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Neuroscience Ireland membership for 2020 is now due for renewal – click here to renew

NSI membership gives you full membership of FENS with their significant associated benefits including reduced registration costs for attendance at FENS2020 and SfN and eligibility to apply for FENS bursaries to attend this meeting.

Neuroscience Ireland provides bursaries for young Neuroscience Ireland Members (PhD students or postdoctoral researchers) to attend international conferences each year. This year we are launching a special Travel Bursary Scheme for those wishing to attend FENS 2020.

The deadline for Bursary Applications is 18th February 2020.

The application form can be downloaded by clicking at the link here: NSI Travel Bursary Application Form

Please complete the form and include evidence of submission of your FENS abstract as well as a letter from your supervisor/mentor. .

Applications should be emailed to: neuroscience.ireland@gmail.com with “Travel bursary application” in the title.

Its been a busy few months since our last newsletter. NSI has developed a video highlighting some of the outreach activities for 2019, the NSI social gathering at SfN was a huge success and 4 travel bursaries have been awarded. In addition, many NSI members have given talks, received awards and much, much more.

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Ishka Films and National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway present ‘Mood Atlas’ screening Saturday December 14^th at 3pm at the O’Donoghue Theatre on NUI Galway campus. This short film describes the experience of living with bipolar disorder and the research underway in the Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory NUI Galway to understand the neuroscience behind it. All are welcome to this free event. The project has been funded by the Health Research Board, Knowledge Exchange and Dissemination Awarded to Dr Dara M Cannon. Please RSVP to f.martyn6@nuigalway.ie

Profs Áine Kelly and Richard Roche in conjunction with Tiger Media, have created this short video highlighting some of the outreach and public engagement activities the Neuroscience Ireland have been involved in in 2019

These activities have included:

A Brain Awareness Week event entitled “Painting Music: sound as vision via synaesthesia”.  In this event, the remarkable nature of how sensory information is processed in the brain was conveyed through music and art, through live simultaneous performance of a synaesthete musician, Svetlana Rudenko,  and a synaesthete artist, Timothy Layden

One of the highlights of the year was NSI organisation of the public programme of the BNA2019 Festival of Neuroscience. This event comprised 16 events held in 9 venues around Dublin city centre, with a satellite ‘Brain Movie Night’ event in Galway. The programme had events to suit all tastes, from rap to classical music, from art to contemporary dance and drama, along with well-attended educational events focused on brain research and patient experience.

Click here to watch the video

We would like to welcome Dr Cora O’Neil, UCC and Dr Claire McCoy, RCSI onto the Neuroscience Ireland governing council.

Dr. Cora O’Neill is Vice-Head of the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Director of the Cork Neuroscience Centre and principal investigator of a research team whose major focus is Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia disorders.

Dr Claire McCoy joined RCSI as the Immunology lecturer in August 2016, where she now leads the growing microRNA Inflammation research group. Claire was the recent recipient of an SFI Future Research Leader’s award presented by President Higgins in January 2018

We would also like to thank Prof David Henshall and Prof John Cryan for their tremendous contributions to the society, especially Prof Henshall as former President.

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Neuroscience Ireland provides bursaries for young Neuroscience Ireland Members (PhD students or postdoctoral researchers) to attend international conferences each year.

The NSI travel bursary awardees for Autumn 2019 are:

Zuzana Koci, from Prof Fegral O’Brien at RCSI
Rory Boyle, from Prof Robert Whelan’s group at TCD,
Eleanor Carey, from Prof Mary Cannon’ group at RCSI
Fiona Martyn, from Dr Dara Cannon’s group at NUIG

Congratulations and we hope you enjoy your conferences.

Click here for details on NSI Travel Bursaries and Conference Reports