WINTER 2014
SPEAKER | TITLE | DATE | LOCATION |
Pierre-Pascal J. Lenck-Santini, PhD Department of Neurology Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth Dartmouth Medical School Hanover, NH | Understanding Cognitive Comorbidities in Epilepsy Beyond Seizures: From Rats to Men (and vice versa) | Jan 14 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Erich Wanker, PhD Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch Department of Neuroproteomics Berlin, Germany | Protein Misfolding, Perturbation of Protein Networks and Neurodegeneration | Jan 28 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Dr. Mark Hoon, PhD National Institutes of Health/NIDCR Bethesda, MD | Molecular Dissection of Peripheral Somatosensation | Feb 4 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
V. Wee Yong, PhD Departments of Oncology & Clinical Neurosciences University of Calgary Calgary, AB | Overcoming Inhibitors in the Lesion Microenvironment for Remyelination | Feb 18 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
| Anjan Chatterjee, MD Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Department of Neurology University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | The Cognitive Neuroscience of Spatial Thought and Language | Feb 25 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Konstanze Winklehofer, MD, PhD Ludwig Maximilians Universitat Munchen Adolf Butenandt Institute Metabolic Biochemistry/Neurobiochemistry Munich, Germany | Ubiquitin Signaling and Mitochondrial Integrity: Implications for Neurodegenerative Diseases | March 4 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Robert Froemk, PhD New York University School of Medicine Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine New York, NY | Cortical Plasticity Improves Sensory Perception | March 11 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Pierre Drapeau, PhD Director, Department of Pathology & Cell Biology University of Montreal | Fishing for Causes and Cures of Neurodegeneration | March 18 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Dr. J. Surmeier, PhD Department of Physiology Feinberg School of Medicine Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center Chicago, IL | TBD | March 25 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Daniel Colon-Ramos, PhD Department of Cell Biology Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT | TBD | April 1 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Valerie Castellani, DR2, HDR - CNRS University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Centre de Génétique et de Physiologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire UMR CNRS 5534 FRANCE | Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Navigation | April 8 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
David Glanzman, PhD Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology UCLA Los Angeles, CA | TBD | April 15 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Dr. Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD Director, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program University of California at San Francisco San Francisco, CA | TBD | April 22 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Dr. Carla Shatz Sapp Family Provostial Professor of Biology and Neurobiology and Director of Bio-X Stanford's pioneering biosciences program | Developmental Critical Periods and Alzheimer's Disease - can knowledge of one help cure the other? | May 1 | Thursday at 4:00 pm in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, 3801 University Street. For more information: http://neuroevents.mcgill.ca/ |
Dr. Carla Shatz Sapp Family Provostial Professor of Biology and Neurobiology and Director of Bio-X Stanford's pioneering biosciences program | Explaining the “X” in Stanford’s Bio-X | May 2 | Friday at 1:00 pm at the McIntyre Medical Building, Palmer Theatre, Room 522 (access via the 5th Floor only), 3655 Sir William Osler Drive. |
TBD | George Karpati Lecture | May 6 | TBD |
Dorothy J. Killam Lecture Dr. Nora D. Volkow Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health | Addiction in the Human Brain | May 12 | Monday at 4:00 pm in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital. A reception will follow. For more information: http://neuroevents.mcgill.ca/ |
Yang Dan, PhD Howard Hughes Investigator Professor of Neurobiology University of California, Berkeley | Herbert Jasper Lecture | May 20 | Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre |
Canadian Association for Neuroscience Montreal, Quebec, Canada May 25-28, 2014 | May 27 |
PAST 2013 LECTURES
Rémi Quirion (Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé) | From Douglas to Quebec city: the long road of the Chief Scientist | Sept 9 | Douglas Institute's Neuroscience for Mental Health Seminars Mondays, 11:00, Bowerman Room, Dobell Pavilion |
Jennifer Maselli senior student seminar Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics McGill University | The effect of BEP chronic treatment on the sperm nuclear proteome and its impact on male fertility and progeny outcome | Sept 9 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Monday at 12:00 in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
Jean Christophe Poncer Institut du Fer à Moulin INSERM-UPMC UMR-839 | TBD | Sept 16 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Monday at 12:00 in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
Dr. John Jefferys, FMedSc, PhD University of Birmingham School of Clinical & Experimental Medicine Neuronal Networks Group, Birmingham, UK | Neuronal Network Oscillations in Focal Epilepsy | Sept 17 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Bastien Castagner Drug discovery & delivery Zürich Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences | Inhibition of bacterial toxins - how to trick a toxin | Sept 19 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Thursday at 1:30 pm in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
Sumantra Chattarji (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India) | The fear of fear itself: stress, memory and the amygdala | Sept 23 | Douglas Institute's Neuroscience for Mental Health Seminars Mondays, 11:00, Bowerman Room, Dobell Pavilion |
Ava Schlisser senior student seminar Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics McGill University | The role of oxidative stress in hydroxyurea teratogenesis in the organogenesis stage mouse embryo | Sept 23 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Monday at 12:00 in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
Dan Drucker Banting and Best Diabetes Centre University of Toronto | Why do we treat type 2 diabetes? Incretin-based therapies as a case study for assessing risk and benefit. | Sept 24 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Tuesday at 12:00 in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
Paul Clarke (McGill University) | Ultrasonic conversations with rats: pharmacology and behavior | Sept 30 | Douglas Institute's Neuroscience for Mental Health Seminars Mondays, 11:00, Bowerman Room, Dobell Pavilion |
Jerome Fortier senior student seminar Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics McGill University | Breaking SMADs: the hidden life of pituitary gonadotropes | Sept 30 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Monday at 12:00 in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
Richard Tsien, D. Phil. NYU Neuroscience Institute New York, NY | 2013 Wilder Penfield Lecture Neuronal activity, gene expression, and diseases of the brain | Sept 30 | 2013 Wilder Penfield Lecture at The Neuro Monday at 4:00 pm, Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre |
Catherine Cahill Dept of Anaesthesiology & Perioperative Care University of California | TBD | Oct 2 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Wednesday at 12:00 in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
Florian Storch (Douglas Institute) | Discovery of an ultradian oscillator controlling behavioral rhythms: links to schizophrenia | Oct 7 | Douglas Institute's Neuroscience for Mental Health Seminars Mondays, 11:00, Bowerman Room, Dobell Pavilion |
Kevin Neibert senior student seminar Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics McGill University | TBD | Oct 7 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Monday at 12:00 in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
TBA | Brenda Milner Symposium in celebration of 95th birthday | Oct 7 | Monday, Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre |
Nigel G. Laing, PhD University of Western Australia Western Australia Institute for Medical Research Australia | Seeing Muscle Biology Through the Window of Genetic Disease | Oct 8 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
George Rebec, PhD Psychological & Brain Sciences Indiana University Bloomington, IN | Dysfunctional Neural Circuitry in Huntington's Disease: From Vitamin C to Glutamate | Oct 15 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
TBA | Denis Melancon Neuroradiology Lecture | Oct 17 | Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre |
Siddhartha Mondragon (Douglas Institute) | Is phosphorylation of tau protein the cause of Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative diseases? | Oct 21 | Douglas Institute's Neuroscience for Mental Health Seminars Mondays, 11:00, Bowerman Room, Dobell Pavilion |
Gail Prins | TBD | Oct 21 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Monday at 12:00 in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
Dr. Stephen Elledge Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA and Dr. Gary Ruvkun 2008 Canada Gairdner International Laureate of Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA | Genetic approaches to cancer and Eukaryotic Pathways that surveil conserved proteins for inhibition by microbial toxins & couple to defense | Oct 22 | The 2013 Gairdner National Program Lecture Tuesday, 1:00 p.m., Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre |
Yves De Koninck (Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec) | Chloride transport enhancers as novel therapeutics for neurological and psychiatric diseases | Oct 28 | Douglas Institute's Neuroscience for Mental Health Seminars Mondays, 11:00, Bowerman Room, Dobell Pavilion |
David Sharp | TBD | Oct 28 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Monday at 12:00 in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
Michele Rucci, PhD Active Perception Lab Department of Psychology Boston University Boston, MA | Seeing Space Through Time | Oct 29 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Special seminar, Douglas Institute Brain Imaging Centre (room C0111); 9:30-12:15 | fMRI applied to mental health : From theory to practice I | Nov 4 | The Douglas Mental Health University Institute |
Luisa Pimental senior student seminar Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics McGill University | Studies on early CNS inflammation in transgenic models of the Alzheimer’s pathology | Nov 4 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Monday at 12:00 in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
Tara Barton-McLaren Health Canada Ottawa | Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch Health Canada | Nov 11 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Monday at 12:00 in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
Special seminar, Douglas Institute Brain Imaging Centre (room C0111); 9:30-10:45 | fMRI applied to mental health : From theory to practice II | Nov 18 | Douglas Institute's Neuroscience for Mental Health Seminars |
Guy Rouleau (Montreal Neurological Institute) | Hughlings Jackson Lecture 2013 Genetics of Neuro Developmental Disorders | Nov 20 | Wednesday, 4:00 p.m., Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre |
Guy Rouleau (Montreal Neurological Institute) | Genomics of brain diseases | Nov 25 | Douglas Institute's Neuroscience for Mental Health Seminars Mondays, 11:00, Bowerman Room, Dobell Pavilion |
Mary Olmstead (Queen's University) | Rodent models of interactions between motivational and cognitive processes | Dec 2 | Douglas Institute's Neuroscience for Mental Health Seminars Mondays, 11:00, Bowerman Room, Dobell Pavilion |
Madhu Pai | Open access publishing: the good, the bad, the ugly | Dec 2 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Monday at 12:00 in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
Joel M. Levine PhD Department of Neurobiology & Behavior Program in Neuroscience Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY | Modifying the Glial Scar to Promote Repair and Regeneration | Dec 3 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Michael Meaney (Douglas Institute) | Environmental epigenetics: Maternal regulation of genome structure and function | Dec 9 | Douglas Institute's Neuroscience for Mental Health Seminars Mondays, 11:00, Bowerman Room, Dobell Pavilion |
Jason Tanny Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics McGill University | TBD | Dec 9 | The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Monday at 12:00 in room 1345 of the McIntyre Medical Building |
Kevin Jones, PhD Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO | TBD | Dec 10 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Matt Carter (Williams College, MA, USA) | Genetic identification of a neural circuit that suppresses appetite | Dec 16 | Douglas Institute's Neuroscience for Mental Health Seminars Mondays, 11:00, Bowerman Room, Dobell Pavilion |
Melanie Woodin, PhD Department of Cell & Systems Biology University of Toronto | Cellular Mechanisms Regulating Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity and Chloride Homeostasis | Dec 17 | Killam Seminar Series at The Neuro Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
MAY
| Paul Kulsea Associate Professor and Director of Imaging/KulesaLab Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Graduate Research Day Social Networking in the Embryo: How cells collaborate to form the peripheral nervous system | May 3rd | Physiology Friday at 11:00 AM Room 1034 of the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building |
| Q. Richard Lu Department of Developmental Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center | Paving the Axonal Highway and Beyond | May 6th | Pharmacology & Therapeutics Mondays 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
Ronald Davis, PhD Department of Neuroscience Scripps Research Institute Florida Jupiter, FL USA | Jerzy Olszewski Lecture | May 7th | Killam Lectures - MNI Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
| Dr. Marcus Smolka Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University | The DNA damage signaling network: from proteomics to mechanisms of tolerance to replication stress | May 7th | Dept. of Biology Tuesday at 4:00 pm |
| SENIOR SEMINAR Kristin Dawson Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics McGill University | The Regulation of Atrial Fibroblast Behaviour and its Role in Atrial Fibrillation | May 13th | Pharmacology & Therapeutics Mondays 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
| Elena Timofeeva Universite Laval, Dept of Psychiatry and Neuroscience | The effects of feeding on neuronal activity | May 13th | Douglas Institute Mondays 11:30 Bowerman Room, Dobell Pavilion |
| Dr. Adam Martin Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Shaping Tissues with Contractile Ratchets | May 14th | Dept. of Biology Tuesday at 4:00 pm |
| Robert Ferrante, PhD, MS Director, Translational Therapeutics Laboratory Co-Director, Center for ALS Research University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA USA | The Magrums: Huntington's Chorea - Hunting for a Cure | May 14th | Killam Lectures - MNI Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
Dr. Steven George University of Florida | Biopsychosocial Influences on Shoulder Pain: Recent Findings and Future Directions | May 15th | Alan Edwards Centre for Pain Research at 4:00 pm MGH, Room D14-102 |
| Francesco Marchetti Department of Biology Carleton University | Protecting future generations: how sperm and eggs cope with DNA damage | May 27th | Pharmacology & Therapeutics Mondays 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
| Elizabeth M. McNally, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics University of Chicago Chicago, IL USA | George Karpati Lecture Genetic Modifiers for Muscular Dystrophy | May 28th | Killam Lectures - MNI Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre. |
| Robert Campbell Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta | Optogenetic reporters for all-optical neurophysiology | May 30th | Physiology Friday at 11:00 AM Room 1034 of the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building |
| Illana Gozes Department of Clinical Biochemistry Tel-Aviv University | Targeting Microtubules to Protect the Brain in Neurodegenerative and Neuropsychiatric Diseases: Novel Drug Candidates | Friday May 31st | Pharmacology & Therapeutics Mondays 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
June | |||
| SENIOR SEMINAR Mona Aflaki Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics McGill University | Beta adrenergic remodeling in chronic heart failure | June 3rd | Pharmacology & Therapeutics Mondays 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
| Ehud Isacoff, PhD University of California Berkeley, CA USA | Gating Synaptic Plasticity with Light Controlled Glutamate Receptors | June 4th | Killam Lectures - MNI Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre |
| Vincenzo Crunelli, PhD Cardiff School of Biosciences Cardiff, UK | Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Absence Seizures | June 11th | Killam Lectures - MNI Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre |
FEBRUARY
Date & time: Friday, February 1, 2013 at 3:30pm
Location: MCMED 504
Dr. Jeff Mogil
Department of Psychology, McGill University
Mice are People Too: Social Modulation of and by Pain in Laboratory Rodents and Humans
see PSYCHOLOGY
Date & time: Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Location: MNI
Host: Ted Fon
Dr. Gerhard Multhaup, PhD
Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University
The Role of Secretases in the Amyloid Puzzle
see Neuro - Killam seminar series
Date & time: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Location: MNI
Host: Dr. Bruce Pike
Dr. David Mikulis, BSc, FRCR, MD
Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto
Cerebrovascular Reserve and Neurovascular Uncoupling Syndrome
see Neuro - Killam seminar series
Date & time: Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Location: MNI
Host: Dr. Alyson Fournier
Dr. Michael Fehlings, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS
Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto
Repair and Regeneration of the Injured Spinal Cord: From Molecule to Man
see Neuro - Killam seminar series
Date & time: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Location: MGH, Room D14-102
Dr. Volker Neugebauer
University of Texas/Galveston
Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex Interactions in Pain
see ALAN EDWARDS CENTRE FOR PAIN RESEARCH
Date & time: Friday, February 22 at 11:00 am
Location: MCMED 1034
Heidi McBride
Department of Neurology Neurosurgery, McGill University
TBA (mitochondria in neurodegenerative disease)
see PHYSIOLOGY
Date & time: Monday, February 25, 2013 at noon
Location: MCMED 1345
Host: Dr. Alain Dagher
Dr. Vincent Giguère
Departments of Biochemistry, Medicine & Oncology, McGill University
Nuclear receptors, metabolism and cancer: a functional genomic approach
see PHARMACOLOGY
Date & time: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Location: MNI
Host: Dr. Angela Genge
Dr. Fady Malik, MD, PhD, FACC
Senior Vice President, Research and Early Development, Cytokinetics, Inc., South San Francisco, CA USA
Concept to Clinic:
Fast Skeletal Troponin Activators and their Application to Neuromuscular Diseases
see Neuro - Killam seminar series
MARCH
Date & time: Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Location: MNI
Host: Dr. Alain Dagher
Dr. François Rassendren, PhD
Département Pharmacologie Moléculaire, Institut de Genomique Fonctionnelle, CNRS UMR5203, Montpellier, FRANCE
Sensing danger signals: an emerging role for ATP-gated P2X receptors
see Neuro - Killam seminar series
Date & time: Monday, March 11, 2013 at noon
Location: MCMED 1345
Dr. Roderick R. McInnes
Lady Davis Research Institute, Jewish General Hospital
Inherited photoreceptor degenerations - models of neurodegenerative disease
see PHARMACOLOGY
Date & time: Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Location: MNI
Host: Dr.
Dr. Anton Reiner, PhD
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN USA
Drug Therapy for Huntington’s Disease: Targeting Corticostriatal Transmission
see Neuro - Killam seminar series
Date & time: Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Location: Meakins McMed 521
Dr. Heidi McBride, Ph.D.
Canada Research Chair in Mitochondrial Cell Biology Associate Professor Montreal Neurological Institute
TBA (mitochondria in neurodegenerative disease)
see BIOCHEMISTRY
Date & time: Friday, March 15, 2013 at 11:00 am
Location: MCMED 1034
Dr. Michael Salter
Toronto
TBA - fundamental principles of cell-cell signaling in the central nervous system and to understanding how aberrations in signaling underlying nervous system disorders
see PHYSIOLOGY
Date & time: Monday, March 18, 2013 at noon
Location: MCMED 1345
Dr. Alyson Fournier
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
TBA - molecular and cellular biology of neurite outgrowth and growth cone guidance
see PHARMACOLOGY
Date & time: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Location: MNI
Host: Dr. Jean-Francois Cloutier
Dr. Francis Lee, MD, PhD
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY USA
Role of Neurotrophins in Neuropsychiatric Disorders
see Neuro - Killam seminar series
Date & time: Friday March 22, 2013 at 3:30pm
Location: MCMED 521
Dr. Joe LeDoux
New York University
Center for Neural Science
New York, NY, USA
TBA (memory and emotion)
see PSYCHOLOGY
Date & time: Friday, March 22, 2013 at 11:30 am
Location: MCMED 504
Dr. Lorne Mendell
(Stonybrook)
TBA - functional effects of neurotrophins in neonatal and adult mammals
see PHYSIOLOGY
Date & time: Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Location: MNI
Host: Ted Fon
Dr. Leo Pallanck, PhD
Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
Genetic and Proteomic Analysis of Mitochondrial Quality Control
see Neuro - Killam seminar series
APRIL
Date & time: Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Location: MNI
Host: Dr. Christopher Pack
Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD
Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC USA
TBA - computational mechanisms underlying human object recognition
see Neuro - Killam seminar series
Date & time: Friday, April 5, 2013 at 3:30 pm
Location: MCMED 504
Dr. Alan Kingstone
University of British Columbia
Department of Psychology,
Vancouver, BC
TBA
in PSYCHOLOGY
Date & time: Friday, April 5, 2013 at 11:00 am
Location: MCMED 1034
Dr. Rikard Blunck
Department of Physiology, Université de Montréal
TBA -Structure-function relations of voltage-gated K + channels
see PHYSIOLOGY
Date & time: Monday, April 8, 2013 at noon
Location: MCMED 1345
Dr. Giamal Luheshi
Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University
TBA - IL-1 is involved in the initiation and progression of the inflammatory events associated with some of these brain disorders
Date & time: Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Location: MNI
Host: Alyson Fournier
Dr. Minh Dang Nguyen, PhD
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
TBA - Molecular cell biology of the neuronal cytoskeleton and nucleoskeleton
- Neurodegenerative disorders and Aging
see Neuro - Killam seminar series
Date & time: Monday, April 15, 2013 at noon
Location: MCMED 1345
Dr. Valerie Wallace
Vision Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Hedgehog signaling in the brain: a tale of two tissues
in PHARMACOLOGY
Date & time: Monday, April 29, 2013 at noon
Location: MCMED 1345
Dr. Gerald W. Zamponi
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary
TBA - neuronal voltage-dependent calcium channels
in PHARMACOLOGY