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DAY 1 (Thursday September 19) | DAY 2 (Friday September 20)
Locations:
Retreat: New Residence Hall (3625 Parc Ave., Montreal QC, H2X 3P8)
Student Social: Sir Winston Churchill Pub Complex (1455 Crescent St., Montreal QC, H3G 2B2)
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Day 1 |
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Time |
Event |
Speaker(s) |
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8:30 AM |
Registration & Light Breakfast | |
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9:30 AM |
Opening Remarks | Dr. Joseph Rochford, Director, IPN, McGill University |
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9:45 AM |
Keynote Lecture “Event triggered and resting state imaging of mesoscale functional connectivity in mouse brain” |
Dr. Timothy Murphy, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia |
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10:45 AM |
Coffee break | |
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11:00 AM |
Symposium A “Pain management: where are we now?” |
Chair: Dr. Catherine Ferland, Department of Experimental Surgery/Anesthesia, McGill University |
| Session 1: “Phox2a defines a developmental origin of the anterolateral system and is required for supraspinal nociception” | Robert Brian Roome, Ph.D. 7, IPN, Dr. A. Kania’s Lab |
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| Session 2: “Investigating a neuropathic pain-like component in osteoarthritis” |
Valerie Bourassa, Ph.D. 4, IPN, Dr. A. Ribeiro Da Silva’s Lab |
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| Session 3: “Nervous system alterations in joint pain” | Samantha Locke, Ph.D. 7, IPN, Dr. A. Ribeiro Da Silva’s Lab |
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| Session 4: “The effect of chronic pain on DNA methylation in the mouse prefrontal cortex” | Lucas Topham, Ph.D. 6, IPN, Dr. L. Stone’s Lab |
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| Session 5: “Reference values for the clinical assessment of pain processes in pediatric patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain” | Don Daniel Ocay, Ph.D. 2, Experimental Surgery, Dr. C. Ferland's Lab |
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12:30 PM |
Lunch & Poster Board Session | |
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2:00 PM |
Colman-Sievers-Sells Innovation Awards Session
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2:45 PM |
Brain @ McGill Awards Presentation
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Dr. Edith Hamel |
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3:30 PM
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Symposium B "The use of Artificial Intelligence in the context of neuroimaging studies” |
Chair: Dr. Marie-Hélène Boudrias, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University |
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Session 1: “High positive predictive value in a subset of individuals using a multi-step machine learning classification procedure to identify progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia" |
Debra Dawson, M.D.C.M & Ph.D. 5, IPN, Dr. A. Shmuel’s Lab |
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| Session 2: “Amplifying the neural power spectrum” | Andrew Doyle, Ph.D. 2, Quantitative Life Sciences |
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| Session 3: “A molecular gradient along the longitudinal axis of the hippocampus informs large-scale behavioral systems” | Jacob Vogel, Ph.D. 5, IPN, Dr. A. Evans’ Lab |
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| Session 4: “Deep learning for high-throughput quantification of oligodendrocyte ensheathment at single-cell resolution" |
Daryan Chitsaz, |
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5:00 PM |
Coffee break | |
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5:15 PM |
Plenary Lecture "Disruption of proteostasis as a pathogenic mechanism in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and target for therapy" |
Dr. Heather Durham, Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill University |
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6:15 PM |
Opening Reception & Poster Board Session | |
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Day 2 |
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Time |
Event |
Speaker(s) |
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8:30 AM |
Registration & Light Breakfast | |
| 9:00 AM |
Student Life:
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Kaitlyn Easson & Neelima Vaddadi, Executive members of GSAN Hyo Lee & Malosree Maitra, Executive members of BrainReach Mack Robinson, co-Editor-in-Chief, McGill Journal of Medicine |
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9:15 AM |
Mitacs: Connecting Universities with Industrial and Community Partners | François Bilodeau, Director, Business Development, Mitacs |
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9:30 AM |
Workshop: "Make Your Mark: Personal and Project Branding for Neuroscientists" | Dr. Falisha Karpati, Program Officer, Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives |
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11:00 AM
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Symposium C |
Chair: Dr. Jean-François Cloutier, Department of Neurology & Surgery, McGill University |
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Session 1: “Identifying molecules involved in neural wiring”
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Júnia Santos,
Ph.D. 4, IPN, Dr. B. Chen’s Lab |
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| Session 2: “Control of neural map formation by Kirrel family proteins” | Neelima Vaddadi, Ph.D. 5, IPN, Dr. J-F. Cloutier’s Lab |
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Session 3: “Purkinje cell axonal torpedoes act homeostatically to enhance action potential fidelity and cerebellar function” |
Daneck Lang-Ouellette, Ph.D. 6, Biology, Dr. A. Watt’s Lab |
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| Session 4: “AβOs impair presynaptic differentiation by interfering with the β-neurexin complex” | Alfred Lee, Ph.D. 5, IPN, Dr. H. Takahashi’s Lab |
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12:30 PM |
Lunch & Poster Board Session | |
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2:00 PM
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Symposium D "New approaches to understanding risk for psychiatric disorders” |
Chair: Dr. Patricia P. Silveira, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University |
| Session 1: “Brain dopamine transporter gene networks – link between early life adversity and the co-morbidity between metabolic disease and psychopathology” | Barbara Barth, Ph.D. 3, IPN, Dr. P. Pelufo Silveira’s Lab |
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| Session 2: “Pediatric age acceleration: potential biomarker for individual differences on the effects of maternal mental health on child development” | Megan McGill, M.Sc. 2, IPN, Dr. K. O’Donnell’s Lab |
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| Session 3: “Reinforcement learning as a key endophenotype of stress susceptibility” | Eshaan Iyer, Ph.D. 2, IPN, Dr. R. Bagot’s Lab |
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Session 4: "Social stress in adolescence disrupts prefrontal cortex and cognitive development" |
Andrea Harée Pantoja Urbán, Ph.D. 4, IPN, Dr. C. Flores' Lab |
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| Session 5: “From brain connectivity to behavior: studying withdrawal from opioids and emotional impairments with mice resting state fMRI” | Lola Welsch, Ph.D. 3, IPN, Dr. B. Kieffer’s Lab |
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3:30 PM |
Coffee break | |
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3:45 PM |
Panel: "After IPN – Trajectories Toward Academia, Industry & Entrepreneurship” |
Dr. Emily Coffey, Dr. Christopher Kent, Maya Marcus-Sells, |
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5:15 PM |
Closing Remarks | Dr. Joseph Rochford |
| 7:30 PM |
Student Social Venue: Sir Winston Churchill Pub Complex (1455 Crescent St., Montreal QC, H3G 2B2) |
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