

29 September 2022

FENS will open the Brain Awareness Week 2023 grants application from 12 October until 16 November 2022. [...] Read More

The Tale of Two Intelligence Fields: AI and Neuroscience

28 September 2022

The Chen-FENS Science Writer Fellowship winner, Dr Chorghay reported on this year’s Brain Debate on “Building and understanding brains: How can AI research inform neuroscience?”. She analyses the main discussions on how new work in AI research can guide our understanding of biological brains. [...] Read More

Join us at the FENS Friday webinar in October

27 September 2022

Registration for the FENS Friday webinar on “The microbiome, immunity, and neurodevelopment trialogue: from womb to adulthood" is now open. [...] Read More

FENS Voices | Anna Beyeler: On anxiety, mice and an atom microscope

15 September 2022

Meet the first FENS voice, Dr Anna Beyeler, a neuroscientist whose research focuses on the neural circuits that control anxiety. Find out why she chose to do brain research, what she recalls from her studies and what would be her scientific dream! [...] Read More

Opening the Neuroscience Photo Contest of FRM 2023

13 September 2022

The FRM organisers are thrilled to announce that the Neuroscience Photography Contest of the FENS Regional Meeting 2023 is now officially open! [...] Read More

Addressing the opportunity gap in the Latin American neuroscience community

08 September 2022

The ALBA Network outlines key actions to improve the global inclusion, visibility and success of Latin American neuroscientists In a new commentary published in Nature Neuroscience (Volume 25 Issue 9, September 2022), members of the ALBA Network review the challenges currently faced by the Latin… Read More

FENS President’s Message

05 September 2022

Dear colleagues, dear friends, As a scientist and member of the neuroscience community for many years, it is a real honour to begin my active role as FENS President. The federation is at an exciting stage of strategic review and development that will enable it to… Read More

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