Conférences publiques annuelles de l’ACN:

Jon Stoessl
Co-Director of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
University of British Columbia

The Clinic as Laboratory: Lessons from Parkinson’s

Janet Werker
Professor and Canada Research Chair
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia

Understanding the foundations of language development by studying the infant brain

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Douglas Munoz, Président de l’Association canadienne des neurosciences

Présentation du prix du jeune chercheur de l’ACN

Samuel David, président du comité des nominations

Conversation autour de la santé du cerveau, avec:

Douglas Munoz, Président de l’Association canadienne des neurosciences

Anthony Phillips
Directeur de l’Institut des neurosciences, de la santé mentale et des toxicomanies, IRSC

Inez Jabalpurwala
Présidente et CEO, Brain Canada

Deanna Groetzinger
Neurological Health Charities of Canada

Conférence présidentielle:

How We See and Hear Stuff: Visual and Auditory Routes to Understanding the Material Properties of Objects

Melvyn Goodale | University Western Ontario

Seeing and moving: how the brain controls vision and gaze

Présidente: Miriam Spering | U British Columbia

Brian Corneil | Robarts RI

Through the looking glass: reflections of sensory and cognitive processing in the motor periphery

Christopher Pack | McGill U

A sensorimotor role for oscillations in the visual cortex

Multisensory mechanisms of hippocampal spatio-temporal selectivity

Glial handling of neuronal functions: from synapses to blood flow

Président: Richard Robitaille | Université de Montréal

Présentateurs:

Stéphane H. R. Oliet | Université de Bordeaux

Surface dynamics of the astrocytic glutamate transporter GLT-1

Marie-Ève Tremblay | Université Laval

Microglial remodeling of neuronal circuits in the healthy brain

Keith Murai | McGill University

Neurons actively sustain the unique molecular and physiological properties of astrocytes in the adult brain through morphogen signaling pathways

Hélène Girouard | Université de Montréal

The astrocytic contribution to neurovascular coupling in health and disease.

Development and Processing of Vocal and Social Communication

Président: Stephen Lomber | University of Western Ontario

Présentateurs:

Yale E. Cohen | University of Pennsylvania

Mechanisms Underlying Auditory Decision-Making

Stephen G. Lomber | University of Western Ontario

Vocalization Processing Along a “What” Processing Pathway in Auditory Cortex

Sarah M.N. Woolley | Columbia University

Neural Basis and Behavior of Social Communication

Susan A. Graham | University of Calgary

Preschoolers’ Real-Time Processing of Vocal Emotional Information

Shaping inhibition: new insights into the development and function of GABAergic inhibitory interneurons in the cortex

Président: Simon Chen | University of California, San Diego

Présentateurs:

Graziella Di Cristo | Graziella Di Cristo

Mechanisms regulating GABAergic cell innervation fields in the adolescent brain

Melanie Woodin | University of Toronto

Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity and Chloride Regulation in the Hippocampus

Mingshan Xue | Baylor College of Medicine

Inhibitory synapses equalize excitation-inhibition ratios across cortical neurons

Simon Chen | University of California, San Diego

Cell-type specific reorganization of inhibitory circuits during motor learning

Neural stem cells in cognitive repair and aging

Président: David Kaplan | Hospital for Sick Children

Présentateurs:

David Kaplan | Hospital for Sick Children

Introduction, and Long-term effects of maternal infection and diabetes on neural stem cell pools

Liisa Galea | University of British Columbia

Estrogens, memory, neuroplasticity and aging: the good, the bad and the ugly

Cindi Morshead | University of Toronto

Activating endogenous stem cells to promote brain repair and cognitive recovery

Donald Mabbott | The Hospital for Sick Children

Training the brain to repair itself

• Financement de la recherche – Séance d’information avec les IRSC et le CRSNG
• Carrières universitaires
  Panel de discussion pour étudiants et jeunes chercheurs

Plasticity, Pain, and Perception

Chair: Jesper Sjöström | McGill U

Speakers:

Lisa Topolnik | U Laval

Synaptic integration and plasticity gradients in dendrites of hippocampal inhibitory interneurons

Michael Salter | U of Toronto

From Receptors to Pain: The Molecular Dynamics of Pain

Illuminating the neural circuits underlying tactile decisions

Imaging brain complexity

Président: Paul Frankland | The Hospital for Sick Children

Présentateurs:

Kasper Podgorski | Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Comprehensive 3D imaging of synaptic activity in the awake brain

Majid Mohajerani | University of Lethbridge

In vivo optical imaging assessment of mouse cortical-hippocampal dialogue during sleep

Paul Frankland | The Hospital for Sick Children

Pharmacogenetic interrogation of a fear memory network

Ji Hyun Ko | University of Manitoba

Network analysis approach with metabolic PET imaging in neurodegenerative movement disorders.

Are you what you eat? Impact of diet on mesocorticolimbic circuit

Président: Stephanie Borgland | Hotchkiss Brain Institute

Présentateurs:

Thierry Alquier | Université de Montreal

Regulation of mesolimbic function, reward and feeding by lipids

Catharine Winstanley | University of British Columbia

Steady-state consumption of a high-fat diet can decrease impulse control even in the absence of excessive weight gain.

Stephanie Borgland | Hotchkiss Brain Institute

Compulsive eating reduces inhibitory control of pyramidal neurons of the lateral OFC.

Alain Dagher | McGill University

Brain Endophenotypes of Obesity

Establishment and maintenance of cell diversity in sensory system function

Président: Jean-François Cloutier | Montreal Neurological Institute

Présentateurs:

Valerie Wallace | Toronto Western Research Institute

Notch and Hedgehog cross talk in neural progenitors converges on Gli2 activity

Michel Cayouette | Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal

A Conserved Regulatory Logic Controls Temporal Identity in Mouse Neural Progenitors

Christopher Deppmann | University of Virginia

Molecular Rheostats Governing Sensory Perception

Jean-François Cloutier | McGill University

Cellular interactions in the control of neural progenitor cell differentiation

Homeostatic plasticity: molecular mechanisms and physiological function

Président: Graham Diering | John Hopkins University

Présentateurs:

David Stellwagen | McGill University

TNF-mediated suppression of striatal reward dysfunction

Jaideep S. Bains | Hotchkiss Brain Institute

State-dependent plasticity in stress circuits

Salvatore Carbonetto | McGill University

Dystroglycan Mediates Homeostatic Plasticity at GABAergic Synapses

Graham Diering | John Hopkins University

Homeostatic scaling-down of excitatory synapses during sleep

Sensorimotor processing in model systems

Président: Michael Gordon | U British Columbia

Speakers:

Mei Zhen | U of Toronto

The Development and Operation of the C. elegans Motor System

Douglas Altshuler | U British Columbia

Visual motion perception in avian flight

Taste processing in Drosophila

Regulatory mechanisms in cortical neurogenesis

Président: Angelo Iulianella | Dalhousie University

Présentateurs:

Carol Schuurmans | University of Calgary

Cortical lineages are primed by the competing lineage determinants Neurog2 and Ascl1.

Stefano Stifani | McGill University

Regulation of neurogenic and anti-neurogenic transcription factors during murine cortical neurogenesis.

Ruth Slack | University of Ottawa

Mitochondrial -mediated regulation of stem cell maintenance and cell fate decisions.

David Picketts | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Defining the role of chromatin remodeling proteins in balancing progenitor expansion with differentiation during cortical neurogenesis.

New insights into classical memory issues

Président: Karim Nader | McGill University

Présentateurs:

Catharine Rankin | University of British Columbia

Rethinking habituation: New Insights into the Complexity of the Simplest Form of Learning

Karim Nader | McGill University 

Ongoing Protein Synthesis is Required to Enable Retrieval of Long Term Memories

Vadim Bolshakov | McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Diminishing fear by disrupting retrieval-induced synaptic restabilization

Satoshi Kida | Tokyo University of Agriculture

Erasure of recent and remote fear memory by enhancing forgetting through increase in adult hippocampal neurogenesis

Linking nervous system development with function

Président: Artur Kania | Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal

Présentateurs:

Freda Miller | Hospital for Sick Children

Understanding cognitive disorders: from neural stem cells to neurons

Ying Zhang | Dalhousie University

Distinctive developmental pathways of functional subpopulations of V3 interneurons in the mouse spinal cord

Douglas Allan | University of British Columbia

Genetic mechanisms underlying sexually dimorphic development of female-specific neural populations in Drosophila

Edward Ruthazer | McGill University

How sensory experience controls circuit wiring in the developing visual system.

Dysregulated synaptic plasticity in models of brain disorders

Président: Zhengping Jia | The Hospital for Sick Children

Présentateurs:

Éric C. Dumont | Queen’s University

Altered plasticity at glutamate and GABA synapses in compulsive behaviours in rats

Min Zhuo | University of Toronto

Aberrant synaptic plasticity and treatment in animal models of neuropathic pain and anxiety

Marja D. Sepers | University of British Columbia

Endocannabinoid-mediated synaptic plasticity at cortico-striatal synapses in the YAC128 model of Huntington’s disease

Graham L Collingridge | University of Bristol

Dysregulated synaptic plasticity in models of Alzheimer’s disease