2015 Program

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Saturday, May 23, 2015

4:00 – 6:00 PM	Canadian Association for Neuroscience 2015 Public Lectures: Free and open to all – Location: TELUS World of Science, 1455 Quebec Street, Vancouver Jon Stoessl Co-Director of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health University of British Columbia *The Clinic as Laboratory: Lessons from Parkinson’s* Janet Werker Professor and Canada Research Chair Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia *Understanding the foundations of language development by studying the infant brain*

Sunday, May 24, 2015

5:00 – 6:00PM	Welcome and Opening Remarks by Douglas Munoz, President of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award Presentation Samuel David, Chair of the Nominations Committee Developing a Dialog about Brain Health Panel Douglas Munoz, President of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience Anthony Phillips Director of the Institutes of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction, CIHR Inez Jabalpurwala President and CEO, Brain Canada Deanna Groetzinger Neurological Health Charities of Canada
6:00 – 7:00	Presidential Lecture: How We See and Hear Stuff: Visual and Auditory Routes to Understanding the Material Properties of Objects Melvyn Goodale \| University Western Ontario Sponsored by Ontario Brain Institute
7:00 – 8:15	Opening Reception

Monday, May 25, 2015

8:30 – 9:30 AM	Plenary symposium 1: Seeing and moving: how the brain controls vision and gaze Chair: Miriam Spering \| U British Columbia Brian Corneil \| Robarts RI Through the looking glass: reflections of sensory and cognitive processing in the motor periphery Christopher Pack \| McGill U A sensorimotor role for oscillations in the visual cortex
9:30 – 10:45	Coffee break – Posters/exhibits
10:45 – 11:00	Brain Star talk: Martin Munz, McGill University
11:00 – 12:00PM	Featured Plenary speaker:Mayank Mehta \| UCLA Multisensory mechanisms of hippocampal spatio-temporal selectivity Sponsored by Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University
12:00 – 1:30	Lunch on own
1:30 – 3:00	Parallel Symposium 1 Glial handling of neuronal functions: from synapses to blood flow Chair: Richard Robitaille – Université de Montréal Speakers: Stéphane H. R. Oliet \| Université de Bordeaux Surface dynamics of the astrocytic glutamate transporter GLT-1 Marie-Ève Tremblay \| Université Laval Microglial remodeling of neuronal circuits in the healthy brain Keith Murai \| McGill University Neurons actively sustain the unique molecular and physiological properties of astrocytes in the adult brain through morphogen signaling pathways Hélène Girouard \| Université de Montréal The astrocytic contribution to neurovascular coupling in health and disease
1:30 – 3:00	Parallel symposium 2 Development and Processing of Vocal and Social Communication Chair: Stephen Lomber \| University of Western Ontario Speakers: Yale E. Cohen \| University of Pennsylvania Mechanisms Underlying Auditory Decision-Making Stephen G. Lomber \| University of Western Ontario Vocalization Processing Along a “What” Processing Pathway in Auditory Cortex Sarah M.N. Woolley \| Columbia University Neural Basis and Behavior of Social Communication Susan A. Graham \| University of Calgary Preschoolers’ Real-Time Processing of Vocal Emotional Information
1:30 – 3:00	Parallel symposium 3 Shaping inhibition: new insights into the development and function of GABAergic inhibitory interneurons in the cortex Chair: Simon Chen – University of California, San Diego Speakers: Graziella Di Cristo \| Université de Montréal Mechanisms regulating GABAergic cell innervation fields in the adolescent brain Melanie Woodin \| University of Toronto Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity and Chloride Regulation in the Hippocampus Mingshan Xue \| Baylor College of Medicine Inhibitory synapses equalize excitation-inhibition ratios across cortical neurons Simon Chen \| University of California, San Diego Cell-type specific reorganization of inhibitory circuits during motor learning
1:30 – 3:00	Parallel Symposium 4 Neural stem cells in cognitive repair and aging Chair: David Kaplan \| Hospital for Sick Children Speakers: David Kaplan \| Hospital for Sick Children Introduction, and Long-term effects of maternal infection and diabetes on neural stem cell pools Liisa Galea \| University of British Columbia Estrogens, memory, neuroplasticity and aging: the good, the bad and the ugly Cindi Morshead \| University of Toronto Activating endogenous stem cells to promote brain repair and cognitive recovery Donald Mabbott \| The Hospital for Sick Children Training the brain to repair itself
3:00 – 3:30	Coffee break
3:30 – 5:30PM	Posters and Exhibits
5:30 – 7:00	Parallel Sessions Updates on Neuroscience Research Funding with representatives from NSERC and CIHR Careers inside academia Panel discussion for trainees and young investigators
7:00 – 8:00	Reception
7:30 – 9:30	Student Social – Mahony & Sons, Burrard Landing -1055 Canada Place, Unit #36 (Downtown), Vancouver, BC – Sponsored by: Island Medical Program & Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

8:30 – 9:30 AM	Plenary symposium 2: Plasticity, Pain, and Perception Chair: Jesper Sjöström \| McGill U Speakers: Lisa Topolnik \| U Laval Synaptic integration and plasticity gradients in dendrites of hippocampal inhibitory interneurons Michael Salter \| U of Toronto From Receptors to Pain: The Molecular Dynamics of Pain
9:30 – 10:45	Coffee break – Posters/exhibits
10:45 – 11:00	Brain Star talk – Ying Chen, York University
11:00 – 12:00PM	Featured Plenary speaker:Karel Svoboda \| HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus Illuminating the neural circuits underlying tactile decisions
12:00 – 12:30	CAN Annual General Assembly – All members welcome
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch on own
1:30 – 3:00	Parallel Symposium 5 – Sponsored by eNeuro Imaging brain complexity Chair: Paul Frankland \| The Hospital for Sick Children Speakers: Kasper Podgorski \| Howard Hughes Medical Institute Comprehensive 3D imaging of synaptic activity in the awake brain Majid Mohajerani \| University of Lethbridge In vivo optical imaging assessment of mouse cortical-hippocampal dialogue during sleep Paul Frankland \| The Hospital for Sick Children Pharmacogenetic interrogation of a fear memory network Ji Hyun Ko \| University of Manitoba Network analysis approach with metabolic PET imaging in neurodegenerative movement disorders.
1:30 – 3:00	Parallel Symposium 6 – Sponsored by Hotchkiss Brain Institute Are you what you eat? Impact of diet on mesocorticolimbic circuit Chair: Stephanie Borgland – Hotchkiss Brain Institute Speakers: Thierry Alquier \| University of Montreal Regulation of mesolimbic function, reward and feeding by lipids Catharine Winstanley \| University of British Columbia Steady-state consumption of a high-fat diet can decrease impulse control even in the absence of excessive weight gain Stephanie Borgland \| Hotchkiss Brain Institute Compulsive eating reduces inhibitory control of pyramidal neurons of the lateral OFC Alain Dagher \| McGill University Brain Endophenotypes of Obesity
1:30 – 3:00	Parallel Symposium 7 – Sponsored by Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital Establishment and maintenance of cell diversity in sensory system function. Chair: Jean-François Cloutier \| Montreal Neurological Institute Speakers: Valerie Wallace \| Toronto Western Research Institute Notch and Hedgehog cross talk in neural progenitors converges on Gli2 activity Michel Cayouette \| Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal A Conserved Regulatory Logic Controls Temporal Identity in Mouse Neural Progenitors Christopher Deppmann \| University of Virginia Molecular Rheostats Governing Sensory Perception Jean-François Cloutier \| McGill University Cellular interactions in the control of neural progenitor cell differentiation
1:30 – 3:00	Parallel Symposium 8 – Sponsored by Hotchkiss Brain Institute Homeostatic plasticity: molecular mechanisms and physiological function Chair: Graham Diering \| John Hopkins University Speakers: David Stellwagen \| McGill University TNF-mediated suppression of striatal reward dysfunction Jaideep S. Bains \| Hotchkiss Brain Institute State-dependent plasticity in stress circuits Salvatore Carbonetto \| McGill University Dystroglycan Mediates Homeostatic Plasticity at GABAergic Synapses Graham Diering \| John Hopkins University Homeostatic scaling-down of excitatory synapses during sleep
3:00 – 3:30	Coffee break
3:30 – 5:30	Posters and Exhibits – Sponsored by Sick Kids Neurosciences & Mental Health Program
5:30 – 5:45	CQDM/ OBI/ Brain Canada Joint Announcement Brain Canada and NeuroDevNet Joint Announcement
5:45 – 6:15	Young investigator lecture
6:15 – 7:15	Keynote Lecture: Sponsored by the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health Clay Reid, Allen Institute for Brain Science Functional Connectomics at the Allen Institute
7:00 – 8:15	Reception

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

8:30 – 9:30 A.M.	Plenary symposium 3: Sensorimotor processing in model systems Chair: Michael Gordon \| U British Columbia Speakers: Mei Zhen \| U of Toronto The Development and Operation of the C. elegans Motor System Douglas Altshuler \| U British Columbia Visual motion perception in avian flight
9:30 – 10:45	Posters/exhibits – Coffee break
10:45 – 11:00	Brain Star talk Robert P. Bonin, Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Québec
11:00 – 12:00	Featured Plenary speaker: Taste processing in Drosophila Kristin Scott \| UC Berkeley
12:00 – 1:30	Lunch on own
1:30 – 3:00	Parallel Symposium 9 – Sponsored by Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie Regulatory mechanisms in cortical neurogenesis Chair: Angelo Iulianella – Dalhousie University Speakers: Carol Schuurmans \| University of Calgary Cortical lineages are primed by the competing lineage determinants Neurog2 and Ascl1 Stefano Stifani \| McGill University Regulation of neurogenic and anti-neurogenic transcription factors during murine cortical neurogenesis Ruth Slack \| University of Ottawa Mitochondrial -mediated regulation of stem cell maintenance and cell fate decisions David Picketts \| Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Defining the role of chromatin remodeling proteins in balancing progenitor expansion with differentiation during cortical neurogenesis.
1:30 – 3:00	Parallel Symposium 10 New insights into classical memory issues. Chair: Karim Nader – McGill University Speakers: Catharine Rankin \| University of British Columbia Rethinking habituation: New Insights into the Complexity of the Simplest Form of Learning Karim Nader \| McGill University Ongoing Protein Synthesis is Required to Enable Retrieval of Long Term Memories Vadim Bolshakov \| McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School Diminishing fear by disrupting retrieval-induced synaptic restabilization Satoshi Kida \| Tokyo University of Agriculture Erasure of recent and remote fear memory by enhancing forgetting through increase in adult hippocampal neurogenesis
1:30 – 3:00	Parallel Symposium 11 – Sponsored by Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital Linking nervous system development with function Chair: Artur Kania \| Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal Speakers: Freda Miller \| Hospital for Sick Children Understanding cognitive disorders: from neural stem cells to neurons Ying Zhang \| Dalhousie University Distinctive developmental pathways of functional subpopulations of V3 interneurons in the mouse spinal cord Douglas Allan \| University of British Columbia Genetic mechanisms underlying sexually dimorphic development of female-specific neural populations in Drosophila Edward Ruthazer \| McGill University How sensory experience controls circuit wiring in the developing visual system
1:30 – 3:00	Parallel Symposium 12 – Sponsored by Tucker-Davis Technologies Dysregulated synaptic plasticity in models of brain disorders Chair: Zhengping Jia \| The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto Speakers: Éric C. Dumont \| Queen’s University Altered plasticity at glutamate and GABA synapses in compulsive behaviours in rats Min Zhuo \| University of Toronto Aberrant synaptic plasticity and treatment in animal models of neuropathic pain and anxiety Marja D. Sepers \| University of British Columbia Endocannabinoid-mediated synaptic plasticity at cortico-striatal synapses in the YAC128 model of Huntington’s disease Graham L Collingridge \| University of Bristol Dysregulated synaptic plasticity in models of Alzheimer’s disease
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