Programme préliminaire 2020

27 au 31 mai 2020

Symposiums satellites 2020

Samedi 30 mai

14h	Conférences publiques de l’ACN Antoine Hakim – Save your brain – lifestyle changes to prevent dementia

Dimanche 31 mai

9:00 – 16:30	Symposiums satellites
17:00 – 17:15	Mot de bienvenue Katalin Toth, Présidente de l’Association canadienne des neurosciences
17:15 – 17:45	Présentations de partenaires invités SfN President Diane Lipscombe et autres
17:45 – 18:45	Conférence présidentielle Michael Hausser –University College London
18:45 – 20:00	Réception de bienvenue

Lundi 1 juin

8:30 – 10:15	Symposium plénier 1 – Model systems and the circuitry and epigenetic mechanisms that underlie behaviour Chair: Vince Tropepe \| University of Toronto Speakers: Harold Burgess \| NIH If not now – when? Circuits for rapid evasive behavior in zebrafish Mei Zhen \| University of Toronto Analogy by compression: implication from the anatomic and functional studies of C. elegans neural circuits James Kramer – Dalhousie University Neurons, chromatin, and neurodevelopmental disorders
10:15 – 10:45	Pause café Affiches / exposants
10:45 – 11:45	Conférence plénière Gwyneth Card – HHMI-Janelia
11:45 – 12:00	Présentation prix
12:00 – 1:30	Lunch Atelier lunch Équité, diversité et inclusion
13:30 – 15:00	Parallel Symposium 1 -The diverse roles of glia in stress and metabolic disorders Chair: Thierry Alquier \| University of Montreal/CRCHUM Speakers: Thierry Alquier \| Université de Montréal Cristina Garcia-Caceres \| Helmholtz Zentrum München Germany Maia Kokoeva \| McGill University Ciaran Murphy-Royal \| University of Calgary Parallel Symposium 2 – Alternative splicing in the health and disease of the mammalian brain Chair: Derek Bowie \| McGill University Speakers Diane Lipscombe \| Brown University Ameet Sengar \| SickKids Hospital Amanda Perozzo \| McGill University Benjamin Blencowe \| University of Toronto Parallel Symposium 3 – Neurovascular function in health and disease Chair: Caroline Ménard \| Université Laval Speakers: Baptiste Lacoste \| University of Ottawa Caroline Menard \| Université Laval Mike Sapieha \| Université de Montréal Craig Brown \| University of Victoria Parallel Symposium 4 – The hypothalamus and its hormones in health & disease Chair: Masha Prager-Khoutorsky \| McGill University Speakers: Melissa Chee \| Carleton University Masha Prager-Khoutorsky \| McGill University Katrina Y Choe \| UCLA Tamás Füzesi \| University of Calgary
15:00 – 15:30	Pause café
15:30 – 17:30	Affiches / exposants
17:30 – 19:00	Brain Prize lecture -Lundbeck Foundation
19:30 – 21:30	Social des étudiants

Mardi 2 juin

8:30 – 10:15	Symposium plénier 2: Making and using neural circuits Président: Frédéric Charron, IRCM Présentateurs Frederic Charron \| Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), University of Montreal, McGill University Wiring the visual system: axon guidance and binocular depth perception Freda Miller \| SickKids Hospital, University of Toronto The evolving neural stem cell: How the developing niche defines stem cell identity and neurogenesis Mark Cembrowski \| University of British Colombia Cell-type-specific underpinnings of hippocampus-dependent memory.
10:15 – 10:45	Pause café Affiches / exposants
10:45 – 11:45	Conférence plénière Magdalena Goetz -Munich Center for Neurosciences – Brain & Mind
11:45 – 12:00	Présentation de prix
12:00 – 12:30	Assemblée générale des membres
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 15:00	Parallel Symposium 5 – Neuronal Plasticity in Development and Disease Chair: Claire Benard \| UQAM Speakers: Michael Francis and Claire Benard \| University Of Massachusetts Medical School And Uqam Kota Mizumoto \| University Of British Columbia Alanna Watt \| Mcgill University Saïd Kourrich \| UQAM Parallel Symposium 6 – Emerging role of microglia in neurodegeneration Chair: Tiina Kauppinen \| University of Manitoba Speakers: Tiina Kauppinen \| University of Manitoba Jasna Kriz \| Université Laval Jason Plemel \| University of Alberta Deborah Kurrasch \| University of Calgary Parallel Symposium 7 – Intersections between chloride homeostasis and synaptic communication in health and disease Chair: Nicholas Weilinger \| University of British Columbia Speakers: Isabel Plasencia-Fernandez \| Université Laval Jaideep Bains \| University of Calgary Rochelle Hines \| University of Nevada at Las Vegas Nicholas Weilinger \| University of British Columbia Parallel Symposium 8 – New advances in the study of prefrontal cortex Chair: Martin Paré Speakers: Céline Amiez \| Inserm, France Stefan Everling \| University of Western Ontario Pierre Pouget \| CNRS, Paris France Jeremy K Seamans \| University of British Columbia
15:00 – 15:30	Pause café
15:30 – 17:30	Affiches / exposants
17:30 – 18:00	Prix du jeune chercheur de l’ACN
18:00 – 19:00	Conférence d’honneur Frank Polleux, Columbia University

Mercredi 3 juin

8:30 – 10:15	Symposium plénier 3: Mitochondrial function and dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease: insights from native and model cells Président: Louis-Eric Trudeau \| Université de Montréal Présentateurs: Louis-Eric Trudeau \| Université de Montréal Mitochondrial dysfunction in dopamine neurons in PD: at the interface of cell-autonomous and non cell-autonomous mechanisms Scott Ryan \| University of Guelph Mechanisms of mitochondrial dysfunction in synucleinopathies Janelle Drouin-Ouellet \| Université de Montréal Direct neuronal reprogramming of patient skin fibroblasts to study mitochondrial dysfunction associated to idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease
10:15 – 10:45	Pause café Affiches / exposants
10:45 – 11:45	Conférence plénière Heidi McBride, McGill University
11:45 – 12:00	Présentation prix
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 15:30	Affiches et exposants
15:30 – 17:00	Parallel Symposium 9 – Dopamine and the response to environmental variation over the lifecourse: Clinical, neuroimaging, genomic and context characterization studies Chair: Laurette Dubé \| McGill University Speakers: Barbara Barth, McGill University Robert D. Levitan \| CAMH Cecilia Flores \| McGill University Susan Carnell \| Johns Hopkins Medical Institute Parallel Symposium 10 -Novel Sources of Neurogenesis in vivo and in Response to Neurological Injury Chair: Jing Wang \| Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Speakers: Michel Cayouette \| IRCM Montreal Karl Fernandes \| Université de Montréal Maryam Faiz \| University of Toronto Jing Wang \| Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Parallel Symposium 11 – Circulating Immune Cells in the Brain: Their Interactions with Glia and Neurons Chair: Alexander Lohman \| University of Calgary Speakers: Tajie Harris \| University of Virginia, USA Diana Matheoud \| Université de Montréal Nader Ghasemlou \| Queen’s University Chay Kuo, Duke University Parallel Symposium 12 – The ever-expanding roles of astrocytes in neural circuits, metabolism and disease Chair: Angela Scott \| McMaster University Speakers: Grant Gordon \| University of Calgary Jillian Stobart \| University of Manitoba Arlette Kolta \| Université de Montréal