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, PhDSection 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, PhDDepartment 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, PhDDepartment 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, PhDCanadian Space Agency
Topic: Investigating the effects of spaceflight on the human brain
Host:
BRaIN ProgramLocation: Osler Amphitheatre, MGH site, RI-MUHC February 28, 2024
Don Van Meyel, PhDCentre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University
In-House Research Update March 13, 2024
Mathieu Landry, PhDUniversité 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, PhDDepartment 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, PhDCentre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London
Topic: Neural circuits underlying cognitive behaviour
Host:
David Stellwagen April 17, 2024
David Leopold, PhDSection 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, PhDDepartment Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University
Topic: Connecting Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration: How the Fly Can Teach Us About Synaptic Maturation
Host:
Brian Chen
