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NENS - Network of European Neuroscience Schools NENS - Network of European Neuroscience Schools NENS Newsletter January 2009 News from the NENS Offi ce Please note the change of date for invited to attend our traditional AGM The fi rst FENS Featured Regional the NENS AGM 2009. dinner. For a detailed agenda and to Meeting will be held in Warsaw, Po- The NENS AGM 2009 originally to be register for the event until 28 Februa- land from 9 - 12 September 2009. held in April 2009 has now been mo- ry 2009 go to the NENS website. The purpose of this initiative is to in- ved to 21 to 22 March 2009. crease the visibility of one national New call for applications for NENS meeting and to support neuroscience However, the announced agenda will Stipends open now! in this region. Besides an exciting sci- remain unchanged. On the Saturday, Stipends cover travel and accommo- entifi c programme the local organisers the event will be kicked-off on 14:00 dation costs of up to 1000 EUR. Clos- offer several possibilities for young and will comprise fi ve parallel work- ing date for applications is 15 Febru- scientists to gain insight into the neu- shops on upcoming NENS activities ary 2009. roscience community of Warsaw. and on developments of the NENS website as well as on the allocation of The NENS Stipends permit Master FENS will provide 60 stipends of 500 funding within the EU’s FP7. On day and early PhD students registered EUR for under 35s to participate in two the morning session will comprise within a NENS programme to spend the meeting. Please consider atten- workshops on further funding oppor- a period of one to three months at a ding! All details on http://fens.mdc- tunities for NENS schools and on no- NENS lab of their choice in a different berlin.de. vel strategies in graduate training and European country. career options. NENS Offi ce This time, courtesy of the Portugue- Ruhr University Bochum The AGM will not only present spea- se Society for Neuroscience, an ad- Universitaetsstr. 150 kers from the NENS community, but ditional special stipend will be made 44780 Bochum will also feature key speakers from available for a Portuguese student Tel: +49 (0)234 32 29174 major European institutions. As usu- who wishes to train at an international Mail: nens-offi [email protected] al one night’s accommodation will be NENS lab. Full details and application Web: http://fens.org/nens/ funded by NENS for all attending pro- form on the NENS website http://fens. about.html gramme coordinators and all will be mdc-berlin.de/nens/stipends! “Across Europe”- NENS Member Countries: Romania Neuroscience in Romania has a lamo-pituitary vascular system. Ştefan tists from home and abroad, to invite long history, with outstanding de- Odobleja was a pioneer of psychocy- keynote speakers to its annual mee- velopments in both clinical and bernetics, publishing a “Psychologie tings, and to facilitate access of junior fundamental research. consonantiste” in two volumes (Paris fellows to research and attendance of Gheorghe Marinescu, founder of the 1938, 1939). Neuroelectrophysiology international meetings organized by Romanian School of Neurology, pu- developed steadily during the second FENS, SfN, IBRO, and others. blished several remarkable textbooks half of the last century, as illustrated and monographs. In 1919 Thoma Io- by achievements using staereotaxi- In the Centre for Neurobiology and nescu introduced the method of cer- cally implanted microelectrodes by Molecular Physiology at the Universi- vical spinal anesthesia. Mircea Steriade (former editor-in-chief ty of Bucharest research is focused on of “Thalamus and related systems”) the molecular mechanisms of sensory In 1935 Dimitrie Bagdasar founded at Université Laval, or by V. Neştianu transduction, in particular in periphe- the Romanian School of Neurosur- and co-workers in EEG mapping, evo- ral thermoreceptors and nociceptors. gery. Equally important research was ked potentials, and EMG analysis. We also investigate the modulation of performed in neuroendocrinology, by ion channels and receptors involved Gr. T. Popa, who described in 1930 at Nowadays there are several funda- in sensory transduction. The Univer- Cambridge, together with Australian mental and applied neuroscience sity of Bucharest also offers a Master scientist Unna Fielding, the hypotha- groups in universities, research insti- Programme in Neurobiology since tutes, and clinics spread all over the 1995. Facts and Figures country. The Romanian Society of Area: 238, 391 km² Neuroscience (www.snn.ro), founded Further information Population: 22,247,000 in 2000 and affi liated since the begin- Prof. Maria-Luiza Flonta, University of Capital: Bucharest ning to FENS and IBRO, headed by Bucharest (fl [email protected], EU-member: accession state Prof. L. Zăgrean (UMF “Carol Davila” http://neurobiologie.bio.unibuc.ro) NENS schools: 1 Bucureşti), tries to gather neuroscien- FENS - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies.
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