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FENS Meetings
FENS offers a range of state of the art platforms for interacting international researchers from the entire spectrum of neuroscience disciplines.

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Training
New Framework

New Framework for FENS Schools and Training.
In collaboration with prominent and long-standing partners of FENS, new programmes for European higher education – schools and training – will be offered every year.

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CARE

FENS supports the EU Directive on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes.
FENS calls on the European Parliament and Commission to reaffirm their commitment to the Directive.

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What are the benefits of FENS membership?
FENS provides its members with a full package of services to facilitate the exchange of information and enhance networking activities among neuroscientists.

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The CAJAL Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme
CAJAL courses 2021

CAJAL Neuroscience Training Courses 2021

The CAJAL course programme in 2021 includes seven high-level courses. Click on each course title to view more information. Several courses were originally planned in 2020 but were moved due to the COVID-19 crisis.

The CAJAL Training Programme is monitoring the COVID-19 situation closely.
Please find more information here

! Advanced imaging techniques for cellular and systems neuroscience

- in partnership with the Bordeaux Imaging Center

Venue: Bordeaux School of Neuroscience

Date: 1-19 February 2021

Course directors:

• Dmitri Rusakov (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UK)

• Tatiana Korotkova (Neuronal circuits and behaviour, MPI for Metabolism Research, Germany)
• Grégory Giannone (CNRS, IINS - UMR 5297, University of Bordeaux, France)

! Due to the COVID-19 crisis, this course is rescheduled in 2021.

Optogenetics, chemogenetics and biosensors for cellular and circuit neuroscience

- in partnership with the Bordeaux Imaging Center

Venue: Bordeaux School of Neuroscience

Date: 8-28 March 2021

Course directors:

• Ofer Yizhar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

• Michael Lin (Stanford University, USA)
• Simon Wiegert (Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie Hamburg - ZMNH, Germany)

• Anna Beyeler (Neurocentre Magendie, University of Bordeaux, France)

Bioenergetics for Brain Function

Venue: Bordeaux School of Neuroscience

Date: 14 June – 2 July 2021

Course directors:

• Juan P Bolanos (University of Salamanca, Spain)
• Giovanni Marsicano (NeuroCentre Magendie, INSERM - University of Bordeaux, France)
• Anne-Karine Bouzier-Sore (Centre RMSB, CNRS, Bordeaux, France)

Computational Neuroscience

Venue: Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

Date: 4-24 July 2021

Course directors:

• Brent Doiron (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
• Maria Geffen (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Julijana Gjorgjieva (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany)
• Joe Paton (Champalimaud Research, Portugal)

! Due to the COVID-19 crisis, this course is rescheduled in 2021.

Interacting with neural circuits

Venue: Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

Date: 2-21 August 2021

Course directors:

• Michael Hausser (University College London, UK)

• Claire Wyart (Institut du Cerveau, France)

• Tiago Branco (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UK

• Leopoldo Petreanu (Champalimaud Research, Portugal)
• Susana Lima (Champalimaud Research, Portugal))

! Ageing cognition

Venue: Bordeaux School of Neuroscience

Date: 20 September – 8 October 2021

Course directors:

• Luísa Lopes (Neurobiology of Ageing & Disease, iMM Lisboa, Portugal)
• Cheryl Grady (The Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Canada)
• Nora Abrous (Neurocentre Magendie - INSERM U 1215, University of Bordeaux, France)