Author: Julie
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CAN Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finances
We have made the following recommendations Recommendation 1: That the government of Canada provide a one-time 25% increase in investment in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for research restart and recovery from the setback of the…
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Read CAN Connection – Summer 2020 Edition
Click here to read our latest newsletter: https://can-acn.org/can-connection-summer-2020-edition/
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COVID impact survey results
Thank you to all our members and colleagues who responsed to our survey on the impact of COVID-19 on researchers and laboratories in Canada. The full results of the survey are available here: CAN-ACN survey on impact of COVID-19 on researchers and laboratories in Canada This data will be used to support our recommendations to…
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Neurobiology of Aging and Dementia – Queen’s University
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Neurobiology of Aging and Dementia Department of Biomedical & Molecular Sciences and Department of Psychiatry Centre for Neuroscience Studies Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario CANADA The Departments of Biomedical & Molecular Sciences and Psychiatry in the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Centre for Neuroscience Studies at Queen’s University are seeking an…
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Postdoctoral Position on Astrocyte-Inhibitory Interneuron Interactions – Robitaille & Lacaille laboratories, Université de Montréal
Postdoctoral position Dept Neurosciences Université de Montréal Montreal, Canada A postdoctoral position is immediately available in the laboratory of Dr Richard Robitaille at Université de Montréal to study the role of astrocytes in the regulation of inhibitory synaptic circuits and hippocampal function. The project is funded by a NSERC Discovery grant and involves a collaboration…
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Postdoctoral Researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Beverley Orser, University of Toronto
A Postdoctoral Researcher position funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research is available in the laboratory of Dr. Beverley Orser (www.orserlab.com). The lab is located in the Department of Physiology at the downtown campus of the University of Toronto. The goal of the research is to understand physiologic and pathological processes underlying learning and…
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Sodium found to regulate the biological clock of mice
New study published in Nature by Claire Gizowski and Charles Bourque is first to establish physiological signals influence circadian rhythms A new study from McGill University shows that increases in the concentrations of blood sodium can have an influence on the biological clock of mice, opening new research avenues for potentially treating the negative effects…
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Hugh Green Foundation Chair in Translational Neuroscience
Lead the development of a collaborative Translational Neuroscience research programme in the Centre for Brain Research to improve the health of all people in Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region Teach exceptional students and collaborate with world leading colleagues across the top-ranked university in New Zealand If a practicing clinician, undertake clinical duties up…
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2019 CIHR-INMHA Brain Star Award winners announcement
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 2019 Brain Star Awards. See all the winner profiles here
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BC Leadership Chair in Neuroscience and Technology Translation Across the Lifespan – Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) acknowledges the Squamish, Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, Katzie and Kwikwetlem peoples on whose traditional territories our three campuses stand. For the sixth consecutive year, SFU has been ranked by the Maclean’s University Ranking Guide as Canada’s leading comprehensive university and it has held first or second place for nearly a decade. SFU is…