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The Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS)


The Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS) is an academic organization of scientists who study the brain and nervous system and wish to publish their findings in order to promote the welfare and culture of humans.

 

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Annual meeting

＜Name of Conference＞Neuro2022
The 45th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society
The 65th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Neurochemistry
The 32nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Neural Network Society
＜Theme> Yui-maaru (Spirit of Mutual Help) ~Connecting Brain Sciences~
＜Dates> June 30 - July 3, 2022
＜Venue＞Okinawa Convention Center, etc.

 

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Faculty and Other positions Graduate Student Position/Briefing Session
2022.05.26 Call for Sechi Kato Program for RIKEN Hakubi Fellows – Female Junior PI Program (FY2023)
2022.05.26 Call for RIKEN Hakubi Fellows – Junior PI Program (FY2023)
2022.05.23 Project Assistant Professor Position at the Division of Behavioral Development, Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
2022.05.19 Postdoctoral Scholar - Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
2022.05.02 Researcher recruitment: Assistant Professor Position at the Division of Sensory and Cognitive Brain Mapping, Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences
2022.04.13 Assistant Professor Position at Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University
2022.03.09 Technical Scientist or Technical Staff position in Support Unit for functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at RIKEN CBS
2022.03.07 Application Guidelines for Research and Teaching Position - National Institute of Genetics
2022.03.07 Tenure-Track Faculty Positions - Center for Frontier Research, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
2022.02.25 Postdoctoral Associate- Genetics and Circuitry of Sleep
2022.02.17 2 Postdoc positions in Drosophila circuit and behavioural neuroscience International collaborative project
2022.02.09 Call for applications for the position of Special Postdoctoral Researcher (SPDR)
2022.01.20 Cognitive Somnology RIKEN Hakubi Research Team, RIKEN CBS Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher Position
2021.12.22 Faculty Position in Research of Neurological Disorders at RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS)
2021.12.15 Research Scientist position in Systems Function & Morphology Lab, University of Toyama
2021.11.01 Researcher recruitment: Assistant Professor Position at the Division of Sensory and Cognitive Brain Mapping, Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences
2021.10.20 Faculty Position in technical development and support for electron microscopy at RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS)
2021.10.18 Postdoctoral Fellow Positions at the Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic
2021.10.13 Hokkaido University Integrated Science Program Recruitment of Assistant Professor (Biology)
2021.10.08 The neurobiology of feeding behavior – postdoc positions available
2021.09.29 Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
2021.09.27 Postdoctoral Fellow Position in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
2021.09.27 Postdoctoral fellow position in Kamran Khodakhah laboratory at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2021.09.21 Postdoctoral position at Division of Sensory and Cognitive Brain Mapping, Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
2021.08.16 [Korea Brain Research Institute] Postdoctoral positions: Neural and behavioral mechanisms of vocal learning in songbirds
2021.06.28 Assistant Professor Application Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
2021.06.24 PhD positions in Cognitive Social and Affective Neuroscience at Sapienza University of Rome
2021.06.23 Seeking a Unit Leader/ Support Unit for Animal Resources Development, Research Resources Division (RRD), RIKEN Center for Brain Science（CBS）
2021.06.15 Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Behavioral Neuroscience for Scientific English Teaching at the University of Tsukuba, Japan
2021.06.15 Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Glia-Neuron Interaction at Tufts University
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Grants/Fellowship/TA Programs Call for Applicants
2022.03.17 Call for 2022 JNS-CNS Exchange Travel Award Program
2022.02.02 (Deadline has been Extended!) Toshihiko Tokizane Memorial Award for Excellent Graduate Study in Neuroscience
2022.01.27 Deadline Extended: Applications for Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2022.01.06 (Deadline has been Extended!) Call for Applications: FENS Forum 2022 Travel Award
2021.12.07 Toshihiko Tokizane Memorial Award for Excellent Graduate Study in Neuroscience
2021.11.01 Call for Applications: Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2021.08.10 Call for Nomination of The Brain Prize 2022
2021.07.20 Call for SfN award nominations
2021.07.06 Call for Applications : JNS-SfN Travel Award Exchange Program
2021.06.03 The Japan Neuroscience Society' s official Journal Neuroscience Research presents NSR Paper Awards
2021.04.20 Call for Applications : JNS-CNS Exchange Travel Award Program
2021.04.07 Call for SfN award nominations
2021.02.19 Art of Neuroscience competition open for submissions
2021.01.27 Call for Applications: Toshihiko Tokizane Memorial Award for Excellent Graduate Study in Neuroscience
2020.11.02 Call for Applications: Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2020.07.27 Call for Nominations of the 2021 Japan Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award
2020.07.17 Public Interest Incorporated Foundation - Kobayashi Foundation Guidelines for Nomination Procedures of the 2nd Kobayashi Award
2020.07.06 Call for Applications: JNS-SfN Exchange Travel Award Program
2020.05.15 FY2020 Japan-Germany Joint Grant Call for Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP)
2020.04.23 [Extension of Application Deadline] Fiscal Year 2020 Call for Research Proposals <1st Term> for the Strategic Basic Research Programs (CREST, PRESTO and ACT-X)
2020.04.16 Fiscal Year 2020 Call for Research Proposals2nd Term for the Strategic Basic Research Programs (CREST, PRESTO and ACT-X)
2020.03.31 Fiscal Year 2020 Call for Research Proposals<1st Term> for the Strategic Basic Research Programs (CREST, PRESTO and ACT-X)
2019.12.20 The BrainsCAN Graduate Studentship Program
2019.12.20 The BrainsCAN Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
2019.12.19 Call for Applications: CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program
2019.11.18 Call for Applications: Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2019.10.21 Call for Applications: FENS Forum 2020 Travel Award
2019.08.21 Call for Applications: Toshihiko Tokizane Memorial Award for Excellent Graduate Study in Neuroscience
2019.03.07 Call for Proposals of Collaboration Research for Development of Techniques in Brain Science Database Field
2019.02.06 JNS-CNS Exchange Travel Award Program
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Events in Japan Overseas Events Public Events
2022.05.12 Innovative Area “Constructive understanding of multi-scale dynamism of neuropsychiatric disorders” 2nd International Symposium/MCCS-Asia Meeting
2022.05.09 FENS Forum 2022: The late-breaking abstract submission is now open
2022.04.22 8th International Conference on Neuroscience and Neurological Disorders
2022.03.23 FENS Forum 2022: Registration for virtual attendance is now open
2022.03.08 (Virtual) EMBO Workshop "Molecular mechanisms of developmental and regenerative biology"
2022.02.25 FENS Forum 2022: extended early registration, abstract submission and travel grants deadline until 1 March 2022
2022.02.16 FENS Forum 2022: early registration and abstract submission deadline is fast approaching on 22 February 2022
2022.02.15 (Virtual) "Fetal Tissue Research: Science and Ethics at the Frontiers in the United States and Europe"
2022.02.03 5th NanoLSI Symposium will be held in online format on March 1-2, 2022
2022.01.05 24 Feb 2022, The 12th International Symposium - Online, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University
2021.12.24 The Brain Conference in 2022
2021.12.10 RIKEN CBS Summer Program 2022
2021.12.03 FENS Forum 2022: early registration, abstract submission and FENS/IBRO-PERC travel grant applications now open
2021.11.15 The 7th CiNet Conference: New horizons in brain mapping
2021.11.11 Cell Symposia: The Biology of Neuropsychiatric Disorders, May 15–17, 2022, Sitges, Spain
2021.11.10 INS 15th World Congress, 21-26 May 2022, Barcelona, Spain
2021.11.05 Virtual SfN 2021: Global Neuroscience Social
2021.10.29 The 2021 Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (MCCS) Online Workshop
2021.09.27 (Virtual Conference) The ASHBi Symposium 2021 "Human Development, Genetics and Evolution"
2021.08.05 ICBEB 2021_November 15-18, 2021_Suzhou, China/Online
2021.06.08 FENS The Brain Conference: RNA Mechanisms and Brain Disease
2021.06.04 Call for abstract submission, 5th JHBI meeting (deadline: July 31st)
2021.05.26 Consciousness Talks on June 3
2021.05.20 Webinars from the Royal Society of Medicine
2021.05.14 FENS Forum 2022: submit your symposium and technical workshop proposals!
2021.05.12 IBRO-APRC Webinar Horizons - Translational neuroscience & novel therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases
2021.05.07 ALBA Webinar: Diversity in brain research in East & South-East Asia: a gender perspective
2021.03.26 Call for abstracts for the 11th International Symposium of the society for Research on Cerebellum and Ataxias "from J.E.Purkynë to the future"
2021.03.25 Deadline extended: JANUBET Primate Neurobiology School
2021.03.04 Deadline extended: JANUBET Primate Neurobiology School
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News from JNS
2022.05.18 [For Member] Call for SfN Award nominations
2022.05.16 Awardee of 2022 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience, Denis Jabaudon
2022.05.16 Announcement of the 2022 JNS-CNS Travel Award Program Awardees
2022.05.09 [For Member] The Brain Prize 2023 - Call for Nominations
2022.04.25 Winners for the 22nd Japan Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award Selected!
2022.04.01 Announcement of the 24th Recipients of the Tokizane Award in 2022
2022.03.21 Announcement of the Awardee of the 2022 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2022.03.10 [For Member] SfN：Peter Seeburg Prize- Nominations Closing Soon
2022.03.08 The Winners of the Brain Prize 2022
2022.03.04 [For Member] Special Rates Offer for FENS Forum 2022 registration
2022.03.04 Announcement of the Awardees of the 2022 Neuroscience Research (NSR) Paper Awards.
2022.02.20 THE BRAIN PRIZE 2022 WINNERS ANNOUNCED ON 3RD MARCH(CET)/ 4TH MARCH(JST)
2022.02.02 Announcement of FENS Forum 2022 Travel Awardees
2022.01.31 [For Member] Participation Report of 2021 Cajal Course
2022.01.12 Message from the President 'At the beginning of the year 2022'
2021.12.28 Call for SfN2022 Session Proposals
2021.12.07 [For Member] Call for Editor-in-Chief : Neuroscience Research (NSR)
2021.12.06 [For Member] Special Rates Offer for FENS Forum 2022 registration
2021.11.05 Virtual SfN 2021: Global Neuroscience Social
2021.10.27 [For Member] Student Membership Renewal for 2022 and Information on Junior Membership
2021.10.18 [For Member] FY2021 Report on the JNS General Assembly
2021.10.04 Announcement of 2021 JNS-SfN Exchange Travel Awardees
2021.08.20 [For Member] Password to log in the JNS Meeting Planner 2020
2021.07.08 [For Member] Notice of Public Incorporation of the JNS
2021.06.11 Awardees of the 2021 Japan Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award
2021.06.03 The Japan Neuroscience Society' s official Journal Neuroscience Research presents NSR Paper Awards
2021.06.01 Awardee of 2021 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience, Sergiu P. Pasca
2021.04.28 [For Member] Guidelines for the Care and Use of Nonhuman Primates in Neuroscience Research
2021.04.13 Announcement of the 23rd Recipient of the Tokizane Prize in 2021
2021.03.18 Announcement of the Awardee of the 2021 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
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