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From divergent thinking to convergent solutions: Including creative thinking in your research

Why is creative thinking important in the research process? How can artistic activities help us to become better scientists?

2018 MS Xchange

Dr. Jack Antel, Dr. Pierre Duquette and the 2018 MS Xchange Scientific Planning Committee invite you to attend the 7th annual MS Xchange Conference on Friday, November 16th at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM).

2018 Wilder Penfield Lecture: Victor J. Dzau, MD, President of the US National Academy of Medicine and Vice Chair of the US National Research Council

Dr. Victor Dzau

President of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and Vice-Chair of the U.S. National Research Council Chancellor Emeritus and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine at Duke University

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Cognition and Circuits Seminar Series: Morphology of the sulci of the ventrolateral frontal cortex in the human brain

Presented by Trisanna Sprung-Much

PhD Candidate, Petrides lab, MNI Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Hosted by Dr. Michael Petrides

Coffee and snacks will be served

Killiam Seminar Series: Rewriting Black Death and the Second Pandemic of Plague: Integrating History, Genetics, Climate and Ecology

Presented by Dr. Hendrik Poinar

Associate Professor and Researcher, Department of Biochemistry and Biochemical Sciences and Department of Anthropology, McMaster University.

Hosted by Dr. Guy Rouleau

This lecture will be live streamed (link pending)

The Reviewer’s Perspective: A panel discussion on academic publishing in neuroscience

How do you choose which journal to submit to? What do reviewers look for in a manuscript? How can you effectively respond to reviewer comments?

At this event, you will get tips and advice on how to write impressive manuscripts and navigate the academic publication process from 6 McGill neuroscience researchers. Panelists include Drs. Suparna Choudhury, Jean-Baptiste Poline, David Ragsdale, Wayne Sossin, Alanna Watt, and Robert Zatorre.

Cognition and Circuits Seminar Series: Short-term neural changes driven by actual state and experience with the task and their relevance to learning

Presented by Ella Gabitov, PhD

Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Doyon Lab, MNI

Hosted by Dr. Julien Doyon

Coffee and Snacks will be served

Cognition and Circuits Seminar Series: Seeing meaning: modelling high-level object representations in the human visual cortex

Presented by Dr. Marieke Mur

Head of the Visual Cognition Lab, Western University Brain and Mind Institute.

Coffee and snacks will be served

The 2018 BIC Retreat

The 2018 BIC Retreat will held at Usine C on December 10th, 2018. This one-day event will not only give us the chance to get to know each other better, but will also provide a forum to learn more about the different research activity being conducted at the BIC. Furthermore, it will be an excellent sounding board for exchanging ideas and fostering collaborations with colleagues.

Cognition and Circuits Seminar Series: Cholinergic regulation of cognition revealed by genetically-targeting the vesicular acetylcholine transporter

Presented by Dr. Marco Prado

Professor at the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology and the Robarts Research Institute, Western University.

Hosted by Dr. Nathan Spreng and Dr. Taylor Schmitz

Coffee and Snacks will be served

2019 Dorothy J. Killam Lecture: Genes, neurons, and circuits: organizing behavior across timescales

The 2019 Dorothy J. Killam Lecture will be delivered by Cornelia I. Bargmann, Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and Associate Director of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behaviour of Rockefeller University, New York, USA. Her lecture, "Genes, neurons, and circuits: organizing behavior across timescales " will take place on Thursday, April 4 at 4:00 pm in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (3801 University Street)....

International Training Course on Neuroimaging of Epilepsy

You are cordially invited to the International Training Course on Neuroimaging of Epilepsy to be held at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre of the Montreal Neurological Institute May 16-19, 2019.