CAN2024 Preliminary Program

Day 1: Sunday, May 19, 2024

9:00 AM – 4:00 PMCAN Satellite symposia
5:00 – 5:15 PMWelcome and Opening Remarks by

Adriana Di Polo, President of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience

5:15 – 6:15Presidential Lecture

William Newsome, Stanford University

6:15 – 8:00Opening Reception

Day 2: Monday, May 20

8:30 – 10:15 AMPlenary symposium 1

Psychedelics as novel therapeutics: What do we know and where do we go from here?

Chair: Leah Mayo, University of Calgary

Speakers

  • Melissa A. Herman, U of North Carolina
    Multi-Region Effects of Psychedelic drugs on Neuronal Activity and Threat Responding Behavior
  • Boris Dov Heifets, Stanford U
    Deconstructing the psychedelic experience: insights across species
  • Rosemary C. Bagot, McGill U
    In search of mechanism: exploring the therapeutic potential of psilocybin in preclinical models
10:15 – 10:30Partner address
10:30 – 10:45Coffee break Posters/exhibits
10:45 – 11:00Brain Star Award winner talk
11:00 – 12:00Featured Plenary speaker

Bita Moghaddam – Oregon Health and Science University
Challenges of designing animal models to test the therapeutic effects of psychedelics

12:00 – 1:30Advocacy lunch

 

Trainee Power Pitch Session
Organisers: J Quinn Lee & Gilberto Rojas Vite

1:30 – 3:00Parallel Symposia 1-4
3:00 – 5:00PMCoffee break (3:00 – 3:30PM)
Poster session 1 / exhibits
5:30 – 6:00New investigator award lecture
6:00 – 7:00Brain Prize lecture

Michael Greenberg 2023 winner

7:30 – 9:30CAN Student Social

 

Day 3: Tuesday, May 21

8:30 – 10:15 AMPlenary symposium 2

Glia -Neuron interactions

Chair: Marie-Eve Tremblay, University of Victoria

Speakers

  • Marie-Eve Tremblay, University of Victoria
  • Ed Ruthazer, McGill University
  • Masha Prager-Khoutorsky, McGill University
10:15 – 10:25Partner talk
10:25 – 10:45Coffee break

Posters/exhibits

10:45 – 11:00Brain Star Award winner
11:00 – 12:00Featured Plenary speaker 2

Baljit Khakh- UCLA
Astrocyte-neuron interactions: critical for physiology and disease

12:00 – 1:00CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee Showdown

Lunch on own

1:00 – 2:30Parallel symposia 5-8
2:30 – 4:302:30 – 3:00 Coffee break in Poster Hall

2:30 – 4:30 Poster session 2 & Exhibits

4:45– 5:45Keynote lecture

Singing in the brain

Isabelle Peretz – Université de Montréal

5:45 – 6:45EDI event

Day 4: Wednesday, May 22

8:30 – 10:15 A.M.Plenary symposium 3

Social Neuroscience

Chair: Jaideep Bains, Krembil Research Institute

Speakers

  • Giovanni Marsicano, INSERM – U Bordeaux
  • Ibukun Akinrinade. U Toronto
  • Third speaker TBA
10:15 – 10:30Partner/sponsor talk
10:30 – 10:45Posters/exhibits

Coffee break

10:45 – 11:00 PMBrain Star Award winner
11:00 – 12:00Featured Plenary speaker

Alon Chen – Weizmann – Max Planck Laboratory
A paradigm shift in mouse phenotyping: The role of social context

12:00 – 1:30 PMCAN-ACN Annual General Meeting of members

Career Networking event

Lunch on own

1:30 – 3:30Poster session 3 & Exhibits
3:30 – 5:00Parallel Symposia 9-12