Dr. Michael Kobor: Epigenetics and the Human Life Course

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: 99412 188589 Passcode: 188589 Dr. Michael Kobor is a Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and The Edwin S.H. Leong UBC Chair in Healthy Aging—a UBC President’s Excellence Chair. He began […]


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Dr. Susan Gauthier: Imaging a new treatment target in Multiple Sclerosis: Chronic Active Lesions

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 Innate immunity plays a pivotal role in the pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis (MS) and important cell types involved in this process are CNS resident monocytes (microglia) and blood-derived macrophages. Chronic CNS inflammation in the MS […]


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Dr. Yuki Oka: Regulation of fluid homeostasis through gut-brain signaling

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. Oka will discuss how innate instinct to consume water and salt is regulated through body-brain interactions.


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Data Deposit Basics

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Please join us at Databinge on January 27th for “Data Deposit Basics” with Eugene Barsky. Eugene is the UBC Library’s Research Data Management Librarian and he will cover file naming, […]


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Dr. Anastassia Voronova: (Re)generating oligodendrocytes in the developing and degenerating brain: a neural stem cell perspective

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 Objectives: 1) Neural stem cells build and regenerate the brain in part by forming oligodendrocytes, the myelinating cells of the central nervous system 2) Endogenous neural stem cells can be engaged in mouse models of neurodegenerative disorders for […]


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Using fMRI to model representational content in a translational context

DMCBH Room 3402 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

This month, Prof. Beck Todd from the Department of Psychology will present on "Using fMRI to model representational content in a translational context." Zoom link if unable to attend in person:  https://ubc.zoom.us/j/5747966049?pwd=N1ppY2tUS3o4bk9vTkFSTzBna3k0Zz09 Meeting ID: 574 796 6049 Passcode: 052059


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UBC Kickstart Updates: Drs. Annie Ciernia and Paul van Donkelaar

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

Dr. Annie Ciernia: "Mechanisms of Peripheral Lipopolysaccharide Induced Brain Inflammation" Dr. Paul van Donkelaar: "Characterizing tau pathology in survivors of intimate partner violence-related traumatic brain injury" Zoom option if unable […]


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UBC Kickstart Updates: Neha Suvindran and Drs. Rebecca Todd & Stan Floresco

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

Neha Suvindran: "Reimagining Neuro-Bioelectronic Systems: Sustainable, Stable and Self-healing Fiber Electrodes" Drs. Rebecca Todd and Stan Floresco: "Translation Investigation of Neurophysiological Substrates of Active and inhibitory Avoidance in healthy and […]


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Dr. Michael Drew: Hippocampal mechanisms of fear suppression and relapse

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 Learned fear often relapses after extinction, suggesting that extinction training […]


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A Tale of Three Studies: Updates on rat behavioural studies evaluating chronic ropinirole, cannabis, and psychedelics

DMCBH Room 3402 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

This month, Dr. Catharine Winstanley from the Department of Psychology will present "A Tale of Three Studies: Updates on rat behavioural studies evaluating chronic ropinirole, cannabis, and psychedelics." Specifically, she will be talking about: some of her lab's latest studies with ropinirole to model iatrogenic gambling disorder her lab's forays into cannabis administration, including vaped […]


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