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13 July 2015
13 July, 2015 in FENS News Apply for the FENS-Hertie Winter school 2015, which takes place the 3-9 January 2016, in Obergurgl, Austria Still time to apply for the upcoming FENS-Hertie Winter School, which will provide students with the latest insights into the neurobiology of language and communication, emphasising similarities across species as well as [...] Read More
07 July 2015
07 July, 2015 in FENS News The following applicants have been awarded a travel grant to attend the SfN Annual Meeting (Chicago, 17-21 October 2015). 10 travel grants of € 1.500 each were available and earmarked for FENS members. The grants will be distributed at the FENS booth during the SfN Meeting. Please bring along [...] Read More
24 June 2015
24 June, 2015 in FENS News Marian Joëls and FENS President Monica di Luca recently published a paper that discusses instruments and steps that can help young researchers progress in their academic career. The Hitchhiker's Guide to a Neuroscience Career Joëls M, Hoogenraad CC, Poirazi P, Di Luca M.Neuron. 2015 May 6;86(3):613-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.04.002.24 June 2015 [...] Read More
19 June 2015
19 June, 2015 in Societies & Partner News The award is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim and is announced by the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS). It is given in recognition of outstanding and innovative scientific contributions in any area of neuroscience research. This is a personal prize of 25.000 €. Applications can either be [...] Read More
08 June 2015
08 June, 2015 in FENS News Only few months left to the FENS Featured Regional Meeting, which will be held at Ioannis Vellidis Congress Center in Thessaloniki, from 7 to 10 October 2015. Take an active role at the meeting by submitting your abstract and present your work at the FFRM 2015! Deadline for abstract [...] Read More
05 June 2015
05 June, 2015 in Neuroscience News FENS welcomes the commitment of the European Parliament and the European Commission to reaffirm the importance of the Directive 2010/63/EU, which promotes animal welfare and high-quality standards in animal research. On 3 June the European Commission issued its formal reply to the ECI ‘Stop Vivisection’, whose aim is to [...] Read More
04 June 2015
04 June, 2015 in FENS News The History Committee organises a yearly call for European History of Neuroscience Projects. This FENS initiative would like to support and stimulate the interest in the History of Neuroscience through the creation of a virtual platform dedicated to the topic. This call provides grants for outstanding projects that aim [...] Read More
29 May 2015
29 May, 2015 in FENS News The Hertie Foundation in collaboration with FENS has awarded the 2015 Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize to Yasser Roudi from the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for Neural Computation, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. The award which is named after the 2000 Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel “recognises the work [...] Read More
20 May 2015
20 May, 2015 in Societies & Partner News Call for nominations have been announced to identify candidates for the € 1 million prize, The Brain Prize, which has been established by a private Danish foundation, the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation. The Brain Prize recognizes highly original and influential advances in research on the [...] Read More
14 May 2015
14 May, 2015 in Neuroscience News On the 11th of May the European Parliament hosted the European Citizens initiative entitled ‘Stop Vivisection’, which demands to abrogate directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes and requests animal testing to be stopped for biomedical and toxicological research. The Public Hearing, chaired by the [...] Read More
13 May 2015
13 May, 2015 in FENS News The 2014 winner of the FENS EJN Young Investigator Research Award has published in the European Journal of Neuroscience a new review article about his work on the zebrafish brain. The paper entitled "Methods for studying the zebrafish brain: past, present and future" includes a deep analysis of the zebrafish [...] Read More
08 May 2015
08 May, 2015 in FENS News The message is signed on behalf of FENS by President Monica di Luca FENS regrets the decision of Nikos Logothetis, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany, to stop his research on primates. However, we understand the terrible pressures from animal activist groups [...] Read More
05 May 2015
05 May, 2015 in FENS News Stipends are available for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2015, which will take place in Chicago on 17-21 October. FENS offers 10 travel grants of € 1.500 each to attend the annual meeting of the SfN (Chicago, 17-21 October 2015). Stipends are earmarked for FENS members. Online application via [...] Read More
28 April 2015
28 April, 2015 in FENS News Neuro opinion: reforming the academic system is a joint responsibility: Marian Joëls, Monica Di Luca and Barry J. Everitt, past president, current president and president-elect respectively, are the authors of this interesting article about neuroscience research and scientific publications published on the European Journal of Neuroscience on the 24th [...] Read More
24 April 2015
24 April, 2015 in Neuroscience News On 11 May the European Parliament will host a public hearing on the Stop Vivisection European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) in order to provide a platform for debate for Members, the general public, the ECI's supporters and experts in the field. The ECI aims to repeal the Directive on the [...] Read More