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06 May 2013
06 May, 2013 in FENS News Grants for job interviews covering travel costs up to a maximum of €1500 to and from Europe to Japan and China for postdoctoral and Ph.D. student positions are available through the Young Researchers Exchange Support Programmes (YREP). Deadline for applications: 15 June 2013. Application form and detailed information can [...] Read More
26 April 2013
26 April, 2013 in FENS News The final report of the BAW awarded projects for 2013 is now available During the Brain Awareness Week 2013, 27 projects were awarded a grant of maximum 1,000 EUR by the DANA Foundation/FENS. The final report of the awarded projects can be viewed here. Read More
23 April 2013
23 April, 2013 in FENS News Applications are open for 'The Neurobiology of Synapses and their Dysfunction' conference: 13-17 October 2013 - Hotel la Palma, Stresa, Italy As part of a series of high-level meetings on the neurosciences in Europe and being co-organised by ESF and FENS, this conference will be focused on the molecular [...] Read More
18 April 2013
18 April, 2013 in FENS News Stipends of up to 2.000 EUR covering travel and accommodation costs are intended for Master and early PhD students registered within NENS member schools or programmes Deadline for applying: 15 June 2013. Further information and the application form are available on the page of NENS Stipends for Training Stays Read More
18 April 2013
18 April, 2013 in FENS News “The Prospects of Brain Research within Horizon 2020: responding efficiently to Europe’s societal needs“ conference - a European Month of the Brain joint initiative taking place on 30 May, at the European Parliament Jointly organised by FENS, the European Brain Council and the European Science Foundation, the meeting brings [...] Read More
15 April 2013
15 April, 2013 in FENS News Following the initiative of the European Commission, May 2013 has been declared European Month of the Brain (EMoB): be part of this initiative and place your brain research event under EMoB umbrella! More information on the Month of the Brain 2013 and how to join in and be a [...] Read More
11 April 2013
11 April, 2013 in FENS News Lisa Schnell receives EJN Best Publication Award 2013 In collaboration with FENS and Wiley-Blackwell, EJN awarded the "Best Publication Award 2013" to Lisa Schnell. This award recognizes the best research article published in EJN over the preceding two-year period and is bestowed to the first author of the selected [...] Read More
10 April 2013
10 April, 2013 in FENS News Emre Yaksi receives FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize 2014 The FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize is given in recognition of outstanding scientific work in any area of neuroscience. This is a personal prize of 7,000 GBP. In 2014, the award will be presented to Emre Yaksi. What are the [...] Read More
27 March 2013
27 March, 2013 in FENS News ISN School in cooperation with FENS on "Local protein synthesis in axons and dendrites" We are inviting student applications for the ISN School on "Local protein synthesis in axons and dendrites" in cooperation with FENS to be held in Crete in September 2013. The school will be held in [...] Read More
20 March 2013
20 March, 2013 in FENS News Golgi Revealed - The inventory of historical slides of the Golgi's Institute: a new history of European neuroscience project available online The building which in the past housed the Institute of General Pathology of the University of Pavia, where Camillo Golgi settled his school and his laboratory, has recently [...] Read More
14 March 2013
14 March, 2013 in FENS News Neuroscience by Caricature in Europe through the Ages: a new history of neuroscience project has been finalised The project examines the chronological development of European Neuroscience through the representations portrayed by the caricaturists. Explore this online project here. Read More
14 March 2013
14 March, 2013 in FENS News FENS Trimestrial Newsletter – Winter Issue 2013 The Winter Issue of the FENS Trimestrial Newsletter is now available online. Enjoy your reading! Content: - Message from the FENS President - Editorial from the Communication Committee - Opinion Corner: The FENS-IBRO Connection:Joining Forces to Promote Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology at the University of [...] Read More
13 March 2013
13 March, 2013 in FENS News Stipends awarded for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2013 in San Diego FENS offers 15 travel grants for the participation in the annual meeting of the SfN (San Diego, November 9 – 13, 2013). The successful applicants have been selected. Congratulations to the following stipend [...] Read More
11 March 2013
11 March, 2013 in FENS News Six eminent scientists share the world’s largest brain research prize The names of the prize winners, Austrian Gero Miesenböck, Germans Ernst Bamberg, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel, and Americans Ed Boyden and Karl Deisseroth, were announced on 11 March in Copenhagen. Together these scientists laid the foundations for a [...] Read More
08 March 2013
08 March, 2013 in FENS News Alexander Borst receives FENS-EJN Award 2014 The FENS EJN Award is given in recognition of outstanding scientific work in any area of neuroscience. This is a personal prize of 10,000 GBP. In 2014, the award will be presented to Alexander Borst. How do nerve cells compute? This is the [...] Read More