Programme préliminaire 2020

27 au 31 mai 2020

Symposiums satellites 2020

Samedi 30 mai

14h Conférences publiques de l’ACN

Antoine Hakim – Save your brain – lifestyle changes to prevent dementia

Dimanche 31 mai 

9:00 – 16:30 Symposiums satellites
17:00 – 17:15 Mot de bienvenue

Katalin Toth, Présidente de l’Association canadienne des neurosciences

17:15 – 17:45 Présentations de partenaires invités

SfN President Diane Lipscombe

et autres

17:45 – 18:45 Conférence présidentielle

Michael Hausser –University College London

18:45 – 20:00 Réception de bienvenue

 

Lundi 1 juin

 8:30 – 10:15

Symposium plénier 1  – Model systems and the circuitry and epigenetic mechanisms that underlie behaviour

Chair: Vince Tropepe | University of Toronto

Speakers:

  • Harold Burgess | NIH
    If not now – when? Circuits for rapid evasive behavior in zebrafish
  • Mei Zhen | University of Toronto
    Analogy by compression: implication from the anatomic and functional studies of C. elegans neural circuits
  • James Kramer – Dalhousie University
    Neurons, chromatin, and neurodevelopmental disorders

 

10:15 – 10:45 Pause café

Affiches / exposants

10:45 – 11:45 Conférence plénière

Gwyneth Card – HHMI-Janelia

11:45 – 12:00 Présentation prix
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch

Atelier lunch Équité, diversité et inclusion

 13:30 – 15:00

Parallel Symposium 1 -The diverse roles of glia in stress and metabolic disorders

Chair: Thierry Alquier | University of Montreal/CRCHUM

Speakers:

  • Thierry Alquier | Université de Montréal
  • Cristina Garcia-Caceres | Helmholtz Zentrum München Germany
  • Maia Kokoeva | McGill University
  • Ciaran Murphy-Royal | University of Calgary

Parallel Symposium 2 – Alternative splicing in the health and disease of the mammalian brain

Chair: Derek Bowie | McGill University

Speakers

  • Diane Lipscombe | Brown University
  • Ameet Sengar | SickKids Hospital
  • Amanda Perozzo | McGill University
  • Benjamin Blencowe | University of Toronto

Parallel Symposium 3 – Neurovascular function in health and disease

Chair: Caroline Ménard | Université Laval

Speakers:

  • Baptiste Lacoste | University of Ottawa
  • Caroline Menard | Université Laval
  • Mike Sapieha | Université de Montréal
  • Craig Brown | University of Victoria

Parallel Symposium 4 – The hypothalamus and its hormones in health & disease

Chair: Masha Prager-Khoutorsky | McGill University

Speakers:

  • Melissa Chee | Carleton University
  • Masha Prager-Khoutorsky | McGill University
  • Katrina Y Choe | UCLA
  • Tamás Füzesi | University of Calgary
 15:00 – 15:30 Pause café
 15:30 – 17:30 Affiches / exposants
 17:30 – 19:00

Brain Prize lecture -Lundbeck Foundation

 19:30 – 21:30 Social des étudiants

 

Mardi 2 juin

 8:30 – 10:15

Symposium plénier 2: Making and using neural circuits

Président: Frédéric Charron, IRCM

Présentateurs

Frederic Charron | Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), University of Montreal, McGill University
Wiring the visual system: axon guidance and binocular depth perception

Freda Miller | SickKids Hospital, University of Toronto
The evolving neural stem cell: How the developing niche defines stem cell identity and neurogenesis 

Mark Cembrowski | University of British Colombia
Cell-type-specific underpinnings of hippocampus-dependent memory.

10:15 – 10:45 Pause café

Affiches / exposants

10:45 – 11:45 Conférence plénière

Magdalena Goetz  -Munich Center for Neurosciences – Brain & Mind

11:45 – 12:00 Présentation de prix
12:00 – 12:30 Assemblée générale des membres
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
 13:30 – 15:00

Parallel Symposium 5 – Neuronal Plasticity in Development and Disease

Chair: Claire Benard | UQAM

Speakers:

  • Michael Francis and Claire Benard | University Of Massachusetts Medical School And Uqam
  • Kota Mizumoto | University Of British Columbia
  • Alanna Watt | Mcgill University
  • Saïd Kourrich | UQAM

 

Parallel Symposium 6 – Emerging role of microglia in neurodegeneration

Chair: Tiina Kauppinen | University of Manitoba

Speakers:

  • Tiina Kauppinen | University of Manitoba
  • Jasna Kriz | Université Laval
  • Jason Plemel | University of Alberta
  • Deborah Kurrasch | University of Calgary

 

Parallel Symposium 7 – Intersections between chloride homeostasis and synaptic communication in health and disease

Chair: Nicholas Weilinger | University of British Columbia

Speakers:

  • Isabel Plasencia-Fernandez | Université Laval
  • Jaideep Bains | University of Calgary
  • Rochelle Hines | University of Nevada at Las Vegas
  • Nicholas Weilinger | University of British Columbia

 

Parallel Symposium 8 – New advances in the study of prefrontal cortex

Chair: Martin Paré

Speakers:

  • Céline Amiez | Inserm, France
  • Stefan Everling | University of Western Ontario
  • Pierre Pouget | CNRS, Paris France
  • Jeremy K Seamans | University of British Columbia
 15:00 – 15:30 Pause café
 15:30 – 17:30 Affiches / exposants
 17:30 – 18:00

Prix du jeune chercheur de l’ACN

 18:00 – 19:00 Conférence d’honneur

Frank Polleux, Columbia University

 

Mercredi 3 juin

 8:30 – 10:15

Symposium plénier 3: Mitochondrial function and dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease: insights from native and model cells

Président: Louis-Eric Trudeau | Université de Montréal

Présentateurs:

Louis-Eric Trudeau | Université de Montréal
Mitochondrial dysfunction in dopamine neurons in PD: at the interface of cell-autonomous and non cell-autonomous mechanisms

Scott Ryan | University of Guelph
Mechanisms of mitochondrial dysfunction in synucleinopathies

Janelle Drouin-Ouellet | Université de Montréal
Direct neuronal reprogramming of patient skin fibroblasts to study mitochondrial dysfunction associated to idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease

 

 10:15 – 10:45 Pause café

Affiches / exposants

10:45 – 11:45 Conférence plénière

Heidi McBride, McGill University

11:45 – 12:00 Présentation prix
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
 13:30 – 15:30 Affiches et exposants
15:30 – 17:00

Parallel Symposium 9 – Dopamine and the response to environmental variation over the lifecourse: Clinical, neuroimaging, genomic and context characterization studies

Chair: Laurette Dubé | McGill University

Speakers:

  • Barbara Barth, McGill University
  • Robert D. Levitan | CAMH
  • Cecilia Flores | McGill University
  • Susan Carnell | Johns Hopkins Medical Institute

Parallel Symposium 10 -Novel Sources of Neurogenesis in vivo and in Response to Neurological Injury

Chair: Jing Wang | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Speakers:

  • Michel Cayouette | IRCM Montreal
  • Karl Fernandes | Université de Montréal
  • Maryam Faiz | University of Toronto
  • Jing Wang | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Parallel Symposium 11 – Circulating Immune Cells in the Brain: Their Interactions with Glia and Neurons

Chair: Alexander Lohman | University of Calgary

Speakers:

  • Tajie Harris | University of Virginia, USA
  • Diana Matheoud | Université de Montréal
  • Nader Ghasemlou | Queen’s University
  • Chay Kuo, Duke University

Parallel Symposium 12 – The ever-expanding roles of astrocytes in neural circuits, metabolism and disease

Chair: Angela Scott | McMaster University

Speakers:

  • Grant Gordon | University of Calgary
  • Jillian Stobart | University of Manitoba
  • Arlette Kolta | Université de Montréal