Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology and Montreal Neurological Institute & Hospital present
SYMPOSIUM
Molecules to Mind: Multiscale Imaging of Living Systems at McGill
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Charles P. Leblond Amphitheatre, Room M1
Strathcona Anatomy & Dentistry Building
McGill University
3640 University Street
PROGRAM
Session | Time | Description |
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Morning | ||
9:00 to 9:20 am | Arrival/Check-in. Registration and coffee | |
9:20 to 9:30 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks: Craig Mandato, Chair, Anatomy & Cell Biology; Ted Fon, Director, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital | |
Session 1 | Chair, Tim Kennedy (MNI) | |
9:30 to 9:45 am | Joaquin Ortega (ACB/FEMR): Overview of infrastructure and services at the Facility for Electron Microscopy Research (FEMR) | |
9:45 to 10:05 am | Mark Brandon (Douglas Hospital Research Centre, McGill): Miniature microscopes enable calcium imaging of large neuronal ensembles in thalmus, striatum, and hippocampus in freely behaving mice. | |
10:05 to 10:25 am | Elitza Tocheva (UdeM): Subcellular localization of macromolecular assemblies. | |
10:25 to 10:45 am | Boris Berhardt (BIC, MNI, McGill): Atypical connectome hierarchy in autism. | |
10:45 to 11:15 am | Coffee Break | |
Session 2 | Chair, Mike Strauss (ACB) | |
11:15 to 11:30 am | Thomas Stroh (MNI, McGill): Overview of the MNI microscopy core facility. | |
11:30 to 11:50 am | Javier Vargas (ACB, McGill): Image processing methods in electron microscopy. | |
11:50 am to 12:10 pm | Chris Salmon and Benny Kacerovsky (Murai Research Lab, CTN, RI-MUHC, McGill): Overview of FIB-SEM for neuroscience, analysis of astrocyte synapse interactions./Astrocyte-blood vessel interactions using FIB-SEM and super-resolution microscopy. | |
Lunch/Poster Session | 12:10 to 1:30 pm | Lunch, Room 245 and 221; Posters, Hallway opposite Room 2/21 |
Afternoon | ||
Session 3 | Chair, Huy Bui (ACB, McGill) | |
1:30 to 1:50 pm | Rocardo Alchini (Fournier Research Lab, MNI, McGill): using lightsheet microscopy to trace axonal development and regeneration in large samples. | |
1:50 to 2:10 pm | Mike Strauss (ACB, McGill): Molecular detail in a crowded environment. | |
2:10 to 2:30 pm | Diane Nakamura (Kennedy Research Lab, MNI, McGill): Molecular organization at CNS paranodal junctions. | |
2:30 to 3:00 pm | Coffee Break | |
Session 4 | Chair, Javier Vargas (ACB, McGill) | |
3:00 to 3:20 pm | Huy Bui (ACB, McGill): Multiscale imaging of eukaryotic cilia from cellular to near-atomic resolution. | |
3:20 to 3:40 pm |
Walla Alshafie (Stroh and McPherson Research Labs, MNI, McGill): STORM and STED microscopy reveal a new class of intracellular storage vesicle harboring internalized somatostatin receptor 2. |
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3:40 to 4:00 pm | Christine Tardif (BIC, MNI, McGill): Quantitative MRI of brain tissue microstructure. | |
4:00 to 4:20 pm | Amir Shmuel (BIC, MNI, McGill): Neurophysiology, functional MRI and tissue processing for studying the structure and function of the cortical column. | |
4:20 to 4:30 pm | Closing Remarks, Tim Kennedy (MNI)/Joaquin Ortega (ACB) |