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GRANTS TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH (SPR)
Portland, Oregon (USA), September 29 – October 3, 2010
DEADLINE FOR GRANT APPLICATION: MAY 1

AIM OF THE GRANTS:
The aim of the SPR travel grant program is to help psychophysiologists from developing countries in Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe become members of the SPR and participate actively in its annual meetings. The awards include a travel grant up to $1,500, free registration fee for the 2010 conference, and free SPR membership for 2010. A large number of grants are available, but applications are evaluated competitively based on merit, geographical distribution and other factors.

CONDITIONS OF APPLICATION:

(a) Applicants must submit an abstract for a poster, symposium, or panel discussion. Instructions and online submission information are available at the SPR web site: www.sprweb.org.

(b) The abstract must report research within the domain of human psychophysiology using physiological measures of central (e.g., EEG, MEG, ERP, fMRI etc.) or peripheral nervous system functions (e.g., somatic reflexes, autonomic activity, endocrine, immune functions etc.).

(c) Applicants at research centers or universities located in Latin America, Asia (except Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan) or Eastern Europe are eligible. If sufficient funds are available, scholars from these areas who are temporarily working in economically advantaged countries will be considered.

(d) Applicants must either be a member of the SPR or have applied for membership.

(e) The grantees of last year are eligible to apply again although candidates who have not yet received an award have higher priority.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Candidates should send their grant application before MAY 1, 2010, via e-mail to spr2010@gi.hum.titech.ac.jp (Asia & Eastern Europe) or vilajaime@yahoo.es (Latin America). The following materials should be attached:

(a) A summary in English of their curriculum vitae which should include: publications and congresses/symposia/workshops/courses attended abroad indicating presentation type (oral or poster), year of degree, year and grants received, and current position (student or nonstudent, and university or institute name including that of studying abroad).

(b) A copy of the abstract that will be submitted for the 50th annual meeting via the SPR web site: www.sprweb.org. Note that the final decision regarding each candidate depends on abstract acceptance by program committee.

The Ricardo Miledi Neuroscience Training Program is open to LAC neuroscience graduate students. Course location rotates annually among colleges and universities in Latin America and Mexico.

Students selected for the training program also receive the Hugo Arechiga Fellowship, which includes SfN membership, as well as registration and travel expenses to the SfN annual meeting.

The following information applies to the 2010 program:

• Date: August16 – September 10, 2010
• Location: Instituto de Fisiología Celular – Neurosciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México D.F., México
• Course Directors: Iván Velasco, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM
• Topic: Neural development, physiology, imaging and degeneration.

The primary audience is graduate students from Latin American and the Caribbean. Applicants must be able to communicate in English, as lectures and discussions will be conducted in this language. All students will be required to present and discuss their results. Full financial support for traveling and housing expenses will be provided. In addition, a travel award to attend the 2010 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, November 13-17, 2010 in San Diego, CA will be provided. A total of 15 course participants will be selected.

The  Marie Curie Initial Training Network is an European program devoted to fund PhD students. Dr. Stéphane Oliet, Deputy Director of the Inserm U862 – Neurocentre Magendie, is the recipient of one of these programs, Edu-Glia (www.eduglia.eu), and is looking for a motivated Brazilian student that would like to perform his/her research in her group, in Bordeaux, France. The candidate will be very well paid and would not have to be registered in a French University for a PhD degree (he/she can be registered in Brazil and do his/her research in France).

The project itself deals with neuron-glia interactions, a field in which her group is well recognized (Oliet et al, Science 2001; Piet et al, PNAS 2004; Panatier et al, Cell 2006; Henneberger et al, Nature in press).

If you know some talented and motivated MSc students that would be interested, please make contact with SBNeC (sbnec@sbnec.org.br), so we will be able to direct them to the program website where they will be able to apply for this position, or to other positions available in different European labs that are part of this network.

Best regards,

SBNeC