MNI events

The 2nd France-Quebec ALS/FTD Workshop is focused on the meeting theme, ALS/FTD: A tale of many diseases. Registration is free, but required. Students and postdocs are welcome. To attend please complete the attached registration form and return to debbie.rashcovsky@mcgill.ca.Deadline: February 26, 2014Quebec Travel Awards sponsored by the ALS Society of Quebec

Neuro Palliative Interdisciplinary Rounds presents a three part series entitled 'Whole Person Care'. Part three  entitled "Creating Significant Rituals in Neuropalliative Care" will take place on March 26, 2014 at 12:00 noon. These rounds will be presented by Lana McGeary, Spiritual Care Counselor.A light lunch will be served.  To attend, please RSVP by March 19 to deborah.rashcovsky@mcgill.ca  or 514-398-6047.For more information: www.neuroevents.mcgill.ca/

The Annual Neuropsychology Day will take place Monday, April 28, 2014. In addition to poster presentations by members of the Cognitive Neuroscience Group, The Neuro will welcome Dr. Wolfram Schultz of the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge who will deliver the 17th Annual Brenda Milner Lecture. The lecture takes place at 4:30 pm in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre. The title of Dr. Schultz’s talk is “ Reward, dopamine and what is driving you”.

Dr. Carla Shatz, Sapp Family Provostial Professor of Biology and Neurobiology and Director of Bio-X, Stanford's pioneering biosciences program will deliver a special lecture entitled "Developmental Critical Periods and Alzheimer's Disease - Can Knowledge of One Help Cure the Other?".

The Bio-X talk will be delivered by Dr. Carla Shatz, Sapp Family Provostial Professor of Biology and Neurobiology and Director of Bio-X, Stanford's pioneering biosciences program. Her lecture, "Explaining the “X” in Stanford’s Bio-X” will take place on Friday, May 2, 2014 at 1:00 pm at the McIntyre Medical Building, Palmer Theatre, Room 522 (access via the 5th Floor only), 3655 Sir William Osler Drive. Refreshments will follow.

Speaker: Paul Taylor, MD, PhDDepartment of Developmental NeurobiologySt. Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN Host: Heather Durham

The Dorothy J. Killam Lecture was established at The Neuro in 2004 to recognize women of influence in business, science, politics or the humanities, and is named after an extraordinary woman who, together with her husband, made immense contributions to Canadian education and science.

Speaker: Yang Dan, PhDHoward Hughes InvestigatorProfessor of NeurobiologyUniversity of California, Berkeley Host: Barbara Jones

The 5th Annual Albert Aguayo Lecture entitled "Neuronal Plasticity and Genomic Diversity " will take place at the Neuro on May 22, 2014 at 4:30 pm.  This important lecture will be given by Fred H. Gage, Ph.D. Professor in the Laboratory of Genetics of The Salk Institute, USA. This annual lecture honours Dr. Albert Aguayo, founder and former Director of the Centre for the Research in Neuroscience at McGill University. A reception will follow. RSVP: debbie.rashcovsky@mcgill.ca