World Brain Day Virtual Celebration 2020
OnlineJoin the BC Brain Wellness Program and the Centre for Brain Health in celebrating World Brain Day! This event will be held virtually and will have something for everyone, including […]
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Join the BC Brain Wellness Program and the Centre for Brain Health in celebrating World Brain Day! This event will be held virtually and will have something for everyone, including […]
Join us and hear students in Neuroscience speak to how they successfully navigated graduate school at UBC. Learn what they wish they had known when they first started. The event […]
Learn about career options after grad school outside of academia! Several graduates from the UBC Neuroscience program have agreed to share their experiences in the pharmaceutical industry. This event will […]
FILM AVAILABLE TO WATCH ON VIMEO FROM NOVEMBER 25-27 PANEL DISCUSSION: NOVEMBER 27, 4-5PM PICTURE A SCIENTIST is a documentary film that chronicles the rise of researchers who are writing […]
PRESENTATIONS: USING MUSIC THERAPY TO SUPPORT THOSE WITH MODERATE ALZHEIMER DISEASE: OUTCOMES OF A CLINICAL TRIAL OF GROUP/CAREGIVER AND INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS IN AN OUTPATIENT SETTING Dr. Kevin Kirkland, Dr. Susan […]
It is imperative to consider sex and gender when conducting inclusive research, building unbiased technology and facilitating equitable healthcare. Research that implements sex- and gender-based analysis plus (SGBA+) has found important differences in many areas that pertain to neuroscience, including disease risk and effective treatments. Implementation of SGBA+ into your research is often required by funding […]
The BC Brain Wellness Program invites you to join our annual celebration of World Brain Day on July 22 from 10am to 12pm PST. Moderated by Tamara Taggart, we will be taking you on a journey from idea to implementation on how research impacts all of us. Our 2-hour virtual event will be an enriching […]
Host: Jeff LeDue Speaker: GPN CONP Scholars
Join in person in the auditorium or via the zoom option. The presenter will be remote. Zoom link here (click on "Join a meeting") Meeting ID: 95496 072083 Passcode: 072083 In this presentation, Dr. Ashley Kopec will discuss published work examining the role of microglia, the resident immune cells in the brain, in neural and social development […]
This colloquium will present innovation from the top student teams of the Brain-Tech 2021: Idea Generation and Hackathon for Brain Wellness. The Hackathon was hosted by the Dynamic Brain Circuits in Health and Disease Cluster, the BC Brain Wellness Program, and the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. The Brain-Tech 2021 winners will discuss and demo their […]
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on "Join a meeting") Meeting ID: 95496 072083 Passcode: 072083 SVPRO will present UBC’s approach to preventing and responding to sexualized violence, with a focus on key principles for supporting survivors. The presentation will include what constitutes sexualized violence and prohibited relationships, standards and […]
Our perception of the world begins with stimuli in the environment but is then dramatically shaped by our expectations, past experience, and internal state. Olfactory perception is especially sensitive to these kinds of modulation. In fact, input from a diverse network of brain regions conveying multisensory, homeostatic and experience-dependent information converges on the olfactory system […]
The Neuroscience Research Colloquium (NRC), is a series of lectures featuring local and international neuroscientists.