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Brain Star Award feature: Sung Mo Park, SickKids Hospital
Failed memory recall does not necessarily reflect information loss A publication by SungMo Park, working in the Josselyn/Franklin lab at the Hospital for Sick Children, fundamentally reframes how memory impairment is understood by demonstrating that failed recall does not necessarily reflect irreversible information loss. Instead, they show that memories can persist as “silent engrams”—physically encoded
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Hippocampal Circuit Mechanisms of Memory
Canada Research Chair in Cellular Mechanisms of MemoryTopolnik Laboratory, Université Laval, Québec, Canada The Topolnik Laboratory is recruiting an outstanding and highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to lead an ambitious project examining how prefrontal–hippocampal circuits regulate memory encoding and retrieval through specialized VIP interneuron populations. This position is intended for a scientist who wants to develop
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Brain Star Award feature: Adrienne Kinman, University of British Columbia
Identification of a new brain cell important for object memory Adrienne Kinman, working in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Cembrowski at the University of British Columbia, has identified a new type of brain cells, called ovoid neurons, and showed it responds specifically to novel, but not familiar objects. Named for the egg-like shape of their
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Brain Star Award feature: Ali Golbabaei, Sick Kids Hospital and University of Toronto
Memory encoding evolves over time, involving different subregions of the brain Memories for specific events can persist for weeks or months, but the neural mechanisms supporting their storage and retrieval change over time. In this study, Ali Golbabaei, working in the Josselyn-Frankland lab at SickKids Hospital, examined this reorganization within memory-representing neuronal populations (engrams) in
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Brain Star Award feature: Chifaou Abdallah, McGill University
Identification of two brain signal features that guide surgery in drug-resistant epilepsy Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological conditions, affecting individuals across all age groups, social classes, and geographical locations. For patients whose seizures remain uncontrolled despite optimal medical therapy, epilepsy surgery represents the most effective treatment option and offers the highest chance
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Postdoctoral Fellow: Video Representation Learning & Behavioural AI – Douglas Research Centre, McGill University
Job Description: On-site — Douglas Research Centre, McGill University (Montréal, QC) Position Overview: A central focus of this role is the development of modern representation-learning pipelines that support fine-grained feature extraction (e.g., micro-actions and subtle posture or kinematic signatures), multi-scale behaviour modelling (from individual frames to seconds, minutes, and higher-order behavioural motifs), and searchable video
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Funded postdoctoral position in non-human primate electrophysiology in the Michaels Lab
The Neural Control & Computation Lab at York University in Toronto, Canada, is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow. Under the direction of Jonathan Michaels, Ph.D., the fellow will investigate the neural basis of learning, flexible neural computation, and skilled movement control using large-scale electrophysiology from single-neuron populations in non-human primates, including high-density Neuropixels recordings and our
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Brain Star Award winner feature: Andrea Luppi, McGill University
Lost in translation: how gene expression diverges between humans and macaque model systems Among all model organisms studied in neuroscience, the macaque is genetically closest to humans. Genetic similarity is paramount because genes exert powerful influences on brain organization, function, and dysfunction. But the potential for research to find applications in the clinic, that is
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Brain Star Award winner feature: Lewis Depaaw-Holt, Université de Montréal
Astrocytes play key roles in sex-specific changes in brain and behaviour caused by early-life stress In this study, Lewis Depaauw-Holt, working in the laboratory of Dr. Ciaran Murphy-Royal at Université de Montréal, investigated how early life stress influences brain and behaviour. They specifically aimed to elucidate the role of a non-neuronal brain cell, the astrocyte.
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Brain Star Award feature: Christopher Daniel Morrone – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto
Brain cleaning deficiencies are linked to sleep loss at the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease Autophagy involves the recycling of the cell’s own components, such as damaged proteins, and is a highly regulated mechanism that is essential for maintaining cellular health. Research done by Christopher Daniel Morrone working with Dr. Wai Haung Yu at the
