Welcome to the McGill Centre for Research in Neuroscience!
We are a vibrant and multidisciplinary research centre located at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
The research conducted by our highly interactive research groups has led to major advances in basic and medical neurosciences.
The CRN provides training to students toward an MSc or PhD, and to postdoctoral researchers and MDs for careers in research.
Recent CRN News
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Congratulations to the BRaIN program manager Alexandra Kindrat for winning this year’s Public Engagement and Advocacy Award by the Canadian Association of Research Administration! (Feb 2025)
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Congrats, Hovy Wong (Sjöström Lab) for publishing "Laser microsurgery for presynaptic interrogation" in Nature Protocols. (Feb 2025)
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Congratulations to Christina Chou (Sjöström Lab) for publishing "Principles of visual cortex excitatory microcircuit organization" in The Innovation! (Dec 2024)
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Congrats to PhD student Max Kowalczyk (Huang Lab) for publishing a paper on TSC-mTORC1 axis in adult-born neural stem cells in Molecular Biology of the Cell! (Nov 2024)
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Congrats to Ibrahim Kays (Chen Lab) for publishing a paper on tracking and measuring local protein synthesis in vivo in Development! (Nov 2024)
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Findings from the Bourque and the Sjöström labs were featured in the RI MUHC Annual Report and Year in Review! (Nov 2024)
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Congratulations to Huang lab PhD students Paul H.C. Chang for winning the McGill FOM PhD studentship and Max Kowalczyk for the winning the MRM Abstract Competition Award! (Oct 2024)
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Congrats to Riya Thomas (Suvrathan Lab) for the paper "Heterogeneity in Slow Synaptic Transmission Diversifies Purkinje Cell Timing" published in The Journal of Neuroscience! (Sep 2024)
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Congrats Amanda McFarlan (Sjöström Lab) for publishing a paper on the short-term plasticity of VIP interneurons in Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience! (Aug 2024)
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Congrats Shawniya Alageswaran (Sjöström Lab) for winning an HBHL PhD Fellowship! (July 2024)
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Congratulations to Huang Lab Ph.D. students Sehrish Javed and Hao-Cheng Chang for the McGill Faculty of Medicine MedStar Awards! (May 2024)
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Dr Hovy Wong (Sjöström Lab) is a winner of a CAN 2024 Brain Star Award! Congratulations! (May 2024)
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Congrats Amanda McFarlan (Sjöström Lab), who is the 2023 recipient of The Carbonetto Award! Amanda also published a study on the long-term plasticity of VIP interneurons in Frontiers, congratulations! (Apr 2024)
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Congratulations to Haley Renault (Sjöström Lab) for renewing the Savoy Foundation studentship! (Apr 2024)
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Congrats, Connie Guo (Sjöström Lab) for winning both the NSERC CGS-M and the FRQS Bourses de formation à la maîtrise! (Apr 2024)
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Congrats to Ya-Ting Chang et al (Huang Lab) for their publication "Comparative analyses of the Smith−Magenis syndrome protein RAI1 in mice and common marmoset monkeys" in The Journal of Comparative Neurology! (Jan 2024)
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Congrats Sandra Salgado-Mozo et al (Bourque Lab) for their cover article in The Journal of Neuroscience, titled "NaX Channel Is a Physiological [Na+] Detector in Oxytocin- and Vasopressin-Releasing Magnocellular Neurosecretory Cells of the Rat Supraoptic Nucleus", see press release. (Nov 2023)
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How does the synapse sustains high-frequency neurotransmission that is crucial for memory formation? Drs. Hovy Wong and Jesper Sjöström published a paper in Neuron to resolve this. (Nov 2023) Congratulations to the team!!
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The Wei-Hsiang Huang lab recently published 3 papers that decipher the neurobiology of RAI1 in epileptogenesis (Proc Natl Acad Sci U SA) and obesity (eLife), as well as developing the first CRISPR gene therapy for Smith-Magenis syndrome mice (J Biol Chem). Congratulations to the first authors Dr. Debbie Chang and Ph.D. students Sehrish Javed and Paul Chang! (September 2023)
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Congratulations to Dr. Wei-Hsiang Huang for being selected as one of the Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research from the Brain Canada Foundation. Dr. Huang was also awarded grants from the Savoy Foundation and the RDMM Network. News link https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/09/21/2747590/0/en/Brain-Canada-s-flagship-program-awards-2-8-million-for-brain-research.html (September 2023)
