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Retreat Schedule: Thursday September 19th:
• 9:00: Arrival, Registration and putting up of Posters.
- 3rd Floor
• 9:00 - 10:00: Pre- Retreat Workshop:
- Event Hall
NEW: Student Workshop: How to Keep an Effective Lab Notebook. – Dr. Joe Makkerh
Start of IPN Retreat
• 10:00 - 10:30: Welcome and Opening Remarks. Dr. Josephine Nalbantoglu - Event Hall
• 10:30 - 11:30 Keynote Speech: "Neural programs of regulation, protection and repair"
Dr. Rick Gracely, University of North Carolina. - Event Hall
• 11:30 – 1:00: Session 1 Topic: “The Many Facets of Pain Neurobiology.” Coordinator: Dr. Petra Schweinhardt, IPN/Dentistry
• Using Mouse Genetics to better understand the Etiology of Migraine: Alex Tuttle; Jeff Mogil Lab
• The Vascular Basis of Neuropathic Pain: Tony Lim; Ji Zhang Lab • The Assessment of Gray Matter in Fibromyalgia: Natasha Feier; Petra Schweinhardt Lab • Psychosocial Influences on Pain: Johanna Harrison; Michael Sullivan Lab
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Retreat Schedule: Thursday September 19th continued:
• 1:00 – 3:00: Buffet lunch and Poster Session A.
- 3rd Floor
• 3:00 - 4:30: Session 2: “Axon Guidance – how Growth Cones find their Way.”
Coordinator: Dr. Alyson Fournier, IPN/Montreal Neurological Institute. • Amigo-1 controls axonal targeting in the olfactory system: Reesha Raja; JF Cloutier lab • Uncoupling of EphA/ephrinA signaling and spontaneous activity in neural circuit wiring: Daniel
Morales; Artur Kania lab • Spatial and temporal regulators – The role of 14-3-3 proteins in axon guidance: Andrew
Kaplan; Alyson Fournier lab
- Event Hall
• 4:30 - 5:15: Special Session: 4 years on: State of the IPN Address
Dr. Josephine Nalbantoglu and Dr. Joseph Rochford
- Event Hall • 5:15 – 7:15: Poster Session A + B
A posters present from 5:15 to 6:15; B posters present from 6:15 to 7:15.
- 3rd Floor
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Retreat Schedule: Friday September 20th:
• 9:00 - 10:40: Parkinsons Summer School @ IPN Retreat: • 9:00: Introduction by Ricardo Alchini and Camille Juzwik
• 9:05: Ask The Patient - My Experience with Parkinsons Speaker: Jillian Carson • 9:50: Personalised Learning on Parkinson's Disease research - from a blank piece of paper to a peer
reviewed research project proposal in 9 days Speaker: Dr. Paul De Roos, Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden
- Event Hall
• 10:40 - 10:45: Introduction and Welcome to Day 2. – Dr. Joe Makkerh, IPN
- Event Hall
• 10:45 - 12:15: Session 3: “NeuroPharmacology.” Coordinator: Dr. Paul Clarke, IPN/Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
• Limbic mGluR5 abnormalities in cocaine dependence using PET radioligand [11C]ABP688: Michele Millella MD, Marco Leyton Lab
• Rewiring of dopamine circuitry by adolescent exposure to amphetamine: Lauren Reynolds; Cecilia Flores Lab
• New tools to follow in vivo the early Abeta-driven deregulation of the ERK-CREB-CRE pathway: Sonia do Carmo, PhD; Claudio Cuello Lab
• Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species couple cellular metabolism to the strength of inhibitory GABAergic transmission: michael Accardi; Derek Bowie Lab
• The sodium "on/off" switch for kainate-type glutamate receptors: Brent Dawe; Derek Bowie Lab
• Antinociceptive effects of neuronal glutamate transporter inhibitors and permeable group I metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonists in neuropathic pain: Kathleen Vincent; Terrence Coderre Lab
• What drives ultrasonic vocalizations in rats?: Tina Scardochio; Paul Clarke Lab • Dopamine precursor depletion alters flexibility of network structure in resting state fMRI: Peter
Donhauser; Sylvain Baillet Lab - Event Hall
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Retreat Schedule: Friday September 20th continued:
• 12:15 - 12:30: Special Session: Brain@McGill Prize for Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Award Ceremony
Brain@McGill - Event Hall
• 12:30 - 2:30: Buffet lunch and Poster Session B.
- 3rd Floor
• 2:30 – 4:00: Session 4: “Neuroscience and psychiatry: New insights on Old Pathologies.”
Coordinator: Dr. Joe Rochford, IPN/Douglas Mental Health University Institute. • Epigenetics and the regulation of individual differences in maternal care: Sabine Dhir;
Michael Meaney Lab • GDNF signaling in the basolateral amygdala of depressed suicides: Marissa Maheu; Naguib
Mechawar Lab • Olfaction as a biomarker for pre-symptomatic Alzheimer's disease: Marie-Elyse Lafaille-
Magnan; John Breitner Lab • Regulation of hippocampal neurogenesis and affect by neuregulin-1/ErbB signaling: Ian
Mahar; Naguib Mechawar Lab - Event Hall
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Retreat Schedule: Friday September 20th continued:
• 4:00 – 4:20: Coffee Break and Poster Take-down.
- Bar Area and 3rd Floor
• 4:20 – 5:50: Special Session – Non-academic Careers Panel
Hear from former Neuroscientists who now on their way to, or have, non-academic professions:
• Dr. Trina Johnson: Associate Director of the Experimental Therapeutics Program, MNI • Dr. Joanna Bougie: Medical Editor, IC Axon • Cindy Hovington: Post-Doc in Science Education, IPN/McGill • Lauren Enright: Science Teacher, Lester B. Pearson School Board, and Neuroscience Lecturer,
Telus Learning House - Event Hall
• 5:50 – 6:30: Reception, with Food from Boustan and beverages. - 3rd floor
• 6:30 pm – 1 am : Retreat After Party, with Open Bar and DJ - Event Hall
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