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Department Seminars
2012-2013 Academic Year
All presentations are on Fridays at 12:30-1:30 in Room 14B2. Exceptions noted below.

Date
Speaker
Title
Sept. 21, 2012 Various speakers
Anatomy Blitz - Meet and Greet
Oct. 5, 2012 Jake Blacklaws, MSc Student, Sim1 is required for proper migration and axon projection of V3 interneurons during development of the mouse spinal cord
Oct. 12, 2012 Dr. Michael Lazarus
Osaka Bioscience Institute
Department of Molecular Behavioral Biology
Japan
What can conditional transgenics (e.g. RNA interference, DREADDS and optogenetics) tell us about the role of adenosine A2A receptors in the nucleus accumbens for sleep-­wake regulation?
Oct. 26, 2012 No Seminar  
Nov. 2, 2012 Maxine Profitt, MSc Student, Sleep Regulation in a Mouse Model of Schizophrenia
Nov. 9, 2012 Philippe Magown, PhD Student, Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Motoneurons, How Much More Can We Learn From Them?
Nov. 16, 2012 Steven Beyea, National Research Council of Canada
Institute for Biodiagnostics (Atlantic)
Novel Techniques for Clinical & Pre-Clinical Imaging Evaluation of Therapeutic Efficacy: Research Capacity in Halifax
Nov. 23, 2012 Han Zhang, MSc Student The function of V3 population of interneuron in mice spinal cord
Nov. 30, 2012 Dr. Jason McDougall, Associate Professor Pharmacology Neurophysiology of Joint Pain
Dec. 7, 2012 Dr. Peter Chipman, Post-Doc Medical Neuroscience Limitations to functional synaptic sprouting at the neuromuscular junction
Dec. 14, 2012 Dr. Rob Brownstone, Professor Depts. of Surgery and Medical Neuroscience There and back again: towards understanding neural circuits underlying movement
Jan. 18, 2013 Dr. Angelo Iulianella, Assistant Professor, Medical Neuroscience Genetic fate mapping of the archicortex
Jan. 25, 2013 Mike Smyth, MSc Student Suppression of aberrant neuroplasticity after spinal cord injury
Feb. 8, 2013 Eva Gunde, PhD Student What is behind the pretty picture; possibilities and challenges of functional magnetic resonance imaging
Feb. 15, 2013 Dr. Daniel Zytnicki, Laboratory of Neurophysics & Physiology, Universite Paris Descartes Excitability properties of adult spinal motoneurons in health and ALS mice
Feb. 22, 2013 Ian MacDonald, PhD Student Pathology to Positrons: Targeting Butyrylcholinesterase for the Neuroimaging of Alzheimer's Disease Patholgy
Feb. 25, 2013
(Monday)
11:00am - 12:00pm
Dr. Alberto Pereda, Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bonx, NY, USA Synaptic transmission mediated by gap junctions: properties and plasticity
Mar. 1, 2013 Dr. Paul Neumann, Professor Medical Neuroscience What's in a Name?
The history and revision of the human anatomical nomenclature
Mar. 15, 2013 Madjou Bah, Post-Doctoral Fellow Medical Neuroscience Depression after myocardial infarction: A new animal model
Mar. 20, 2013 (Wednesday) Dr. Simon Gosgnach, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Physiology/Centre for Neuroscience University of Alberta Functional characterization of spinal interneurons that produce locomotor outputs
Mar. 22, 2013 Dr. Sultan Darvesh, PhD Professor, Division of Neurosurgery/Medical Neuroscience Brain Musings: The Sensuality of Language, Music, Gastronomy and Love
Mar. 27, 2013 (Wednesday) Dr. Paul Trainor, Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, and University of Kansas School of Medicine Neural Crest Cells: their roles in evolution development and disease
Apr. 9, 2013 (Tuesday) Dr. Manohar Bance, Professor Divsion of Otolaryngology and Dept. of Medical Neuroscience Future Needs in Otology: Where research needs to go
Apr. 11, 2013 Dr. Ken Rose, Professor, Biomedical & Molecular Sciences and Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University Principles governing the input-output properties of neurons: the view from the motoneuron dendritic tree
Apr. 12, 2013 Chantalle Briggs, PhD Student Astrocytic Plasticity in Sleep Regulation: Changes in Glutamate Transporter 1 in Response to Acute Sleep Loss
Apr. 19, 2013 Matthias Schmidt, Associate Professor/Research Director
Department of Radiology
Practical Neuroethics for Pediatric Neuroimaging Research
Apr. 26, 2013 Jeremy Toma, PhD Student  
May 3, 2013 Matt Stoyek, PhD Student  
May 10, 2013 James Jabalee, MSc Student  
May 17, 2013 Andrew Baldin, MSc Student  
May 24, 2013 Lina Koronfel, MSc Student  
May 27, 2013 Ali Alkhawaji, MSc Student  
May 31, 2013 Karyn Jourdeuil, PhD Student