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Speaker and topic
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March 13,2020
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Please note that effective March 13, 2020 The BRaIN Program Seminar Series will be cancelled until further notice. Check back here for updates.
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**Friday**
May 22, 2020
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Dr. Marco Capogna
Department of Biomedicine & DANDRITE, Aarhus University, Denmark
Title: The necessity of GABAergic neuron diversity for amygdala and hippocampal circuits
Host: Jesper Sjöström
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Wednesday
May 20 ,2020
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Dr. Umberto Spampinato
Department of Neuropharmacology, Université de Bordeaux
Title: The central serotonin2B receptor & dopamine ascending pathways: new opportunities for treating schizophrenia
Host: Gabriella Gobbi
Department of Psychiatry
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Wednesday
May 6, 2020
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Dr. Ole Paulson
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University
Title: Neuromodulation of Hebbian plasticity in the hippocampus
Host: Jesper Sjöström
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**Thursday**
April 30, 2020
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Dr. Daphne Bavelier
Faculty of Psychology and Science of Education, University of Geneva
Title: TBD
Host: Janine Mendola
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Wednesday
April 22, 2020
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Dr. Charles Bourque
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
In-House Research Update
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Wednesday
April 15, 2020
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Dr. Jo Anne Stratton
The Neuro, McGill University
Title: Ependymal cell alterations during inflammation and disease
Host: Wei Hsiang Huang
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**Friday**
April 03, 2020
RESCHEDULED
TO FALL 2020
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Dr. Jack L. Gallant
Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley
Title: TBD
Host: BRaIN Program Trainee Council
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Wednesday
March 25, 2020
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Dr. Lisa Koski
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
In-House Research Update
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Wednesday
Mar 18, 2020
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Dr. Bénédicte Amilhon
Département de neurosciences, Université de Montréal
Title: Raphe modulation of ventral hippocampal rhythms and function
Host: Keith Murai
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Wednesday
Mar 11, 2020
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Dr. Kathy Mullen
McGill Vision Research Group, McGill University
In-House Research Update
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Wednesday
Mar 4, 2020
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Dr. Catherina G. Becker
Center for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Title: Mind the gap – Spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish
Dr. Thomas Becker
Center for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Title: Cook little pot, cook - Progenitor cell reactivation in the injured zebrafish central nervous system
Host: Sam David
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*Wednesday
Feb 26, 2020
**CANCELLED**
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Dr. Lisa Koski
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
In-House Research Update
**CANCELLED**
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Wednesday
Feb 19, 2020
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Dr. Bratistav Missic
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
Title:The connected brain
Host: Janine Mendola
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Wednesday
Feb 12, 2020
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Dr. Michael Hendricks
Department of Biology, McGill University
Title: Head orientation and spatial navigation in C. elegans
Host: Yong Rao
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Wednesday
Feb 5, 2020
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Dr. Stefanie Blain-Moraes
Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University
In-House Research Update
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Wednesday
Jan 29, 2020
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Dr. Jose-Manuel Alonso
Department of Biological Sceinces, SUNY College of Optometry
Title: Functional organization of thalamocortical circuits in visual cortex
Host: Curtis Baker
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Wednesday
Jan 22, 2020
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Dr. David Stellwagen
Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University
In-House Research Update
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* Friday *
Dec 13, 2019
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Dr. Jacque Pak Kan Ip
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: The Roles of Locally Coordinated Synaptic Plasticity in Health and Disease
Hosts: Hovy Wong and Jesper Sjöström
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Wednesday
Dec 4, 2019
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Dr. Pierre Mattar
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa
Title: Chromatin remodelling complexes in retinal neurogenesis
Host: Wei-Hsiang Huang
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Wednesday
Nov 27, 2019
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Dr. Alex Baldwin
McGill Vision Research Group, McGill University
Title: Visual information processing - noise and efficiency
Host: Robert Hess
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Wednesday
Nov 20, 2019
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Dr. Christina Wolfson
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
Title: Population Neuroscience - Big studies, big challenges
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Wednesday
Nov 13, 2019
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Dr. Lauri Nurminen
Department of Ophthalmology, John Moran Eye Center, University of Utah
Title: Neural circuits for contextual modulation of visual perception
Host: Robert Hess
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Wednesday
Nov 6, 2019
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Dr. Abhishek Banerjee
Associate Professor in Systems Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University Medical School
Title: Cognitive switches and adaptive neural dynamics in cortical circuits
Host: Jesper Sjöström
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Wednesday
Oct 30, 2019
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Dr. Przemyslaw (Mike) Sapieha
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, University of Montreal
Title: Neuroimmune Crosstalk in the Retina
Host: Sam David
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* Friday *
* 11:30am *
Oct 25, 2019
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-- CANCELLED --
Dr. Nobuhiko Yamamoto
Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Group, Osaka University
Title: Mechanisms of Activity-Dependent Axonal Wiring in the Developing Cortex
Host: Ed Ruthazer
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Wednesday
Oct 16, 2019
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Dr. Philippe Chouinard
Department of Psychology, La Trobe University, Australia
Title: Studies on the mechanisms underlying weight illusions
Host: Kathy Mullen
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Wednesday
Oct 9, 2019
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Dr. Don Van Meyel
Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University
In-House Research Update
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Wednesday
Oct 2, 2019
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Dr. Patrick Cavanagh
Department of Psychology, York University
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
Title: The science of art and illusion
Host: Kathy Mullen
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Wednesday
Sep 25, 2019
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Dr. Maxime Rousseaux
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa
Title: Studying protein mislocalization in neurodegenerative diseases using systems-based approaches
Host: Brian Chen
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Wednesday
Sep 18, 2019
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Dr. Reza Farivar-Mohseni
McGill Vision Research, McGill University
TBD
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Wednesday
Sep 11, 2019
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Dr. Keith Murai
Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University
In-House Research Update
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Wednesday
Sep 4, 2019
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Dr. Henrique von Gersdorff
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University
Title: Synaptic delays and short-term plasticity at inhibitory synapses
Host: Kathy Mullen
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