Program 2020

Saturday, May 30, 2 PM:

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Saturday, May 30 and Sunday May 31:

CAN 2020 Satellite symposia

Day 1 : Sunday, May 31

9:00 AM – 4:30 PM	CAN Satellite symposia
5:00 – 5:15 PM	Welcome and Opening Remarks by Katalin Toth, President of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience
5:15 – 5:45 PM	CAN invited partner presentations SfN Past President Diane Lipscombe More TBA
5:45 – 6:45	Presidential Lecture Michael Hausser –University College London
6:45 – 8:00	Opening Reception

Day 2: Monday, June 1

8:30 – 10:15 AM	Plenary symposium 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	Coffee break Posters/exhibits
10:45 – 11:45	Featured Plenary speaker 1 Gwyneth Card – HHMI-Janelia
11:45 – 12:00	Award presentation
12:00 – 1:30	Lunch on own Equity, Diversity and Inclusion luncheon
1:30 – 3:00	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
3:00 – 3:30	Coffee break
3:30 – 5:30PM	Poster session 1 & Exhibits
5:30 – 7:00	Brain Prize lecture -Lundbeck Foundation
7:30 – 9:30	CAN Student Social

Day 3: Tuesday, June 2

8:30 – 10:15 AM	Plenary symposium 2: Making and using neural circuits Chair: Frédéric Charron, IRCM Speakers 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	Coffee break Posters/exhibits
10:45 – 11:45	Featured Plenary speaker 2 Magdalena Goetz -Munich Center for Neurosciences – Brain & Mind
11:45 – 12:00	Award presentation
12:00 – 12:30	Advocacy workshop
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch on own
1:30 – 3:00	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 Pierre Pouget \| CNRS, Paris France Stefan Everling \| University of Western Ontario Jeremy K Seamans \| University of British Columbia
3:00 – 3:30	Coffee break
3:30 – 5:30	Posters session 2 and Exhibits
5:30 – 6:00	Young investigator award lecture
6:00 – 7:00	Keynote Lecture Frank Polleux, Columbia University

Day 4: Wednesday, June 3

8:30 – 10:15 A.M.	Plenary symposium 3: Mitochondrial function and dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease: insights from native and model cells Chair: Louis-Eric Trudeau \| Université de Montréal Speakers: 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	Posters/exhibits Coffee break
10:45 – 11:45	Featured Plenary speaker 3 Heidi McBride, McGill University
11:45 – 12:00 PM	Award presentation
12:00 – 1:30 PM	CAN-ACN Annual General Meeting of members (12:00 – 12:30) Lunch on own
1:30 – 3:30	Posters session 3 & Exhibits
3:30 – 5:00	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: Robert D. Levitan \| CAMH Susan Carnell \| Johns Hopkins Medical Institute Cecilia Flores \| McGill University Barbara Barth, McGill University 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: Angela Scott \| McMaster University Grant Gordon \| University of Calgary Jillian Stobart \| University of Manitoba Arlette Kolta \| Université de Montréal