Month: June 2021

  • Announcing the 2020 CAN-CIHR-INMHA Brain Star Award Winners!

    The Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN) and the Canadian Institutes of Health’s Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (CIHR-INMHA) are proud to announce the winners of the 2020 Brain Star Awards. View the full announcement here

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  • Aaron A Phillips and Tabrez J Siddiqui win 2021 CAN Young Investigator Awards

    The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is very proud to announce that Dr. Aaron A. Phillips, Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary,  and Dr. Tabrez J. Siddiqui, Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology at the University of Manitoba and a Principal Investigator at the Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine, will be awarded CAN…

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  • Postdoctoral Associate – Plasticity following sensory loss – Western University

    The Neuroplasticity in Sensory Systems Lab (NiSSL.ca) at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral associate interested in how profound hearing loss gives rise to reorganized function in ‘auditory’ cortex. This may involve optogenetic/pharmacological methods to manipulate neural projections between brain areas, and the use of fiber photometry, extracellular electrophysiology and/or behaviour to quantify the effects.…

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  • Post-doctoral fellow or research assistant in behavioural neuroscience of reward – Samaha laboratory – Université de Montréal

    https://samaha-lab.com/en/ http://twitter.com/Samaha_lab Dr Anne-Noel Samaha’s laboratory at the Université de Montréal is looking for a post-doctoral fellow or research associate. The research work involves characterizing the role of the amygdala and its projections in the behavioural response to reward cues in rats. As an example, see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31953370/ I will hire someone i) whose primary expertise…

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  • Postdoc position in Neuroscience-University of Calgary

    A Postdoctoral position in neuroscience is available in the laboratory of Dr. Derya Sargin at the University of Calgary. Work in our lab is focused on understanding how chronic stress disrupts brain function. Two major lines of research ongoing in the lab are investigating the long-term impact of early life stress and chronic social isolation…

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  • Post-doc available – Hospital for Sick Children/University of Toronto

    Come work with our diverse and collaborative team trying to understand how memories are formed and used in the brains of mice. We use a variety of tools to examine engrams supporting different types of memories. Please send cv and 1 page summary of proposed research project to Sheena.Josselyn@SickKids.ca

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  • Assistant, Associate, or Professor in Computational Cognition – University of Manitoba

    Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Assistant, Associate, or Professor in Computational Cognition Position #30384 The Department of Computer Science invites applications for one or more full-time tenured or tenure-track position at the Assistant, Associate, or Professor level, commencing July 1, 2022, or on a date mutually agreed…

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