The Student Body Committee (SBC) was formed in 2017 and is tasked with strategising, planning, and implementing programs to support neuroscience students and encourage student participation in ANS.
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We are a non-profit organisation of scientific researchers and clinicians who study the brain, cognition, and nervous system structure and function in health and disease.
READ MOREMember Benefits
- Ability to play an active voting role in the peak neuroscience society in Australasia
- Eligibility for ANS awards
- Ability to propose Plenary speakers and symposia at the annual ANS
- Reduced registration fee for the annual ANS conference
- Access to our online ANS community forums, including the ability to open your own ANS community forum
- Ability to organise and advertise your own events through the ANS website
- Quarterly newsletter
- Free job advertisements
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The ABA has proposed the establishment of an Australian Brain Initiative (ABI), a transformative brain research agenda aimed at coordinating Australia’s existing brain researchers and scientists from other disciplines with the aim of ‘‘cracking the brain’s code.’’
The Australian Course in Advanced Neuroscience (ACAN) is an intensive three-week course that teaches the theory and practice of electrophysiological recording and optical imaging techniques.
The Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABBC) is a competition for high school students in year 10 to learn about the brain and its functions, learn about neuroscience research, find out about careers in neuroscience and to dispel misconceptions about neurological and mental illnesses.
The E&D Committee is dedicated to promoting equity and balance of gender, culture, and ethnicity on ANS Committees and at our annual conference, and to removing obstacles to the advancement of underrepresented genders and minorities in neuroscience.
Please click on the following links to read more about the gender equity plans of our national funding bodies:
ARC
NHMRC
The E&D Committee is dedicated to promoting equity and balance of gender, culture, and ethnicity on ANS Committees and at our annual conference, and to removing obstacles to the advancement of underrepresented genders and minorities in neuroscience.
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ANS c/o The Association Specialists
PO Box 576
Crows Nest NSW 1585
Australia
Phone:
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Why be a member? There are many benefits to membership of the Australasian Neuroscience Society
Your membership of the Society is crucial and ANS cannot exist without it. ANS provides your collective voice for science advocacy and the funding of neuroscience and represents your interests across a range of national and international science organisations.
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Please note the upcoming application deadline on 1st February for the 2019 ACAN course, which will run from 5th to 25th May. For more information please click on the following link : https://acan.qbi.uq.edu.au/
READ MOREPlease see below a link to a small study of the impact of the Athena SWAN program for gender equity for Women in Science, the principles of which have been adopted by ANS. Athena SWAN program for gender equity for Women in...
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Friends and colleagues of the late Emeritus Professor Liam Burke are warmly invited to attend a Memorial Service to celebrate his life and work, to be held at the University of Sydney. Date Thursday, 29 March 2018 Time 10.30 am for service, followed by...
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