Month: March 2019
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Canadian Artificial Intelligence pioneers win the 2019 Turing Award
Congratulations to Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto), Joshua Bengio (Université de Montréal) and Yann LeCun (Boston University) who have won the 2019 Turing award for their work to understand neural networks using artificial intelligence and deep learning. The Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to an individual…
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New molecules reverse memory loss linked to depression, aging
New therapeutic molecules developed at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) show promise in reversing the memory loss linked to depression and aging. These molecules not only rapidly improve symptoms, but remarkably, also appear to renew the underlying brain impairments causing memory loss in preclinical models. These findings were presented at the American…
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Neurobiology – Xia lab, University of Rochester, NY
Postdoctoral Fellow/Researcher, Research Scientist or Research Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology and Physiology Department of Neuroscience University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY Two neurobiology postdoctoral researcher positions funded by NIH and foundation grants are available to study synaptic plasticity as well as myelination mechanisms underlying intellectual disability, anxiety, depression and many other brain functions/dysfunctions. We…
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Post-doctoral position – Khoutorsky laboratory at McGill University.
A postdoctoral position is available in the Khoutorsky laboratory at McGill University. We are interested in studying cell-type-specific gene expression in mouse models of chronic pain and neuropsychiatric disorders (Fragile X syndrome and autism) at both transcriptional and translational levels and linking changes in gene expression to structural plasticity, alterations in neuronal circuitry and animal…
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Assistant/Associate Professor Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences – University of Manitoba
Department of Pathology Position #: 25772 The Department of Pathology in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level, commencing on July 1, 2019, or on a date mutually agreed upon. The Department seeks an emerging scholar with a commitment…
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Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in the Neurobiology of Aging and Cognition at the University of Victoria
Canada Research Chair, Tier II Neurobiology of Aging and Cognition Division of Medical Sciences The University of Victoria is consistently ranked in the top tier of Canada’s research-intensive universities. Vital impact drives the UVic sense of purpose. As an internationally renowned teaching and research hub, we tackle essential issues that matter to people, places and…
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Congratulations to Brain Prize winners Marie-Germaine Bousser, Hugues Chabriat, Anne Joutel and Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve
The Brain Prize 2019: French neuroscientists honoured for outstanding research into small vessel strokes in the brain Aiming for treatment they have spent more than 30 years describing, understanding and diagnosing the most common hereditary form of stroke, CADASIL. For this, the four French neuroscientists are now receiving the world’s most valuable prize for brain…
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Post-Doctoral Position Available in Protein misfolding and chaperones – Prado and Duennwald laboratories, Robarts research institute
A postdoctoral position is available immediately under the supervision of Drs. Marco Prado and Martin Duennwald at the Robarts Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario to work on molecular chaperones regulating protein misfolding. The work spans from yeast to mouse models of disease and the successful candidate will…