Seminars 2024-2025

Throughout the academic year, the CRN and McGill Vision Research host the weekly BRaIN Seminar Series, as part of the RI-MUHC BRaIN Program. The topics cover numerous aspects of experimental neuroscience, and our speakers include international as well as local leaders in their respective fields. 

When: Wednesdays at 12 noon (unless otherwise stated).

Where: CRN seminar room, Montreal General Hospital, Livingston Hall, L7-140, with hybrid option.

Are you interested in attending a virtual seminar? If so, contact the brain [at] muhc.mcgill.ca (BRaIN Program) to receive the link.

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Date

Speaker and topic

Wednesday
Sept 25, 2024

Dorita Chang, PhD
Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong
Title: (Sensory) eye dominance: the what, the where and the how
Host: Alexander Baldwin

Wednesday
Oct 23, 2024

Brian Chen, PhD
Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University
In-House Research Update

Wednesday
Nov 6, 2024

Alison Barth, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Input- and target-specific plasticity in neocortical circuits during learning
Host: Jesper Sjöström

Wednesday
Nov 13, 2024

Nicolas Tritsch, PhD
Department of Psychiatry, The Douglas Research Centre
Title: Trying to make sense of dopamine’s contributions to behavior
Host: Wei-Hsiang Huang

Wednesday
Nov 20, 2024

Janine Mendola, PhD
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, McGill University
In-House Research Update

Wednesday
Nov 27, 2024

Rebecca Todd, PhD
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
Title: Approaching pleasure, avoiding pain: Neurocognitive tuning to affective salience across a spectrum of mood disorder symptoms
Host: Stefanie Blain-Moraes

Wednesday
Dec 4, 2024

Christine Constantinople, PhD
Center for Neural Science, New York University
Title: Neural circuit mechanisms of value-based decision-making
Host: Jesper Sjöström

Wednesday
Dec 11, 2024

my Allard , PhD
École d'optométrie,  Université de Montréal
Title: Functionally evaluating the impact of healthy ageing and age-related macular degeneration on the efficiency of photoreceptors
Host: Alexander Baldwin

Wednesday
Jan 08, 2025
Laurent Perrinet, PhD
Computational Neuroscience, CNRS / Aix-Marseille Université
Title: How and why does retinotopy provides efficient vision
Host: Alexandre Renaud
Wednesday
Jan 29, 2025
Niklas Brake, PhD
Department of Physiology, McGill University
Title: An orchestra out of rhythm: aperiodic EEG and the 1/f spectral trend
Host: Alexander Baldwin
Wednesday
Feb 05, 2025
Marco Leyton , PhD
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Title: Reimagining the Diathesis-Stress Model: Temperament, Adversity, Biology
Host: Janine Mendola
Wednesday
Feb 12, 2025
Gabriella Gobbi , PhD
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Title: The psychopharmacology of psychedelics
Host: Charles Bourque
Wednesday
Feb 19, 2025
Nancy Mayo , PhD
School of Physical and occupational Therapy, McGill University
Title: Real-time Auditory Feedback to Improve Gait and Motivation in People with Parkinson
Host: Alexander Baldwin
Wednesday
Feb 26, 2025
Paul Masset , PhD
Department of Psychology, McGill University
Title: Multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain
Host: Brian Chen
Wednesday
Mar 05, 2025
Charles Bourque, PhD
Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University
In-House Research Update
Wednesday
Mar 19, 2025
Bilal Haider, PhD
Department of Bomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech/ Emory University
Title: The control of visual perception by cortical lateral inhibition
Host: Jesper Sjöström
Wednesday
Apr 02, 2025
Jan Gründemann, PhD
University of Bonn
Title: Imaging deep: Learning-related plasticity in thalamic circuits
Host: Jesper Sjöström
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