Events
January 16, 2025
Healthy Aging art contest celebrates creativity and connection
The Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health and the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for…
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Research
DMCBH graduate student creates an innovative open source tool to study microglia form and function
When faced with a daunting challenge early in her PhD, Jennifer Kim, a graduate student in the Ciernia lab, turned a roadblock into an innovative solution. Tasked with characterizing microglia morphology changes across multiple brain regions from large cohorts of samples, she encountered limitations in existing tools. “I was discouraged to find that the most commonly used analysis methods at…
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Research
January 9, 2025
Unravelling the mystery behind Alzheimer’s resilience
Why do some people exhibit the same brain pathology as patients with Alzheimer’s disease,…
Research
December 20, 2024
DMCBH 2024: That’s a wrap!
As 2024 comes to a close, the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH)…
Upcoming Events
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Dr. Florian Engert: Focus versus Competence: Attentional Switching in Larval Zebrafish
January 24
2215 Wesbrook MallVancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3 Canada
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Decision making strategies in the face of conflicting or uncertain sensory input have been successfully described in many different species. Here we analyze large behavioral datasets of larval zebrafish engaged in a ‘coherent dot’ optomotor assay. We find that animal…
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Monthly Monday Rounds in Mental Health and Addictions
January 27 @ 3:30 pm
From idea into action: implementation of Road to Recovery at St. Paul’s Hospital and 1-year findings
DMCBH Room 3402, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3
Neuroscience Research Colloquium
January 31 @ 11:00 am
UBC Kickstart Updates
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3
Neuroscience Research Colloquium
February 7 @ 11:00 am
UBC Kickstart Updates
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3
Our Research
The Centre is home to five Integrated Research Programs, with over 100 investigators involved in clinical and foundational research.
