Seminars are held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre in the Brain Tumour Research Centre, unless otherwise specified. In the spirit of the MNI designation as an Open Science Institute some lecturers have agreed to have their lectures live-streamed on the MNI Youtube channel. The live link is available below for individual speakers.
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Lecture |
Host |
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2019 |
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September 10, 2019 |
Christopher A. Walsh
Boston Children's Hospital
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Genetic Studies of Human Brain Development and Evolution |
Eva Andermann |
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September 17, 2019 |
Robert L. Barry
Harvard Medical School
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From FMRI of the Brain to Spinal Cord at 7 Tesla |
Julien Doyon |
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September 24, 2019 |
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October 1, 2019
3:30 pm
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Jeremy Nathans, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Professor of Neuroscience
Samuel Theobald Professor of Ophthalmology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Johns Hopkins Medical School |
McGill Distinguished Lecture in Human Genetics
Molecular genetic studies of CNS vascular development and disease |
Alyson Fournier |
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October 1, 2019 |
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October 10, 2019 |
David Ginty
Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Albert Aguayo Lecture: The Sensory Neurons of Touch
*** Lecture will take place in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre
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Guy Rouleau |
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October 15, 2019
12 noon
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Kai Kaila
University of Helsinki
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Neuronal Chloride Regulation in Brain Development, Plasticity and Disease |
Massimo Avoli |
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October 15, 2019
4 pm
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Tamás F. Freund
Institute of Experimental Medicine
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, Hungary |
K.A.C. Elliott 2019 Lecture: The reciprocal GABAergic septo-hippocampal connection: target selectivity and function
*** Lecture will take place in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre
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Guy Rouleau and Barbara Jones |
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October 22, 2019 |
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SFN Annual Meeting |
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October 29, 2019 |
Christopher Glass
University of California
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Genome wide approaches to understanding microglia identity and function |
Luke Healy |
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November 5, 2019 |
Alberto Luis Vazquez
University of Pittsburgh
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Excitatory and inhibitory neuron activity contributions to hemodynamic signals: What else could we learn from brain imaging studies?
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Edith Hamel |
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November 12, 2019 |
Arie Horowitz
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Role of the Choroid Plexus in Congenital Hydrocephalus |
Peter McPherson |
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November 19, 2019 |
Michael W. Cole
Rutgers University
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Brain Network Organization as the Computational Architecture of Cognition |
Bratislav Misic |
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November 26, 2019 |
Kamil Uludag
Krembil Research Institute
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Anatomical and Functional Human Brain Imaging at 7 Tesla |
Amir Shmuel |
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December 3, 2019 |
Dr. Jeffrey Kordower |
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Guy Rouleau |
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December 10, 2019 |
Liset M. De La Prida
Instituto Cajal -CSIC, Spain
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Laminar organization of hippocampal activity in health and disease |
Adrien Peyrache |
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December 17, 2019 |
Jacob M. Hooker
Harvard Medical School
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Neuroimaging of Human Epigenetic Regulation |
Alexey Kostikov |
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2020 |
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December 24, 2019 |
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December 31, 2019 |
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January 7, 2020 |
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January 14, 2020 |
Patrik Ernfors
Karolinska Institute
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The Cellular Basis for Somatosensation and Pain |
Philippe Seguela |
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January 21, 2020 |
Misha Ahrens
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Glia and norepinephrine make zebrafish ‘give up’ on futile actions |
Ed Ruthazer |
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January 28, 2020 |
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February 4, 2020 |
Christopher Pearson
SickKids
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Towards reversing the mutation of a repeat expansion disease |
Gary A.B. Armstrong
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February 11, 2020 |
Emmanuel Mignot
Stanford University
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Neurobiology, Genetics and Molecular Mimicry in Narcolepsy |
Guy Rouleau |
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February 18, 2020 |
Dario Alessi
University of Dundee
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The Mysterious Interplay between LRRK2 Kinase and Rb GTPase in Parkinson's and Infectious Disease |
Ted Fon |
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February 25, 2020 |
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March 3, 2020 |
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March 10, 2020 |
William Rooney
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CANCELLED
Magnetic resonance measures of brain metabolic activity in multiple sclerosis |
Sridar Narayanan |
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March 17, 2020 |
Maja Jagodic
Karolinska Institute
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CANCELLED
Applied epigenomics: insights into the pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis |
Alyson Fournier |
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March 24, 2020 |
Brock Grill
The Scripps Research Institute
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CANCELLED
Molecular Exploration of Neuron Development & Function: From Autophagy to Opioid Signaling |
Jean-Francois Cloutier |
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March 31, 2020 |
Margaret Livingstone
Harvard Medical School
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CANCELLED
The Development of Specialized Modules for Recognizing Faces, Scenes, Text, and Bodies: what you see is what you get |
Stuart Trenholm |
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April 7, 2020 |
Jason Karlawish
Ralston-Penn Center
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CANCELLED |
Nathan Spreng |
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April 14, 2020 |
Takeo Watanabe
Brown University
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CANCELLED
Plasticity and Stability During and After Training on a Visual Task |
Christopher Pack |
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April 15, 2020 |
Hongkui Zeng |
CANCELLED *** Lecture will take place in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre
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Dorothy J. Killam Lecture |
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April 23, 2020 |
Michael Hayden |
CANCELLED
Distinguished Lecture in Human Genetics
*** Lecture will take place in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre
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Alyson Fournier |
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April 28, 2020 |
Bruce McNaughton |
CANCELLED
Jasper Lecture
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Barbara Jones |
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May 5, 2020 |
Seth Grant
University of Edinburgh
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CANCELLED
The synaptome in space and time |
Tim Kennedy |
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May 12, 2020 |
David Dupret
Oxford University
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CANCELLED
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Adrien Peyrache |
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May 19, 2020 |
Henry Houlden
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CANCELLED
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Bernard Brais and Guy Rouleau |
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May 25, 2020 |
John D.E. Gabrieli
MIT
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CANCELLED
Brenda Milner Lecture in Cognitive Neuroscience
*** Lecture will take place in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre
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May 26, 2020 |
Robyn S. Klein
Washington University
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CANCELLED
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Jack Antel |
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June 2, 2020 |
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CANCELLED
CAN Annual Meeting
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