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17 November 2021
Registration is now open for the FENS Friday webinar “The importance of coordination and collaboration in brain research”. This webinar will focus on the importance of coordination and collaboration in the brain space highlighting the Shared European Brain Research Agenda (SEBRA). [...] Read More
16 November 2021
The 2021 International Brain Bee (IBB) World Championship crowned two World Champions. 16-year-old Viktoriia Vydzhak from the Ukraine is the 2021 World Champion and 17-year-old Rahil Patel from the United States took the title for 2020. Both will receive a monetary prize of $3,000. [...] Read More
16 November 2021
Registration is now open for the webinar “Running a Brain Awareness Week event in 2022”! [...] Read More
16 November 2021
FENS is offering travel grants for in-person attendance and waived registration for online attendance to young investigators, PhD and MSc students to attend the Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, the Japanese Society for Neurochemistry and the Japanese Neural Networks Society. NEURO2022 is taking place… Read More
28 October 2021
FENS will be exhibiting at SfN 2021 [...] Read More
14 October 2021
The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and Boehringer Ingelheim are delighted to announce the recipients of the Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award 2022: Prof. Tom Baden (UK) and Prof. Tatjana Tchumatchenko (DE). [...] Read More
13 October 2021
Are you planning to attend the FENS Forum 2022 (9-13 July, Paris, France)? Do you regularly use social media? The FENS Forum 2022 is looking for its Social Media Ambassadors! Join a community passionate about neuroscience and about creating and sharing content with the neuroscience community. [...] Read More
29 September 2021
Come visit our virtual booth at ECNP 2021! [...] Read More
23 September 2021
Brussels, 23 September 2021 Everyone at FENS was deeply saddened to learn of Elaine Snell’s recent passing. Elaine has been a close collaborator and friend of FENS since its beginning in 1998. She contributed in particular to the development of the Forum for which she ran… Read More
21 September 2021
This EJN Special ISsue aims to showcase and advance the current understanding of sleep, spanning local circuits to large-scale levels of organisation. [...] Read More
16 September 2021
This Special Issue reflects the recent progress in our understanding of the diverse roles of these cells in development, normal brain function, ageing and disease. [...] Read More
09 September 2021
Registration now open! This FENS Friday webinar will focus on how neural circuits underlying innate behaviours develop and how they modulate parental behaviour in adulthood. [...] Read More
19 August 2021
The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and the European Journal of Neuroscience (EJN), in partnership with its publisher Wiley, are pleased to announce the recipients of the FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize 2022: Mackenzie Mathis (CH) Sara Mederos (UK), Nicolas Renier (FR) and Giacomo Valle (CH). [...] Read More
13 August 2021
FENS is delighted to announce the appointment of Tasia Asakawa as Executive Director. From October 2021, Tasia will oversee the management, operations and strategic development of the FENS administration, working in close liaison with the FENS leadership. [...] Read More
09 August 2021
Registration now open to the webinar “Mechanisms of Post-Ischemic Brain Adaptation” taking place on 31 August 2021 (5:00-6:00 pm CEST). This webinar is organised by FENS and hosted on Neuronline, the SfN virtual platform. [...] Read More