Seminars 2011-2012

The CRN hosts a weekly Neuroscience Seminar Series throughout the academic year. The topics cover numerous aspects of experimental neuroscience, and our speakers include international as well as local leaders in their respective fields. Unless otherwise posted, all seminars take place at 12:00 noon in Montreal General Hospital, Livingston Hall, L7-140. If you would like to be notified of upcoming CRN seminars, please email yvonne [dot] gardner [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca and ask to be added to the email list.

Date	Speaker and topic
Wednesday May 30, 2012	Dr. Mark Schnitzer Depts. of Biology and Applied Physics Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford University Mice, men, and microscopes: Visualizing the dynamics of the neuronal orchestra in awake behaving animals
Wednesday May 16, 2012	Dr. Eric Lai Sloan-Kettering Institute Transcriptional control of mammalian neural stem cell identity
Wednesday May 9, 2012	Dr. Alexandre Prat Neuroimmunology Research Unit CHUM-Hopital Notre Dame Université de Montréal Identification of novel adhesion molecules involved in the recruitment of immune cells to the CNS
Wednesday Apr. 25, 2012	Dr. William Tsang Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal Regulation of cilia biogenesis
Wednesday Apr. 18, 2012	Dr. Richard Robitaille Groupe de Recherche sur le Système Nerveux Central Université de Montréal Dynamic analysis of synaptic transmission and its modulation by glial cells
Wednesday Apr. 11, 2012	Dr. Hey-Kyoung Lee Dept. of Neuroscience Johns Hopkins University Cross-modal homeostatic synaptic plasticity in sensory cortices
Wednesday Mar. 28, 2012	Dr. Ron Postuma Dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery McGill University Prediction of Parkinson's: from pathology to neuroprotection
Wednesday Mar. 21, 2012	Dr. Sarah Woolley Dept. of Biology McGill University Emergence and regulation of variability in a basal ganglia nucleus
Wednesday Mar. 14, 2012	Dr. Naguib Mechawar Dept. of Psychiatry McGill University An investigation of human cortical astrocytes in depression and suicide
Wednesday Mar. 7, 2012	Dr. Sylvain Williams Dept. of Psychiatry, McGill University Douglas Mental Health University Institute Determining the role of GABAergic interneurons in the generation of hippocampal rhythms using optogenetics
Wednesday Feb. 29, 2012	Rao Lab CRN Research Update
Wednesday Feb. 8, 2012	Dr. Tarek Sharshar Department of Intensive Care Medicine Raymond Poincaré Hospital, Garches, France Brain dysfunction in sepsis
Wednesday Feb. 1, 2012	Dr. Hiroshi Tsuda Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University Molecular pathology of Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), a fly's view
Wednesday Jan. 25, 2012	Dr. Edward Giniger National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD Wiring the nervous system during development; unwiring it in neurodegenerative disease
Wednesday Jan. 11, 2012	Dr. Bruno Giros Dept. of Psychiatry, McGill University Douglas Mental Health University Institute *The dopamine transporter: from molecular to integrated aspects*
Wednesday Dec. 7, 2011	Dr. Maia Kokoeva Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre Neural plasticity and energy balance regulation in the adult hypothalamus
Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011	Murai Lab CRN Research Update
Wednesday Nov. 23, 2011	Chen Lab CRN Research Update
Wednesday Nov. 9, 2011	Dr. Heidi McBride Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University The emerging role of mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegeneration
Tuesday Nov. 8, 2011 12:00 noon Note Special Day	Dr. Luis F. Alguacil Translational Research Unit Hospital General de Ciudad Real, Spain The brain reward system in addiction, obesity and eating disorders
Wednesday Nov. 2, 2011	Dr. Christine Vande Velde Centre de recherche du CHUM Université de Montréal Mitochondria, stress, and ALS
Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011	Dr. Jean-Claude Lacaille Dept. of Physiology Université de Montréal Persistent plasticity of inhibition in brain memory circuits
Wednesday Oct. 19, 2011	Dr. Gustavo Turecki Dept. of Psychiatry, McGill University Douglas Mental Health University Institute Methylation changes associated with early-life adversity: behavioral implications
Wednesday Oct. 12, 2011	Dr. Greg Suh Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine New York University School of Medicine Dissection of aversive and appetitive behaviors in Drosophila
Wednesday Sept. 28, 2011	Dr. Alanna Watt Dept. of Biology McGill University Traveling waves in the developing cerebellum
Friday Sept. 23, 2011 12:00 noon Note Special Day	Dr. Stéphane Oliet Neurocentre Magendie Bordeaux, France Synaptic and extrasynaptic NMDA receptors are gated by different co-agonists

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