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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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The primary goal of the IBB is to motivate students to learn about the brain and to inspire them to pursue careers in neuroscience so they can help treat and find cures for brain disorders.
The adopted mascot character will be used for academic outreach activities, printed materials related to the academic conference, the academic website, the Japan Neuroscience Society, etc.
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Annual meeting

＜Name of Conference＞NEURO2024　The 47th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society
＜Theme> Deciphering the mind: Transcending borders for the future
＜Dates> July 24-27, 2024
＜Venue＞Fukuoka Convention Center

 

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For Members

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Faculty and Other positions Graduate Student Position/Briefing Session
2023.11.28 Postdoctoral Fellow Position in The Neural Basis of Aggression (Hecht Lab,Harvard University, USA)
2023.11.28 Join the Faculty at the Monell Chemical Senses Center
2023.11.08 Postdoctoral fellow position at UT Southwestern Medical Center
2023.10.30 Call for Postdoctoral Fellows　University of Buffalo (UB)
2023.10.24 Call for Postdoctoral Fellows Keio University WPI Human Biology-Microbiome-Quantum Research Center (Bio2Q)
2023.10.24 Call for Postdoctoral Fellows Keio University WPI Human Biology-Microbiome-Quantum Research Center (Bio2Q)
2023.10.20 Opening for tenure-track Principal Investigator (Associate / Full Professor) at the International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study
2023.10.17 Recruitment of a professor at the Department of Physiology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
2023.08.28 Postdoctoral fellow in the Fan Lab at MIT
2023.08.17 Research opportunities in Ratz lab at Karolinska Institute
2023.08.02 Recruitment of Research Technician / Research Assistant (Newcastle University)
2023.07.26 Recruitment of post-doctoral scientist （The Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Iowa）
2023.06.23 Professor Position at Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences (Japan)
2023.06.16 Call for applications: Ph.D. positions in Cognitive, Social and Affective Neurosciences (CoSAN), Sapienza University of Rome
2023.06.09 Assistant Professor Position at the Division of Neural Dynamics, Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
2023.06.07 Postdoctoral Researcher or Research Scientist position in Cognitive Somnology RIKEN Hakubi Research Team
2023.05.29 DANDRITE and the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine invite candidates for the position as Group Leader in Neuroscience
2023.05.23 Faculty Position in technical development and support for fMRI at RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS)
2023.05.22 Public Advertisement for a Post-Doctoral Fellow and an Affiliate Assistant Professor, Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
2023.04.28 Postdoctoral fellow in systems neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco
2023.04.25 Call for RIKEN Early Career Leaders Program (FY2024)
2023.04.12 Seeking a Team Leader in Laboratory for Infectious Diseases Research (tentative), RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences
2023.03.28 Technical Scientist or Technical Staff position in Support Unit for functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at RIKEN CBS
2023.03.28 2 tenure-track Faculty positions in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology – University of Coimbra, Portugal – co-funded by the ERA Chair project CogBooster led by Dr. Alfonso Caramazza
2023.03.13 Call for Postdoctoral Fellow (Full-time Fixed-term Project Researcher) (Watanabe Laboratory) at IRCN, The University of Tokyo
2023.03.06 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University Postdoc position available
2023.03.01 Postdoc in Circuit Development and Function
2023.02.22 Call for applications for the position of Special Postdoctoral Researcher (SPDR)
2023.02.09 Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
2023.01.24 Postdoctoral position in the Shcheglovitov Lab to study human brain development and disease using stem cell-derived brain organoids
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Grants/Fellowship/TA Programs Call for Applicants
2023.12.01 Call for Applications: FENS Forum 2024 Travel Award
2023.10.17 Call for Applications: ISN-MLSU First Neurochemistry School
2023.08.28 Announcement of the call for the 8th Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience, 2024
2023.05.11 Brain Prize 2024 - Call for Nominations
2023.04.18 Call for SfN Award nominations
2023.04.12 JST Strategic Basic Research Programs (CREST, PRESTO and ACT-X) Fiscal Year 2023 Call for Research Proposals
2023.02.14 Call for Applications: FENS – Chen Institute – NeuroLéman Summer School
2023.02.10 [Deadline Extended] Announcement of the call for the 2023 JNS-CNS Travel Award
2023.02.06 Call for submissions - Art of Neuroscience 2023
2023.01.27 [Deadline Extended] Announcement of the call for the 7th Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience, 2023
2023.01.12 Call for 2023 JNS-CNS Exchange Travel Award Program
2022.11.16 Call for Applications: Toshihiko Tokizane Memorial Award for Excellent Graduate Study in Neuroscience
2022.11.01 Announcement of the call for the 7th Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience, 2023
2022.06.08 2022　JNS-SfN Travel Award Exchange Program
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
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Academic Events
2023.10.11 Master’s Lecture - Visions for development, stem cells and epigenetics
2023.10.03 The 7th NanoLSI Symposium
2023.07.12 Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC), Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS)
2023.07.07 1st August 2023, 2023 Taiwan-Japan Neuroscience Exchange Symposium (JNS Taiwan Night)
2023.07.06 FY2023 Transformative Research Areas (A) Hibernation Biology 2.0: Understanding regulated hypometabolism and its function Kick-off Symposium & Explanatory Meeting for Call for Research Proposals
2023.05.12 Deadline extension: FENS Forum 2024 call for symposia and technical workshops
2023.01.24 9-10 Mar 2023, The 13th International Symposium - Online, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University
2023.01.24 Call for the applications to the OIST Developing Neural Circuits Course (former Developmental Neurobiology Course) (DNC)
2023.01.10 Call for Symposia: The CJK-2nd International Meeting & CNS 2023
2023.01.04 Deadline Extended (January 11, 2023): Call for Symposia for KSBNS 2023 The 26th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences: September 6-8, 2023, Busan, South Korea
2022.11.21 Workshop on Nervous System Assembly-Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
2022.10.24 International Bioethics Symposium "Ethical, Legal, and Social issues of Human Brain Organoid Research and Application"
2022.10.21 6th NanoLSI Symposium will be held in a Hybrid format on November 14-15,2022
2022.08.03 FAONS Virtual Symposium
2022.08.02 Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS), Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
2022.07.28 HORIZONS IN NEUROSCIENCE - ORGANOIDS, OPTOGENETICS AND REMOTE CONTROL
2022.07.27 IBRO World Congress 2023（Granada, Spain）
2022.06.08 6/24 Virtual Seminar | An Ex-Cell Press Editor presents: Telling the Story in a Scientific Paper (ASHBi, Kyoto Univresity)
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
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News from JNS
2023.10.03 [For Member] Announcement of 2023 JNS-SfN Exchange Travel Awardees
2023.08.18 FENS Summer School 2023 Report （Owusu Mensah Richard Nana Abankwah）
2023.08.17 Call for applications: Chief Editors of Neuroscience
2023.07.05 Message from the President 'Our Neuroscience Society'
2023.04.25 Awardee of 2023 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience, Tomasz Nowakowski
2023.04.13 [For Member] The election of the new president
2023.04.01 Announcement of the 24th Recipients of the Tokizane Prize in 2023
2023.03.31 Announcement of the Awardees of the 2023 Neuroscience Research (NSR) Paper Awards.
2023.03.29 Awardee of the 2023 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
2023.03.28 The Winners of the Brain Prize 2023
2023.03.10 [For Member] Renewal of Student Member / Overseas Student Member for FY 2023
2023.03.03 The list of councilors is now available.
2023.03.02 THE BRAIN PRIZE 2023 WINNERS ANNOUNCED ON 23RD MARCH(CET)/ 24TH MARCH(JST)
2023.02.08 Message from the president
2023.01.10 [For Member] New Editorial Board of Neuroscience Research
2023.01.10 [For Member] From the Desk of the Outgoing Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience Research
2022.12.09 [For Member] FY2022 Report on the JNS General Assembly
2022.11.30 [For Member] Election results for the 2023 Board of Directors
2022.09.26 [For Member] Notice of Change of Period for 2023 Student Member Re-Registration
2022.08.27 [For Member] FENS Forum 2022 Report
2022.08.17 [For Member] Announcement of 2019 JNS-SfN Exchange Travel Awardees
2022.06.29 [For Member] The JNS Secretariat Desk during NEURO2022
2022.06.06 The Brain Prize Webinar – Circuits for Movement
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
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