1) General Call for FY2011 MEXT Strategic Research Program for Brain
Sciences
2) The 21st Annual Conference of the Japanese Neural Network Society
(JNNS) and the 11th Japan-Korea-China Joint Workshop on Neurobiology
and Neuroinformatics (NBNI 2011)
3) Update on the 4th INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics 2011
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INCF Japan Node Newsletter No.18 August 2011 (NIJC at RIKEN-BSI)

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This is the 18th issue of J-Node Newsletter published by INCF
Japan Node to give you the neuroinformatics related news update.

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1) General Call for FY2011 MEXT Strategic Research Program for Brain
Sciences

You may already know that the topic for a general call this time
is "Construction of information infrastructure for systematic
brain science research". Briefing session will be held on
Thursday, August 25, and the deadline for application is
Tuesday, September 13.

For the details, please refer to (Japanese only):
http://www.jst.go.jp/keytech/kouboh23-4.html

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2) The 21st Annual Conference of the Japanese Neural Network Society
(JNNS) and the 11th Japan-Korea-China Joint Workshop on Neurobiology
and Neuroinformatics (NBNI 2011)

The 21st Annual Conference of the Japanese Neural Network Society
(JNNS) will be held on December 15-17 at Okinawa Institute of
Science and Technology (OIST).

For the details, please refer to:
http://jnns.org/conference/2011/Home.html

Subsequently, at the same venue, the 11th Japan-Korea-China Joint
Workshop on Neurobiology and Neuroinformatics (NBNI 2011) will be
held on December 18-19. NBNI is a small workshop for fostering
collaborations between experimental and theoretical neuroscientists
in Asia. In addition to invited lectures by leading researchers
from Korea, China and Japan, there will also be poster presentations.
A limited number of poster presentation or participation will be
accepted from JNNS members. Registration periods are September 1 -
October 20 for participation only and September 1 - October 7 for
poster presentation.

For the details, please refer to:
http://nbni2011.brain.riken.jp/

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3) Update on the 4th INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics 2011

166 poster/demo presentations were accepted and 9 were from
Japan. Abstracts will be posted on the website soon.

For the details of Neuroinformatics 2011, please refer to:
http://neuroinformatics2011.org/

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