Archives: 2018/19 schedule
Fall 2018
September 7
- Host: Dr. Lynn Raymond
- Speaker: Dr. Leslie Thompson, Univ. of California, Irvine
- Title: Applications of stem cells to Huntington’s disease translational research
September 14
- Host: Dr. James Enns and Dr. Jiaying Zhao
- Speaker: Dr. Kim Shapiro, University of Birmingham, UK
- Title: Brain Oscillations in Attention and Memory
September 21
- Host: Dr. Shernaz Bamji
- Speaker: Dr. Joshua Trachtenberg, University of California, Los Angeles
- Title: Youth, exuberance, age and treachery: how cortical circuitry is built
October 5
- Host: Dr. Liisa Galea
- Speaker: Dr. Staci Bilbo, Harvard Medical University
- Title: Microglia-neuron interactions in neurodevelopment
October 26
- Host: Dr. Liisa Galea
- Speaker: Dr. Tracey Bale, University of Maryland
- Title: Parental stress epigenetic programming in neurodevelopment
November 2
- No seminar - Society for Neuroscience
November 9
- Host: Dr. Ipek Oruc
- Speaker: Dr. David Whitney, University of California Berkeley
- Title: Ensemble Perception
November 16
- Host: Dr. Jon Stoessl
- Speaker: Dr. Paul van Donkelaar, UBC Okanagan
- Title: Characterizing traumatic brain injury in intimate partner violence
November 23
- Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley
- Speaker: Dr. Alain Dagher, McGill University
- Title: How Homo Economics Got Fat: brain endophenotypes of obesity.
November 30
- Host: Dr. Yu Tian Wang
- Speaker: Dr. Jaideep Bains, University Calgary
- Title: Decoding threat: consequences for the individual and others
December 7
- Host: Dr. Shernaz Bamji
- Speaker: Dr. Melanie A Woodin, University of Toronto
- Title: Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity in Health and Disease
December 14
- Host: Dr. Tim Murphy
- Speaker: Dr. Andy Shih, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine
- Title:In vivo optical imaging and manipulation of brain pericytes
Term 2 (Winter 2019)
January 11
- Host: Dr. Shernaz Bamji
- Speaker: Dr. Christopher Ford, University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Title: Encoding dopamine transmission in striatal circuits
January 18
- Host: TBD
- Speaker: Dr. Amanda Chisholm, BC Health Research Connection Project
- Title: REACH workshop
January 25
- Host: Dr. Brian MacVicar
- Speaker: Dr. Robert Stowe, UBC Psychiatry
- Title:Precision medicine in schizophrenia - tales from the bench to the bedside
February 1
- Host: Dr. Yu Tian Wang
- Speaker: Dr. V. Wee Yong, University of Calgary
- Title: Modulating macrophage/microglia activity with generic medications to improve neurological outcomes
February 8
- Host: Dr. Brian MacVicar
- Speaker: Dr. Kristopher T. Kahle, Yale School of Medicine
- Title: Regulation of the Potassium -Chloride cotransporter, KCC2, and the impact on seizures and cerebral edema
February 15
- Host: Dr. Shernaz Bamji
- Speaker: Dr. Graeme Davis, UCSF
- Title: Homeostatic Control of Neural Function in Health and Disease
February 22
- Host: Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez
- Speaker: Dr. Sarah Lisanby, National Institutes of Health
- Title: Precision Seizure Therapy: Sculpting the spatial and temporal aspects of therapeutic seizures
March 1
- Host: Dr. Brian MacVicar
- Speaker: Dr. Matthew Hill, University of Calgary
- Title: Endocannabinoids, Stress and Emotional Behaviour: From Human to Rodent and Back Again
MARCH 4 - 12:00 noon, Room 3402 A/B, 3rd Floor, dmcbh
- Host: Dr. Naznin Virji-Babul
- Speaker: Dr. Ines Violante, University of Surrey, UK
- Title: Mapping the effects of transcranial electrical stimulation on brain function using fMRI
March 8
- Host: Dr. Catherine Winstanley
- Speaker: Dr. Regina M. Carelli, Univ. of North Carolina
- Title: Modeling dynamic shifts in affect, reward value & drug seeking in addiction.
March 15
- Host:Dr. Lynn Raymond
- Speaker: Dr. Jeff Rothstein, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Title: Disassembly and assembly of Nuclear pore complex in Neurodegeneration
March 22
- Host: Dr. Tim Murphy
- Speaker: Dr. Tuan Trang, University of Calgary
- Title: Microglia: the little cell that could
March 29
- Host: Dr. Brian MacVicar
- Speaker: Dr. Dorothy Schafer, Univ. of Massachusetts
- Title: A Synaptic Feast: Microglia-Mediated Remodeling of Neural Circuits in Health and Disease
APRIL 2 - ROOM 3402 A/B/C, 3RD FLOOR, DMCBH (2:00PM - 3:00PM)
- Host: Dr. Lakshmi Yatham
- Speaker: Dr. Gregory Simon,
- Title: Precision medicine for depression: Will we ever get there?
April 5 - Room 3402 A/B/C, 3rd Floor, DMCBH
- Host: Dr. Shernaz Bamji
- Speaker: Dr. Ege T. Kavalali, U.T. Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
- Title: Quantal Neurotransmission and Neuronal Signaling
April 12
- Host: Dr. Catherine Winstanley
- Speaker: Dr. Rita Goldstein, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY
- Title: Neuroimaging reward processing and inhibitory control in human drug addiction: an eye towards intervention development
April 26
- Host: Dr. Stan Floresco
- Speaker: Dr. J. David Jentsch, State University of New York - Binghamton University
- Title: Sex, genes and impulsivity: Insights from advanced mouse populations
May 3
- Host: Dr. Stan Floresco
- Speaker: Dr. Marina E. Wolf, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
- Title: Synaptic mechanisms regulating the strength of cocaine craving
May 10 - Cancelled
- Host: Dr. Brian MacVicar
- Speaker: Dr. Jodie Gawryluk, University of Victoria
- Title: Investigations of MRI based biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease
May 17
- Host: Dr. Helen Tremlett
- Speaker: Dr. Christina Wolfson, McGill University
- Title:The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging: A Platform for Research in Brain Health?
May 17 - Room 3402 A/B, 3:00pm
- Host: Dr.Timothy Murphy
- Speaker: Professor Carl Petersen, Director, Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- Title: Neural circuits for goal-directed sensorimotor transformation
May 24
- Host: Dr. Miriam Spering
- Speaker: Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner, Giessen University
- Title: The interaction between eye movements and perception
May 31 - Cancelled
JUNE 7
- Host: Dr. Lakshmi Yatham
- Speaker: Dr. Paul Stokes, Kings College London, UK
- Title: Cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder: can neuroimaging accelerate the development of new treatments?
June 14
- Host: Dr. Dan Goldowitz
- Speaker: Dr. Joe Piven, University of North Carolina
- Title:Infant Brain and Behaviour Development in Autism
June 21 - Room 3402 A/B/C, 3rd Floor, DMCBH
- Host: Dr. Kota Mizumoto
- Speaker: Dr. Daniel Colon Ramos, Yale University
- Title: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of synapse assemby and function: lessons from C. elegans.
July 5 - Room 3402 A & B, 10:00am -11:30am
- Host: Dr. Catharine Rankin
- Speaker: Dr. Gang Chen, Jinan University (China)
- Title: Traditional medicine on depression and Alzheimers' Disease: scientific research brings new hope
August 2
- Host: Dr. Neil Cashman
- Speaker: Dr.Todd S. Woodward, University of British Columbia
- Title: Task-state functional brain networks detectable with fMRI: More than just a pretty picture