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14 March 2017
14 March, 2017 in FENS News The Hertie Foundation and the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) have announced the winner of their prize for young neuroscientists: Marta Zlatic, a Croatian/British neurobiologist, will receive the Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize worth EUR 100,000 for her research into decision-making processes in the brain. It is the [...] Read More
10 March 2017
10 March, 2017 in Neuroscience News The secret life of your brain is revealed in new exhibition at the Museum of Natural History. New exhibition "Brain Diaries" is opening on the 10th of March at the Museum of Natural History in Oxford. "Brain Diaries", unlocks the mysteries of the brain’s development at each stage of life, [...] Read More
08 March 2017
08 March, 2017 in FENS News The opinion article based on the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence’s survey, led by Tim Vogels, Matt Grubb, Carlos Ribeiro and Yiota Poirazi (chair of the Network) has been published in the 9th March issue of Nature. The article summarises the work of the FENS-Kavli Scholars who asked more than [...] Read More
07 March 2017
07 March, 2017 in FENS News Save the date: 22 April 2017. Join our colleagues in the United States to ‘March for Science’. On 22 April 2017, neuroscientists in Europe have the opportunity to join with our colleagues in the United States to ‘March for Science’ and to show the strength of our feelings about [...] Read More
07 March 2017
07 March, 2017 in Neuroscience News On 22 April the scientific community will march in the US as a call to support and safeguard science and research to the recent policy change. The main mission of the march is to publicly communicate science as a pillar of human freedom and prosperity: the most effective way [...] Read More
06 March 2017
06 March, 2017 in Neuroscience News Three UK-based neuroscientists have won this year’s prestigious Brain Prize. Peter Dayan, Ray Dolan and Wolfram Schultz share the €1 million euro prize for their analysis of how the brain recognises and processes reward. Thirty years ago, German-born Wolfram Schultz, now professor of neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Principal Research [...] Read More
04 March 2017
04 March, 2017 in Neuroscience News Rogue Neuroscientist on a Mission to Hack Peer Review: Wired article about open policy discussed in the EJN editorial Access the full article in Wired here. The creep toward open peer review is well on its way. This month, the European Journal of Neuroscience announced that it would start attaching full, [...] Read More
02 March 2017
02 March, 2017 in Neuroscience News Bradley University's 3rd Inaugural Brain Summit - online The Super Brain Summit is a one-day conference showcasing two internationally known experts in the fields of neuroplasticity and neurotherapy. Additionally, this year’s event will focus on discussing and teaching emotional and physiological self-regulation, so attendees can learn how to take [...] Read More
01 March 2017
01 March, 2017 in FENS News You have now more time to submit your symposium and workshop proposal. Extended Submission Deadline: 8 March 2017 Share your expertise with Europe's leading community at the 11th FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Berlin, 7-11 July 2018. Check the list of themes for FENS Forum 2018 and submit your proposal. For detailed information and guidelines [...] Read More
21 February 2017
21 February, 2017 in FENS News The call for proposals for symposia at the FENS FORUM 2018 meeting in Berlin is open, so we thought it would be useful to find out, from the chair of the programme committee, what makes a good meeting symposium. Jane Haley, member of the FENS communication committee interviewed Professor Thomas [...] Read More
20 February 2017
20 February, 2017 in Neuroscience News The European Commission and its Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) have just launched a public consultation on the preliminary Opinion ‘The need for non-human primates in biomedical research, production and testing of products and devices’. The Committee on Animals in Research (CARE) is fully involved [...] Read More
16 February 2017
16 February, 2017 in FENS News Neural Oscillations: submit your paper. Submission Deadline: 1 July 2017 Editors: Ali Mazaheri (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom), Heleen Slagter (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Gregor Thut (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom), John J. Foxe (University of Rochester, New York, USA). Large-scale oscillations of cortical networks were the most prominent [...] Read More
15 February 2017
15 February, 2017 in FENS News Co-editors in chief John Foxe and Paul Bolam talk about the increasing demand and need for openness and transparency in publishing of scientific papers. "In light of the increasing demand and need for openness and transparency in publishing of scientific papers, we the Editors-in-Chief of The European Journal of Neuroscience, [...] Read More
10 February 2017
10 February, 2017 in Neuroscience News European science organisations: maintain transparency, open communication and mobility of scholars and scientists. A large number of major European organisations in the area of science, research, innovation and higher education, including FENS, have written an Open Letter to European Prime Ministers, as well as the President of the European [...] Read More
10 February 2017
10 February, 2017 in FENS News FENS provided four travel grants to help young investigators, PhD or MSc students to attend the 40th Annual Meeting of Japan Neuroscience Society (Neuroscience 2017: Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan, 20-23 July). Warm congratulations to the four grant recipients! The FENS travel grants awardees (listed in the alphabetical order) [...] Read More