Dr. Harriet de Wit: Microdosing:  Fact or Fiction?

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Dr. Harriet de Wit will review evidence for the purported beneficial effects of ‘microdosing’ psychedelic drugs, specifically LSD.  She will describe recent studies from her laboratory investigating behavioral and neural effects of low doses of […]


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Dr. Emily Liman: The secret of sour: Discovery structure and function of the sour receptor OTOP1.

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Identifying and discriminating among compounds prior to ingestion is essential for animals to survive and thrive. Taste receptor cells encode five basic taste qualities, for which receptors and signaling pathways had been described for all […]


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Dr. Ramon Diaz-Arrastia: Traumatic brain injury-related neurodegeneration: What is the pathology.

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Evidence accumulated over the past decades has shown that for many patients, traumatic brain injury (TBI) triggers cellular and molecular processes that continue to evolve long after the acute period and initial recovery. While these […]


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Dr. Janine Kwapis: Time to learn: Diurnal regulation of memory by the clock gene Per1

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Many biological processes, including memory formation, are strongly influenced by the circadian system, which synchronizes animals’ internal states with the external time of day. Long-term memory performance changes across the day/night cycle in both humans […]


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Dr. Nick Steinmetz: Brain-wide coordinated dynamics and Neuropixels Ultra

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 In this talk, I will describe two recent projects in my lab. In the first, we discovered that brain-wide spatiotemporal dynamics (i.e. traveling waves) are coordinated on a moment-to-moment basis between neocortex and striatum, thalamus, […]


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Dr. Alicia Izquierdo: Translational models of frontocortical circuits in learning and decision making

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) have been assigned various overlapping roles ranging from learning and responding to reward, signaling value and uncertainty, and supporting economic decisions, to name a few. Both of […]


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Dr. Kaarina Kowalec: Depression polygenicity and its association with multiple sclerosis disease activity and progression.

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Depression is a common comorbidity in those with multiple sclerosis (MS) and is associated with faster MS disability progression. Identifying who may be at higher risk for depression or faster disease activity or progression may […]


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Dr. Carrie Ferrario: Alterations in brain & behavior that contribute to obesity

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 While urges to eat are regulated by hunger, satiety, and energy demand, they are also strongly influenced by sights, sounds, and smells that are associated with food (food cues). These food cues can influence feeding […]


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Dr. Aki Taruno: A chemical synapse that lacks vesicles

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Chemical neurotransmission is essential for a variety of neural processes and is traditionally understood to be mediated by Ca2+-dependent exocytosis of synaptic vesicles. Nevertheless, it has been recognized for decades that taste receptor cells in […]


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Neuroscience Research Colloquium

The Neuroscience Research Colloquium (NRC), is a series of lectures featuring local and international neuroscientists.