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Women in Neuroscience

A number of web resources are available for Women in Neuroscience:

IBRO: http://www.ibro.org/Pub/Pub_Main_Display.asp?LC_Docs_ID=3939.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Women-in-World-Neuroscience/187172767593

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women_neuroscientists

Silicon Nervous System

Peter Freestone is a neuroscience researcher and ANS member at the University of Auckland and a finalist in a university-run business competition (Spark $100k Challenge) for an idea (called Silicon Nervous System) that improves neuroscience research productivity. He would like ANS members to complete a short survey (6 questions) to help him out. The survey closes Friday 7^th October.

Spark website: http://www.spark.auckland.ac.nz/challenges/winners/2011/100kqualifiers

Survey: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHFDcHZvbHFMYXFtOTBxdWpnTW1QaHc6MQ

Book about John Eccles

Sir John Eccles daughter Mary Mennis who is an Honourary fellow with the Arts Faculty at UQ has provided ANS with a copy of her self-published book entitled “The Book of Eccles” which is a portrait of Eccles written for the centenary of his birth in 2003. Download The Book of Eccles. Note this document will only open in Adobe Acrobat 7.0 or later.

F1000 Poster Repository

F1000 Posters invites poster presenters from all national and international conferences (past and present) across biology and medicine to deposit their posters into our new open access poster repository. Created by the post-publication peer-review service, Faculty of 1000 (F1000; the founders of BioMed Central, Current Opinions journals etc), F1000 Posters provides a secure platform for all those who were unable to see the posters or attend the meeting (including those outside of the field) and provides an opportunity for them to view the work presented and provide feedback and ideas.

Posters deposited in F1000 Posters are also viewed by our expert Faculty of 10,000 world-renowned experts (including many Nobel Laureates and Lasker Award winners) who highlight those they believe to be particularly important developments for inclusion in the award-winning F1000 evaluation service. The selection of your poster for evaluation will bring the attention of a much wider audience to the novel work you are presenting than can be achieved by attending a single conference.

Since our launch in June 2010, F1000 Posters already hosts posters from over 160 meetings including many of the largest meetings across biology and medicine, and top-performing posters can attract an impressive 400+ individual views in a month on the site.

If you have any questions about F1000 Posters or F1000, then please do not hesitate to contact F1000.  A further list of the most commonly asked questions, with answers can be found here and a full list of responses we have received to-date from journals and publishers is also available.