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InEurope application now open, for intra-Europe short stays
The InEurope application is now open for travel anytime between January and March 2011. The aim of the programme is to increase intra-European mobility of young researchers by providing grants for short, goal-directed exchanges within European laboratories. Application deadline: September 30, 2010.
8/23/2010 10:49:19 AM
APRC announces Neuroimaging School in Manesar, India
11/29/2010 -> 12/10/2010
The IBRO Asian-Pacific Regional Committee (APRC) announces an IBRO School to be held at the National Brain Research Centre, in Manesar, India, from November 29 – December 10, 2010, covering the theme: "Study of Human Brain Structure and Function using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy." Application deadline: September 15, 2010. The School follows the Federation of Asian and Oceanian Neuroscience Societies (FAONS) meeting, to be held in Lucknow, India, from November 25-28.
8/19/2010 6:49:12 AM
LARC accepting applications for Travel Fellowships & Short Stays
IBRO’s Latin America Regional Committee (LARC) will evaluate possible funding to attend courses/workshops and/or present results at meetings within the region (up to 1200 euros) and for doing short research/training lab visits within the region (up to 1200 euros) taking place between January 1 & June 30, 2011. Apply online by September 15, 2010.
8/31/2010 3:46:36 PM
LARC accepting applications for funding of Regional Courses & Workshops
IBRO’s Latin America Regional Committee (LARC) will evaluate possible funding for basic Neuroscience schools (up to 15,000 euros) and for basic Neuroscience courses, workshops or symposia (up to 3,500 euros) to take place between January 1 and June 30, 2011. Apply online by September 15, 2010.
8/31/2010 3:47:25 PM
The 5th Congress of Federation of Asian and Oceanian Neuroscience Societies
11/25/2010 -> 11/28/2010
The 5th FAONS Congress will be held jointly with the XXVIII Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Neurosciences in Lucknow from November 25 to 28th, 2010. An IBRO School will also be held at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) at Manesar, near Delhi from November 30 to December 10, 2010. Early registration and abstract submission deadlines  for the Congress are August 15 and September 30, 2010, respectively. For details, visit www.faons2010.org.in.
8/2/2010 10:45:09 AM
The 1st Annual Neurosciences Conference in Eastern Africa
9/7/2010 -> 9/10/2010
"The Neurosciences in Africa: Focusing on Stroke and Epilepsy" is the theme of this inaugural meeting, taking place September 7 - 10, 2010, in Nairobi, Kenya.
8/13/2010 6:54:49 PM
SfN-IBRO Travel Grant winners announced
Twenty-nine young investigators will receive travel grants to present their poster at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting in San Diego, USA, and two will receive funding from the IBRO-NIDA Travel Grants Programme.
6/21/2010 11:00:06 AM
Events
The Neurosciences in East Africa Annual Conference 2010
9/7/2010 -> 9/10/2010
Nairobi, Kenya. The conference will provide a forum to discuss emerging issues in neurological disorders and mental health in developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
6/29/2010 9:21:56 AM
CEERC Sponsored Symposium: 100 Years of Ivan Djaja's Belgrade School of Physiology
9/10/2010 -> 9/14/2010
One hundred years have passed since one of the Serbian greatest and most respected scientists, Prof. Dr. Ivan Djaja. (Jean Giaja) laid the foundations for the development of Experimental Physiology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, the first not only in Serbia but also in the Balkans.
5/9/2010 8:13:37 AM
Third Teaching Tools Workshop
9/11/2010 -> 9/15/2010
Nairobi, Kenya. The intent of the organizers is to provide tools and a framework for teaching Neuroscience in African countries.
7/24/2010 6:46:58 PM
FENS/IBRO European Neuroscience Schools Program
9/20/2010 -> 9/24/2010
Translational Research in Basal Ganglia Disorders. Mallorca, Spain.
7/3/2010 4:35:20 AM
LARC sponsors Bicentennial Congress & VI Annual Meeting of the Sociedad Chilena de Neurociencia
9/29/2010 -> 10/1/2010
Meeting to emphasize the interaction between basic neuroscience research, brain disease understanding and clinical research.
7/2/2010 3:37:57 PM
The Italian Association of Neuroimmunology announces its annual congress
9/30/2010 -> 10/3/2010
20th annual AINI congress to be held on shores of Lake Maggiore, Italy
3/22/2010 11:01:07 AM
APRC School of Neuroscience in Malaysia: Bioimaging, Behavior and Functional Genomics
10/3/2010 -> 10/15/2010
Monash University Sunway campus, Malaysia.
7/24/2010 6:47:54 PM
6th international Symposium on Neuroprotection and Neurorepair
10/1/2010 -> 10/4/2010
Rostock, Germany
LARC-sponsored symposium takes place during the Second Joint Meeting of Neurosciences
10/6/2010 -> 10/10/2010
The meeting in Córdoba, Argentina will feature the symposium "Stress System: Old diseases, new interactions".
7/2/2010 3:41:20 PM
25th IBRO/ISN Neuroscience School in Africa
10/24/2010 -> 10/28/2010
A school titled “Onslaughts on the Central Dopaminergic System” will be held in Durban, South Africa.
7/24/2010 6:48:32 PM
"Small Brains Big Ideas" course offered in Santiago-Valparaiso, Chile
10/25/2010 -> 10/30/2010
This lecture and laboratory course will expose Latin-American students/faculty to recent advances and modern techniques in neurosciences, using invertebrates as model systems. The course will primarily focus on Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans, and the use of these animal models both in basic neuroscience and biomedical research. Partially funded by IBRO's LARC.
7/30/2010 9:21:49 PM
2nd IBRO-LARC Advanced School of Neuroscience
10/26/2010 -> 11/5/2010
Mexico City. Topic of the school is Signal Transduction in the Central Nervous System:  Facts and Principles. Deadline for applications: August 13, 2010.
6/26/2010 5:01:32 AM
Biennial International Congress of Neuroimmunology and pre-congress course announced
10/26/2010 -> 10/30/2010
The two events will take place in Barcelona, Spain, October 26 - 30, 2010
3/22/2010 11:02:18 AM
Institute of Cognitive Neurology to hold 2010 International Symposium of Psychiatry
11/2/2010
IBRO LARC-sponsored symposium brings together world renowned experts in psychiatry to lecture about the different advances in this field worldwide.
6/14/2010 9:14:43 AM
Development and Plasticity of the Nervous System course announced
11/16/2010 -> 12/4/2010
LARC-funded course to take place in Montevideo, Uruguay. Deadline for applications October 1, 2010.
7/26/2010 7:50:02 PM
LARC-sponsored symposium on the aging brain offered in Valparaiso, Chile
11/24/2010 -> 11/26/2010
"Mechanisms of Neuroplasticity: A view from an aged synapse" will follow a two-day theoretical and practical course on different models to study synaptic plasticity, including the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.
8/13/2010 10:54:13 AM
Federation of Asian-Oceanean Neuroscience Societies (FAONS): 2010 Congress in India
11/25/2010 -> 11/28/2010
The 5th FAONS Congress will be held jointly with the XXVIII Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Neurosciences in Lucknow. An IBRO School will also be held at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) Manesar, near Delhi. Early registration and abstract deadlines are Aug 15 and Sept 30, 2010 respectively.
8/2/2010 10:58:44 AM
"Frontiers in Neuroscience" Symposium to be held in Búzios, Brazil
11/30/2010 -> 12/3/2010
Funded by IBRO's LARC, symposium topics will span the evolution of the nervous system to recent advances in neurotechnologies.
6/9/2010 3:14:37 PM
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The latest...
Symposium in Amsterdam features alumnni from FENS-IBRO Schools
7/6/2010

Four FENS-IBRO European Neuroscience Schools alumni presented their research during a special symposium held during the 2010 FENS Forum in Amsterdam.
7/29/2010 11:23:18 AM
 
People in the News
Robert H Wurtz receives the Gruber Neuroscience Prize

Robert H Wurtz recognized for his pioneering work in the neurophysiology of visual cognition. Dr Wurtz was formerly the National Academy of Sciences representative to the IBRO Governing Council.
6/17/2010 11:22:40 AM
Platon G Kostyuk (1924-2010)

Longtime Ukraine representative to the Governing Council succombed to cancer in his 87th year. He created the scientific school of Ukrainian neuro- physiologists.
5/13/2010 11:49:55 AM
Neuroscience Societies of France and Argentina Organize Joint Symposium
The Argentine and French societies will jointly organize the first international Franco-Argentine Neuroscience Symposium with the theme, “Synapse and synaptic plasticity, both intrinsic and functional”. The binational symposium will include a tribute to Professor Hersch Gerschenfeld who greatly contributed to the development of neuroscience in both countries, particularly in the field of the synaptic neurobiology.
6/3/2010 10:20:02 AM
IBRO Member wins 2010 L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Life Sciences Award

Lourdes Cruz is named as one of the five exceptional women scientists from around the world to receive the Award in the Life Sciences by the L’ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science partnership. Dr Cruz has served on the IBRO Symposia & Workshops Committee. Interview.
4/25/2010 5:28:29 AM
 
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IBRO Congress 2011
Florence, Italy


The European Neuroscience Schools Programme celebrates ten years

The Visiting Lecture Team Programme (VLTP) gave four courses over the past year at the following sites: Qingdao, China; La Paz, Bolivia; Guatemala City, Guatemala; and Yaoundé, Cameroon


Brain Awareness Week 2010
The Brain Campaign awards funds to 26 projects from Australia to Zimbabwe


IBRO/Kemali School inaugurates new Inter-Regional Schools Programme


Recent Alumni Events


Helena Lobo Borges, Return Home funding recipient reports on past two years in Brazil


FALAN, the Federation of Neuroscience Societies of Latin America and the Caribbean, is born


Capacity Building in Africa: 2nd “Teaching Tools School and Workshop – The Special Senses,” held in Al-Fayoum, Egypt

 
John Fulton, just one biography in our History of Neuroscience Series

 

 

 
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