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03 April 2017
03 April, 2017 in FENS News FENS and EJN announce the winners of the FENS EJN Award 2018 and the FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize 2018 The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and EJN in partnership with the Wiley are pleased to announce the winners of the prestigious 2018 FENS EJN Award and FENS [...] Read More
26 March 2017
26 March, 2017 in FENS News A frequently occurring theme in many of the papers and reviews of EJN is the basal ganglia. These papers include basic studies on the cellular and molecular organization of the basal ganglia in animals, functions of the basal ganglia in animals and humans, and studies of basal ganglia diseases [...] Read More
16 March 2017
16 March, 2017 in FENS News Society for Neuroscience (SfN) President Eric J. Nestler and Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) President Barry Everitt released the following statement addressing the new White House executive order on immigration, scheduled to take effect March 16. "The Society for Neuroscience stands with the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies [...] Read More
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
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
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
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 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
03 February 2017
03 February, 2017 in FENS News FENS provided travel grants to help young investigators, PhD or MSc students to attend the 12th Biennial Conference of Chinese Neuroscience Society (Tianjin, China, 12-15 October 2017). These grants - of up to € 1.300 each - are intended to cover the associated travel expenses of the awardees. The registration fee for [...] Read More
03 February 2017
03 February, 2017 in FENS News FENS provides travel grants to help young investigators, PhD or MSc students to attend the 12th Biennial Conference of Chinese Neuroscience Society (Tianjin, China, 12-15 October 2017). These grants - of up to € 1.300 each - are intended to cover the associated travel expenses of the awardees. The registration fee for [...] Read More
01 February 2017
01 February, 2017 in FENS News The Programme Committee will establish the scientific programme of the FENS Forum 2018 on the basis of proposals from scientists from all over the world and all areas of neuroscience research. Click here to submit your proposal. Proposals can only be submitted through the online submission form. The proposals [...] Read More
31 January 2017
31 January, 2017 in FENS News FENS is happy to announce that, thanks to the Dana Foundation grant, 36 Brain Awareness Week projects held in 23 countries are funded in 2017. FENS warmly congratulates the grant winners! Please check the full list of winners on the Brain Awareness Week's section. Read More