Dear EBBS members,
I am pleased to announce that the organisation of the next EBBS meeting in beautiful Amsterdam is steadily proceeding. This will represent an important time to celebrate because it will be our 50th meeting! Despite its age, our society is thriving and contributing to the forefront of the neuroscience field.
The 50th Meeting of the European Brain and Behaviour Society will be held on 26-29 August 2023 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
With this meeting, EBBS aims at assembling scientists from all over the world interested in the bridging brain and behaviour, in health and disease, and using the most innovative theoretical and technical approaches in the neuroscience field. The meeting programme already include a wonderful line up of renowned Plenary speakers which are:
Now, we are looking for your symposium proposals to finalize a fantastic meeting programme.
The EBBS Programme Committee welcomes excellent symposia that advance our knowledge of the brain and behaviour, in health and disease, and using all research approaches. Proposals covering either a hot topic in the field or a novel topic not represented in previous EBBS meetings will be favoured.
A symposium may be proposed by any established researcher, who did not have a symposium proposal accepted at the EBBS 2021 meeting. Members of the Programme Committee can neither propose a symposium nor be speakers in a symposium. Proposers of successful symposia would be expected to be or become full members of the EBBS (40 € per year).
Each symposium will require a chair and four speakers (the chair may be one of the speakers). Preference will be given to proposals that represent diversity (across age, sex, and origin). Symposia will be two hours allowing four talks of approximately 20-25 minutes plus time for questions.
Please note that EBBS cannot cover any travel or registration costs for chairs or speakers of a symposium.
Please complete the EBBS symposium proposal form on the conference website .
Deadline: 6 15 November 2022.
Any questions please email secretary@ebbs-science.org.
Igor Branchi
President of European Brain and Behaviour Society
Dear EBBS members,
I hope to find you well despite the challenging times. Europe is witnessing the emergence of the war that is tragically affecting the people from Ukraine and Russia and impacting the life of all of us. EBBS, which is an apolitical scientific organization, hopes that the peace will soon find its way and will do its best to foster tolerance and friendship across countries and cultures.
The time for an amazing scientific meeting in person is finally approaching: the 2022 FENS Forum (https://forum.fens.org/) will be held in Paris next month (9-13 July). I am proud to inform you that EBBS has organized several exciting initiatives that will take place in the framework of the Forum.
Our society is co-organizing, together with International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society, European Behavioural Pharmacology Society and European Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, a satellite Mini-conference that will be held at the FENS Forum venue (Hall F) on the morning of the 9th of July. The event, titled Understanding Behaviour: Molecular, Cellular & Systems Approaches, will be aimed at discussing the most advanced theoretical and technical approaches linking brain activity and behavioural outcome. Renowned scientists and worldwide experts will provide multiple and complementary perspectives on the topic. The deadline for the early registration (25 EUR) is on the 9th of June. To register and for further info about the programme, see this page. Looking forward to meeting you for an exciting scientific exchange!
REGISTER NOW to the Mini-conference
EBBS is also involved, in collaboration with the Austrian Neuroscience Association (ANA), in the organization of the 2022 FENS Networking event titled Are we equipped to work interdisciplinary? - On the lack of philosophical education for neuroscientists, which will be held on the evening of the 10th of July (18:45-20:30, Hall D, FENS Forum venue). The event will be aimed at discussing theoretical frameworks at the interface between neuroscience and philosophy. The neuroscientist Jean Pierre Changeux (Institut Pasteur & Collège de France, Paris, France), the philosopher Ann-Sophie Barwich (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) and a panel of experts will discuss novel theoretical frameworks able to foster innovative hypotheses to understand the complexity of the brain and the mind. To register to the event and for more information see this page. The registration is FREE.
REGISTER NOW to the Networking event
In keeping with our tradition, a special EBBS/Behavioural Brain Research lecture will be held on the 12th of July from 13:30 (Hall C, FENS forum venue). Timothy Behrens, from Oxford University and University College London, will give the talk on “Flexible inferences in the prefrontal hippocampal circuitry”.
European Brain and Behavior Society invites its members to cast their votes for renewing the Executive committee. In particular, elections are open for President-elect and two ordinary members. You can find further information on the candidates and vote via the myEBBS area. Voting is open until the end of 10th June 2022.
Looking forward to meeting you in person in Paris to enjoy the EBBS initiatives and the FENS Forum together.
Igor Branchi
President of European Brain and Behaviour Society
Dear EBBS members,
I am reaching out to you hoping to find you in good health notwithstanding the challenging times. The 2022 FENS Forum (https://forum.fens.org/) will be held in Paris in July and the deadline for early registration is fast approaching (February 22nd). I am hoping that this will be an occasion to meet in person and would like to present you the exciting EBBS initiatives that will take place in the framework of the Forum.
I am delighted to announce that our society is co-organizing, together with International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society, European Behavioural Pharmacology Society and European Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, a satellite mini-conference at the 2022 FENS Forum that will be held in Paris on the morning of the 9th of July. The mini-conference is titled Understanding Behaviour: Molecular, Cellular & Systems Approaches and will be aimed at discussing theoretical and technical approaches linking brain activity and behavioural outcome. Renewed scientists and worldwide experts have been invited to provide multiple and complementary perspectives. For details about registration and the programme, see this page. We look forward to meeting you at the mini-conference for an exciting scientific exchange!
EBBS will be involved as well in a 2022 FENS Networking event titled Are we equipped to work interdisciplinary? - On the lack of philosophical education for neuroscientists, which is co-organized with the Austrian Neuroscience Association and will be held on the evening of the 10th of July. The event will be aimed at discussing theoretical frameworks at the interface between neuroscience and philosophy that, in parallel with technical innovations, will help progressing the neuroscience field beyond its current limitations. These theoretical frameworks will foster the formulation of innovative hypotheses to understand the complexity of the brain and the mind, leading to the definition of novel scientific concepts and the critical assessment of scientific assumptions. The keynote lecturers are the neuroscientist Jean-Pierre Changeux (Institut Pasteur & Collège de France, Paris, France) and the philosopher Anne-Sophie Barwich (Indiana University Bloomington, USA). More information will soon be available in this website.
EBBS is offering 5 travel awards (1 for post-docs and 4 for PhD students) to attend the 2022 FENS Forum. Award winners will receive a €500 bank transfer after the meeting as well as a special EBBS Travel Award Certificate. Travel awards will only be made to people attending the FENS forum in person.
All applicants should be EBBS members at the time of application and should not have previously received an EBBS travel award (for a previous FENS Forum or an EBBS meeting). Applications should be sent to the Secretary General of the EBBS (Alex Easton, secretary@ebbs-science.org) by Sunday 20th March 2022. Applications should include:
Looking forward to meeting you in Paris to enjoy the EBBS initiatives and the FENS Forum together.
Igor Branchi
President of European Brain and Behaviour Society
Dear EBBS members,
as another challenging year is coming to an end, I would like to provide you with a brief feedback on EBBS activities during 2021 and with an outlook of our plans for 2022.
Over the past two years, we have been called upon to face very difficult times and adapt to new and challenging sets of circumstances. The pandemic has significantly changed the way we live, we work and interact with the others. While facing these changes, the need in the neuroscientific community to keep collaborations and scientific exchange among colleagues and friends alive clearly emerged. EBBS will go on creating more and more opportunities on this matter.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 has been a very good year for our Society. The 49th EBBS conference held in Lausanne has been a success. Because of the hybrid format, a wide audience has remotely participated to the meeting and many of us have, after long time, had the opportunity to meet and discuss about neuroscience in person. Building on the success of the meeting, the number of EBBS members skyrocketed to over 900, demonstrating the growing interest toward the Society.
As for future activities, the EBBS Executive Committee is organizing a satellite event of the FENS forum (https://forum.fens.org/) that will be held in Paris on the morning of the 9th of July 2022. The title of this mini-conference will be Understanding Behaviour: Molecular, Cellular & Systems Approaches as it will be aimed at discussing theoretical and technical approaches in linking brain function and behavioural outcome. More information will be available soon at the EBBS website and via the Society twitter and facebook pages. In addition, in keeping with our tradition, a special EBBS/Behavioural Brain Research lecture will be held during the FENS forum. This year Timothy Behrens, from Oxford University and University College London, has been invited to give the talk on “Flexible inferences in the prefrontal hippocampal circuitry”.
I do hope that by summer 2022, the pandemic situation will allow us to safely travel to Paris and enjoy the conference in person.
Please remember that in spring, all EBBS members will be called to vote for the President-elect and new ordinary members of the Executive Committee ensuring the future of EBBS leadership. We thus invite nominations for candidates, who have to be EBBS members, to stand for elections.
Finally, EBBS will continue its effort in fostering high quality neuroscientific research, advocating for equality and equity across the neuroscientific community and promoting young researchers and students. I am overall optimistic that the Society will continue to be resilient and thrive, even in the face of future adversities.
I look forward to continuing working together with you.
Stay healthy and my best wishes for the holidays and the new year!
Igor Branchi
President of European Brain and Behaviour Society
Dear EBBS members,
the 49th EBBS conference has ended few weeks ago. The excellent scientific program, the high quality organization, together with the agreeableness of social interactions and the openness and curiosity that has always distinguished EBBS members made the meeting a terrific success. In addition, for many of us, it has represented the opportunity to finally travel and meet colleagues in complete safety after the pandemic lockdown that, together with the splendid weather, further increased the success of the meeting. In this regard, I wish to thank Carmen Sandi, the local organizer, and Mathias Schmidt, the past-President.
I am delighted and honoured to begin my term as President of EBBS. This society has been a source of professional inspiration, collaboration and friendship in the last 20 years and I will do my best to repay a little of this in my endeavour as President. My commitments will be to support the society community, to advance scientific exchange and to advocate for the field of behavioural neuroscience. I am particularly keen on bolstering students and young scientists. EBBS will provide guidance and support to develop their career and to pursue their scientific ideas in frontline areas of neuroscience research. A further major focus will be to promote equity, diversity and gender balance. We will continue being an official partner of the ALBA network (https://www.alba.network/) and will participate and support all the initiatives aimed at providing networking and mentoring opportunities to promote careers for members of underrepresented groups. To thrive, EBBS needs members coming from different backgrounds, gender, age, nationalities, ethnicities, cultures and traditions.
As for future activities, based on the success of the 2020 initiative, we are organizing a new mini-conference as satellite event of the FENS forum that will be held in Paris in July 2022. The title will be Understanding Behaviour: Molecular, Cellular & Systems Approaches and is aimed at discussing theoretical and technical approaches in linking brain function and behavioural outcome. The preparation of this event is already underway and EBBS, together with other neuroscience societies, is working to make it a great success. More information and a detailed program will be soon available via the society website and the twitter and facebook pages.
Finally, the isolation imposed by pandemic crisis made all of us aware of the relevance of being part of a community for nurturing connections and exchanging ideas and tools. My term will be thus devoted to strengthening opportunities for networking among members and beyond the boundaries of the society. I invite you all to reach me and the other EBBS committee members to suggest and discuss on how to take care of our society.
Igor Branchi
President of European Brain and Behaviour Society
It is incredible how fast time is flying by if you are busy. Having taken over the Presidency of the EBBS at the 2019 meeting in Prague seems like yesterday, and at the same time so much has happened in the meantime and the world has changed. At the upcoming meeting in Lausanne in only a few weeks, I will hand over the presidency to Igor Branchi. Looking back at the last two years, it is of course the Covid19 pandemic which overshadows everything and left the biggest impression. Still, as a society we were moving forward and continued on our path to promote behavioural neuroscience in Europe and worldwide. In particular, I want to highlight our co-organized FENS satellite “Behavioural neuroscience for the next decade: Why behaviour matters to brain science" and the EBBS symposium at the British Neuroscience Association meeting. EBBS was active within FENS, IBRO or the ALBA network. We actively supported young scientists by providing travel grants, and we reduced our carbon foot-print by holding all committee meetings virtually (although admittedly the corona pandemic made this decision easy). A tremendous effort was the organization of our society’s meeting in Lausanne this year, the decision to hold this meeting as fully hybrid and to keep fighting for the possibility to be able to attend this meeting in person. I want to especially thank the local organizer Carmen Sandi, who has done an amazing job and, because of her tireless work, I am certain that the meeting will be a full success.
When I set out as President of the EBBS, I had three major goals that I also communicated to you in the first newsletter after the last meeting: (1) continue on our path to pioneer and support equality and gender balance, (2) to support young scientists and (3) to pave the way to an eco-friendlier society. I believe that we have succeeded with these goals and EBBS is well-prepared to face the challenges the future will bring. As past-president I will continue to work for our society and support its leadership and the members in every way I can.
Mathias Schmidt
The society is looking forward to welcoming members to our hybrid meeting in Lausanne. Whether you are attending in person, or virtually, we have an outstanding programme of science for you. Registration for attendance is still open and full information about the meeting can be found at https://www.ebbs2021.org/
The Society will hold its annual general meeting at the Lausanne Meeting on September 7th at 11:30am (CEST). This is an opportunity for members to feed into the society as well as hear about the most society’s most recent plans.
The EBBS committee is proposing a small change to the Society’s bylaws. Our committee membership rules do not currently allow for a transition period when there is a change of Secretary or Treasurer. To allow for the committee to work smoothly when there is a transition, there will be a vote to change article 12 of the bylaws at the AGM in September. The current wording of the bylaw is below, with the proposed additional text highlighted in yellow.
12. The Secretary and Treasurer shall hold office for three years and shall always be eligible for re- election to the Committee. At the end of their term, each may be co-opted to the committee for one further year.
Following our recent election, the society is pleased to welcome Dr Mathieu Wolff as an ordinary member of the committee as well as Dr Dorothy Tse as the Young Scientist member of the committee. In addition, Dr Aniko Korosi continues as our Treasurer for a further 3 years. Congratulations to them all.
Members are invited to submit proposals for support of an EBBS sponsored International Lecturer at meetings, workshops or summer/winter schools. Applications for small, local meetings are discouraged. Deadline September 1st 2021.
A travel grant of €700 will be awarded to defray the additional costs of a lecturer from another country. Applicants (who have to be members of EBBS) should provide sufficient details to satisfy the following points:
Please note that a brief report on the meeting and lecture should be submitted after the meeting. Applications should include a one-page C.V. of the nominated lecturer. They should be made at least 6 months before the meeting and addressed to the Secretary (Alex Easton; secretary@ebbs-science.org).
Our meeting in Lausanne (September 4th – 7th) promises to be an exciting meeting with outstanding keynote speakers and 21 fascinating symposia as well as our poster sessions (visit https://www.ebbs2021.org for full details).
We have now extended our deadline for reduced cost early registration. We offer both virtual and regular attendance, and you can upgrade to full attendance at any time between now and the meeting, allowing you to be completely flexible with your plans.
| Full attendance (early registration until March 15th) |
Virtual attendance (early registration until March 15th) |
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| EBBS Members | € 300 | € 100 |
| EBBS Non-Members | € 450 | € 150 |
| EBBS Student Members | € 180 | € 60 |
| EBBS Student Non-Members | € 270 | € 90 |
We look forward to seeing you in Lausanne!
We invite nominations for candidates (who should be members of EBBS) to stand for election for:
Nominations should be made by a member of EBBS and sent by e-mail to the Secretary General, Alex Easton (secretary@ebbs-science.org) no later than May 3rd, 2021.
Nominations should include a short summary of the candidate (about ½ A4 along with a photo if possible). This will be published together with the web-on-line ballots. In accepting nominations, we assume that the candidate has already agreed to stand for election.
The FENS forum in Paris (9-13 July 2022) has put out a call for symposia and technical workshops.
Full details can be found here with a deadline for submissions of Thursday 20th May 2021.
Details of the meeting are available at https://www.ebbs2021.org/ and early registration will be open until March 15th 2021 – We look forward to seeing you in Lausanne!
| Full attendance (early registration until March 15th) |
Virtual attendance (early registration until March 15th) |
|
| EBBS Members | € 300 | € 100 |
| EBBS Non-Members | € 450 | € 150 |
| EBBS Student Members | € 180 | € 60 |
| EBBS Student Non-Members | € 270 | € 90 |
We very much expect the meeting to go ahead in person – but we will allow on-line registrations to be 'upgraded' to full attendance at a later date. If the event had to move online only we would refund any cost difference to those who have registered for full attendance.
EBBS is offering 10 travel awards (3 for post-docs and 7 for PhD students) to attend our meeting in person in Lausanne in September.
Award winners will receive a €500 bank transfer after the meeting as well as a special EBBS Travel Award Certificate. Should the meeting move entirely online then the award will instead cover the cost of registration fees at the cost incurred to the applicant.
All applicants should be EBBS members at the time of application. Applications should include:
Applications should be sent to the Secretary General of the EBBS (Alex Easton, secretary@ebbs-science.org) by the end of Sunday 28th February 2021.
Abstracts must be submitted in English and cannot be more than 250 words.
Abstract topic: Submissions are welcome in all topics related to Behavioral Neuroscience.
Abstract title: The title should not exceed 25 words.
Body text: limited to 300 words Abstracts should clearly state: Aims, Methods, Results and Conclusions.
Use only standard abbreviations. Place special or unusual abbreviations in parentheses after the full word the first time it appears.
We recommend using word-processing software (for example Word) for editing your abstract and counting the number of words.
Members are invited to submit proposals for support of an EBBS sponsored International Lecturer at meetings, workshops or summer/winter schools. Applications for small, local meetings are discouraged. Deadline February 28th 2021.
A travel grant of €700 will be awarded to defray the additional costs of a lecturer from another country. Applicants (who have to be members of EBBS) should provide sufficient details to satisfy the following points:
Please note that a brief report on the meeting and lecture should be submitted after the meeting.
Applications should include a one-page C.V. of the nominated lecturer. They should be made at least 6 months before the meeting and addressed to the Secretary (Alex Easton; secretary@ebbs-science.org).
We are closing in on the finishing line for 2020, so it is time to take a look back what has happened last year in our society and beyond, as well as to look ahead to what is still to come in 2021.
I don’t think I am exaggerating when I say that this year will be a very memorable one for all of us. The Covid-19 pandemic has been and continues to be an unprecedented challenge that already cost over 1.5 million lives worldwide and caused exceptional suffering on a personal as well as society level. Next to the devastating health problems caused by this disease, the economic and social consequences are greater than anything that we have witnessed in our recent history. At the same time, I am overwhelmed by the overarching sense of solidarity and by the understanding that if we work together and adhere to common sense and scientific insights, we have the ability to overcome this challenge. The role of a scientific society as the EBBS became even more evident to me last year, as it enabled us to connect scientists and actively work against the negative consequences of the Covid-19 crisis, for example in the area of mental health. We have also witnessed a lot of changes, for example when it comes to scientific conferences. But also here the swiftness of our actions to convert the FENS meeting to a virtual format and thereby exchange scientific information and discussion despite the ongoing pandemic was extraordinary. In parallel EBBS also continued its work to promote equality and gender balance, particularly to promote young scientists and to lead brain and behavior research exchange. I am therefore optimistic that we will continue to be resilient and thrive in the face of the current adversity, which brings me to the outlook to 2021.
The most important EBBS-related event that will take place next year is the 49th meeting of our society from September 4th to 7th in Lausanne. Carmen Sandi as the local organizer and the EBBS committee were able to put together a wonderful and exciting program of young as well as renowned scientists, and I am already very much looking forward to this event. Clearly, 10 months from now we will still battle Covid-19 and there will likely be hygiene and distancing regulations that we haven’t seen at previous meetings, but we are confident that we can offer our society members the opportunity to attend the meeting in person once again. In parallel, we are organizing the conference as a hybrid meeting also offering virtual access, thereby allowing more scientists than ever to participate and – at the same time – can actively contribute to our goal to reduce our CO2 footprint and organize an ecofriendly conference. It seems time has been flying and already in 10 months I will be handing over the EBBS leadership to our new president-elect Igor Branchi. Until this time we still have lots to do and to achieve, and I will continue to work for this society with all my heart. I wish you all a peaceful and healthy holiday season.
In science,
Mathias Schmidt
President of the EBBS
We are delighted to open registration for the Society’s meeting in Lausanne from 4th – 7th September 2021, and look forward to seeing you there. Please visit
https://www.ebbs2021.org/
The local organizing committee and the EBBS committee are highly confident that it will be possible to hold a physical, face-to-face meeting in Lausanne 2021 (the meeting would have been possible to be held on the same dates in 2020 in Switzerland at the same dates; and we cautiously expect that the sanitary situation would improve throughout 2021). We very much encourage people to plan attending in person.
Importantly, we are currently planning the meeting to take place in person, but also include a hybrid format, so that those that can not travel to Lausanne can follow the meeting virtually.
Delegates that register to the online version will be able to upgrade their registration to participate in person at any time before the meeting (paying either early registration or late registration fees).
In the unlikely eventuality that the meeting cannot take place physically in Lausanne, we will organize a virtual meeting and reimburse those delegates the excess that paid for the physical meeting.
Early registration will be open until March 15th 2021:
| Full attendance (early registration until March 15th) |
Virtual attendance (early registration until March 15th) |
|
| EBBS Members | € 300 | € 100 |
| EBBS Non-Members | € 450 | € 150 |
| EBBS Student Members | € 180 | € 60 |
| EBBS Student Non-Members | € 270 | € 90 |
We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers for the meeting.
Prof. Edvard Moser
Prof Iain Couzin
Prof. Kay M. Tye
Prof. Marina Picciotto
Prof. Tiago Branco
Prof. Tracy L. Bale
In addition we are pleased to announce 21 symposia over the course of the meeting.
The EBBS program committee welcomes excellent symposia that advance our knowledge of the brain and behavior, in health and disease, and using all research approaches. Excellent proposals covering either a hot topic in the field or a novel topic not represented in previous EBBS meetings will be favoured.
A symposium may be proposed by any established researcher, who did not have a symposium proposal accepted at the EBBS 2019 meeting (previous speakers who did not propose a symposium are eligible). Members of the Program committee can neither propose a symposium nor be speakers in a symposium. Proposers of successful symposia would be expected to be or become full members of the EBBS.
Each symposium will require a chair and four speakers (the chair may be one of the speakers). Preference will be given to proposals that represent diversity (across age, sex, and origin).
Note: We are aware that the current situation with COVID-19 may lead to some uncertainty for speakers at this stage. Alongside our preferred plans for a conference we can all attend in person, we are preparing plans for the meeting to be held virtually or as a hybrid meeting if needed. We hope that symposium proposals can therefore be submitted with confidence.
Please complete the EBBS symposium proposal form on the conference website (https://www.ebbs2021.org/call-for-symposium-proposals/) by October 5th 2020.
Any questions please email secretary@ebbs-science.org.
The EBBS program committee welcomes excellent symposia that advance our knowledge of the brain and behavior, in health and disease, and using all research approaches. Excellent proposals covering either a hot topic in the field or a novel topic not represented in previous EBBS meetings will be favoured.
A symposium may be proposed by any established researcher, who did not have a symposium proposal accepted at the EBBS 2019 meeting. Members of the Program committee can neither propose a symposium nor be speakers in a symposium. Proposers of successful symposia would be expected to be or become full members of the EBBS.
Each symposium will require a chair and four speakers (the chair may be one of the speakers). Preference will be given to proposals that represent diversity (across age, sex, and origin).
Note: We are aware that the current situation with COVID-19 may lead to some uncertainty for speakers at this stage. Alongside our preferred plans for a conference we can all attend in person, we are preparing plans for the meeting to be held virtually or as a hybrid meeting if needed. We hope that symposium proposals can therefore be submitted with confidence.
Please complete the EBBS symposium proposal form on the conference website (https://www.ebbs2021.org/call-for-symposium-proposals/) by September 25th 2020.
Any questions please email secretary@ebbs-science.org.
Members are invited to submit proposals for support of an EBBS sponsored International Lecturer at meetings, workshops or summer/winter schools. Applications for small, local meetings are discouraged.
Deadline September 30th, 2020
A travel grant of 700 Euros will be awarded to defray the additional costs of a lecturer from another country.
Applicants (who have to be members of EBBS) should provide sufficient details to satisfy the following points:
Please note that a brief report on the meeting and lecture should be submitted after the meeting.
Applications should include a one-page C.V. of the nominated lecturer. They should be made at least 6 months before the meeting and addressed to the Secretary Alexander Easton (secretary@ebbs-science.org).
You can follow EBBS in Facebook and Twitter for scientific news, meeting announcements and funding opportunities.
Facebook: EBBS.science
Twitter: EBBStweets
Only a few months passed since our last biennial meeting in Prague, but in these few months the world has changed in many ways and we are now facing challenges that were unimaginable last year. In these turbulent times I am very happy that the EBBS community is lively and active, and that our democratic elections have now successfully ensured the future of EBBS leadership. I extend a warm welcome to our new ExCom members Francesca, Muriel and Lars as well as to Igor and Alex, who are joining again the ExCom in new positions this time. At the same time, I want to express my gratitude to the stepping-down members of the executive committee. Antonis Stamatakis has done a wonderful job as Secretary General during the past 6 years and ensured with his tireless efforts that the society was running smoothly. Francesca Sargolini, Mark Walton and Sebastien Bouret were active and invaluable members of the executive committee and their input and help will be dearly missed. Thank you! I hope you will all be leaving the committee with the certainty that the future of the EBBS is in firm hands. I also want to officially welcome Marina Picciotto as recently co-opted overseas member of our executive committee.
Coming back to the challenges that we are facing, I want to specifically address some of them. As I already emphasized when I steppedinto office, equality and gender balance are central values that I myself and our society stand for. The recent tragic events in the US have again highlighted how important it is to fight inequality and racism, and to actively support initiatives to promote diversity and equality in our society and beyond. As President of the EBBS I will therefore do what is in my power to continue this fight.
A second challenge that I already raised early on was the necessity to adapt scientific meetings to be more environment-friendly and reduce the need for air travel. In some ways the Covid19 crises has accelerated this process and we are now forced to adapt to new realities of virtual meetings and conferences. I am very much looking forward to see what we can learn from the virtual FENS Forum this year, which includes the EBBS co-organized Mini-Conference “Behavioural neuroscience for the next decade: Why behaviour matters to brain science” and the EBBS-Elsevier-Behavioral Brain Research Lecture. Also for our next biennial meeting 2021 in Lausanne we are engaged in preparations for a hybrid meeting, so that participation will hopefully be possible in real live, but also virtually. You can already check out some details on our new meeting web page www.ebbs2021.org.
In closing, I hope that all of you are successfully facing the challenges that 2020 has in store for us and look forward to seeing you at the FENS Forum virtually and hopefully soon also again in real life.
Mathias Schmidt, EBBS President
Based on the results of the on-line elections, the incoming members of the EBBS Executive Committee are:
President Elect: Igor Branchi
Secretary General:Alex Easton
Ordinary Members: Muriel Koehl, Lars Schwabe and Francesca Zoratto
Welcome aboard new members!
Be part of #FENS2020, 11-15 July 2020
July 11, 8:30-11:30
The European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS), European Behavioural Pharmacology Society (EBPS), European Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (EMCCS) and International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) invite you to our jointly organised mini conference. A variety of topics will be covered, focusing on the role of behaviour in Neuroscience and the translatability of animal models to human traits and psychiatric disorders .
You can follow EBBS in Facebook and Twitter for scientific news, meeting announcements and funding opportunities.
Facebook: EBBS.science
Twitter: EBBStweets
Even the older ones among us agree that what we are all experiencing now are unprecedented challenges. Only a few weeks ago life was going on in expected and dependable ways, and now the whole world seems to be upside down and many things that we took for granted are now put to the test. The difficulties that we were facing last year now seem often small and petty compared to the major problems individuals and our whole society are currently dealing with.
In these difficult times, it is most important to remember that nobody is alone in this situation. You are part of a large community, and in this community we will support each other in any way possible. I believe that one of the biggest problems related to the Covid-19 crisis is the uncertainty and unpredictability of the situation, which requires a high degree of resilience. Our society harbors a lot of expertise on this matter. In the end, the question of how we deal with the Covid-19 pandemic and all the negative consequences related to this will be an issue of brain, mind and behavior – all of which are of core interest to the EBBS. Our mission statement is to be “committed to maintain high standards in the field of behavioural neuroscience and, more generally, to shape a positive future for neuroscience and wider society”. This is now more important than ever.
We, the members of the Executive Committee of EBBS, will mobilize all resources available to this society, to assist in successfully overcoming this crisis. I hope that all of you, your families and loved ones are healthy, safe and weather these challenges as good as possible.
Mathias Schmidt, EBBS President
We invite nominations for candidates (who should be members of EBBS) to stand for election for President-elect, Secretary General and three Ordinary Members.
Nominations should be sent by e-mail to the current Secretary General Antonis Stamatakis (astam@nurs.uoa.gr) no later than April 15, 2020.
Nominations should include a short CV of the candidate (about ½ A4 along with a photo if possible). This will be published together with the web-on-line ballots.
Members are invited to submit proposals to support an EBBS sponsored International Lecturer at meetings, workshops or summer/winter schools. Applications for small, local meetings are discouraged.
A travel grant of € 700 will be awarded to defray the additional costs of a lecturer from another country.
Applicants (who must be EBBS members at the time of application and in good standing with their membership fees) should provide sufficient details to satisfy the following points:
A brief report on the meeting and the lecture should be submitted after the meeting. Applications should include a one-page CV of the nominated lecturer. They should be made at least 6 months before the meeting and addressed to the Secretary AntonisStamatakis (astam@nurs.uoa.gr).
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We invite nominations for candidates (who should be members of EBBS) to stand for election for President-elect, Secretary General and three Ordinary Members.
Nominations should be sent by e-mail to the current Secretary General Antonis Stamatakis (astam@nurs.uoa.gr) no later than April 15th, 2020.
Nominations should include a short CV of the candidate (about ½ A4 along with a photo if possible). This will be published together with the web-on-line ballots.
The European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS), European Behavioural Pharmacology Society (EBPS), European Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (EMCCS) and International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) invite you to our jointly organised Mini Conference. A variety of topics will be covered focusing on the role of behaviour in Neuroscience and the translatability of animal models to human traits and psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Ana Pocivavsek (Dept Pharmacology, Physiology and neuroscience, University of South Carolina, USA) will give an EBBS-sponsored lecture at the 18th International Conference “Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience” (MMiN 2020) in Lyon, France, June 28th-July 1st, 2020 (http://mmin2020.univ-lyon1.fr/).
Dear all,
this is a strong encouragement to participate in the FENS Forum this coming July, in Glasgow. FENS has extended the early registration and abstract submission deadline to February 25th (see details below and here: https://forum2020.fens.org/).
Optimize your travelling: this is an outstanding meeting, with a fantastic program of plenary lectures, symposia, technical workshops, posters, debates, socials, great networking opportunities and all within a vibrant community. Travel grants available.
Hoping to see many of you there!
Kind regards,
Carmen Sandi, FENS President
JNS annual meeting
Deadline for abstract submission: January 26th 2020!
Deadline for early bird registration: March 26th!
FENS members can register for the Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society 2020 at special rates.
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The European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS), European Behavioural Pharmacology Society (EBPS), European Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (EMCCS) and International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) invite you to our jointly organised Mini Conference. A variety of topics will be covered focusing on the role of behaviour in Neuroscience and the translatability of animal models to human traits and psychiatric disorders.
In order to attend the 12th FENS Forum 2020 which will be held in Glasgow, UK, 11-15 July 2020, EBBS offers 5 travel awards: 1 for a post-doc and 4 for PhD students.
Awardees will receive € 500 via Bank Transfer after the end of the meeting.
Applicants must be EBBS members at the time of application and in good standing with their membership fees.
Applications for the Travel Fellowship should include:
Members are invited to submit proposals to support an EBBS sponsored International Lecturer at meetings, workshops or summer/winter schools. Applications for small, local meetings are discouraged.
A travel grant of € 700 will be awarded to defray the additional costs of a lecturer from another country.
Applicants (who must be EBBS members at the time of application and in good standing with their membership fees) should provide sufficient details to satisfy the following points:
A brief report on the meeting and the lecture should be submitted after the meeting.
Applications should include a one-page CV of the nominated lecturer. They should be made at least 6 months before the meeting and addressed to the Secretary Antonis Stamatakis (astam@nurs.uoa.gr).
"Brain stroke: why, how and hope"
19-22 April 2020, Rungstedgaard, Denmark
Co-chairs: Costantino Iadecola (Weill Cornell Medicine, United States) and Timothy Murphy (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Stipends are available (1,000 EUR for international students or early career scientists)
Early application timeframe: 31 October 2019 - 17 January 2020
Regular application timeframe: 18 January 2020 - 12 February 2020
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FENS members societies and partners are offering travel grants and stipends for students and early career investigators to support their attendance of the FENS Forum 2020, each organisation has different eligibility criteria and application deadlines
FENS-IBRO/PERC Travel Grants (200 grants available)
Deadline 18 February 2020
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FENS members can register for the Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society in 2020 at special rates.
Abstract submission deadline: 26 January 2020
Early bird registration deadline: 26 March 2020
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"Artificial and natural computations for sensory perception: what is the link?" 7-13 June 2020, Bertinoro, Italy
Scientific chairs: Brice Bathellier (Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, France), Andrew King (Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Oxford University, UK) and Andreas Tolias (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA)
Application deadline: 3 February 2020 (Midnight, Brussels time/CET)
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Our biennial meeting in Prague is already a number of weeks ago, but I still have very fond memories of this event. We again were able to experience a wonderful mixture of excellent science and fruitful discussions among colleagues and friends, and I am very grateful to everybody that worked very hard to make this meeting a success. EBBS meetings are always very special, as particularly at these meetings I have the feeling of belonging to a scientific family, a growing community that does not consist of strangers and competitors, but rather collaborators and friends. I am therefore thrilled and thankful to be leading this great society for the next 2 years.
Looking to the future of EBBS, I first want to announce two events. First, EBBS is co-organizing a one-day symposium immediately prior to the FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Glasgow (see more information below). This will be an outstanding event, where the most exciting concepts and recent findings in behavioural neuroscience will be discussed, and will certainly be a highlight of the FENS meeting. Secondly, I am very happy that Carmen Sandi, past president of EBBS and current president of FENS, agreed to host the next EBBS meeting in 2021 in Lausanne. The preparations for this meeting are already well underway, and the EBBS committee together with the local organizing committee will work very hard to make this meeting a success.
The EBBS as a society and we as its members have the opportunity, but also the obligation, to shape the future of neuroscience and to contribute actively in steering it to the right direction. In this regard there are a number of topics that are especially important to me and that I will emphasize on during my term as President of this society. I am very proud that EBBS has for many years already been a pioneer in equality and gender balance, long before this topic caught more international attention. It is therefore only natural that we continue on this path and fight any sort of bias and inequality in our community. We therefore became an official partner of the ALBA network (http://www.alba.network/) and will further heavily support all initiatives to promote equality and diversity in the brain sciences and beyond.
A second major focus of my term as EBBS president will be the support of young scientists, thereby continuing the efforts of my predecessors Most of us became scientists because of our curiosity and will to understand basic biological processes. However, to be successful in a scientific career is becoming more and more difficult and scientific excellence is often not sufficient to achieve this goal. Especially for a young scientist there are numerous obstacles on the way to a tenured position, and EBBS will do what it can to offer support and guidance to the next generation of behavioural neuroscientists.
Finally, we are all aware of the major challenges that lie ahead of us as society. Societies are changing, the climate is changing, and we cannot ignore these problems and carry on our lives as usually. Is it still appropriate that scientists jet from one small meeting to another across Europe and the world? How can we organize our meetings in the most eco-friendly way and reduce our carbon footprint? What new avenues can we take to promote behavioural neuroscience, break down scientific boundaries, while keeping our identity as society? These are pressing issues and I invite all of you to actively contribute to this discussion by reaching out to me and the other EBBS committee members. Together, I am confident that we will find the best possible solutions.
Kind regards,
EBBS President
The European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS), European Behavioural Pharmacology Society (EBPS), European Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (EMCCS) and International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) invite you to our jointly organised mini conference. A variety of topics will be covered, focusing on the role of behaviour in Neuroscience and the translatability of animal models to human traits and psychiatric disorders.
Registration is open!
Visit the websiteIn order to attend the 12th FENS Forum 2020 which will be held in Glasgow, UK, 11-15 July 2020, EBBS offers 5 travel awards: 1 for a post-doc and 4 for PhD students.
Award winners will receive a cash award of € 500 (after the end of the meeting via Bank Transfer).
All applicants must be EBBS members at the time of application and in good standing with their membership fees.
Applications for the Travel Fellowship should include:
Members are invited to submit proposals for support of an EBBS sponsored International Lecturer at meetings, workshops or summer/winter schools. Applications for small, local meetings are discouraged.
Deadline January 31st, 2019
A travel grant of 700 Euros will be awarded to defray the additional costs of a lecturer from another country.
Applicants (who have to be members of EBBS) should provide sufficient details to satisfy the following points:
Please note that a brief report on the meeting and lecture should be submitted after the meeting.
Applications should include a one-page C.V. of the nominated lecturer. They should be made at least 6 months before the meeting and addressed to the Secretary AntonisStamatakis (astam@nurs.uoa.gr).
You can follow EBBS in Facebook and Twitter for scientific news, meeting announcements and funding opportunities.
Facebook: EBBS.science
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