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02 October 2015
02 October, 2015 in FENS News Funds to strengthen public/private BRAIN Initiative. Establish new neuroscience institutes at Johns Hopkins University, The Rockefeller University and the University of California, San Francisco. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Thursday, October 1 The Kavli Foundation and it university partners announced today the commitment of more than $100 million in new funds [...] Read More
01 October 2015
01 October, 2015 in FENS News “Understanding the brain is one of the major challenges of modern science” The Institute of Neurosciences (IN) is a centre belonging to the University of Alicante, and one of the twenty Spanish centres which has won the Severo Ochoa award of Quality. Its Director, Juan Lerma, will deliver one [...] Read More
22 September 2015
22 September, 2015 in FENS News Dr. Gaia Novarino has been awarded the Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award 2016 for her research on the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying human genetic disorders. As group leader at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Klosterneuburg, Austria, Dr Novarino is currently leading a research programme focused [...] Read More
08 September 2015
08 September, 2015 in FENS News The European Research Centre grantee and FENS-Kavli Scholars Chair Prof. Poirazi investigates how human memory works. You can meet her at the World Economic Forum's 'Summer Davos'. The FENS-Kavli Scholars Chair, Panayiota Poirazi, together with the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas and the ERC President, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, [...] Read More
02 September 2015
02 September, 2015 in FENS News In a series of opinion pieces from the FENS Kavli Network of Excellence (FKNE), the scholars aim to offer the next generation of up-and-coming PIs some advice and personal perspectives on the transition to independence, starting here with guidance on how to get hired to your first PI position. [...] Read More
31 July 2015
31 July, 2015 in FENS News FENS President Monica di Luca, Barry Everitt and Marian Joëls published an editorial on the European Journal of Neuroscience presenting the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence, which celebrates and supports the most talented mid-career neuroscientists in Europe. The voice of next generation Di Luca M, Everitt BJ, Joels M; Eur [...] Read More
23 July 2015
23 July, 2015 in FENS News Are you a FENS member? Get access to EJN articles directly on your smartphone or tablet. About the App:- Stay up-to-date with the latest articles through EarlyView- Receive alerts when new issues are available- Download articles and issues for offline use- Save your favorite articles for quick and easy [...] Read More
15 July 2015
15 July, 2015 in FENS News Where European Neuroscience meets the world: 2-6 July 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark The FENS Forum 2016 will comprise 56 parallel sessions across seven main themes in neuroscience: cognition, development, disease, excitability, homeostasis, methods and sensory motor. The scientific programme will consist of plenary lectures, symposia, workshops and special lectures given [...] Read More
14 July 2015
14 July, 2015 in FENS News In collaboration with FENS and Wiley-Blackwell, EJN is proud to announce that the winner of the "Best Publication Award 2015" is Dr. Silvina Laura Diaz, PhD, DVM, researcher at CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr. Silvina Laura Diaz receives this Award for her publication in EJN entitled: "Paradoxical increase in survival [...] Read More
13 July 2015
13 July, 2015 in FENS News Apply for the FENS-Hertie Winter school 2015, which takes place the 3-9 January 2016, in Obergurgl, Austria Still time to apply for the upcoming FENS-Hertie Winter School, which will provide students with the latest insights into the neurobiology of language and communication, emphasising similarities across species as well as [...] Read More
07 July 2015
07 July, 2015 in FENS News The following applicants have been awarded a travel grant to attend the SfN Annual Meeting (Chicago, 17-21 October 2015). 10 travel grants of € 1.500 each were available and earmarked for FENS members. The grants will be distributed at the FENS booth during the SfN Meeting. Please bring along [...] Read More
24 June 2015
24 June, 2015 in FENS News Marian Joëls and FENS President Monica di Luca recently published a paper that discusses instruments and steps that can help young researchers progress in their academic career. The Hitchhiker's Guide to a Neuroscience Career Joëls M, Hoogenraad CC, Poirazi P, Di Luca M.Neuron. 2015 May 6;86(3):613-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.04.002.24 June 2015 [...] Read More
08 June 2015
08 June, 2015 in FENS News Only few months left to the FENS Featured Regional Meeting, which will be held at Ioannis Vellidis Congress Center in Thessaloniki, from 7 to 10 October 2015. Take an active role at the meeting by submitting your abstract and present your work at the FFRM 2015! Deadline for abstract [...] Read More
04 June 2015
04 June, 2015 in FENS News The History Committee organises a yearly call for European History of Neuroscience Projects. This FENS initiative would like to support and stimulate the interest in the History of Neuroscience through the creation of a virtual platform dedicated to the topic. This call provides grants for outstanding projects that aim [...] Read More
29 May 2015
29 May, 2015 in FENS News The Hertie Foundation in collaboration with FENS has awarded the 2015 Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize to Yasser Roudi from the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for Neural Computation, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. The award which is named after the 2000 Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel “recognises the work [...] Read More