Organiser: Mario Méthot and Ed Ruthazer
Date: Monday June 1, 2020
Length of event: Full day
Location: Online – details to be announced soon
Brief description of event:
The 6th Annual Canadian Neurophotonic Platform Meeting
This all-day short course will highlight new imaging and optogenetic-based methods for the study of brain function across several model organisms. The invited speakers will present novel data from their research programs, but with an emphasis in providing pedagogical accounts of the photonic approach for the community’s benefit. Presentations will cover broad topics ranging from optical interrogations of brain function across different scales, from synapses to behavior, and novel hardware development. A particular emphasis will be given to provide an updated and critical coverage of the expanding number of viral strategies now available to the community to express in the brain the exploding palette of available opsins and optical reporters.
- Registration for this virtual event is free. Information TBA.
Tentative schedule
(subject to minor changes)
8:30 LOGIN – Connection tests
9:00 WELCOME: Yves De Koninck (CERVO Brain Research Center, Université Laval)
9:10 – 10:40: lectures
10:40 – 11:00 coffee break
11:00 – 12:30: lectures
12:30 – 14:00: lunch break
14:00 – 14:20: SPOTLIGHT ON THE CANADIAN NEUROPHOTONICS PLATFORM- Tools to lighten your load (speakers to be announced for this section)
14:20: coffee break
14:40 – 16:10: lectures
16:10: CLOSING REMARKS: Yves De Koninck
List of speakers:
- Arjun Krishnaswami (McGill)
- Matilde Balbi (UBC/Queensland)
- Tony Lim (McGill)
- Mark Brandon (McGill)
- Mihaela Iordanova (Concordia)
- Maithe Carvalho (UTSC)
- Ahmed Abdelfattah (HHMI, Janelia Research Campus)
- Alex Lohman (U of Calgary)
- Kaspar Podgorski (Janelia/SickKids)
