Category Archive: Resources

Last days to submit your video to the FENS Forum 2012 Video Contest- Do not miss your chance to win €1000!

   Submit your video now!   Did you know? FENS launched a video contest on the occasion of the FENS Forum 2012 in Barcelona. Apply now to this video contest to win great prizes.   FINAL DEADLINE: May 15, 2012   WHO CAN APPLY: Open to individual neuroscientists or teams of neuroscientists, who include at …

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Tips for immunohistochemistry, by the Editors of EJN

Immunohistochemistry is like cooking. There are many recipes out there, but some of them do not work out well. However, when they do, they are great! You need the right ingredients, a dose of experience, a few tricks from old cooks, and a grain of common sense. Read more to learn about traps to avoid, …

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Preparation of neuronal cell cultures

This video shows how to prepare rat embryonic cultures of hippocampal neurons, step by step and how the neurons should look like once cultured in vitro. This video was made by the Fritschy Lab at the University of Zurich.   Dowload pdf protocol  

How to Get Funding in the Non-Profit Landscape

Perhaps now, more than ever before, a successful independent research career depends not only on your skills as a scientific investigator, but also on your ability to identify and navigate various complex funding mechanisms in order to compete successfully for grants and awards to support your work.  For this reason, it is important to consider …

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Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium

EJN is member of the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium (NPRC). The Consortium is an alliance of neuroscience journals that have agreed to share manuscript reviews, at the author’s request. Its goal is to speed and enhance thorough peer review by reducing the number of times that manuscripts are reviewed. Manuscripts that are not accepted for …

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NIH-funded authors and EJN

From April 2008, the NIH is mandating grantees to deposit their peer-reviewed author manuscripts in PubMed Central, to be made publicly available within 12 months of publication. The NIH mandate applies to all articles based on research that has been wholly or partially funded by the NIH and that are accepted for publication on or …

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