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20 November 2018
20 November, 2018 in FENS News EJN Special Issue on Depression and on Sex Differences in Neuroscience and Neuropsychopharmacology. We look forward to receiving your submissions! EJN Special Issue on Depression, with Guest Editors Michel Barrot and Ipek Yalcin. Read the Call for Papers Here bit.ly/2D9dip8 EJN special Issue on Sex Differences in Neuroscience and Neuropsychopharmacology; [...] Read More
14 November 2018
14 November, 2018 in Societies & Partner News FENS welcomes Dr Kevin Moses as Vice President of Science Programs at The Kavli Foundation. Dr. Moses will oversee The Kavli Foundation’s flagship programs in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience and theoretical physics, including the 20 Kavli Institutes around the world, the Kavli science meetings program [...] Read More
09 November 2018
09 November, 2018 in FENS News FENS Forum 2020: What Introductory Scientific Workshops and Early Career Research Events do you want? Quick 2-Question Survey. The British Neuroscience Association (BNA), which will host the FENS Forum 2020 in Glasgow, launched a call for topics related to the following: Topics for Introductory Scientific Workshops Around five Introductory Scientific Workshops [...] Read More
25 October 2018
25 October, 2018 in FENS News Call for nominations open on 1 November 2018. This award is sponsored by the EJN's publisher Wiley and is given in recognition of an outstanding scientific work in any area of neuroscience. This is a personal prize of £ 10,000.Candidates must be nominated by fellow neuroscientists (no self-application accepted) and [...] Read More
15 October 2018
15 October, 2018 in Neuroscience News Call for Nominations open in the field of Cosmology, Genetics, or Neuroscience. The Gruber Foundation invites nominations on behalf of individuals whose achievements in Cosmology, Genetics, or Neuroscience would make them suitable candidates for recognition through the 2019 Gruber International Prize Program. Each prize, which is accompanied by a [...] Read More
12 October 2018
12 October, 2018 in FENS News The FENS and ANS travel grants recipients to facilitate the attendance of young investigators, PhD or MSc students to the 38th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society (Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Queensland, 3-6 December 2018) have been selected. Warm congratulations to the travel grant recipients! The [...] Read More
11 October 2018
11 October, 2018 in FENS News We make FENS through our member societies. It is, thus, highly important to support our national societies. Being a member of your national society –and attending its national meeting in 2019– means being part of FENS. It is only now a few months since I started using social media; [...] Read More
03 October 2018
03 October, 2018 in FENS News FENS provides travel grants to help young investigators, PhD or MS students to attend SONA conference 2019 (24-28 March) in Lagos, Nigeria The support is intended to support young investigators (MSc to Postdoc level) to attend SONA conference 2019 in Lagos, Nigeria. These grants - up to € 1.000 [...] Read More
19 September 2018
19 September, 2018 in Societies & Partner News The Dana Foundation invites you to enter the Brain Awareness Week Sticker Design Contest for the chance to have your creation become the sticker for the 2019 campaign, 11-17 March. Sticker designs must be original graphics that capture the spirit of the campaign and include the words [...] Read More
17 September 2018
17 September, 2018 in Neuroscience News The European Animal Research Association (EARA) with the support of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), invite to you to discuss improving openness in communications with the general public, political decision makers and opinion formers in Germany on animal research. There is [...] Read More
10 September 2018
10 September, 2018 in FENS News The paper is written by the FENS History Committee (2016-2018), in collaboration with FENS and IBRO Presidents, and with the input of Professor Gordon Shepherd. It reflects the activities organised and actions taken by the History Committee to preserve the European History of Neuroscience and promote its importance for [...] Read More
05 September 2018
05 September, 2018 in Neuroscience News The Japanese Neuroscience Society will open the call for the 2019 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience on 1st November 2018. Scope of the Award: Research in developmental neuroscience at the tissue and cellular levels. The scope of the Award is not limited to phenomena during fetal or developmental stages; [...] Read More
03 September 2018
03 September, 2018 in FENS News Deadline extended: proposals for symposia for the FENS Regional Meeting 2019 (FRM2019) that will take place in Belgrade, Serbia, 10-13 July 2019. Still time to submit your proposals for symposia for the FRM 2019. The FRM2019 Scientific Committee welcomes and strongly encourages symposium proposals from neuroscience communities around the [...] Read More
30 August 2018
30 August, 2018 in Neuroscience News The Human Brain Project is opening its expertise and skills to researchers and groups around the world through a new voucher programme. The Call invites researchers to apply for free access to the HBP Platform's services and engineering support to advance their research. Each voucher provides the winner with [...] Read More
22 August 2018
22 August, 2018 in Neuroscience News The website for registration and abstract submission for the 13th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (20 - 23 March 2019) will open on 27 August 2018. The Meeting offers 9 plenary lectures, 36 symposia and extended poster sessions. The German Neuroscience Society will provides travel grants for young qualified researchers. [...] Read More