Category: News
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CAN Connection – Winter 2021 Newsletter
Click here to read our latest newsletter: https://can-acn.org/can-connection-winter-2021/
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Launch of the 2020 Brain Star Award Competition
We are happy to announce the launch of the 2020 Brain Star Award Competition! Application deadline is January 31, 2021. View all the details here: Brain Star Awards
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Read the latest edition of CAN Connection – November 2020
Click here to read our latest newsletter
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CAN publishes an article in MacLean’s and Chatelaine magazine
The article was published in MacLean’s in October 2020, in a special section on “Understanding Neurological Conditions”, and re-published in the December 2020 edition of Chatelaine, in a special section on “Managing Chronic Conditions”. It was also published online on the healthinsight.ca website.
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CAN Trainee research feature: Claire Gizowski, McGill University
Watch this week’s CAN Trainee Research feature, with Claire Gizowski, who recently obtained her PhD at McGill University, working with Dr. Charles Bourque. She presents the publication: Gizowski C, Bourque CW. Sodium regulates clock time and output via an excitatory GABAergic pathway. Nature. 2020 Jul;583(7816):421-424. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2471-x. Dr. Gizowski is currently a postdoctoral scholar at
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CAN Trainee research feature: Nuria Daviu, Hotchkiss Brain Institute
CAN Trainee research features are a new opportunity for Canadian neuroscience trainees to showcase their research through short video features. We aim to make this a weekly feature and to share on our website and social media accounts, so please consider submitting a proposal to us! This week’s feature is Nuria Daviu, a researcher in the
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CAN Trainee Research Feature: Tasnia Rahman, McGill University
We are excited to launch a new opportunity for Canadian neuroscience trainees to showcase their research through short video features. We aim to make this a weekly feature and to share on our website and social media accounts, so please consider submitting a proposal to us. We would love to feature your research! This week’s
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Congratulations to the Royal Society of Canada Class of 2020
Congratulations to the Canadian neuroscientists newly elected fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, and to the incoming class of the college of new scientists. “The Royal Society of Canada is delighted to recognise this year’s exceptional cohort of inductees, as the contributions of these outstanding artists, scholars and scientists have significantly impacted their respective
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Vascular development may be at risk in autism
Early deficits in the formation of brain blood vessels translate into later autistic traits in mice A Canadian collaboration led by Dr. Baptiste Lacoste has undertaken the first ever in-depth study of vasculature in the autistic brain. The product of four years of work, a paper published in the September issue of Nature Neuroscience lays out several lines of
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Unlocking the mysteries of the brain
A research team at CHU Sainte-Justine highlights the mechanisms underlying memory and learning capacity – specifically, how our brains process, store and integrate information. How does our brain store information? Seeking an answer, researchers at CHU Sainte-Justine and Université de Montréal have made a major discovery in understanding the mechanisms underlying learning and memory formation.