Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN)

The Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN) is a registered non-profit organization that was founded in 1992 by several leading Israeli neuroscientists. The ISFN holds its annual meetings each year in December. It offers a stage for presentations of cutting edge research in the form of oral lectures, posters, blitz poster discussion session for students and WEB based abstracts. Abstracts are published by ISFN in a booklet and as a supplement to an international scientific journal. The ISFN annual meeting proceedings of 2009 - 2011 were published online in the Journal of Molecular Neuroscience.From about 300 participants in the first ISFN Annual Meetings just after its inception, it has doubled in size during the last four years. Members include neuroscientists and graduate students from all research institutes and universities in Israel, as well as foreign delegates, all of whom are involved in multidisciplinary basic and clinical research of the nervous system.

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Dear ISFN Members and Friends,

The 2012 Brain Awareness Week (BAW) in Israel is due March 11-18, 2012. All activities for the 2012 BAW are organized by ISFN, Bashaar - Academic Community for Israeli Society. Adams Super Center for Brain Research, Tel Aviv University, Edmond and Lily Safra Center (ELSC) for Brain Research, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva. All 2012 events are listed under "Brain Awareness Week" and in our new ISFN Facebook site that could be approached by clicking the Facebook link on this page (bottom left).

First and foremost, more than 40 ISFN members and students have volunteered to give popular lectures on Brain Research to high school students at Eshkolot Payis, mainly in peripheral locations. This endeavour has been organized by ISFN together with Bashaar Association. The complete list of lectures, speakers and locations will be published in the ISFN website.

Further, ISFN together with Adams Super Center for Brain Research, Tel Aviv University and Bashaar Association, organize an Opening Event for the BAW due March 11, 2012, 17:00 -20:30 at Bar Shira Auditorium, Tel Aviv University. It will include six lectures on various Brain Research topics aimed at the general public. The Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben Gurion University has organized an Opening Event for the BAW due March 12, 2012, 19:30 at the "Negative" Cinema Hall, Ben Gurion University. ELSC for Brain Research and The Hebrew University Jerusalem has organized a whole week of Brain and Cinema at the Jerusalem Cinemateque.

Following last year success with lectures given in Cafés, 10 encounters with the general public in Cafés were set up for BAW 2012: CafeCafe Ness Ziona (March 4, Amos Arieli), Cafe Noah Tel Aviv (March 12, Hagai Lalazar), Ashan HaZman, Beer Sheva (March 13, Alon Friedman), Manchilla Pub, Beer Sheva (March 13, Doron Todar), two meetings in Café Joe Science Park Rehovot (March 13, Alex Binshtok and March 18, Ettie Grauer), Café Joe Hashmonaim in Tel Aviv (March 14, Danny Michaelson), Clementine Cafe, Tel Aviv (March 14, Eilon Vaadia), Mujo Pub, Beer Sheva (March 14, Ilan Dinstein, Judith Avin and Batia Sterer) and Saloona Bar, Yaffo (March 28, Illana Gozes). The links to detailed announcements about these BAW events appear in this website under "Brain Awareness Week" and the ISFN Facebook site (see bottom left). Due to limited seats availability in the Opening Event at Tel Aviv University and in Café Joe and CafeCafe, you are kindly requested to register at Michal Gilady's email address michal.gilady@isfn.org.il specifying your name, event title/date and number of seats to be reserved.

I would like to thank all those who volunteered to present their lectures all over the country and wish us all a successful Brain Awareness Week,

Gabi Amitai, PhD

President of the ISFN