First Person interview with physiology graduate student

Published: 24 February 2020

Physiology graduate student Alexander Kiepas was recently interviewed for being the first author on 'Optimizing live-cell fluorescence imaging conditions to minimize phototoxicity', published in...

Seminar - Molecular and cellular strategies for the patterning of neurons into circuits

Friday, February 7, 2020 11:00to12:00

In the developing nervous system, an enormous number and diversity of neurons are precisely organized into neural circuits. How can such a vast set of neural connections be wired using limited cues...

Seminar - Genetic Engineering and Neural-behavioral Phenotyping of a Macaque Model of ASD

Friday, March 6, 2020 11:00to12:00

Mutation or disruption of the SHANK3 (SH3 domain and ankyrin repeat) gene at the 22q13.3 locus represents a highly penetrant, monogenic risk-factor for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and is a...

Dr. Leon Glass receives the 2018 CAIMS Research Prize

Published: 22 July 2019

The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society presented the Research Prize to Dr. Leon Glass for his contributions to research, education and community leadership. Click here for details.

Prager-Khoutorsky Lab publishes first paper

Published: 5 December 2019

Kudos to the Prager-Khoutorsky lab for publishing their first paper, Effects of Salt Loading on the Organization of Microtubules in Rat Magnocellular Vasopressin Neurons, in the Journal of...

Seminar - Fructose and the Hungry Brain

Friday, February 14, 2020 11:00to12:00

Fructose is a simple sugar found in fruit and honey, but it is also used as sweeteners via added sugars, syrups, or high fructose corn syrup in processed foods or beverages.3655 promenade Sir...

Seminar - The role of the voltage gated sodium channel Nav1.7 in human pain and pleasure

Friday, January 24, 2020 11:00to12:00

There has been significant progress over the last decade in understanding the molecular basis by which sensory neurons transduce and subsequently transmit noxious (ie. tissue damaging) stimuli...

Seminar - Astroglial modulation of neuronal firing pattern in cortical and rhythmogenic brainstem sensorimotor circuits

Friday, January 17, 2020 11:00to12:00

Several functions, motor or sensory, rely on the ability of neurons to modify their discharge pattern to faithfully encode the characteristics of a sensory stimulus or to reflect a rhythmic motor...

Seminar - How we feel: molecular sensors and neuronal networks for the sensation of pain

Friday, January 10, 2020 11:00to12:00

3655 promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, QC, H3G 1Y6, CA/physiologyCategory: Medicine and Health Sciences Dept. of Physiology Physiology Friday Seminar Series

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