Category: News
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McGill Researchers provide real-time evidence that neurons that fire out of sync, lose their link, exploring the mechanisms underlying “Stentian plasticity”
It has long been appreciated that sensory experience helps to refine the connectivity of the brain during development. In 1949, Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb proposed that when different brain cells were consistently active at the same time as one another and acted in synchrony, the connections they formed would be strengthened as a result of…
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Specific brain cells are critical for linking stress controllability and future behaviour
UCalgary researchers discover that a group of ancient cells may play a key role in controlling stress Stress is ubiquitous, and at no time in recent memory has this been more evident than right now — on a global scale. Our survival depends on our ability to continually adjust and respond to ever-evolving challenges in our…
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Congratulations to Mihaela Iordanova, winner of the CAN Young Investigator Award
We are very proud to announce that Mihaela Iordanova, from Concordia University, has been named CAN’s 2020 Young Investigator Award winner! Learn more about this exceptional neuroscientist on Mihaela Iordanova’s Young Investigator Award winner profile page.
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COVID-19 assistance on federal laboratory reagents – Round #2
The Public Health Agency of Canada has sent a second call for items and reagents for the public health laboratories For loan: Thermofisher Kingfisher Flex Purification Systems (automated nucleic acid purification) with the 96- Deep Well head Associated plastic consumables (96-well plate blocks) would also be of interest For use: Laboratory grade Guanidine thiocyanate As…
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Public Health Agency of Canada – call for reagents for COVID19 testing
We have been made aware by some of our members that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has sent out an urgent request for reagents, specifically RNA extraction reagents for COVID19 testing. If you have such reagents in your laboratory that you could donate (view list below) please consider doing so. If the laboratories have…
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A study by Martin Lévesque and his team explains the role of dopaminergic neurons in hyperactivity and suggests a mechanism of action for Ritalin
Read a new article by Université Laval news on a discovery by Martin Lévesque’s team Cellular cogs of hyperactivity uncovered – Study clarifies the role of dopaminergic neurons in hyperactivity and suggests a mechanism of action for Ritalin The cellular mechanism uncovered by the researchers could explain the mode of action of Ritalin in humans. The…
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McGill researchers end decade-long search for mechanical pain sensor
Discovery brings hope for novel pain treatment Researchers at McGill University have discovered that a protein found in the membrane of our sensory neurons are involved in our capacity to feel mechanical pain, laying the foundation for the development of powerful new analgesic drugs. The study, published in Cell, is the first to show that…
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Pain hypersensitivity: problem at the pump
Pain hypersensitivity and many other diseases could be associated with a protein that acts as an ion pump in neurons. The research team led by Yves De Koninck, at Université Laval’s Faculté de médecine and the CERVO Brain Research Centre had already targeted a protein called KCC2 as a key player in the mechanism leading to…
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Canadian Interns Contribute to the Success of the 13th CAN-IBRO Summer School
Dr. Claire Bomkamp (UBC) and Ms. Jennifer Boateng (McGill) participated as Teaching Interns for the 13th CAN-IBRO school held from May 13-31, 2019 in Montreal and Toronto. The two interns contributed to the teaching of 6 African and 6 Latin American graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and found it a great experience.
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New CAN newsletter
Read our latest news in CAN Connection – Winter 2020