DMCBH Open Science Initiative Town Hall

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

Developing infrastructure and initiatives that promote open science and data sharing is an important part of advancing research. In line with this, Dr. Paul Pavlidis has secured a grant from the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute to gauge interest in and develop principles that would eventually see the DMCBH declared an Open Science Institute. This would […]


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The effects of maternal immune activation on early development in an outbred strain of mice

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

Our lab is interested in the neural bases for social function, and we use mouse models for diseases that have social deficits at their core. This talk will present our recent work looking at postnatal development, juvenile behaviours and autophagy in a mouse model of perinatal infection. Rudy North Lecture Theatre "Live" Screening Zoom option […]


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Spontaneous activity, memory replay, and the default mode network

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

Spontaneous activity accounts for most of what the brain does and is likely to be key for information processing in the brain, but its function is still quite mysterious. Two key spontaneous activity processes are the Default Mode Network (DMN), a set of areas that are most markedly connected and active during behavioural idleness, and […]


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Open science: From genes to affordable medicines

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

Dr. Edwards has offered to meet with researchers throughout the day on Feb 17 to discuss open science. If you are interested, please reach out to Paul Pavlidis (paul@msl.ubc.cs).  Trainees […]


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He Tian candidate presentation

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

Please note this event is postponed until 12:00pm due to flight delays. The brain encodes and processes information through the dynamic membrane voltage of neurons. However, in vivo electrophysiology, i.e., […]


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BC Neuroscience Day

Paetzold Auditorium, Vancouver General Hospital 899 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver

Forum at which faculty from the BC Neuroscience community present topics along with an invited professor/Keynote speaker.


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