CNS-PDS October: Pedro Henrique Gonçalves Guedes & Richard Gao
2025-10-02 @ 12:00 – 2025-10-02 @ 13:00 America/Toronto Location: Zoom
SEMINAR HOST: Mohamed Abdelhack
SEMINAR CO-HOST: Susan Coltman
SPEAKER #1
Pedro Henrique Gonçalves Guedes, University of Saskatchewan.
Title of the presentation: Development of an Optical and Colorimetric Biosensor for the Quantification of Microrna 184 for Late Life Depression.
Pedro Henrique Gonçalves Guedes, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan, under the supervision of Dr. Ana Mendes-Silva in the Mito-Brain Lab. His research is focused on the development of point-of-care mitochondrial-based biosensors to detect circulating mitochondrial DNA and related biomarkers, aiming to transform psychiatry through precision, accessibility, and innovation. By integrating molecular biology, epigenetics, and nanotechnology, his work seeks to create tools that move efficiently from the laboratory bench to clinical practice.
LinkedIn handle is: linkedin.com/in/guedesphg
SPEAKER #2
Richard Gao, Goethe University.
Title of the presentation: AutoMIND: Deep inverse models for revealing neural circuit invariances.
Richard received a Bachelor’s in Engineering Science (Biomedical) at the University of Toronto. During that time, he completed a one-year internship as a Research Associate at a neurotech startup building consumer EEG technology for neurofeedback applications. He then pursued a PhD in the Department of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego, where he received an NSERC Graduate Fellowship and the Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal for his work on modeling and analysis of neural signals. Since 2021, he has been in the ML in Science Group at the Tübingen AI Center, where he was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow developing mechanistic and generative models of brain dynamics. Starting October 2025, he will be a Tenure Track Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics at Goethe University Frankfurt, developing and applying machine learning and computational tools for neuroscience. Handles: bsky: @rdgao.bsky.social Twitter: @_rdgao linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-gao-319b1b64/
Organised by: Canadian neuroscience post-docs
Event Website Event Category: CNS-PDS
