Read the latest CAN Connection Newsletter

We invite you to read the latest CAN Connection Newsletter – March 2026

Message from the President, Douglas Zochodne

CAN Board of Directors – Call for nominations now open

Advocacy updates

• Read our letter to Prime Minister Carney
• Next CAN Parliament Hill Day: April 14, 2026

CAN Meeting updates

• Save the dates!
• Scientific program
• Speakers at the 2026 public lectures: Je me souviens: Montréal, the city of memory
• Hotel accommodation
• Dependent care subsidies

CAN Satellites and partner sessions

• CAN2026 Official Satellite Meetings
  • Satellite 1: Circuits and Behaviour CAN 2026 Satellite Meeting
  • Satellite 2: Brain Canada Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Knowledge Exchange Event
  • Satellite 3: 11th Annual Canadian Neurometabolic meeting
  • Satellite 4: Tracking social determinants of health (SDoH) in neuroimaging across the lifespan: A Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives (HBHL) Knowledge Exchange Event
  • Satellite 5: Cells in Space: A Hands-On Journey Through Spatial Transcriptomics
  • Satellite 6: Stem Cells and Brain Development
  • Satellite 7: COVF workshop on genetically encoded sensor development and applications
  • Satellite 8: Canadian Symposium on the Neural Control of Breathing
• Save the dates for these special events at the CAN meeting
  • Save the date: IBRO – NCAMH Special Interest Event: Building Capacity and Community in Global Neuroscience
  • CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee Showdown
  • Women in Learning Luncheon at CAN

Opportunities and Resources

• SfN Awards and Prizes – nomination period for most awards opening March 23, 2026
• Long-term potentiation: 50 years on – available online in open acccess
• ALBA Database of scientists with disabilities launched in January 2026
• Neurojobs