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Jaideep Bains, President of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience
5:15 – 5:30 PM
News from CIHR’s Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction
Sam Weiss, Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction
5:30 – 5:40 PM
Working together: Neurological Health Charities Canada and Canadian Brain Health Strategy
Deanna Groetzinger, Manager, Public Affairs & Partnerships, Neurological Health Charities Canada
5:40 – 6:40
Keynote Lecture:
Michelle Monje | Stanford University
Myelin plasticity in health and disease
Sponsored by the the SickKids Centre for Brain & Mental Health and the SickKids Neurosciences & Mental Health program
6:40 – 8:00
Opening Reception
Thursday, May 23, 2019
8:30 – 10:15 AM
Plenary symposium 1: Pain: More than a feeling
Chair: Tuan Trang | University of Calgary
Speakers:
Catherine Cahill | UCLA Intersection between pain and addiction: implications for kappa receptors
Laura Stone | McGill University Pain Epigenetics: What is it and why should anyone care?
Loren Martin | University of Toronto Learning mechanisms of pain and pain relief
10:15 – 10:45
Coffee break
Posters/exhibits
10:45 – 11:45
Featured Plenary speaker:
Jeffrey Mogil | McGill University
Pain in Mice and Man: Ironic Adventures in Translation
11:45 – 12:00
Advocacy Award presentation Ottawa Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
12:00 – 1:30
Lunch on own
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion luncheon
Sponsored by BrainsCAN at Western University
1:30 – 3:00
Parallel symposium 1: Peripheral and central mechanisms of sensory information processing.
Chair: Michael Gordon | University of British Columbia
Sponsored by the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
Presenters:
Gautam Awatramani | University of Victoria Precise subcellular coordination of excitation and inhibition supports micron-scale dendritic computations
Molly Stanley | University of British Columbia Unique properties of salt taste coding and state-dependent behavioral output in Drosophila
Stuart Trenholm | McGill University Flexible feature encoding in visual cortex
Maurice Chacron | McGill University Mechanisms underlying adaptive optimized coding of natural stimuli
Parallel symposium 2: The neural basis for social decision-making
Chairs: Toni-Lee Sterley | University of Calgary & John P. Christianson | Boston College
Presenters:
Brian Trainor | UC Davis Oxytocin in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis facilitates social anxiety
Toni-Lee Sterley | University of Calgary The role of corticotropin-releasing hormone neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus in social transmission of stress
Morgan Rogers-Carter | Boston College Insular cortex projections to nucleus accumbens core mediate social approach
Zoe Donaldson | University of Colorado Boulder Neuronal signature of monogamous reunion in prairie voles
Parallel symposium 3: Neural stem cells in neural development and repair
Sponsored by the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience
Chair: Soheila Karimi | University of Manitoba
Presenters:
Carol Schuurmans | University of Toronto Elucidating the molecular control of neural stem cell maintenance in the embryonic neocortex
Jeff Biernaskie | University of Calgary Clarifying the identity of adult neural stem cells
Anastassia Voronova | University of Alberta Role of interneuron-secreted signals in neural stem cell-mediated oligodendrocyte genesis in the developing and adult brain
Soheila Karimi | University of Manitoba Novel mechanisms of neural stem cell regulation in spinal cord injury
Parallel symposium 4: Circuit and synaptic approaches to study stress | depression and antidepressants
Sponsored by the CERVO Brain Research Centre
Chair: Argel Aguilar Valles | Carleton University
Presenters:
Wataru Inoue | University of Western Ontario Intrinsic plasticity as a neural correlates for stress habituation
Mary Kay Lobo | University of Maryland Molecular mediators of dendritic atrophy regulate stress susceptibility
Anita Autry | Howard Hughes Medical Institute Impact of stress on parental behavior: potential insights for Post-partum mental illness
Argel Aguilar Valles | Carleton University Translational control of the antidepressant effect of ketamine and its metabolite hydroxynorketamine
3:00 – 3:30
Coffee break
3:30 – 5:30PM
Poster session 1 & Exhibits
Sponsored by the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience
5:30 – 7:00
Brain Prize lecture:
The Molecular basis of Hebb synapses
Speaker: Graham Collingridge | University of Toronto | Winner of the 2016 Brain Prize
Introduction by Kim Krogsgaard, Director of The Brain Prize at Lundbeck Foundation
Sponsored by the Lundbeck Foundation
7:30 – 9:30
CAN Student Social
Sponsored by Neurolabware
Friday, May 24, 2019
8:30 – 10:15 AM
Plenary symposium 2: Underlying Principles of Animal Behaviors
Sponsored by the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Chair: Mei Zhen | University of Toronto
Speakers:
Marla Sokolowski | University of Toronto Unravelling Gene-Environment Interplay on Behaviour
Simon Chen | University of Ottawa Dissecting Neural Circuits Underlying Delayed Motor Learning in the 16p11.2 Deletion Mouse Model of Autism
Sarah Woolley | McGill University Plasticity of acoustic preferences in female songbirds
10:15 – 10:45
Coffee break
Posters/exhibits
Sponsored by the University of Ottawa
10:45 – 11:45
Featured Plenary speaker:
Florian Engert | Harvard University
Neural correlates of perceptual decision-making in larval zebrafish
11:45 – 12:00
Advocacy Award presentation SINAPSE (Service and Outreach Initiatives for Progressive and Positive Neuroscience)
12:00 – 1:30
Lunch on own
1:30 – 3:00
Parallel symposium 5: Emotions and behavioural responses in normal and pathological states
Sponsored by Tucker-Davis Technologies
Chair: Christophe Proulx | Université Laval
Presenters:
Christophe Proulx | Université Laval Role of lateral hypothalamus neural outputs in behavioural responses
Erin Calipari | Friedman Brain Institute Neural circuit control of sex-differences in valence-based decision making
Bo Li | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Ventral pallidal neurons in reward seeking and punishment avoidance
Stephan Lammel | UC Berkeley Anatomical, molecular and functional heterogeneity of the lateral habenula defines a distinctive depression subtype
Parallel symposium 6: Novel approaches to understanding genetic underpinnings of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Sponsored by the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience
Chair: Catharine Rankin | University of British Columbia
Presenters:
Melanie Woodin | University of Toronto Regulation of KCC2 as a target for treatment of Autism
Karun Singh | McMaster University Using integrative proteomics to identify Autism spectrum disorder signaling networks in mammalian models
Catharine Rankin | University of British Columbia Systematic phenomics analysis of ASD-associated genes defines novel shared and unique functions and identifies parallel genetic networks underlying hypersensitivity and impaired habituation
Kurt Haas | University of British Columbia A multi-model system approach to functional variomics of ASD-associated missense mutations of PTEN
Parallel symposium 7: Atypical roles for NMDA receptors in physiology and disease
Sponsored by the CERVO Brain Research Centre
Chair: Roger Thompson | University of Calgary
Presenters:
Per Jesper Sjöström | McGill University Unorthodox NMDA receptor signalling in neocortical plasticity
Kim Dore | UC San Diego Metabotropic NMDA receptor signaling underlies synaptic depression and dysfunction
Robert Bonin | University of Toronto Non-canonical NMDA signaling in pain plasticity and reconsolidation
Laura Palmer | University of Calgary A surprising neuroprotective role for amyloid beta during ischemia
Parallel symposium 8: Multi-species approaches to the mammalian social brain
Chair: Nathan Insel | University of Montana
Presenters:
Annaliese Beery | Smith College Life in groups: selectivity and reward in vole relationships
Melissa Holmes | University of Toronto Social influences on development in naked mole-rats
Nathan Insel | University of Montana Investigating social learning in degus
Michael Yartsev | UC Berkeley Neurobiological investigation of vocal production in the social mammalian brain
3:00 – 3:30
Coffee break
3:30 – 5:30
Posters session 2 and Exhibits
Sponsored by the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute
5:30 – 6:00
Young investigator award lecture
Sponsored by The Neuro
6:00 – 7:00
Presidential Lecture:
Sponsored by the Hotchkiss Brain Institute
Robert Malenka | Stanford University
Neural mechanisms of social reward
Saturday, May 25, 2019
8:30 – 10:15 A.M.
Plenary symposium 3: Stem cells and Organoids: developmental mechanisms, aging and disease modeling
Sponsored by the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience
Chair: Armen Saghatelyan | Université Laval
Speakers :
Armen Saghatelyan | Université Laval Division of stem cells in freely behaving mice: dynamic and regulatory mechanisms
David Kaplan | SickKids Hospital Growth factor regulation of neural stem cells in normal and pathological conditions
Yun Li | SickKids Hospital Modeling neural development and disorders in human neurons and brain organoids
10:15 – 10:45
Posters/exhibits
Coffee break
10:45 – 11:45
Featured Plenary speaker:
Guo-Li Ming | University of Pennsylvania
Modeling human brain development and developmental diseases using hiPSCs
Chair: Timothy Kennedy | The Neuro | McGill University
Presenters:
Anne McKinney | McGill University Lysosomal inhibition rescues hippocampal neuronal plasticity impaired by a Christianson Syndrome mutation in SLC9A6
Elizabeth Chan | Brain Research Centre | University of British Columbia The role of netrin 1-DCC signaling in regulating GABAAR homeostatic plasticity
Stephen Glasgow | The Neuro | McGill University Guiding synaptic plasticity: a novel role for netrin-1 in the adult hippocampus
Jean-Claude Beique | University of Ottawa Homeostatic control of plasticity rules at CA1 synapses
Parallel symposium 10: Growing Up High: Neurobiological Consequences of Adolescent Cannabis Use
Sponsored by the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience
Chair: Jibran Khokhar | University of Guelph
Presenters:
Patricia Conrod | Université de Montréal Longitudinal relationship between adolescent cannabis use and cognitive development
Steven Laviolette | University of Western Ontario Adolescent THC Exposure Induces Molecular and Neuronal Neuropsychiatric Endophenotypes in the Mesocorticolimbic Circuitry
Iris Balodis | McMaster University The neurobiology of effort-based decision-making in cannabis use disorder
Jibran Khokhar | University of Guelph Long-Term Consequences of Adolescent Cannabinoid Exposure: A Closer Look at Learning and Circuitry
Parallel symposium 11: Novel ventral hippocampus circuits in the control of affective behavior
Chair: Maithe Arruda Carvalho | University of Toronto Scarborough
Presenters:
Christoph Anacker | Columbia University Hippocampal neurogenesis and stress resilience
Rutsuko Ito | University of Toronto Scarborough Ventral hippocampal contributions to learned approach-avoidance conflict processing
Mazen Kheirbek | University of California San Francisco Encoding of emotionally relevant stimuli in ventral hippocampal circuits
Maithe Arruda-Carvalho | University of Toronto Scarborough Maturation of brain circuits involved in emotional learning
Parallel symposium 12: Single-cell transcriptomic approaches for dissecting neurological disease and complex behaviours
Chair: Shreejoy Tripathy | University of Toronto
Sponsored by the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
Presenters:
Vilas Menon | Allen Institute for Brain Science Single-cell RNA-seq identifies putative human brain cell types associated with neurodegenerative disease
Shreejoy Tripathy | University of Toronto Using single-cell transcriptomics to infer multi-modal cellular phenotypes
Megan Crow | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Mapping transcriptomically-similar cell types across datasets, species, and conditions using MetaNeighbor
Mark Cembrowski | University of British Columbia Subtype-specific predisposition of granule cell participation in hippocampal processing
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