Dr. Stephen Ferguson: G Protein-coupled Receptors, Vesicular Glutamate Transporters and β-arrestins as Targets to Attenuate Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s Disease Progression.

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

Huntington’s disease (HD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are both neurodegenerative disorders that, despite differing in their underlying causes and specific symptoms, share several key features. These include age-related onset, progressive […]


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Neuropizza with the Rankin lab

Koerner Pavilion Conference Centre F-106, 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Come and learn about some cool science and hang out with your neuroscience colleagues over pizza and drinks!! Neuropizza takes place monthly in the Koerner conference room starting at 5:00pm and is open to everyone.


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Dr. Bence Olveczky: Neural circuits underlying learned motor sequences.

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

Our ability to sequence movements and actions in response to unpredictable environmental events underlies our rich and adaptive behavioral repertoire. Such flexible behaviors contrast with overtrained, or automatic, motor sequences directed at specific tasks and executed the same way every time. We probed how neural circuits underlie these distinct forms of motor sequence execution by […]


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Dr. Matthew Hill: Amygdalar Regulation of Neuroendocrine and Behavioral Responses to Threat and Stress

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

While the basolateral amygdala (BLA)  is known to be a highly stress sensitive region of the brain, there is surprisingly little understanding of the role the BLA plays in the orchestration of a stress response. The first portion of this talk will focus on the role of the BLA in regulating neuroendocrine responses to stress, […]


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Crafting Visual Explanations of Complex Science: Philosophy and Practice

DMCBH Room 3402 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

This month, Martin Krzywinski, Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre will present "Crafting Visual Explanations of Complex Science: Philosophy and Practice." You’ll learn practical guidelines for crafting visual explanations of your science: form follows function, treat everything as data, seek crispness, fight the shackles of convention, and ask yourself “Is this good for the reader […]


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