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14 December 2015
14 December, 2015 in FENS News The DANA Foundation has approved a grant to FENS to finance events during the 2016 Brain Awareness Week (14-20 March). The annual worldwide Brain Awareness Week is a campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research, as well as progress in the diagnosis, treatment [...] Read More
07 December 2015
07 December, 2015 in FENS News The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has been initiated by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals. The FENS-KAVLI Network of Excellence welcomes, supports and signed the San Francisco Declaration in Research Assessment (DORA) whose aim is to improve the ways [...] Read More
04 December 2015
04 December, 2015 in FENS News FENS warmly congratulates the awardees of the 2015 Call for History of European Neuroscience Projects. The creation of a virtual platform dedicated to the History of Neuroscience aims to make available to the wide public autobiographies, videos, pictures and other electronic materials about illustrious neuroscientists of Europe and their distinguished work. [...] Read More
03 December 2015
03 December, 2015 in FENS News A healthy brain is Europe's platform for national wealth, argues Professor David Nutt, President of the European Brain Council. We do not have to search the far reaches of space or the depths of the Earth to find the whereabouts of the most complex structure in the universe. It [...] Read More
24 November 2015
24 November, 2015 in FENS News In collaboration with the Kavli Foundation, FENS set up a prestigious network of excellent young neuroscientists, with the goal of fostering exchange between excellent junior/mid-career neuroscientists. Two calls for nomination are now open to honor a scientist who has demonstrated leadership in fostering the careers of neuroscientists and a young [...] Read More
28 October 2015
28 October, 2015 in FENS News FENS President Monica Di Luca presented the CAJAL Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme in front of trainees and instructors from the Advanced Techniques in Synapse Biology directed by Matthijs Verhage at the Bordeaux School of Neuroscience. On the 24th October FENS President Monica Di Luca visited the Bordeaux School of [...] Read More
27 October 2015
27 October, 2015 in FENS News Get weekly updates about the ATSB course, including insights into laboratory activities and keynote lectures. Since the kick-off of the Advanced Techniques for Synapse Biology (ATSB) course on 10 October 2015 - part of the CAJAL Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme - the Bordeaux School of Neuroscience team has been [...] Read More
23 October 2015
23 October, 2015 in FENS News A new opinion article from the FENS-KAVLI Scholars has been published on the European Journal of Neuroscience. It discusses how starting a lab from scratch comes with a unique set of pressures and struggles. You are not alone: Selecting your group members and leading an outstanding research team Ileana [...] Read More
21 October 2015
21 October, 2015 in FENS News Pearl on a necklace: The fourth Brain Conference – this time centred on sleep and circadian sleep - took place last week, in Copenhagen Designed as a small-scale, high-level meeting, the scientific reunion has been an impressive one, not only content-wise, but also in terms of group cohesion, networking, [...] Read More
09 October 2015
09 October, 2015 in FENS News Nobel prize-winner John O’Keefe was on the winning 'old timers' basketball team at the FENS regional meeting in Thessaloniki this week. This FFRM 2015 also featured vibrant social events, including a Basketball Tournament that saw the participation of the Nobel prize-winner John O'Keefe. Four teams of meeting delegates competed [...] Read More
02 October 2015
02 October, 2015 in FENS News Funds to strengthen public/private BRAIN Initiative. Establish new neuroscience institutes at Johns Hopkins University, The Rockefeller University and the University of California, San Francisco. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Thursday, October 1 The Kavli Foundation and it university partners announced today the commitment of more than $100 million in new funds [...] Read More
01 October 2015
01 October, 2015 in FENS News “Understanding the brain is one of the major challenges of modern science” The Institute of Neurosciences (IN) is a centre belonging to the University of Alicante, and one of the twenty Spanish centres which has won the Severo Ochoa award of Quality. Its Director, Juan Lerma, will deliver one [...] Read More
22 September 2015
22 September, 2015 in FENS News Dr. Gaia Novarino has been awarded the Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award 2016 for her research on the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying human genetic disorders. As group leader at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Klosterneuburg, Austria, Dr Novarino is currently leading a research programme focused [...] Read More
08 September 2015
08 September, 2015 in FENS News The European Research Centre grantee and FENS-Kavli Scholars Chair Prof. Poirazi investigates how human memory works. You can meet her at the World Economic Forum's 'Summer Davos'. The FENS-Kavli Scholars Chair, Panayiota Poirazi, together with the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas and the ERC President, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, [...] Read More
02 September 2015
02 September, 2015 in FENS News In a series of opinion pieces from the FENS Kavli Network of Excellence (FKNE), the scholars aim to offer the next generation of up-and-coming PIs some advice and personal perspectives on the transition to independence, starting here with guidance on how to get hired to your first PI position. [...] Read More