2020 – 2021

** Conférence du CHUSJ

*** Conférence du CHUM

 

SEPTEMBRE 2020

25 septembre 2020 : Dre Alanna J. Watt, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, McGill University. Purkinje cell axonal swellings enhance action potential fidelity and cerebellar function.

 

OCTOBRE 2020

**2 octobre 2020 : Dr Vincenzo De Paola, Associate Professor, Imperial College London. In vivo modelling of human cortical circuit wiring and dysfunction.

9 octobre 2020 : Dr Hugo Théoret, professeur titulaire, Département de psychologie, Université de Montréal. Mutation du gène DCC chez l’humain : mouvements miroirs et connectivité mésocorticolimbique.

16 octobre 2020 : Dre Erin Schuman, Professor, Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. Local Protein Synthesis in Neurons.

23 octobre 2020 : Dr Greg Silasi, Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa. Cortical motor maps as a biomarker for impairment following perinatal stroke in mice.

***30 octobre 2020 : Dr Eran Hornstein, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science. Regulatory Rnas in Neurodegenation.

 

NOVEMBRE 2020

6 novembre 2020 : Dr Yang Zhou, Assistant professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University.  Neurodevelopmental Disorders Related to SHANK3 Gene Mutation-Learning from Genetically Engineered Animal Models.

**13 novembre 2020 : Dre Simona Lodato, Assistant Professor, Humanitas Research Center. An electrical take on the development of the cerebral cortex: implications for infantile epilepsies.

20 novembre 2020: Dre Sandrine Da Cruz, Professor, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven. Mechanisms of neurodegeneration: From the motor neuron to the neuromuscular junction.

27 novembre 2020: Dre Ann-Sofie Cans, Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology. Quantitative and high temporal electroenzymatic sensing of glutamate.

 

DÉCEMBRE 2020

4 décembre 2020 : Dre Birgit Liss, Professor, University of Ulm. It’s complicated – Calcium, dopamine, and Parkinson’s disease .

***11 décembre 2020 : Dr Frédéric Charron, professeur titulaire, Département de médecine, Université de Montréal. Molecular events driving medulloblastoma initiation and progression.

 

JANVIER 2021

8 janvier 2021 : Dr Blake Richards, Assistant Professor, McGill University. Learning from unexpected events in the neocortical microcircuit.

15 janvier 2021 : Dr Leigh R. Hochberg, Professor of Engineering, Brown University. BrainGate: Intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces Toward the Restoration of Communication and Mobility.

**22 janvier 2021 : Dr Ziv Gan-Or, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill University. The genetics of REM-sleep behavior disorder and conversion to neurodegenerative diseases.

***29 janvier 2021 : Dre Sabine Gilch, professeure agrégée, Département de biologie comparative et de médecine expérimentale, Université de Calgary. Prion-Host Cell Interaction: From Traffic Jams to New Treatment Strategies.

 

FÉVRIER 2021

5 février : Dr Grant Gordon, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Université of Calgary. On the regulation of the cerebrovasculature by astrocytes.

12 février : Dr Omar A. Gharbawie, Assistant Professor, Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh. Windows into sensorimotor cortex organization in primates.

***19 février : Dr Roberta Brambillia, Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami. Do Inflammatory Oliogodendrocytes Contribute to Multiple Sclerosis Pathogenesis.

26 février : Dr Alipasha Vaziri, Professor,  Rockerfeller University. Optical Tools for Large-Scale in vivo Recording of Neuronal Activity.

 

MARS 2021

12 mars 2021 : Dre Valentina Fossati, NYSCF, Senior Research Investigator, The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute. Patient-specific iPSC models of human glia.

19 mars 2021 : Dr Jeffrey S. Taube, Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College. Are Head Direction Cell Responses Commutative in 3D – and Why it Matters.

***26 mars 2021 :  Dre Ana Maria Cuervo, profeseure, Département de biologie moléculaire et du développement, Einstein College of Medicine. Targeting Selective Autophagy in Aging and Ange-Related diseases.

 

AVRIL 2021

9 avril 2021 : Dr Peter Rudebeck, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Reward, valuation and the prefrontal cortex: from decision-making to emotion

16 avril 2021 : Dr Yingxi Lin, Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNNY Upstate Medical University. Functionally Distinct Active Neuronal Ensembles.

**23 avril 2021 : Dr Carlos Portera-Cailliau, Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurobiology, UCLA. Interneuron dysfunction in autism.