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IBRO aims to foster neuroscience research, especially in less well-funded countries, by providing support through the following grants (currently open applications are marked with a red icon):
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1/16/2012 1:59:30 AM
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| Applications for SfN-IBRO Travel Grants now open |
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| The Society for Neuroscience offers travel fellowships of up to $2000 US to their annual meeting for neuroscientists under the age of 35 who are currently working and living in a resource-restricted country – those defined by the World Bank as low, lower-middle, or upper-middle income. Application deadline: February 1, 2012. |
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| Call for applications: 2013 IBRO Research Fellows |
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| IBRO Research Fellowships, which include the John G Nicholls and Rita Levi-Montalcini Fellowships, support post-doctoral training to applicants under the age of 45 for up to one year. The funding for a 12-month, non-renewable fellowship is 35,000 euros. Application deadline: February 1, 2012. |
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12/7/2011 12:26:06 PM
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| InEurope Short Stay Grants 2011 |
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| Applications are made on line. You may apply at any time. There are no
hard copies of applications. Selections are made several times during
the year. Selected applicants will be notified at the end of February,
May, August and November. Applicants who are not selected in one round
of evaluations will remain in competition for the next round. Stays in a host laboratory may be completed at any time within 2011. Within two
weeks of the conclusion of the research activity, laureates are
required to send a brief report suitable for posting on the IBRO web
site. Pictures are always welcome. |
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6/2/2011 11:17:27 AM
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| Reports |
| "Sleep as a Window to the World of Wakefulness |
| 10/6/2011
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 The meeting was organized under the auspices of the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity/Neurophysiology (IHNAN RAS, Moscow) and the section of somnology of the Pavlovian Physiological Society, and brought together scientists and students who are actively engaged in basic and fundamental clinical studies of the brain in sleep-waking cycle in Russia and other countries of the region. |
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1/10/2012 8:00:13 AM
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| SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference 2011 |
| 9/22/2011
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 Ljubljana, Slovenia. The fourth SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference 2011 - SNC'11 was a success in all respects. The IBRO Alumni Committee funded two FENS-IBRO Alumni as symposium speakers, and the IBRO CEERC supported nine additional participants to this meeting, which also served as the Central European FENS Featured Regional Meeting. |
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1/5/2012 5:40:07 AM
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| Brain Awareness Week in León, Guanajuato, México |
| 3/17/2011
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 “Creativity and the Brain” was the topic of the Brain Awareness Week, partially funded by IBRO, held in March 17 to 19, 2011, in León, Guanajuato, México. The aim was to offer talks to the general public to improve their understanding of the role of the human nervous system in their creative, cognitive and motor skills development, and to apply this knowledge to their work as creators and performers of the arts and sciences. |
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1/5/2012 5:41:24 AM
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| Fellows Corner |
| Alessandro Faroni reports on his InEurope Short-Stay in Milan |
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Alessandro Faroni, from the University of Manchester, UK, recently traveled to Patrizia Procacci’s laboratory at the University of Milan, Italy, as part of the IBRO CEERC-WERC InEurope Short-Stay Laboratory Visit Programme. While there, he performed analyses and learned techniques critical to furthering his research in the field of nerve regeneration. |
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| IBRO-APRC Exchange Fellow from India reports on her experience |
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Printha Kentheeswaran, from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in Sri Lanka, reports on her 3-month laboratory visit to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India, in support of her research project "Age related cytoskeletal pathologies in human brain: A detailed morphological study between the autopsy human brain samples of elderly Sri Lankan and Indian individuals." |
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| János Fuzik, InEurope funding recipient, reports on short-stay in Sweden |
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János Fuzik, from the University of Szeged, Hungary, benefited from a short-stay laboratory visit at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, funded through the IBRO CEERC and WERC InEurope Programme, where he acquired essential experience and technical skills in patch-clamp electrophysiology. |
| 1/9/2012 5:08:45 AM |
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| IBRO InEurope Recipient reports on short-stay in Marseille, France |
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| Tomislav Milekovic, from Imperial College London, UK, traveled to the Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience in Marseille, France, where he spent four weeks working on the relation between the spatial-temporal dynamics of brain activity and the organization of voluntary movement. |
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| IBRO Outstanding Research Fellow, 2009, publishes cover story in Nature Medicine |
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| Sergiu Pasca, who was awarded the special designation of IBRO Outstanding Research Fellow in 2009, is the first author of a study published in the 27 November 2011 edition of Nature Medicine. The article recaps the work he undertook during his post - doc position at Stanford University (USA) as part of the IBRO Fellowship. |
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| Other Funding |
| 2012-13 Herbert H. Jasper fellowship announced |
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| The prestigious Herbert H. Jasper Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Neurosciences allows the applicant to undertake a postdoctoral research project with the investigator of their choice within the “Groupe de recherche sur le système nerveux central” (GRSNC) of the Université de Montréal. The stipend has a value of 45 000 $ CAD per year for two years, plus a travel allowance. Application deadline: January 27, 2012. |
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| Fondation Fyssen |
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| Grants are available for post-doctoral study and research. They will be granted to French scientists going abroad and to foreign scientists wishing to work in French laboratories. |
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