2020/21 Neuroscience Research Colloquium Schedule

FALL 2020

september 4 - Online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley
• Speaker: Memory Processes Group Colloquia
• Title:  Learning and memory: from mice to magnets
• Zoom information found here
• Zoom passcode: 362449

SEPTEMBER 11 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Tim Murphy and the Dynamic Brain Circuits Research Excellence Cluster
• Speaker: Dean Giustini and Vanessa Kitchin, UBC Library
• Title: Getting a handle on your Scopus, Google Scholar, Publons and ORCID ID's
• Speaker:  Dmitriy Ryabika, VPRO Office, UBC
• Title: Research metrics tutorial using Scival for trends and impact studies
• Zoom information found here
• Zoom passcode: 504503

SEPTEMBER 25 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Tim Murphy and the Dynamic Brain Circuits in Health and Disease Research Excellence 
• Speakers: 2020 Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) Scholars:
• Patrick Coleman: Development of Dynamo, an open-soure suite of tools for visualizing, analysing and sharing 4D data sets of neuronal structural growth and activity
• Ellen Koch: An open resource of mouse fiber photometry and behaviour data for neurological disease research and analysis software optimization.
• Nick Michelson: Meso-social: an open source approach to derive neural circuit activity in mice during constrained social interaction.
• Jennifer Kim: Microgliome, an interactive microglia gene regulation browser.
• Dongsheng Xiao: NeuroMap database: an open resource of event-triggered brain mesoscale maps in awake chronic mice.
• Kaitlin Sullivan: Identify subpopulations of neurons participating in fear memory.
• Zoom link is found here
• Zoom passcode: 951437

OCTOBER 16 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley
• Title: Team Talk on MS
• Speakers: Dr. Anthony Traboulsee, Dr. Helen Tremlett and Dr. Jacqueline Quandt:
• Dr. Helen Tremlett: From poop to prodromes: Tremlett lab & Pharmacoepidemiology in Multiple Sclerosis (PiMS) Research group overview
• Dr. Jacqueline Quandt: Neuroinflammation: the balance between damage and repair in MS
• Zoom link is found here
• Zoom passcode: 035326

OCTOBER 23 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley 
• Speaker: Dr. Lisa Monteggia, Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Tennessee
• Title: Mechanism of Rapid Antidepressant Action
• Zoom link found here
• Zoom passcode: 243876

OCTOBER 30 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley
• Speakers: Dr. Neil Cashman, Dr. Todd Woodward and Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez
• Title: Schizophrenia: Three threads of research at UBC
• Zoom link found here
• Zoom passcode:157441

NOVEMBER 6 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley
• Speakers: Dr. Sophia Frangou, Dr. Samir Das (McGill University) and Jeff LeDue
• Title: All about Sharing: V-brain
• Zoom link found here
• Zoom passcode: 053450

NOVEMBER 13 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Tim Murphy
• Title: Stroke seminar
• Speakers: Dr. Lara Boyd,Dr. Craig Brown and Dr. Thalia Field
• Dr. Lara Boyd: Predicting recovery after stroke
• Dr. Craig Brown: Towards a cellular understanding of cortical plasticity and recovery of function after stroke
• Dr. Thalia Field: Improving the clinical trials
• Zoom link found here
• Zoom passcode:095090

NOVEMBER 20 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Liisa Galea
• Speaker: Dr. Jill Becker, University of Michigan
• Title: Sex Differences in Addiction: Lessons from Animal Models
• Zoom link found here
• Zoom code: 221004

NOVEMBER 27 - cancelled

DECEMBER 4 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley
• Speakers: Dr. Shernaz Bamji, Dr. Terry Snutch and Dr. Yu Tian Wang
• Title: Molecular and Genetic Underpinnings of Epilepsy
• Zoom link found here
• Zoom passcode: 824328

december 11 - online via zoom

• Host:  Dr. Catharine Winstanley 
• Speaker: Dr. Kota Mizumoto
• Title: Interaction between electrical and chemical synapses in C. elgans
• Zoom link found here
• Zoom passcode: 110775

TERM 2 (WINTER 2021)

JANUARY 22 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley
• Speaker: Dr. Mark Cembrowski, UBC
• Title: Anomalous pyramidal cells bridge memory timescales 
• Zoom link found here
• Zoom passcode: 131071

FEBRUARY 5 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Shernaz Bamji
• Speaker: Dr. Helen Tremlett, UBC
• Title: Adventures in multiple sclerosis epidemiology: using Canada’s population-based health data to explore the prodrome and impact of comorbidities
• Zoom link found here 
• Zoom passcode:  788677

february 12 - online via zoom 

• Host: Dr. Lynn Raymond
• Speaker: Dr. Catharine Rankin, UBC
• Title: Rapid assessment of ASD risk gene function, temporal requirements and phenotypic reversibility using C. elegans
• Zoom link found here
• Zoom passcode: 471378

FEBRUARY 19 - online via zoom 

• Host: Dr. Lynn Raymond
• Title: Neurodegeneration: Sensorimotor circuit dysfunction and therapeutic platforms
• Speakers:
• Dr. Miriam Spering, UBC:  Eye movements as a window into sensorimotor function in Parkinson’s disease
• Dr. Blair Leavitt, UBC, CMMT:  Lipid nanoparticle systems for the delivery of  gene therapy to the CNS
• Dr. Stephanie Willerth, UVic & SBME:  3D printing neural tissue models of disease
• Zoom link found here
• Zoom passcode: 785757

FEBRUARY 26 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley
• Speaker: Dr. Yu-Tian Wang
• Title: Development of positive allosteric modulators of NMDARs as novel therapeutics for CNS diseases
• Zoom link found here
• Zoom passcode: 353842

MARCH 5 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley 
• Speaker: Dr. Tao Huan, UBC 
• Title: Metabolomics in Brain Research: A Promising Approach for Alzheimer’s Disease, Brain Tumors, and Beyond
• Zoom link found here
• Zoom passcode 695684

MARCH 12 - online via zoom 

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley
• Speaker: Dr. Erin Calipari, Vanderbilt University
• Title: A novel framework for nucleus accumbens core dopamine in learned behavior
• Zoom information found here 
• Zoom passcode: 499443

MARCH 19 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley 
• Speaker: Dr. Jason Barton, UBC
• Title: Words and faces: hemispheric specialization for high-level object recognition.
• Zoom information found here
• Zoom password: 940936

APRIL 9 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley
• Speaker: Dr. Ninan Abraham, UBC
• Title: What have we been missing in racial equity in academia?
• Zoom information found here
• Zoom passcode: 730930

APRIL 16 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr.Timothy Murphy 
• Speaker: Dr. Spencer Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Title: Multiphoton imaging across brain areas simultaneously to explore brain areas acting in concert with subcellular resolution.
• Zoom information found here
• Zoom passcode: 799104

APRIL 23 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley 
• Speaker: Dr. Silke Cresswell and Dr. Matthew Sacheli, UBC
• Title: Update on the Brain Wellness Program, Transcending Boundaries and the upcoming Music and Brain symposium on May 15
• Zoom information found here
• Zoom passcode: 935096

APRIL 30 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Haakon Nygaard
• Speaker:  Dr. Peter St George Hyslop, University of Toronto 
• Title: Roles of intrinsically disordered proteins in neuronal health and in ALS / FTLD
• Zoom information found here
• Zoom passcode: 288082

MAY 7 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Peter Zandstra
• Speaker: Dr. Molly Shoichet, University of Toronto
• Title: Regenerative Strategies in the Central Nervous System:
  Promoting Functional Repair in Animal Models of Blindness and Stroke
• Zoom information found here
• Zoom passcode: 168270

MAY 14 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Catharine Winstanley
• Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Matthews & Dr. Michael Gordon, UBC 
• Title: Genetics and neurobiology of insect sensory systems
• Zoom information found here
• Zoom passcode: 177202

MAY 28 - online via zoom

• Host: Dr. Annie Ciernia
• Speaker: Dr. Autumn S. Ivy, UC Irvine School of Medicine
• Title: Neural epigenetic mechanisms of early-life exercise underlie improvements in memory: implications for disorders of cognition
• Zoom information found here
• Zoom passcode: 687701