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ESF-FENS The Brain Conferences – The Neurobiology of Action
20-24 October 2012, Hotel La Palma, Stresa, Italy This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Chairs: Sten Grillner (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden) Ann Graybiel (MIT, Cambridge, US) Deadline for application: 21. July 2013 Preliminary programme and confirmed speakers: The Neural Underpinnings …
ESF-FENS The Brain Conferences – The Neurobiology of Synapses and their Dysfunction
13-17 October 2012, Hotel La Palma, Stresa, Italy The focus of this conference will be on the molecular and cell biological mechanisms of synapse formation and function, and on the pathological aberrations of these processes that lead to neurological and psychiatric disorders. This conference is part of a series of high-level meetings on the …
The latest online issue of EJN (37-10) has been published – check out the table of contents
Uncovering novel actors in astrocyte–neuron crosstalk in Parkinson’s disease: the Wnt/β-catenin signaling cascade as the common final pathway for neuroprotection and self-repair (pages 1550–1563)Bianca Marchetti, Francesca L’Episcopo, Maria Concetta Morale, Cataldo Tirolo, Nuccio Testa, Salvo Caniglia, Maria Francesca Serapide and Stefano PluchinoArticle first published online: 5 MAR 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12166 In this review, the …
Call for applications: Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award 2014
Call for applications: Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award 2014 Money prize of 25,000 Euro given in recognition of outstanding and innovative scientific contributions in any area of neuroscience research. Applications can either be submitted by candidates themselves, or candidates can be proposed. Applicants must be <40 yrs of age & either working in a European institution …
While music is an individualistic experience, different people’s brains track music in a consistent way
EJN interview with Dan Abrams (Stanford University), first author of the EJN article “Inter-subject synchronization of brain responses during natural music listening” published in EJN in issue 37-9, in May 2013. Music is an individualistic experience, but in this study, Dan Abrams et al. found that different people’s brains track music in a consistent …
BNA 2013: Festival of Neuroscience, London, 7-10 April
When was the last time you attended a neuroscience conference where the first thing you saw as you entered was a VW camper van? The camper van, the ‘Spaceship of Our Imagination’ was a cinema which showed films about the brain. But if you wondered whether you were in the right place, then a huge …
The latest online issue of EJN (37-9) has been published – check out the table of contents
MOLECULAR AND SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS You have full text access to this content Effect of glutamate receptor antagonists on migrating neural progenitor cells (pages 1369–1382)Linda C. Jansson, Lauri Louhivuori, Henna-Kaisa Wigren, Tommy Nordström, Verna Louhivuori, Maija L. Castrén and Karl E. ÅkermanArticle first published online: 6 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12152 In neurosphere-derived migrating cells metabotropic …
Neonatal Intraventricular Brain injection of AAV – Easy and Fast Method to Express Transgenes in vivo
Looking for an easy and fast method to express transgenes in the mice brain? Find out how to achieve this by listening to this interview of the authors of the EJN Technical Spotlight on viral transduction of the neonatal brain. In this interview, the authors describe how this method provides controllable genetic mosaicism …
High-fat diet acutely affects circadian organization and eating behavior
EJN Article published as part of issue 37/8 by Julie S. Pendergast, Katrina L. Branecky, William Yang, Kate L. J. Ellacott, Kevin D. Niswender and Shin Yamazaki In this EJN article, the effects of 1 week of high-fat diet consumption on tissue and behavioral circadian rhythms in mice were investigated. To determine if the high-fat diet …