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April 2026
Fri 17
April 17 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. Kelly Dunn: How Can Differences in Opioid Withdrawal Inform New Treatment Strategies?

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

This presentation will review the need for a precision medicine approach to opioid withdrawal and illustrate how variability in withdrawal symptom expression would inform novel treatment strategies. Differences in withdrawal […]


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Fri 24
April 24 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. Mypinder Sekhon: Characterizing The Human Dying Process for translational insights into in vivo Brain Ischemia

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

The talk will undertake an overview of the physiology of the human dying process as an in vivo model of brain ischemia physiology. The talk will cover the feasibility of […]


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May 2026
Fri 1
May 1 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. Guillaume Dumas: Multi-Brain Neuroscience: from Generative Neurophenomenology to Inter-Personalized Psychiatry

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

Human cognition and mental health do not arise from the brain alone, but from continuous interactions among people, bodies, and social environments. This talk introduces a multi-brain perspective on neuroscience […]


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Fri 8
May 8 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. Kelsie Eichel: Building a polarized neuron: from C. elegans to humans

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

Neurons are defined by their remarkable polarity, a feature that is highly conserved across most nervous systems. A key neuronal structure, the axon initial segment (AIS), is essential for establishing […]


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Fri 15
May 15 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. Christian Ruff: Neurocomputational Underpinnings of Altered Mentalization in Autism

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

A key behavioral characteristic of autistic individuals is difficulty with mentalization—the ability to understand and respond to the mental states of others. While these difficulties have important social and clinical consequences, the […]


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Fri 29
May 29 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. Jennifer Gommerman: Targeting B cells in MS – understanding mechanisms of action.

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

I will be presenting data on an animal model of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) progression, how we have used this model to better understand disease progression and to understand how MS […]


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June 2026
Fri 5
June 5 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Core Facilities Showcase: NINC (NeuroImaging and NeuroComputation Core) and CNFBI (Core Facility for Neurology Biomarker Innovation)

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

Title: Capabilities and Collaborations: Charting the NINC’s second decade Presented by: Jeff LeDue The NeuroImaging and NeuroComputation (NINC) core has grown rapidly over its first decade adding many new instruments […]


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September 2026
Fri 11
September 11 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. John Lukens: Role of Innate Immune Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Disease

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

This talk will introduce emerging roles for microglia and discrete innate immune signaling pathways in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease, tauopathies, and brain injury.  


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Fri 18
September 18 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. Jonathan Pillow: Disentangling the Roles of Distinct Cell Classes with Cell-Type Dynamical Systems

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

A large body of recent work has focused on the problem of inferring neural population dynamics from recordings of neural activity. However, these models typically ignore the fact that the […]


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Fri 25
September 25 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. Jessica Bolton: Programming vulnerability: The role of microglia in sculpting stress circuits after early-life adversity

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

Dr. Bolton will discuss how early-life adversity impacts brain development in the context of psychiatric disorders, with a focus on the role of microglia in the synaptic rewiring of stress-sensitive […]


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October 2026
Fri 2
October 2 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. Deblina Sarkar: Circulatronics: Surgery-Free Neural Implants for Focal Brain Stimulation

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

Bioelectronic implants for brain stimulation provide critical tools for treating brain diseases as well as investigating fundamental biology but require invasive surgery. In this talk I will discuss a new […]


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Mon 5
October 5 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. Yves de Koninck: Chloride dysregulation as a new therapeutic target: from chronic pain to neurodegenerative diseases

DMCBH Room 3402 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

I will present work we have pursued to identify key mechanisms explaining aberrant pain processing by the nervous system as well as co-morbidities that develop from sustained pain hypersensitivity. This […]


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