Organizers: Mark Cembrowski and Paul Frankland
Date & Time: May 18th, 2026 – 9AM – 4 PM
Venue: Hotel Bonaventure
We are hosting the third-annual “Circuits and Behaviour CAN Satellite Meeting”, a full-day satellite meeting that seeks to bring together Canadian neuroscientists working at the intersection of neural circuits and behaviour. The scientific scope of our meeting focuses on visualization and manipulation of neural circuits, and relating these properties to behaviour. Behaviour is broadly defined, including readouts involving cognition, emotion, motivation, stress, feeding, learning and memory, and motor function in both health and disease. Technological developments involving next-generation approaches to visualize and manipulate neural circuits in a behavioural context will also be within the scope of this meeting.
To capture the breadth of Canadian research in this area, we are hosting a full-day satellite meeting incorporating a total of eight talks from Canadian principal investigators and four trainee talks. Our speakers are representative of the broad cross-Canada engagement in neural circuits and behaviour, and are balanced across gender, institutions, geographical locations, and career stages. Opportunities for discussion and networking will be facilitated by coffee breaks and a free lunch for registrants.
Speakers
- Benedicte Amilhon (Université de Montréal)
- Maithe Arruda-Carvalho (University of Toronto)
- Caroline Menard (Laval University)
- Zach Pennington (University of British Columbia)
- Anna Phan (University of Alberta)
- Rob Rozeske (University of Toronto)
- Tuan Trang (University of Calgary)
- Stuart Trenholm (McGill University)