On June 15,  2012, (preceding the EPOS annual meeting) an EPOS workshop on  ethics in research will be held by Wery van den Wildenberg at the University of  Amsterdam. The workshop on this important topic  is intended for all EPOS PhD students, but may also be valuable for post docs or other researchers.

EPOS will hold its annual  meeting on  June 15, 2012 at the University of Amsterdam (for the first time after a couple of years). The meeting  is open to all PhD students and all faculty interested in  EPOS research.  EPOS has invited three speakers who were successful in applying  for the last rounds of prestigious grants:  Berna Güroglu (Leiden, VENI), Heleen Slagter (UvA, VIDI), and Sander Nieuwenhuis (Leiden, ERC). In addition, all PhD students are invited to present a poster and to compete for the EPOS Poster Award.

On May 22 , 2012, a one-day EPOS presentation training will be held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The training will be in Dutch.

This training is a unique possibility to improve your presentation skills.

Dear Colleague, It is our pleasure to announce the first conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN, www.ESCANeurosci.eu).The conference will take place in Marseille from May 9 to 12, 2012. The format of the conference will consist of keynote speakers, numerous symposia and other oral presentations and poster sessions. The conference will be a platform for exchanging the latest insights and results from the broad field of cognitive and affective neuroscience. Contributions are expected to include as diverse subjects as consciousness, via vision and cognitive processes, their development and brain-machine-interfaces, to affective neuroscience and its clinical applications.

On Monday 24 October, the EPOS graduate network organizes a workshop for PhD students on Learning and Memory and on 24-25 November a toolkit on Computational Modelling. On Thursday 15 December, the day preceding the NVP conference in Egmond aan Zee, there are two EPOS workshops for PhD students, one on Positive Journal Interactions (for beginning PhD students) on Writing a Grant Proposal (for advanced PhD students).