Events

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The BRaIN Program organizes and supports numerous speakers, seminars, and symposia throughout the year.

2024 RI-MUHC Summer Student Research Day

Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, July 22, 2024, Registration Deadline: Sunday, August 11, 2024

Neuroscience Retreat for Indigenous Undergraduate, CEGEP and Grade 12 Students

Registration Deadline: June 4, 2024

Summer Studentship Program for Black Undergraduate Students

Registration Deadline: April 17, 2024

Afternoon Tea with Dr. Raquel Del Carpio: A Personal Journey Through Half a Century of Brain Imaging Innovations at McGill

Registration Deadline: May 10, 2024

BRaIN Program Seminar Series Spring 2024

BRaIN Program seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (unless otherwise stated). Seminars will be in English.

Seminars will be in hybrid format: Room L7-140, MGH site, RI‑MUHC (unless otherwise stated), and via Zoom. For the Zoom registration link, please contact the BRaIN Program at brain@muhc.mcgill.ca

January 25, 2024

Yoshiyuki Kubota, PhD
Section of Electron Microscopy, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan
Topic: Motor learning and thalamocortical synaptic network plasticity in the motor cortex: in vivo imaging and correlative light-electron microscopy
Host: Keith Murai

January 31, 2024

Pouya Bashivan, PhD
Department of Physiology, McGill University and Associate member of the Quebec AI Institute (MILA)
Topic: Reverse engineering the cortical topography
Host: Jesper Sjöström

February 7, 2024

Yang Zhou, PhD
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
Topic: A role of an ASD-associated Gene in Reactive Gliosis in the Adult Brain
Host: Wei-Hsiang Huang

February 14, 2024
10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Giuseppe Iaria, PhD
Canadian Space Agency
Topic: Investigating the effects of spaceflight on the human brain
Host: BRaIN Program
Location: Osler Amphitheatre, MGH site, RI-MUHC

February 28, 2024

Don Van Meyel, PhD
Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University
In-House Research Update

March 13, 2024

Mathieu Landry, PhD
Université de Montréal
Topic: Unravelling exogenous and endogenous visuospatial attention during early visual processing combining neurophysiology, machine learning and mediation analyses
Host: Janine Mendola

March 27, 2024

Sacha Nelson, MD, PhD
Department of Biology, Brandeis University
Topic: Transcriptional control of developing cortical circuits and the role of clock genes in human disease
Host: Jesper Sjöström

April 10, 2024

Adil Khan, PhD
Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London
Topic: Neural circuits underlying cognitive behaviour
Host: David Stellwagen

April 17, 2024

David Leopold, PhD
Section on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging, National Institute of Mental Health
Topic: Single-unit fMRI mapping: new perspectives on the face patch system
Host: Reza Farivar

April 24, 2024

Timothy Mosca, MD, PhD
Department Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University
Topic: Connecting Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration: How the Fly Can Teach Us About Synaptic Maturation
Host: Brian Chen

May 8, 2024

Janine Mendola, PhD
McGill Vision Research, McGill University
In-House Research Update