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Two year funded Postdoctoral position, University of Victoria – Kerry Delaney lab
Electrophysiology of mutant versus wildtype neurons in a mouse model of Rett Syndrome. Researcher with experience in whole cell patch clamp recording from neurons in acute brain slices is required to undertake recording from neurons in neocortex and thalamus of mice lacking functional MeCP2. Mecp2 is an X-linked transcription factor controlling various aspects of neuronal
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Post-Doctoral Fellow – SOAR Project (UBCO)
A Postdoctoral Fellow position is available to work on the SOAR (Supporting Survivors of Abuse and Brain Injury through Research) Project in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at UBC-Okanagan Research Program Overview A post-doctoral position is available in the Brain Injury Lab led by Dr. Paul van Donkelaar in the School of Health
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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