CAN Satellite meeting
Date: May 19, 2024
Location: Westin Bayshore Vancouver
Ticket price: $100 CAD
Registration link: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b7uhR1mCAhLULeC
The theme for 2024 will be addressing challenges an exploring technologies to assess structure, function, and gene expression within live human explanted tissues and histological sections. Specifically, we will take advantage of new technologies which support both high resolution and throughput imaging of human iPSC derived cultures, postmortem or surgical resections for both live tissues and those that are histologically preserved.
Workshop speakers will be drawn from North American leaders and the Allen Institute for Brain Science, with emphasis on trainees, early career investigators, and practical aspects of tool dissemination.
Speakers
- Martin Bohlen (Duke University)
- Patrick Desrosiers (CERVO Brain Research Centre, Université Laval)
- LinLin Fan (MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory)
- Mike Hildebrand (Carleton University)
- Larissa Kraus (Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. UBC)
- Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal (CERVO Brain Research Centre, Université Laval)
- Marie-Eve Paquet (CERVO Brain Research Centre, Université Laval)
- Martin Parent (CERVO Brain Research Centre, Université Laval)
- François St-Pierre (Baylor College of Medicine)
CAN/ACN Satellite Meeting, Canadian Neurophotonics Platform
Sunday, May 18, Westin Bayshore, Vancouver
PROGRAM
9:00 REGISTRATION
Lobby 9:30 WELCOME: Yves De Koninck (Canadian Neurophotonics Platform/COVF)
SESSION 1: New Optogenetic sensors and actuators for the nervous system
(Chair Rochelin Dalangin)
- 9:50 François St-Pierre, Baylor: Voltage sensors optimized for one- and two-photon microscopy.
- 10:10 LinLin Fan, MIT: All-optical tools for simultaneously mapping and controlling neurons.
- 10:30 – 11:00 – COFFEE BREAK Lobby
SESSION 2: Towards Neurophotonics in human brain tissue
(Chair: Tim Murphy)
- 11:00 Larissa Kraus, UBC: Identification of healthy and diseased cells in the human brain
- 11:20 Mike Hildebrand, Carleton: Cellular taxonomy of the human spinal cord
- 11:40 Martin Parent, Laval: Raman spectroscopy for neurosurgical guidance in the human brain
12:00-13:30 – LUNCH (on your own)
SESSION 3: Making sense of complex Neurophotonics signals
(Chair: Jeffrey LeDue)
- 13:30 Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal; Laval; Novel machine learning-based algorithms to guide and improve optical nanoscopy analysis and acquisition
- 13:50 Patrick Derosiers, Laval: Decoding network organization with graph theory-based analysis
14:10-14:30 – COFFEE BREAK Lobby
SESSION 4: Optogenetic gene delivery – translational models
(Chair: Majid Mohajerani)
- 14:30 Marie-Eve Paquet, Laval: Novel viral tools for efficient neuronal transduction across species
- 14:50 Martin Bohlen, Duke: Development and use of effective neuronal actuators in the primate model
15:10 CLOSING REMARKS: Yves De Koninck
17:00 Opening of the 17th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting
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