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07 November 2017
07 November, 2017 in FENS News New initiatives by editors John Foxe and Paul Bolam ensure that EJN publishes papers of the highest quality in all fields of neuroscience and provides rapid, rigorous, fair and totally transparent peer review. Now is the time to submit your high-quality research to EJN. The journal is subscribed to [...] Read More
24 October 2017
24 October, 2017 in FENS News Submit your papers to The European Journal of Neuroscience. Submission Deadline: 1 March 2018. SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS Addiction Guest Editors: Michel Barrot (University of Strasbourg, France), Antonello Bonci (National Institute of Drug Abuse, USA), Barry Everitt (University of Cambridge, UK) & Rita Goldstein (Mount Sinai, USA) Estimated [...] Read More
19 October 2017
19 October, 2017 in FENS News "Neuroscience in British literature" by Roni Tibon, Ph.D is now available on the History online platform. The project "Neuroscience in British Literature by Roni Tibon, Ph.D (Newton International Fellow at the MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK) was awarded in 2016 and it is now available [...] Read More
11 September 2017
11 September, 2017 in FENS News The Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award 2018 has been awarded to Dr. David Dupret for his research on the dynamics of neuronal assemblies during memory processes. David Dupret is leading a research programme at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Brain Network Dynamics Unit in the University of Oxford. His research [...] Read More
25 August 2017
25 August, 2017 in FENS News Edited by Stephane Boudoin, John Foxe, Sophie Molholm, and Mark Wallace. The issue is being edited by Stephane Boudoin, John Foxe, Sophie Molholm, and Mark Wallace. You can read some of the accepted articles at EJN Early View. Follow the link below: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1460-9568 Read More
20 July 2017
20 July, 2017 in FENS News ‘Direct and indirect effects of attention and visual function on gait impairment in Parkinson's disease: influence of task and turning’ by Stuart et al. This study revealed that visual function did not significantly account for changes to gait parameters in Parkinson's disease patients, but rather worked indirectly through attention, [...] Read More
03 July 2017
03 July, 2017 in FENS News Warm congratulations to Dr. Guillermina López-Bendito, Senior Scientist at the Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Alicante, Spain. A FENS-Kavli Scholar since 2014 and an EMBO Young Investigator since 2013, Dr. López-Bendito has been awarded with the 11th IBRO Kemali Prize [...] Read More
29 June 2017
29 June, 2017 in FENS News Register now to make sure to participate in this years’s Brain Prize Meeting (30 October -1 November 2017, Hindsgavl Castle, Denmark) The Brain Prize Meeting 2017 – Rewarding Neuroscience The Brain Prize Meeting 2017 brings together excellent speakers and researchers under the theme ‘Rewarding Neuroscience’ inspired by this year’s [...] Read More
28 June 2017
28 June, 2017 in FENS News The FENS and ANS travel grants recipients to facilitate the attendance of young investigators, PhD or MSc students to the 37th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society (Sydney, Australia, 3-6 December 2017) have been selected. Warm congratulations to the travel grant recipients! The travel grant awardees are: [...] Read More
26 June 2017
26 June, 2017 in FENS News FENS offers 10 travel grants of € 1.500 each to attend the annual meeting of the SfN (Washington, 11-15 November 2017). Stipends are earmarked for FENS members. The applicants have been awarded a SfN travel grant for their participation in the SfN Annual Meeting 2017 in Washington. The grants will [...] Read More
20 June 2017
20 June, 2017 in FENS News The FENS FRM 2017 travel grants amount to a maximum of 500 €. Ten travel grants have been generously contributed by the German Neuroscience Society. Warm congratulations to the FRM 2017 travel grant recipients! The FENS travel grants awardees (listed in the alphabetical order) are: Read More
16 June 2017
16 June, 2017 in FENS News Special Issue call for papers in EJN: Where the rubber meets the road in visual perception. High temporal-precision brain signals to top-down and bottom-up influences on perceptual resolution. Guest Editors: Patrick Johnston (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Alan Pegna (The University of Queensland, Australia), Aina Puce (Indiana University, United [...] Read More
08 June 2017
08 June, 2017 in FENS News Message from the President, Prof. Barry Everitt. In 2015, FENS and IBRO launched a joint venture to provide, for the first time in Europe, high-level, hands-on training courses in a wide range of neuroscience techniques for early career neuroscientists. The Cajal Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme was established in partnership [...] Read More
06 June 2017
06 June, 2017 in FENS News FENS members can register with special rate at the Annual Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society in 2017. FENS members have the opportunity to register for the 37th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society (Sydney, Australia, 3-6 December 2017) with same rate as ANS members. ANS 2017 will be [...] Read More
22 May 2017
22 May, 2017 in FENS News The FENS History Committee organises annual calls for European History of Neuroscience Projects, to document the history and development of neuroscience in Europe. The call for projects is open Submit your proposal Deadline: 2 October 2017. The FENS History Committee organises annual calls for European History of Neuroscience Projects, to [...] Read More