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The 5th Congress of Federation of Asian and Oceanian Neuroscience Societies
11/25/2010 -> 11/28/2010
The 5th Congress of FAONS and the XXVIII Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Neurosciences are being held in Lucknow, a city known for its culture and excellent scientific institutions world wide. This four-day event will provide ample opportunities for neuroscientists from all over the Asian and Oceanian region and other parts of the world to meet and discuss current and future issues in basic and clinical neurosciences.
7/28/2010 12:10:47 PM
FENS-IBRO HERTIE Winter School 2011 to take place in Austria
1/9/2011 -> 1/16/2011
"The systems neuroscience of primate hand function: models, mechanisms, rehabilitation and mirror systems". Due to the generosity of the Hertie Foundation, some tuition fee waivers and travel stipends are available for students from Eastern European countries for attending the school. Application deadline: August 8, 2010.
7/21/2010 8:40:55 AM
2nd IBRO-LARC Advanced School of Neuroscience, Mexico City
10/26/2010 -> 11/5/2010
Topic of the school is Signal Transduction in the Central Nervous System:  Facts and Principles. The course is intended to provide advanced graduate students from the Latin American Region with state-of-the-art tools for the study of the Signaling Cascades in the Central Nervous System. Strong emphasis will be given to a one-to-one interaction between the students and the faculty. Application deadline: August 13, 2010
6/28/2010 1:00:45 AM
APRC School of Neuroscience in Malaysia: Bioimaging, Behavior and Functional Genomics
The Asia-Pacific Regional Committee (APRC) announces the School to be held in the Brain Research Institute, Monash University Sunway campus, Malaysia, October 3-15, 2010. Deadline for application: July 30, 2010.
7/6/2010 3:28:23 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
FENS/IBRO European Neuroscience Schools Program
8/2/2010 -> 8/27/2010
Advanced Course on Computational Neuroscience (A FENS-IBRO Bernstein Training Centre). Freiburg, Germany.
7/3/2010 4:34:23 AM
Plasticity and Regeneration of the Nervous System course to take place in São Paulo
8/9/2010 -> 8/13/2010
LARC-sponsored course open to students from all of Latin America.
7/2/2010 3:36:01 PM
FENS/IBRO European Neuroscience Schools Program
8/22/2010 -> 9/10/2010
Lausanne & Geneva Training Centre: Imaging Neural Function. Lausanne/Geneva, Switzerland.
6/6/2010 9:07:28 AM
FENS/IBRO European Neuroscience Schools Program
8/29/2010 -> 9/10/2010
Visual Neuroscience: from spikes to awareness. Rauischholzhausen, Germany.
6/6/2010 6:00:57 AM
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
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
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
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
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
"Small Brains Big Ideas" course offered in Santiago-Valparaiso, Chile
10/25/2010 -> 10/30/2010
Applications for this course on biomedical insights from invertebrate neuroscience research, partially funded by IBRO's LARC, are due by July 30, 2010.
6/14/2010 9:12:12 AM
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
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
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 deadline is August 15th, 2010.
7/28/2010 11:55:15 AM
IBRO Regions
US-Canada South America Africa Asia-Pacific Eastern Europe Western Europe
 
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
IBRO Officers meet with Middle East neuroscientists
4/14/2010

Day-long meeting in Beirut netted plans for possible Middle East Chapter of IBRO.
5/15/2010 4:08:27 PM
 
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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