DATE: Thursday, December 7, 2023 TIME: 12pm PT/3pm ET ZOOM LINK: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/85212853616 SPEAKER: Alex Wiesman, McGill University TITLE: Multi-spectral neurophysiological slowing in patients with neurodegenerative disorders Alex completed his PhD at the University of Nebraska Medical Center as a NIH predoctoral fellow, and is now a CIHR Banting and NIH F32 postdoctoral fellow at the […]

1) Title: Microglial adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) regulates neuroinflammation and diet-induced obesity Speaker: Josephine Robb, University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre Josephine Robb Bio: Josephine is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Thierry Alquier at the University of Montreal (CRCHUM). Prior to starting this project, she completed her PhD at the University of Exeter in […]

DATE: Thursday, February 1st, 2024 TIME: 3pm EST (12pm PST) Zoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/85750617885 1) Title: Mitochondrial recalibration: a novel fingerprint of the impact of neonatal stress on sleep apnea Speaker: Lida Sanchez Sanchez, Universite Laval Bio: Lida Sanchez Sanchez is a Cuban Biologist, passionate about Physiology. Throughout her career she has worked on Animal Bioacoustics, Hearing and Cellular Physiology, Bioinformatics, Evolution, […]

Speaker: Darren Clarke, Université de Montréal Exclusive regulation of specific hippocampal inhibitory synapses by distinct subtypes of astrocytes Darren Clarke is a postdoctoral researcher in the Robitaille Lab in the Département de Neurosciences at the Université de Montréal. His work explores the functional heterogeneity of astrocytes in the mouse CA1 hippocampus through a variety of […]

1) Kathryn Manning, University of Calgary Presentation Title: Child brain structural patterns predict compromised mental health trajectories Bio: Kathryn Manning is a postdoctoral fellow in the Developmental Neuroimaging Lab at the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute at the University of Calgary with Dr. Catherine Lebel. She obtained her MSc and PhD in Medical Biophysics at Western […]

Date/Time: Thursday, May 2nd 2024 (3PM ET/ 12PM PT) Zoom Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83798291028 1) Speaker: Samantha Ayoub, University of California San Diego Title: Delta-9-THC alters cognitive performance differently in HIV-1 transgenic rats compared to wildtype littermates despite no genetic differences observed in THC-induced physiological responses Bio: Dr. Samantha Ayoub is postdoctoral fellow in the psychiatry department at the University of California […]