About JNS

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＞
  The 44th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society
＜Theme> Towards Global Neuroscience
＜Dates> July 28-31, 2021
＜Venue＞Kobe Convention Center
  Kobe International Conference Center
　 6-9-1, Minatojima-nakamachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe
　 650-0046, Japan
  Kobe International Exhibition Center
   6-11-1, Minatojima-nakamachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe
   650-0046, Japan

 

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Faculty and Other positions Graduate Student Position/Briefing Session
2020.12.28 Postdoctral position at the Division of Cerebral Circuitry, Department of Fundamental Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Okazaki, Japan
2020.11.12 Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, limited-term researcher position
2020.11.09 Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology Openings for Postdoctoral Fellow or Program-Specific Faculty Member
2020.11.05 Call for Application: Associate Professor at Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University (Global 30 International Programs)
2020.10.22 Postdoctoral Research fellowship in neurosciences at University of Oslo
2020.10.21 OPEN FACULTY POSITION (research of advanced cognitive and affective brain functions using macaques) at RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS)
2020.10.21 OPEN FACULTY POSITION (research of neurological/psychiatric disorders) at RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS)
2020.10.21 OPEN FACULTY POSITION (Human Cognitive Function Research) at RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS)
2020.09.28 Call for Applications: Program-Specific Assistant Professor,Cognitive Neurobiology Group (Amemori Group), Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), KUIAS Kyoto University
2020.09.28 Call for Applications: Program-Specific Researcher (Postdoctoral Fellow),Cognitive Neurobiology Group (Amemori Group), Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), KUIAS Kyoto University
2020.09.18 Call for EM Research Specialist at University of Cambridge
2020.08.18 Postdoctoral research positions at Stanford University
2020.08.04 Researcher Recruitment in Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Okazaki, Japan
2020.08.03 Research scientist position in Andrea Benucci Lab. for Neural Circuits and Behavior, CBS, RIKEN
2020.06.11 Postdoctoral fellow in decision neuroscience
2020.06.04 Project Assistant Professor in the Division of Behavioral Development, Department of System Neuroscience, NIPS, NINS
2020.05.22 Postdoctoral Researcher Position at the University of Miami
2020.05.11 Job Opening: Program-Specific Researcher: Evolutionary Neuroscience Group (Isa Group), Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (WPI-ASHBi), Kyoto University
2020.04.27 Call for Sechi Kato Program for RIKEN Hakubi Fellows – Female Junior PI Program (FY2021)
2020.04.27 Call for RIKEN Hakubi Fellows – Junior PI Program (FY2021)
2020.04.20 Job advertisement for a Research Scientist position in Laboratory for Distributed Cognitive Processing, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
2020.03.17 Postdoctoral Fellows in Developmental Neuroscience
2020.03.16 Faculty Position in the Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering – The University of Electro-Communications
2020.03.09 Seeking qualified applicants for a position of Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Gunma University Initiative for Advanced Research (GIAR)
2020.03.04 Job advertisements - RIKEN Center for Brain Science Position 1: Deputy Team Leader/Position 2: Research Scientist
2020.02.14 Call for application, Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University (deadline March 31, 2020)
2020.02.12 Postdoctoral Positions in Synaptic Plasticity and Connectivity, Center for Brain Science, RIKEN
2020.01.31 Associate Professor (PI position): Neuroscience, Brain science, or Information science
2020.01.31 A Postdoctoral Position for a Gut-Brain Communication Study Available in Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S.A.
2020.01.27 Postdoctoral Positions in Mechanisms Underlying Brain Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders-Neuroscience Center, UNC, Chapel Hill
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Grants/Fellowship/TA Programs Call for Applicants
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
2019.02.06 Call for applications: JNS-SfN Travel Award Exchange Program
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Events in Japan Overseas Events Public Events
2020.12.22 Call for abstracts, OHBM 2021 Annual Meeting (June 21st-25th, virtual)
2020.11.30 The BRAIN Conference
2020.10.19 RIKEN and UCSF Neuroscience Symposium
2020.10.08 Virtual Town Hall Meeting on the Open Call for a symposium for the 44th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (Neuroscience2021), held on Oct 11 (Sun)!
2020.09.28 International Symposium for Female Researchers in Chromatin Biology (ISFRCB) 2020
2020.09.09 Neurodiversity Symposium: Building Community and Rethinking the Built Environment
2020.08.12 Webinar: Publishing and reviewing with eLife
2020.05.15 International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science 2020
2020.03.17 CANCELLATION - SRCA Symposium 2020
2020.01.27 NIN SUMMER SCHOOL 2020
2020.01.22 21-22 Feb 2020, The 10th International Symposium, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University
2020.01.14 International Symposium: The Role of Pain in Bodily Defense and Autonomy
2019.12.20 Call for application to" Sensorimotor Circuits for Limb Movement Conference" at OIST (Sept 15-18, 2019)
2019.12.09 [Open Registration] 2020/2/25-27 IUBMB Focused Meeting on Neurodegenerative Diseases in Taiwan
2019.11.29 Brain states: transformation of neural circuit dynamics and functions
2019.09.26 SfN2019 SfN-sponsored Social: Global Neuroscience Social
2019.08.20 Current Trends and Future Directions of Synaptic Plasticity Research 2019
2019.08.01 BRAIN SCIENCE TRAINING PROGRAM
2019.08.01 Workshop: Theory towards Brains, Machines and Minds
2019.07.10 Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University
3rd NanoLSI Symposium at UBC in Vancouver
–Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanoprobes in Life Sciences-
2019.07.09 Applying Neuroscience to Business
2019.06.21 Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society-Asia 2019 Symposium“Advances in Molecular and Cellular Cognition Research”
2019.06.05 Abstract submission and early registration for the IBRO2019 World Congress in Daegu closes on June 15th!
2019.04.19 IBRO-APRC Associate School of Neuroscience, MLSU, Udiapur India
2019.04.09 Abstract submission and early registration deadline for the IBRO2019 World Congress in Daegu is only 5 days away!!
2019.04.08 Masao Ito Memorial Symposium
2019.03.22 The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will be hosting a virtual conference.
2019.03.04 The deadline for abstract submission from Japan has been extended for one more week ! Francis Crick Symposium-Transforming Neurosciences: Questions & Experiments Suzhou, China April 15-19, 2019
2019.03.04 “Announcement of The Brain Prize 2019 at University of Copenhagen”
2019.02.18 The International Neuromodulation Society’s 14th World Congress (INS 2019)
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News from JNS
2020.08.11 Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Brain Structure and Function
2020.05.07 Awardee of 2020 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience, Haruki Takeuchi
2020.05.07 Announcement of the Awardee of the 2020 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2020.04.10 JNS join the fight against COVID-19 pandemic
2020.04.06 Announcement of the 22nd Recipient of the Tokizane Prize in 2020
2020.02.05 Message from the new President
2019.11.05 Announcement of 2019 JNS-SfN Exchange Travel Awardees
2019.11.01 Special Rates Offer for FENS Forum 2020 registration
2019.08.20 Election of Panel Directors
2019.07.23 The JNS Secretariat Desk at NEURO2019
2019.06.19 Announcement of the 2019 Japan Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Awardees
2019.04.26 Yasunori Hayashi The 21st Recipient of the Tokizane Prize in 2019
2019.04.22 Official notice about the election of Panel Directors
2019.04.02 Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2019.04.02 Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2019.03.13 Announcement of the Awardee of the 2019 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2019.02.22 Announcement of the 21st Recipient of the Tokizane Prize in 2019
2019.01.16 Cast your vote for the new JNS official character!!
2019.01.10 Special Rates Offer for 2019 ANS Conference, Australasian Neuroscience Society - 39th Annual Scientific Meeting registration
2018.03.07 Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2018.03.07 Announcement of the Awardee of the 2018 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2017.12.01 Participating report of the 12th biennial Conference of CNS : Kai Li
2017.08.01 Participating report of the 12th biennial Conference of CNS : Kelvin Hui
2017.05.31 Itaru Imayoshi the First Awardee of the Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2017.05.11 Announcement of the First Awardee of the Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2016.07.07 2020 Student Member Re-Registration and Junior Member Registration
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