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Saturday, May 24, 2014
| 3:00 – 5:00 PM | CAN 2014 Public Lectures:3 PM: Comment le vécu affecte la santé mentale – Gustavo Turecki, McGill University4 PM: How life experiences impact on mental health Michael Meaney, McGill University Both researchers will answer questions in French and English after the presentations. More info on the Public lecture posters Venue: Jeanne Timmins Auditorium, Montreal Neurological Institute, 3801 University street |
Sunday, May 25, 2014
| 5:00 – 5:15 PM | Welcome and Opening Remarks by Samuel David, President of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience |
| 5:15 – 5:30 PM | CAN Young Investigator Award Presentation: Yves De Koninck, Chair of the Nominations Committee |
| 5:30 – 6:00 | Anthony Phillips Director of the Institutes of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction, CIHR |
| 6:00 – 7:00 | Presidential Lecture: Lynn A Raymond, University of British Columbia Mechanisms and neuroprotective strategies in neurodegeneration: Huntington disease can lead the way |
| 7:00 – 8:15 | Opening Reception |
Monday, May 26, 2014
| 8:30 – 9:30 AM | Featured Plenary speaker: Edward S. Boyden, MIT Tools for Mapping Brain Computations |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Brain Star talk: Kaylena A. Ehgoetz Martens, U of Waterloo Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease: A Mysterious Phenomenon with an Unknown Neural Mechanism |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Coffee break |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Posters/exhibits |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Plenary symposium: Development and application of optogenetic tools Chair: Robert Campbell, University of Alberta
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| 12:00 – 12:30 | Launch of CQDM/Brain Canada Partnership Funding Program, with
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| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch on own – Posters & Exhibits |
| 1:30 – 3:00 | Parallel symposia |
| 1:30 – 3:00 | Symposium 1: Functional and dysfunctional regulation of brain blood flow Sponsored by Hotchkiss Brain Institute Chair: Grant Gordon, HBI, UCalgary
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| 1:30 – 3:00 | Symposium 2: Genetic and environmental regulation of gene expression and development of vulnerability to psychiatric disorders Sponsored by Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec Chair: Michael Meaney, McGill University
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| 1:30 – 3:00 | Symposium 3: Synaptic Adhesion Molecules: From Synapse Development to Complex Behavior Sponsored by The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre Chairs: Valérie Mongrain, U Montreal, Hideto Takahashi, U Montreal
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| 1:30 – 3:00 | Symposium 4: Moving toward an understanding of brain functioning using computational approaches. Chairs: Frances K Skinner, U Toronto, Maurice Chacron, McGill U Sponsored by the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – The Neuro
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| 3:00 – 5:30 | Posters and Exhibits |
| 5:30 PM | Parallel Sessions: Career Development Sessions of Potential Interest to All (Choose your favorite!)
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| 7:15 – 8:45 | W. Garfield Weston Foundation Reception The W. Garfield Weston Foundation invites all CAN Meeting registrants to a reception to learn more about their neuroscience medical research funding. They will share details of upcoming funding programs, and answer any questions you have. The reception is open to researchers and post-docs who are, or could be doing translational research in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, FTD, ALS, PSP, dementia with Lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy or mild cognitive impairment as prodromal to one of the other listed diseases. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres provided. Space is limited and preregistration is required. Email or call Crystal Braganza crystal.braganza@weston.ca or (416) 922-1383 ext.5695 to RSVP. |
| 7:30 – 9:30 | CAN Student Social Thomson House, 3650 Rue McTavish Directions: http://tinyurl.com/labc5zl |
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
| 8:30 – 9:30 A.M. | Featured Plenary speaker: Eric Nestler, Mt. Sinai, NYC Transcriptional and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Drug Addiction Sponsored by Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Brain Star talk: Francesco Ferrini, U of Turin, Italy Microglia-mediated alteration of Cl- homeostasis underlies morphine hyperalgesia |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Coffee break |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Posters/exhibits Sponsored by SickKids Center for Brain & Mental Health |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Plenary symposium: Mechanisms in learning reward value.Sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Chair: Stephanie Borgland, HBI, UCalgary
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| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch on own – Posters and Exhibits Sponsored by SickKids Center for Brain & Mental Health |
| 1:30 – 3:00 | Parallel symposia |
| 1:30 – 3:00 | Symposium 5: Large-scale brain dynamics: combining insights from intracranial EEG and fMRI Sponsored by Tucker-Davis technologies Chairs: Karim Jerbi, U de Montréal, Christopher Honey, U Toronto
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| 1:30 – 3:00 | Symposium 6: Novel cellular and molecular mechanisms in the pathophysiology of parkinsonism Sponsored by Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University Chair: Austen J Milnerwood, UBC
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| 1:30 – 3:00 | Symposium 7: New cuts by calpain to remodel the nervous system Sponsored by Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec Chair: Wayne Sossin, McGill University
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| 1:30 – 3:00 | Symposium 8: Linking neural circuit dynamics to cognition and behaviour Chair: Masami Tatsuno, U Lethbridge, Paul Frankland, U Toronto
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| 3:00 – 5:00 | Posters and Exhibits Sponsored by SickKids Center for Brain & Mental Health |
| 5:00 – 6:00 | Young investigator award and lecture Sponsored by Faculty of Medicine – McGill University |
| 6:00 – 7:00 | Keynote Lecture: Michael E. Greenberg, Harvard Medical School Signaling Networks that Regulate Synapse Development and Cognitive Function |
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
3:00 – 3:30CAN Annual General Meeting – all CAN members invited to attend – Breakout room A
| 8:30 – 9:30 A.M. | Featured Plenary Speaker: Jay Gottfried, Northwestern U All Roads Lead to Smell: What Odors Can Teach Us About Brain Function |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Brain Star talk: Marc Bergeron, CRIUSMQ – U Laval Chloride extrusion enhancers as novel therapeutics for neurological diseases |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Coffee break |
| 10:00- 11:00 | Posters/exhibits |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Plenary symposium: The Cognitive Neuroscience of the Senses Sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Chair: Shayna Rosenbaum, York U
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| 12:00 – 12:30 | Focus on Brain : new CQDM/Brain Canada partnership funding program in neurosciences to accelerate drug discovery – information session, with
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| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch on own |
| 1:00 – 3:00 | Posters and Exhibits |
| 3:30 – 5:00 | Parallel symposia |
| 3:30 – 5:00 | Symposium 9: An unexpected roundtrip journey through the hippocampal trisynaptic excitatory network Sponsored by Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Québec Chair: Jean-Claude Béïque, U of Ottawa
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| 3:30 – 5:00 | Symposium 10: Novel Pharmacology of Ion-Channels & Transporters Sponsored by The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre Chairs: Derek Bowie, McGill U and Yu-Tian Wang, UBC
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| 3:30 – 5:00 | Symposium 11: Alzheimer’s disease molecular mechanisms and therapeutics Chairs: Marco AM Prado, Robarts RI, Douglas P Munoz, Queen’s U
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| 3:30 – 5:00 | Symposium 12: Comfort Feeding: Functional Interplay Between Feeding Behaviour, Stress and Emotionality Sponsored by: Douglas Mental Health University Institute Chair: Barbara Woodside, Concordia U
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