Affiliation to FENS will confer Neuroscience Ireland with the advantage of being integrated with a large number of national European neuroscience societies, and eligibility to sponsor abstracts for the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) meetingsSincerely,

Neuroscience Ireland holds its annual meeting in September each year, and the objectives of the annual meeting are to promote, disseminate and advance understanding of the discipline of Neuroscience in Ireland. The annual meeting is also used showcase the high quality neuroscience research being conducting in Ireland to international colleagues, and to interested parties from the Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Medical devices industries.

We encourage you to attend the 2010 annual meeting will be held in the Health Science complex in University College Dublin on September 2nd/3rd. The 2010 meeting follows on from the success of recent Neuroscience Ireland meetings held in Cork in 2006; a meeting held in conjunction with the British Neuroscience Association in Harrogate in 2007; a meeting held in NUI, Galway in 2008, and the 2009 meeting held in Trinity College Dublin.

In addition to holding an annual meeting, Neuroscience Ireland has sponsored/co-hosted a range of international meetings and symposia on various aspects of Neuroscience that have been held in Ireland (eg) Wiring the Brain 2009; PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society 2010; Wiring the Brain 2011.

I would like to encourage you all to join Neuroscience Ireland so that it will be representative of our diverse neuroscience groups and institutions on this island. I very much looking forward to your active participation in Neuroscience Ireland, and appreciate your comments and suggestions.
There has never been a better time to be a neuroscientist in Ireland!
Best regards,

Thomas Connor, President