FENS — News alert 25 October

News alert

Our new special issue of «Neural Oscillations» is coming out this month! Read the introductory Editorial by clicking on the link below.

This award is sponsored by the EJN’s publisher Wiley and is given in recognition of an outstanding scientific work in any area of neuroscience.

This is a personal prize of GBP 10,000. Candidates must be nominated by fellow neuroscientists (no self-applications accepted) and be either working in a European research institution or, if working elsewhere, be of European origin.

Deadline: 21 December 2018.

The new CAJAL programme is now online. Check out the programme for each course: more information will be available soon.

• Brain Homeostasis and Neurovascular Coupling
  19 May — 8 June 2019, Bordeaux Neurocampus

• Biosensors and actuators for cellular and systems neuroscience
  23 June — 13 July 2019, Bordeaux Neurocampus

• Interacting with neural circuits
  14 July — 3 August 2019, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
• Computational Neuroscience
  11-31 August 2019?, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
• Whole brain imaging
  8-28 September 2019, Bordeaux Neurocampus
• Advanced Techniques for Synapse Biology
  13 October — 1 November 2019, Bordeaux Neurocampus 
  — in partnership with ERA-NET Neuron  

You can now discover the new programme for The Brain Conferences in 2019:

• Understanding and targeting Alzheimer’s disease,
  5-8 May 2019, Rungstedgaard, North of Copenhagen, Denmark. 
  Co-chairs: Christian Haass (LMU Munich & German Center for Neurodegenrative Diseases — DZNE, Germany) and Beth Stevens (Harvard Medical School, USA).
  Applications open in November 2018.
• Dynamics of the brain: temporal aspects of computation
  9-12 June 2019, Rungstedgaard, North of Copenhagen, Denmark. 
  Co-chairs: Gilles Laurent (MPI Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany) and Ila Fiete (The University of Texas at Austin, USA). 
  Applications open in December 2018.

The Brain Conferences: a FENS activity in partnership with The Brain Prize.

The FENS Forum 2020 will take place in Glasgow, 11 — 15 July 2020 and will be hosted by the British Neuroscience Association (BNA). More information will be available soon on the Forum 2020 website.

In the meantime, enjoy the video!

FENS is providing travel grants to help young investigators, PhD or MS students to attend SONA conference 2019 (24-28 March) in Lagos, Nigeria.

These grants — up to EUR 1,000 each — are intended to cover the SONA 2019 registration fee and the associated travel expenses. The candidates should reside in a European country and be members of FENS.

Application deadline: 20 November 2018.

With more than 100 jobs posted every month, the FENS Job Market page is a valuable resource for international neuroscientists at all stages of their careers:

• Post-doctoral position, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland             
• Researcher permanent position in CRO, Etap-Lab, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
• Ph.D. Student, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany          
• Ph.D. Student, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Post-doctoral position, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA

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