Organizer: Gaspard Montandon
Date & Time: May 17, 2026 – Full Day
Location: TBD
Ticket Price: TBD
Description:
This satellite symposium will bring together researchers and trainees who are investigating the neural circuits and physiological mechanisms underlying breathing. This symposium brings together teams from institutions across Canada covering a wide-range of topics and diseases related to autonomic nervous functions, such as sleep-disordered breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression, cardiovascular and metabolic dysfunctions leading to abnormal breathing. Importantly, this symposium will also look at the role of biological sex and reproductive hormones in modulating the neural circuits controlling autonomic nervous functions. This satellite symposium is geared toward trainees and providing them with presentation opportunities and networking. Speakers include graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and principal investigators from a diverse community of scientists in Canada.
This satellite symposium aims to continue the Annual Symposium for the Legallois Society for the study of the Neural Control of Breathing, an annual research event that was held in Quebec for the last 20 years. We aim to extend this symposium to Canadian scientists and trainees. Furthermore, in light of the ongoing relationship with the US, many members of our community, including trainees, no longer have the opportunity to present, exchange, network with their colleagues. Our proposed satellite symposium is an excellent opportunity to attract new participants to the 19th Canadian Neuroscience Meeting. We expect undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and lab staff to attend the symposium. We will advertise our symposium to colleagues in Canada interested in the topic.
Speakers
- Marc Poulin, University of Calgary
- Gaspard Montandon, University of Toronto
- Vincent Joseph, Université Laval.
- Tommy Provonost, Université Laval.
- Richard Kinkead, Universite Laval.
- Gabrielle Matteoli, University of Alberta.
- Richard Wilson, University of Calgary.
- Kayla Baker, University of Toronto.
- Silvia Pagliardini, University of Alberta.
- Mariana Bernardes, University of Sao Paulo.
Sponsor
Société Legallois