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Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology and Montreal Neurological Institute & Hospital present

SYMPOSIUM

Molecules to Mind: Multiscale Imaging of Living Systems at McGill

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Charles P. Leblond Amphitheatre, Room M1

Strathcona Anatomy & Dentistry Building

McGill University

3640 University Street

 

PROGRAM

Session Time Description
Morning    
  9:00 to 9:20 am Arrival/Check-in. Registration and coffee
  9:20 to 9:30 am Welcome and Opening Remarks: Craig Mandato, Chair, Anatomy & Cell Biology; Ted Fon, Director, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Session 1   Chair, Tim Kennedy (MNI)
  9:30 to 9:45 am Joaquin Ortega (ACB/FEMR): Overview of infrastructure and services at the Facility for Electron Microscopy Research (FEMR)
  9:45 to 10:05 am Mark Brandon (Douglas Hospital Research Centre, McGill):  Miniature microscopes enable calcium imaging of large neuronal ensembles in thalmus, striatum, and hippocampus in freely behaving mice.
  10:05 to 10:25 am Elitza Tocheva (UdeM): Subcellular localization of macromolecular assemblies.
  10:25 to 10:45 am Boris Berhardt (BIC, MNI, McGill): Atypical connectome hierarchy in autism.
  10:45 to 11:15 am Coffee Break
Session 2   Chair, Mike Strauss (ACB)
  11:15 to 11:30 am Thomas Stroh (MNI, McGill): Overview of the MNI microscopy core facility.
  11:30 to 11:50 am Javier Vargas (ACB, McGill): Image processing methods in electron microscopy.
  11:50 am to 12:10 pm Chris Salmon and Benny Kacerovsky (Murai Research Lab, CTN, RI-MUHC, McGill): Overview of FIB-SEM for neuroscience, analysis of astrocyte synapse interactions./Astrocyte-blood vessel interactions using FIB-SEM and super-resolution microscopy.
Lunch/Poster Session 12:10 to 1:30 pm Lunch, Room 245 and 221; Posters, Hallway opposite Room 2/21
Afternoon    
Session 3   Chair, Huy Bui (ACB, McGill)
  1:30 to 1:50 pm Rocardo Alchini (Fournier Research Lab, MNI, McGill): using lightsheet microscopy to trace axonal development and regeneration in large samples.
  1:50 to 2:10 pm Mike Strauss (ACB, McGill): Molecular detail in a crowded environment.
  2:10 to 2:30 pm Diane Nakamura (Kennedy Research Lab, MNI, McGill): Molecular organization at CNS paranodal junctions.
  2:30 to 3:00 pm Coffee Break
Session 4   Chair, Javier Vargas (ACB, McGill)
  3:00 to 3:20 pm Huy Bui (ACB, McGill): Multiscale imaging of eukaryotic cilia from cellular to near-atomic resolution.
  3:20 to 3:40 pm

Walla Alshafie (Stroh and McPherson Research Labs, MNI, McGill): STORM and STED microscopy reveal a new class of intracellular storage vesicle harboring internalized somatostatin receptor 2.
  3:40 to 4:00 pm Christine Tardif (BIC, MNI, McGill): Quantitative MRI of brain tissue microstructure.
  4:00 to 4:20 pm Amir Shmuel (BIC, MNI, McGill): Neurophysiology, functional MRI and tissue processing for studying the structure and function of the cortical column.
  4:20 to 4:30 pm Closing Remarks, Tim Kennedy (MNI)/Joaquin Ortega (ACB)

 

 

 

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