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 |
PAST 2013 LECTURES
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