JNC-ISN Trainee Merit Award

Funds for trainee authors of reviews to present at a Neurochemistry or Neuroscience meeting. 

 

These competitive awards will be given to students or postdocs within 5 years of receiving a PhD and who are first authors of reviews in the Journal of Neurochemistry. Up to $700 USD will be reimbursed to cover costs for participation in Neurochemistry or Neuroscience meetings (including virtual meetings) for trainees presenting their work as a poster or oral communication.

Applications will be received twice a year (April 1st and November 1st) for Review manuscripts published within 1 year from the first online publication date. Any Neuroscience meeting in the areas of research covered by the Journal of Neurochemistry is eligible, however preference will be given to ISN meetings, Sister Society (ASN, ESN, APSN) Meetings or other ISN-sponsored meetings. Trainees should acknowledge this award in their presentation and any original research publication related to the data. This award cannot be combined with any other financial ISN support.

Eligibility Criteria

 

  • Students and postdocs up to 5 years after the year their doctoral degree was awarded (at the time of application)
  • First author of a review accepted or published in the Journal of Neurochemistry
  • Online publication date of the review is less than 1 year prior to application deadline

APPLICATION DEADLINE

  • April 1, 2022
  • November 1, 2022

Application must contain:

  • A short CV (maximum 2 pages)
  • Information about the meeting to be attended (half page)
  • Accepted abstract as presenting author
  • A letter of support from the supervisor
  • Budget of estimated costs

Submit your application documents to jnc-ce@florey.edu.au 

Selection Process: 

The award is competitive and recipients will be selected by the Editor-in-Chief of JNC in consultation with the Reviews board.

Questions and Queries: 

If you need any information, please contact Marco Prado (mprado@uwo.ca) or email the JNC office at jnc-ce@florey.edu.au 

Fundamental Neurochemistry Reviews

This new category of reviews encourages students and early-career postdocs to write first-author reviews that provide advanced information on Neurochemical Topics.

The Journal of Neurochemistry invites trainees (students and postdocs within 5 years of their graduate degree) who have already made important contributions to one of the topics below to write a review with their mentor(s).

First authors of Fundamental Neurochemistry Reviews that receive final acceptance for publication will automatically receive a JNC-ISN Trainee Merit Award. The award will reimburse up to $700 USD to defray costs for participation in Neurochemistry or Neuroscience meetings (including virtual meetings) for trainees presenting their work as first authors in a poster or oral communication.

Topics for Fundamental Neurochemistry Reviews: 

  • Synaptic vesicles and large dense-core vesicles
  • Synaptic transmission
  • Axonal transport
  • Synaptic plasticity
  • Glutamatergic neurotransmission
  • GABAergic and glycinergic neurotransmission
  • Monoaminergic neurotransmission
  • Cholinergic neurotransmission
  • Peptides and neurotransmission
  • Co-transmission
    Diffusible neurotransmitters
  • Gliotransmission in health and disease
  • Neuroendocrine signalling
  • Neurochemistry of lipids
  • Structural neurochemistry
  • Clinical neurochemistry including: neurochemistry of psychiatric diseases; neurochemistry of neurodevelopmental diseases; neurochemistry of dementias
  • Technology advances in neurochemistry (e.g. new modalities of imaging in neurochemistry; new developments in genetic manipulation; brain on a chip)
  • Mitochondrial dysfunction

Application Deadlines 

Application Deadlines per year: April 1 & November 1

Eligibility Criteria: 

  • Students and postdocs up to 5 years after the year the doctoral degree was awarded (at the time of application)

Application must contain: 

  • Document with the title of the Review and a short description of the article layout (maximum 400 words)
  • A short CV (maximum 2 pages including a list of publications)
  • A letter of support from the mentor confirming their status as article co-author

Submit your application documents to jnc-ce@florey.edu.au 

Selection Process: 

Authors will be selected competitively twice a year (April 1st and November 1st). Articles submitted as Fundamental Neurochemistry Reviews will undergo the same rigorous peer-review process as other review categories.

Questions and Queries: 

If you need any information, please contact Marco Prado (mprado@uwo.ca) or email the JNC office at (jnc-ce@florey.edu.au)