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25 November 2022
FENS is delighted to talk with Ugne Beatrice Birstonaite, a student in grade 12 at Vilnius Vytautas Magnus Gymnasium in Lithuania, who won 3rd place in the International Brain Bee competition. Her curiosity and interest in lucid dreaming developed into a passion for brain research. After going to university, she plans to work in academia and to pursue her own research. Read the full interview below. [...] Read More
15 November 2022
FENS and SPN (Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências) are delighted to announce that early registration and abstract submission are now open for the FENS Regional Meeting 2023, taking place on 3-5 May next year in Algarve, Portugal. [...] Read More
10 November 2022
Helene Li, a Grade 10 student in the International Baccalaureate program at Merivale High School in Ottawa, Canada, became the 2022 world champion of the International Brain Bee (IBB). Read the full interview below. [...] Read More
10 November 2022
Are you attending Neuroscience 2022, SfN annual meeting? FENS is inviting the neuroscience community to participate in the scavenger hunt taking place from 13 to 15 November 2022. [...] Read More
08 November 2022
FENS is delighted to announce the opening of registration for the Brain Conference “Establishment and Maintenance of Brain Cell States”, taking place on 23-26 April 2023 in Rungsted Kyst, Denmark. Early registration deadline on 12 January 2022. [...] Read More
04 November 2022
FENS members can register to attend the Annual Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) in 2022 at special rates! [...] Read More
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
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
13 October 2022
Registration for the FENS live flash webinar on “Running a Brain Awareness Week event in 2023” is now open. [...] Read More
12 October 2022
The FENS-Dana Brain Awareness Week 2023 Grants are now open! [...] Read More
10 October 2022
FENS is exhibiting at Neuroscience 2022, the SfN annual meeting in San Diego. [...] Read More
05 October 2022
FENS is exhibiting at Brain Innovation Days 2022 from 11-12 October. [...] Read More
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
29 September 2022
FENS will open the Brain Awareness Week 2023 grants application from 12 October until 16 November 2022. [...] Read More
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