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06 April 2018
06 April, 2018 in FENS News Are you planning to attend SfN 2018? Request your ISM slot to present your abstract and register at member rates. FENS members can present an abstract and register for the SfN annual meeting under the same conditions as regular members of SfN. Register for an ISM slot with FENS [...] Read More
05 April 2018
05 April, 2018 in FENS News Read the editorial on "Explorations and perspectives on the neurobiological bases of autism spectrum disorder", by John J. Foxe Sophie Molholm Stephane J. Baudouin Mark T. Wallace. The work spans almost the entirety of approaches represented in the neurosciences, reporting on molecular neurogenetics, synaptic physiology, neuronal pathology, animal models, [...] Read More
23 March 2018
23 March, 2018 in FENS News Spring is with us, the evenings are lighter and our optimism about the 20th Anniversary FENS Forum in Berlin has been fully justified. More neuroscientists than at any previous Forum have registered to attend and there are 4000 abstract submissions. There is undoubted enthusiasm for gathering in Berlin to [...] Read More
20 March 2018
20 March, 2018 in FENS News FENS warmly congratulates the recipients of the FENS Forum travel grants from the German Neuroscience Society. The German Neuroscience Society has selected the stipend awardees for the GNS grants (500 Euro), which will allow the winners to attend the FENS Forum 2018 in Berlin. Here the names of the [...] Read More
05 March 2018
05 March, 2018 in FENS News FENS warmly congratulates the fifteen applicants, members of the Society for Neuroscience, who have been awarded a travel grant by SfN to attend the FENS Forum 2018 (7-11 July, Berlin, Germany). FENS wholeheartedly congratulates the following winners: Georgia Balsevich Lauren Reynolds Yannick Mullie Sarah Ruediger Brendan Hare Marc Meadows Eric Petersen Jared Kopelman Gavin Petrie Fernando Caravaggio Carmen Wong Salma Omer [...] Read More
21 February 2018
21 February, 2018 in FENS News EJN editors will attend several conferences this year. Have a look and get the chance to meet them. Paul Bolam and John Foxe will both be at the FENS Forum 7-11 July, at the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference 11-14 July, and at the SfN Meeting 3-7 November. Paul will be at the [...] Read More
13 February 2018
13 February, 2018 in FENS News The deadline for early registration and abstracts for presentations at the FENS Forum looms, and we find ourselves in the midst of a surge of submissions. This is no surprise - the 20th Anniversary of FENS at the Berlin Forum (7-11 July 2018) is destined to be a wonderful [...] Read More
26 January 2018
26 January, 2018 in FENS News FENS provided four travel grants to help young investigators, PhD or MSc students to attend the 41th Annual Meeting of Japan Neuroscience Society (New Horizon of Neuroscience, 26-29 July 2018, Kobe Convention Center, Japan). Warm congratulations to the four grant recipients! The FENS travel grants awardees (listed in the [...] Read More
17 January 2018
FENS is happy to announce that, thanks to the Dana Foundation grant, 35 BAW projects held in 22 countries are funded in 2018. [...] Read More
12 January 2018
12 January, 2018 in FENS News The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility funded the recording of lectures during the CAJAL Course in Computational Neuroscience (CCCN) 2017, held at the Champalimaud Center For The Unknown. The Cajal partner, International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), funded the recording of keynote lectures during the first part of the Cajal Course in Computational Neuroscience [...] Read More
09 January 2018
09 January, 2018 in FENS News Read an important perspective on Neurogenomics by EJN Section Editor Kevin Mitchell. “The field of neurogenomics is coming of age, but not without some teething problems. To make real progress, the field will have to learn from these mistakes and adopt more rigorous standards.” Read more about this [...] Read More
08 January 2018
08 January, 2018 in FENS News FENS members can register for the Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society in 2018 at special rates. If you are a FENS member intending to attend the 41st Annual Meeting of JNS (26-29 July 2018, Kobe Convention Center, Japan) and you would like to benefit from the same registration rates as [...] Read More
20 December 2017
20 December, 2017 in FENS News FENS supports the mission of the International Brain Bee (IBB) to inspire school-age students to pursue careers in basic and clinical neuroscience. FENS supports the mission of the International Brain Bee (IBB) to inspire school-age students to pursue careers in basic and clinical neuroscience. National Brain Bee initiatives under the umbrella [...] Read More
18 December 2017
18 December, 2017 in FENS News New History project now online. FENS is proud to announce that the History project "Untold Stories: the Women Pioneers of Neuroscience in Europe" is now online and accessible. To know more about the project, please visit the website http://wineurope.eu/ And here the officel video on YouTube. You can access the [...] Read More
14 December 2017
14 December, 2017 in FENS News The New Year approaches and it is a very significant one for us: 2018 is the 20th anniversary year of the founding of FENS. The Founding Charter was signed at the first FENS Forum in Berlin in 1998 by the presidents of national neuroscience societies and the European Brain [...] Read More