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

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the NSI Travel Bursaries for 2019 are:

Congratulations to all.

Membership of Neuroscience Ireland is on an annual basis so if you joined in 2018 (or any other year) your membership is due for renewal. You can renew by clicking on the button below.

Membership of Neuroscience Ireland entitles you to apply for our Travel Bursaries (next call in Autumn 2019) and Conference Grants. In addition, NSI membership gives you full membership of FENS with their significant associated benefits including reduced registration costs for attendance at SfN and eligibility to apply for FENS bursaries to attend this meeting. 

NSI had the great pleasure of awarding the Tom Connor Distinguished Investigator Award to Prof Ray Dolan, Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, at UCL. The NSI Early Career Investigator Award was awarded to Dr Kathy Ruddy, a post-doctoral researcher at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience in Dublin. Awards were presented by NSI's Dr Eilís Dowd (President) and Dr Derek Costello (Treasurer) respectively, during the BNA2019 Festival of Neuroscience meeting. 


 

NSI was a Festival Partner with the BNA for a hugely successful BNA2019 Festival of Neuroscience Meeting held at the Convention Centre Dublin.

The NSI scientific symposium, in addition to the numerous poster presentations, highlighted a the wide range of excellent and high level research conducted by Irish neuroscience researchers. Access to speaker and poster abstracts can be found via the following link.

To mark the first time the BNA festival of Neuroscience hs been held outside of Britian, the European Journal of Neuroscience has put together a Special Virtual Issue. This is a collection of notable papers from British and Irish Neuroscientists including some of the most cited papers from 206-2019 and a comprehensive review of Irish Neuroscience. 

 

We are delighted to announce that 2 Irish postgraduate students received BNA poster prizes
 

Some additional highlights from the meeting.

In addition to the excellent scientific programme, NSI was involved in organising an exciting series of events targeted at the public, patients, patient organisations and anyone with an interest in the brain.





A special thanks to  Dr Áine Kelly who spear headed the organising of the Public Programme which was ably assisted by Dr Eilís Dowd and Louise Tratt (BNA), as well as all the organisations and individuals who organised events (Full list).






Pictures from some of the events.

 

April has been a excellent month for NSI on twitter with 375 additional followers and almost 200K tweet impressions. Much of this activity is the result of the involvement of NSI and its members in the BNA2019 meeting with the majority of the pictures presented above posted in tweets during the meeting. We hope to continue to grow our profile and visibility so please remember to tag @NeuroscienceIRL when tweeting.

Neuronal Signaling is a new open access journal from the Biochemical Society covering all aspects of signaling within and between neurons. As the journal's Editor-in-Chief is Neuroscience Ireland member Aideen Sullivan from UCC, Neuronal Signaling are currently offering discounted rates for Neuroscience Ireland members to publish open access here. If you wish to avail of this offer, please contact Aideen here.