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22 July 2020
22 July, 2020 in FENS News The FENS 2020 Virtual Forum took place on 11-15 July 2020 and brought together more than 5,000 participants, 472 speakers and 58 exhibitors. Registered delegates can now benefit from the 3-month extended access, until 15 October 2020. The FENS 2020 Virtual Forum in figures The FENS 2020 Virtual Forum [...] Read More
22 July 2020
22 July, 2020 in FENS News Meet Seth Grant (UK), laureate of the FENS EJN Award, and Laurence Hunt (UK), FENS EJN Young Investigator Award. Both laureates gave a lecture at the FENS 2020 Virtual Forum. Meet Seth Grant (UK) and Laurence Hunt (UK), laureates of the FENS EJN Award and FENS EJN Young Investigator [...] Read More
21 July 2020
21 July, 2020 in FENS News The FENS Regional Meeting 2021 will take place on 25-27 August in Krakow, Poland. The call for symposia is now open - deadline 20 October 2020. The call for symposia for the FRM 2021 is now open. The FENS Regional Meeting in Kraków has two goals: to bring together presentations [...] Read More
16 July 2020
16 July, 2020 in FENS News The FENS 2020 Virtual Forum is over but there are many ways to prolong the experience - from playing the sessions you missed to listening to the Forum podcasts or downloading some lectures's graphic recordings. The FENS 2020 Virtual Forum brought together more than 5,000 attendees from 88 countries for a new [...] Read More
15 July 2020
15 July, 2020 in FENS News Extended access to the FENS 2020 Virtual Forum is ending on 15 October. Make sure you catch up on the sessions you had saved for later and check out the graphics inspired by the lectures! All the graphics can be downloaded in high resolution using the following links: [...] Read More
15 July 2020
15 July, 2020 in FENS News FENS would like to warmly welcome Jean-Antoine Girault, FENS President (2020-2022), Dora Reglodi, FENS Secretary General (2020-2022) and Harm Krugers, FENS Treasurer (2021-2023). FENS would like to warmly welcome Jean-Antoine Girault, FENS President (2020-2022), Dora Reglodi, FENS Secretary General (2020-2022) and Harm Krugers, Treasurer (2021-2023). We would also like [...] Read More
11 July 2020
The Winners of the NENS Best Students’ Poster Awards 2020 are: Best NENS Students’ Poster Awardee – MSc section: Sian Wilson, MRC-Sackler MRes/PhD Programme in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, United Kingdom for the poster entitled: Tracking white matter development in the human fetus: a comparison of diffusion MRI… Read More
08 July 2020
08 July, 2020 in FENS News Join us on the FENS floor in the Exhibition during the FENS 2020 Virtual Forum! FENS will be exhibiting alongside its partners. The FENS floor is located in the Exhibition area of the FENS 2020 Virtual Forum and includes: The European Journal of Neuroscience booth: meet the new Senior Editors [...] Read More
08 July 2020
08 July, 2020 in FENS News The awardees of the ALBA-FKNE-YIBRO Diversity Grants for the FENS 2020 Virtual Forum have been announced. In total, 286 scientists could benefit from waived registration to attend this 12th edition of the FENS Forum. A total of 286 scientists from all around the world were awarded with waived registration [...] Read More
30 June 2020
30 June, 2020 in FENS News Applications to the FENS-Hertie Winter School 2020 "Multiscale approaches to probe psychiatric disorders" have been extended until 14 September 2020. The FENS-Hertie Winter School 2020 on "Multiscale approaches to probe psychiatric disorders" This School will discuss the latest neurotechniques to monitor, interrogate and reverse genetic, immune,s synaptic and neuronal [...] Read More
24 June 2020
24 June, 2020 in FENS News Join EJN at the FENS 2020 Virtual FENS Forum! Visit their booth, find out more about their Virtual Issues, ask your questions during the Meet the Editors session and get some useful tips to publish your research at their Special interest Event. Come and visit the EJN stand to discover [...] Read More
23 June 2020
23 June, 2020 in Societies & Partner News The European Brain Research Area project - EBRA - was created as a catalysing initiative for brain research stakeholders to streamline and better co-ordinate brain research across Europe while fostering global initiatives. Subscribe to their newsletter and get updated on their activities! EBRA, the European Brain Research Area [...] Read More
17 June 2020
17 June, 2020 in FENS News Prof. Juan Lerma, Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Spain, is a candidate for the position of councillor of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in elections closing on 19 June 2020 Former FENS Secretary General, Prof. Juan Lerma, Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, Spain, is a candidate for the position of councillor [...] Read More
11 June 2020
11 June, 2020 in FENS News The Gruber Neuroscience Prize for 2020 has been awarded to Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Corey Goodman and Marc Tessier-Lavigne for their pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms that control axon guidance. The Gruber Neuroscience Prize for 2020 has been awarded to Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Corey Goodman and Marc Tessier-Lavigne for their pioneering [...] Read More
27 May 2020
27 May, 2020 in FENS News The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for 2020 has been awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their independent discoveries of sensory receptors for temperature and pressure, respectively. The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience is awarded to David Julius (University of California, San Francisco) and Ardem Patapoutian (Howard Hughes Medical [...] Read More