Announcements of Interest to SPR Members
16th WORLD CONGRESS OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
SEPTEMBER 13-17 PISA, ITALY
Official World Congress of the International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP)
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: APRIL 25, 2012
IOP President
Prof. Giuseppe Chiarenza
Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Dept., Director, Catholic University, Milan, Italy
E-mail: president@iopworld.org
President, 16th World Congress of IOP
Prof. Pietro Pietrini
Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Pisa, Italy
Email: pietro.pietrini@med.unipi.it
Scientific Coordinator of Abstracts
Dott. Emiliano Ricciardi
Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Pisa, Italy
E-mail: abstract@iop2012.it
Chairman, Local Scientific Committee 16th World Congress of IOP
Prof. Mario Guazzelli
Chair of Clinical Psychology, Dept. of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, and Biotechnology, University of Pisa, Italy
Email: m.guazzelli@psico.med.unipi.it
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Lamberto Maffei, Pisa, ITALY
Andrew Papanicolaou, Tennessee, USA
Leslie Prichep, New York, USA
Giacomo Rizzolatti, Parma, ITALY
Paolo Maria Rossini, Rome, ITALY
Wolf Singer, Berlin, GERMANY
World Congress Website:
www.iop2012.it
Official IOP Website:
www.iopworld.org
E-mail for general queries: info@iop2012.it
ESCAN2012: European Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,
First announcement and call for abstracts
Dear colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce the first conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN, www.ESCANeurosci.eu).
The conference will take place in Marseille from May 9 to 12, 2012. The format of the conference will consist of renowned keynote speakers, numerous symposia and other oral presentations and poster sessions. The conference will be a platform for exchanging the latest insights and results from the broad field of cognitive and affective neuroscience. Contributions are expected to include as diverse subjects as consciousness, via vision and cognitive processes, their development and brain-machine-interfaces, to affective neuroscience and its clinical applications.
Prof Lopes da Silva, Prof Rubia and Prof Belin will address the audience as keynote speakers.
We cordially invite you to register for this conference and submit your abstracts for symposia, oral and poster presentations at www.escan2012.eu. Deadlines for submitting symposia, abstracts and early registration are November 30, December 31, 2011 and February 29, 2012, respectively.
We are looking forward to receive your submissions and meet you in Marseille.
The ESCAN2012 scientific committee
PhD Scholarships - The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)
The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) on Neuroscience of Communication: Function, Structure, and Plasticity is based at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, and the University of Leipzig (Germany). The IMPRS also involves the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, UK. The graduate programme will start with the Summer Semester 2012 at the University of Leipzig (1 April, 2012).
The IMPRS on Neuroscience of Communication: Function, Structure, and Plasticity offers a unique interdisciplinary graduate programme to study the functional, structural, and plastic bases of human communication through an integrative and interdisciplinary approach. Its overriding goal is to train PhD students in multidisciplinary aspects involved in communicative action. Besides behavioural work, the programme draws on elaborate modern imaging techniques, including a 7-Tesla MRI scanner and a 306-channel MEG system.
The school invites applications for PhD scholarships.
Successful candidates will be accepted into one of the following four modules of the school:
(1) Verbal Communication: Language
(2) Foundation of social cognition and emotions
(3) Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical
(4) Methods: Physics of neuroimaging and computational neuroscience
More information on content, structure, and faculty of the programme can be found at:
http://imprs-neurocom.mpg.de
Requirement for successful candidates for the PhD programme is a Master's (or qualified equivalent) degree in disciplines like computer science, linguistics, neurobiology, neurology, physics, psychiatry, psychology, or related fields. Candidates near to completion may also submit applications, indicating the expected date of completion.
Further requirements for successful candidates include:
- outstanding academic performance.
- excellent oral and written English language skills.
- aptitude for original, independent, and creative work.
- (desirable) experience conducting research, preferrably with results published or submitted for publication.
The application must be supported by a degree and school certificate, academic transcripts, a CV, two names and email addresses of academic referees willing to support the candidate's application, and a personal statement explaining the candidate's motivation and reasons for pursuing a PhD at the IMPRS. Applications should indicate the preferred research cluster into which the candidate wishes to be accepted.
All admitted students receive financial aid in the form of a scholarship for the duration of three years. The language of the IMPRS is English. Visit www.leipzig.de for information on living in Leipzig/Germany, in the heart of Europe. We seek to increase the number of women in those areas where they are under-represented and therefore explicitly encourage women to apply. We are committed to employing more individuals with disabilities and especially encourage them to apply.
For further information and application details, go to http://imprs-neurocom.mpg.de, or contact
Anne Missbach, Co-ordinator of the IMPRS, at:
e-mail : missbach@cbs.mpg.de
phone: +49 (0) 341 9940-2261
Applications are to be submitted by completing an application form by 31 January, 2012.
Please use the link on the imprs-website for your application. Applications open on 1 November, 2011.
We will contact you when your application has been assessed.
NIH Loan Repayment Programs - Apply Now for 2012 Awards
Participants Receive Up to $35,000 Annually to Repay Student Loans
New Application Deadline is November 15, 2011
The 2012 application cycle for the National Institutes of Health's Loan Repayment Programs is now open, and applications can be found online at www.lrp.nih.gov. The LRPs repay the outstanding student loans of researchers who are or will be conducting nonprofit biomedical or behavioral research, and opportunities are available in five research areas - clinical, pediatric, health disparities, contraception and infertility and clinical research for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Applications will be accepted until 8:00 p.m. Eastern time on November 15, 2011.
Please share this e-mail with researchers in your organization who may benefit from this career-enhancing opportunity.
BENEFITS: New LRP contracts are awarded for a two-year period and repay up to $35,000 of qualified educational debt annually. Tax offsets also are provided as an additional benefit. Participants may apply for competitive renewals, which are issued for one or two years. Undergraduate, graduate, medical school, and other health professional school loans qualify for repayment. An NIH grant or other NIH funding is not required to apply for or participate in the LRPs.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must possess a doctoral-level degree (with the exception of the contraception and infertility research LRP); be a U.S. citizen, national or permanent resident; devote 20 hours or more per week to conducting qualified research funded by a domestic nonprofit, university or government entity; and have qualified educational loan debt equal to or exceeding 20 percent of their institutional base salary.
AWARDS: Each year, nearly 1,600 research scientists benefit from the more than $70 million NIH invests in their careers through the extramural LRPs. Twenty-six percent of awards are made to individuals within one to five years of receiving their doctoral degree. More than 75 percent of awards go to individuals within 10 years of receiving their doctoral degree. Approximately 40 percent of new applications and 70 percent of renewal applications are funded.
For guidance on the application process and NIH Institute and Center (IC) research priorities, potential applicants should review "Tips for Completing a Competitive Application" at http://www.lrp.nih.gov/pdf/0310_1_application_tips.pdf and contact an IC LRP liaison. The list of ICs and their liaisons can be found at http://www.lrp.nih.gov/contact_us/contact_list.aspx.
QUESTIONS? Visit the LRP website at www.lrp.nih.gov for more information and to access the online application. For additional assistance, call or e-mail the LRP Information Center at (866) 849-4047 or lrp@nih.gov. Also, receive application cycle updates through Twitter @NIH_LRP or www.twitter.com/NIH_LRP.