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20 November 2007
20 November, 2007 in FENS News SfN Travel Awards for the FENS Forum The Society for Neuroscience is pleased to offer 15 special travel awards in the amount of USD 1500 to support the participation of US, Canadian, and Mexican graduate students at the FENS Forum.The travel awards are based on the scientific merit of [...] Read More
30 October 2007
30 October, 2007 in FENS News Mary Ann Liebert Press is pleased to offer to FENS members a special discounted rate for the Journal of Neurotrauma Journal of Neurotrauma publishes peer-reviewed papers on the latest advances in both the clinical and laboratory investigation of traumatic brain and spinal cord injury. For further information please the [...] Read More
20 October 2007
20 October, 2007 in FENS News FENS Social at SfN Meeting in San Diego FENS had invited all European and non-European scientists to attend the FENS social during Society for Neuroscience's 37th Annual Meeting. While offering drinks and European snacks, FENS presented and discussed opportunities on educational programmes, postdoctoral, and job facilities in Europe.More than [...] Read More
12 October 2007
12 October, 2007 in FENS News A Focus on Parkinson's Disease and the European Society - EBC launches 1st European Brain Policy Forum (EBPF) The European Brain Council launches a series of Annual Multidisciplinary Forums designed to involve all those with a stake in brain research in the building of a European research strategy towards [...] Read More
12 October 2007
12 October, 2007 in FENS News Special offer from IASP Press IASP Press offers a discount for FENS members for the book Immune and Glial Regulation of Pain.Immune and Glial Regulation of Pain Editors: Joyce A. DeLeo, Linda S. Sorkin, Linda R. Watkins Hardcover with CD-ROM 443 pages ISBN: 978-0-931092-67- For further information please see: [...] Read More
03 October 2007
03 October, 2007 in FENS News Submit your research to EJN! As you know, EJN (European Journal of Neuroscience) is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies. EJN is a multidisciplinary journal of broad scope publishing experimental and theoretical studies of nerve cells and nervous systems, including a range of [...] Read More
31 August 2007
31 August, 2007 in FENS News President of the Slovak Society of Neuroscience deceased Prof. Jozef Mar?ala M.D., D.Sc., founder and acting head of Slovak Society of Neuroscience, one of the pillars of neurosciences in Slovakia, suddenly and unexpectedly passed away on August 26, 2007. Professor Mar?ala was born in 1929 in a small mountain [...] Read More
31 August 2007
31 August, 2007 in FENS News Access to the Royal Society Digital Journal Archive The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive, dating back to 1665 and containing in excess of 60,000 articles, will be free online from September 1 to November 30, 2007. During this three month period, librarians and academics will be able to access [...] Read More
22 August 2007
22 August, 2007 in FENS News Oxford University Press is pleased to offer members of FENS a 20% discount This discount applies to the extensive range of books in neuroscience, to all scientific and medical books and a broad range of other books published by Oxford University Press. Some of the highlights available from the [...] Read More
06 July 2007
06 July, 2007 in FENS News FENS offers affiliated membership Any industrial organization or non-industrial organization with an interest in neuroscience may apply to the FENS for Affiliated Membership. FENS offers two levels of membership: Platinum Sustaining Corporate Membership and Gold Sustaining Corporate Membership, to corporate organizations with an interest in helping to maintain FENS [...] Read More
07 June 2007
07 June, 2007 in FENS News DANA/FENS - Final Report 2007 The final report from the 31 DANA/FENS funded Brain Awareness Week Projects is now available on the FENS website. In 2007, the directors of the Dana Foundation again approved a grant to FENS. This money together with an additional allowance from FENS, enabled FENS [...] Read More
06 June 2007
06 June, 2007 in FENS News FENS welcomes satellite events for the next FENS Forum in Geneva 2008 If you wish to organise and announce a satellite meeting, please forward us your request at fensforum@bordeaux.inserm.fr, before October 31, 2007, including: - title - venue - dates and time - names of the speakers and tentative [...] Read More
18 January 2007
18 January, 2007 in FENS News FENS travel grants for IBRO Meeting in Melbourne awarded FENS awarded 10 travel grants for the participation in the IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience (July 12 – 17, 2007) in Melbourne/Australia The following applicants were successful: Baumgärtel, Karsten (Switzerland) Bouhy, Delphine (Belgium) Collignon, Oliver (Canada) Cosgrave, Anna Siobhan (United [...] Read More
14 December 2006
14 December, 2006 in FENS News FENS Forum 2010 in Amsterdam At the FENS Governing Council Meeting on December 9/10, 2006 in Edinburgh the site for the FENS Forum 2010 was chosen. The Forum 2010 will be held in Amsterdam (Netherlands) from July 3 to 7, 2010. The Chair of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) [...] Read More
07 December 2006
07 December, 2006 in FENS News Sten Grillner has recently published a paper addressing the circuit doctrine: the logic of the core units of neuronal circuitry that control animal behavior. Biological Pattern Generation: The Cellular and Computational Logic of Networks in MotionGrillner SNeuron, Volume 52, Issue 5, p751–766, 7 December 2006 In 1900, Ramón y Cajal [...] Read More