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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 The Clinic as Laboratory: Lessons from Parkinson’sJanet Werker Understanding the foundations of language development by studying the infant brain
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Sunday, May 24, 2015
5:00 – 6:00PM | Welcome and Opening Remarks byDouglas Munoz, President of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award PresentationSamuel David, Chair of the Nominations Committee Developing a Dialog about Brain Health PanelDouglas Munoz, President of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience Anthony Phillips Inez Jabalpurwala Deanna Groetzinger |
6:00 – 7:00 | Presidential Lecture:How We See and Hear Stuff: Visual and Auditory Routes to Understanding the Material Properties of ObjectsMelvyn 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 gazeChair: Miriam Spering | U British Columbia Brian Corneil | Robarts RI Through the looking glass: reflections of sensory and cognitive processing in the motor peripheryChristopher 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 | UCLAMultisensory mechanisms of hippocampal spatio-temporal selectivitySponsored by Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University |
12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch on own |
1:30 – 3:00 | Parallel Symposium 1Glial handling of neuronal functions: from synapses to blood flowChair: Richard Robitaille – Université de Montréal Speakers: Stéphane H. R. Oliet | Université de Bordeaux Surface dynamics of the astrocytic glutamate transporter GLT-1Marie-Ève Tremblay | Université Laval Microglial remodeling of neuronal circuits in the healthy brainKeith Murai | McGill University Neurons actively sustain the unique molecular and physiological properties of astrocytes in the adult brain through morphogen signaling pathwaysHélène Girouard | Université de Montréal The astrocytic contribution to neurovascular coupling in health and disease |
1:30 – 3:00 | Parallel symposium 2Development and Processing of Vocal and Social CommunicationChair: Stephen Lomber | University of Western Ontario Speakers: Yale E. Cohen | University of Pennsylvania Mechanisms Underlying Auditory Decision-MakingStephen G. Lomber | University of Western Ontario Vocalization Processing Along a “What” Processing Pathway in Auditory CortexSarah M.N. Woolley | Columbia University Neural Basis and Behavior of Social CommunicationSusan A. Graham | University of Calgary Preschoolers’ Real-Time Processing of Vocal Emotional Information |
1:30 – 3:00 | Parallel symposium 3Shaping inhibition: new insights into the development and function of GABAergic inhibitory interneurons in the cortexChair: Simon Chen – University of California, San Diego Speakers: Graziella Di Cristo | Université de Montréal Mechanisms regulating GABAergic cell innervation fields in the adolescent brainMelanie Woodin | University of Toronto Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity and Chloride Regulation in the HippocampusMingshan Xue | Baylor College of Medicine Inhibitory synapses equalize excitation-inhibition ratios across cortical neuronsSimon Chen | University of California, San Diego Cell-type specific reorganization of inhibitory circuits during motor learning |
1:30 – 3:00 | Parallel Symposium 4Neural stem cells in cognitive repair and agingChair: 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 poolsLiisa Galea | University of British Columbia Estrogens, memory, neuroplasticity and aging: the good, the bad and the uglyCindi Morshead | University of Toronto Activating endogenous stem cells to promote brain repair and cognitive recoveryDonald 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
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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 PerceptionChair: Jesper Sjöström | McGill U Speakers: Lisa Topolnik | U Laval Synaptic integration and plasticity gradients in dendrites of hippocampal inhibitory interneuronsMichael 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 CampusIlluminating 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 eNeuroImaging brain complexityChair: Paul Frankland | The Hospital for Sick Children Speakers: Kasper Podgorski | Howard Hughes Medical Institute Comprehensive 3D imaging of synaptic activity in the awake brainMajid Mohajerani | University of Lethbridge In vivo optical imaging assessment of mouse cortical-hippocampal dialogue during sleepPaul Frankland | The Hospital for Sick Children Pharmacogenetic interrogation of a fear memory networkJi 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 InstituteAre you what you eat? Impact of diet on mesocorticolimbic circuitChair: Stephanie Borgland – Hotchkiss Brain Institute Speakers: Thierry Alquier | University of Montreal Regulation of mesolimbic function, reward and feeding by lipidsCatharine Winstanley | University of British Columbia Steady-state consumption of a high-fat diet can decrease impulse control even in the absence of excessive weight gainStephanie Borgland | Hotchkiss Brain Institute Compulsive eating reduces inhibitory control of pyramidal neurons of the lateral OFCAlain Dagher | McGill University Brain Endophenotypes of Obesity |
1:30 – 3:00 | Parallel Symposium 7 – Sponsored by Montreal Neurological Institute and HospitalEstablishment 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 activityMichel Cayouette | Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal A Conserved Regulatory Logic Controls Temporal Identity in Mouse Neural ProgenitorsChristopher Deppmann | University of Virginia Molecular Rheostats Governing Sensory PerceptionJean-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 InstituteHomeostatic plasticity: molecular mechanisms and physiological functionChair: Graham Diering | John Hopkins University Speakers: David Stellwagen | McGill University TNF-mediated suppression of striatal reward dysfunctionJaideep S. Bains | Hotchkiss Brain Institute State-dependent plasticity in stress circuitsSalvatore Carbonetto | McGill University Dystroglycan Mediates Homeostatic Plasticity at GABAergic SynapsesGraham 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 systemsChair: Michael Gordon | U British Columbia Speakers: Mei Zhen | U of Toronto The Development and Operation of the C. elegans Motor SystemDouglas 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 DrosophilaKristin Scott | UC Berkeley | |
12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch on own | |
1:30 – 3:00 | Parallel Symposium 9 – Sponsored by Medical Neuroscience, DalhousieRegulatory mechanisms in cortical neurogenesisChair: Angelo Iulianella – Dalhousie University Speakers: Carol Schuurmans | University of Calgary Cortical lineages are primed by the competing lineage determinants Neurog2 and Ascl1Stefano Stifani | McGill University Regulation of neurogenic and anti-neurogenic transcription factors during murine cortical neurogenesisRuth Slack | University of Ottawa Mitochondrial -mediated regulation of stem cell maintenance and cell fate decisionsDavid Picketts | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Defining the role of chromatin remodeling proteins in balancing progenitor expansion with differentiation during cortical neurogenesis.
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1:30 – 3:00 | Parallel Symposium 10New 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 LearningKarim Nader | McGill University Ongoing Protein Synthesis is Required to Enable Retrieval of Long Term MemoriesVadim Bolshakov | McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School Diminishing fear by disrupting retrieval-induced synaptic restabilizationSatoshi 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 HospitalLinking nervous system development with functionChair: Artur Kania | Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal Speakers: Freda Miller | Hospital for Sick Children Understanding cognitive disorders: from neural stem cells to neuronsYing Zhang | Dalhousie University Distinctive developmental pathways of functional subpopulations of V3 interneurons in the mouse spinal cordDouglas Allan | University of British Columbia Genetic mechanisms underlying sexually dimorphic development of female-specific neural populations in DrosophilaEdward 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 TechnologiesDysregulated synaptic plasticity in models of brain disordersChair: 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 ratsMin Zhuo | University of Toronto Aberrant synaptic plasticity and treatment in animal models of neuropathic pain and anxietyMarja D. Sepers | University of British Columbia Endocannabinoid-mediated synaptic plasticity at cortico-striatal synapses in the YAC128 model of Huntington’s diseaseGraham L Collingridge | University of Bristol Dysregulated synaptic plasticity in models of Alzheimer’s disease | |
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