Killam Lecture TODAY
February 9, 2010
Date: Tuesday February 9th
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: Jean Timmins Theatre
Dr. Patrice Smith is a professor of neuroscience in the psychology department at Carleton University and a research fellow at Harvard Medical School. She was awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard, in 2005, to carry out her research on repair of the nervous system by targeting nerve regeneration. She continued her research when she moved back to Ottawa last year to join Carleton’s Institute of Neuroscience. Dr. Smith is among several researchers within the Institute who are exploring behavioural and neurological mechanisms underlying depression, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and brain/spinal cord injury.
In addition to a recent article in Neuron, Dr. Smith has previously published her work in prestigious journals, including Science, Journal of Neuroscience and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Neuroscience Seminar TODAY
February 3, 2010
McGill Centre for Research in Neuroscience
Neuroscience Seminar Series presents:
Dr. Amy Shaub Maddox
Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer
Université de Montréal
“Asymmetry is an emergent property of the furrow in cytokinesis”
Date: Wednesday February 3rd
Time: noon
Place: Montreal General Hospital, Room L7 140
Killam Lecture TODAY
February 2, 2010
Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derivates for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury and Disease
Speaker: Hans Keirstead, PhD
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
University of California, Irvine
Date: Tuesday February 2nd
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre
Dr. Hans Keirstead is Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Co-Director of the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at the UC Irvine Reeve-Irvine Research Center. In 2004, Hans Keirstead led his team of researchers at UC Irvine to successfully develop a human embryonic stem cell derived treatment for acute spinal cord injuries in rats. That treatment was recently approved by FDA for clinical trials in humans with acute spinal cord injuries. The trial, which will be carried out by Geron Corporation, marks the first human embryonic stem cell trial ever approved in the U.S.
Click here to read a recent article on Dr. Keirstead published in the LA Times Magazine.
Special Lecture on Neuroscience, Ethics and Society
January 28, 2010
Date: Monday, February 1, 2010
Time: 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
Place: Auditorium Jacques Genest , 110 ave des Pins ouest
Speaker: Steve Hyman M.D.
Provost, Harvard University and Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School
http://www.provost.harvard.edu/people/
Neuroscience Seminar this Wednesday!
January 26, 2010
McGill Centre for Research in Neuroscience
Neuroscience Seminar Series presents:
Dr. Stephen Michnick
Department of Biochemistry, Université de Montréal
“Perfect switches, surprises and quandries in signal integration”
Date: Wednesday January 27th
Time: 12:00 pm
Place: Room L7 140 Montreal General Hospital
Coffee will be served 15 minutes before the seminar. For further information please go to: www.mcgill.ca/crn
Friday fun – Grey Cup at the RVH!
January 21, 2010
The Grey Cup will be exhibited at the RVH on Friday January 22nd. Dr. Scott Delaney, team physician for the Montreal Alouettes and Research Director at the McGill Sport Medicine Clinic, will be showing it in the ER, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine units. MUHC fans are invited to come by and see – and touch! – the famous trophy.
Killam Lecture TODAY
January 19, 2010
Date: Tuesday January 19th
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: de Grandpre Communication Centre
Alexander Prat will present the Killam Conference on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, with the subject being Molecular Characterization of Blood to Brain Exchanges. Alexander Prat received his MD degree from the University of Montreal, completed his Neurology clinical training both at the University of Montreal and at McGill University, and received his PhD from the Neuroscience Program, McGill University. He is now an Associate Professor at the University of Montreal and Director of the Neuroimmunology Research Unit at CHUM. He is now internationally recognized for his studies on novel molecules produced by endothelial cells that regulate trafficking of immune constituents to the central nervous system and on molecules produced within the central nervous system that impact on properties of the blood-brain barrier. His work covers both basic and translational aspects of neuroscience research.
See you there!
Upcoming neuroscience lecture
January 7, 2010
McGill Neuroscience Seminar Series:
Dr. Pierre Drapeau
Dept. of Pathology and Cell Biology, Université de Montréal
“From ALS to zebrafish… and back: developmental plasticity and functional genomics of neurogenetic disorders”
Wednesday January 13 at noon
Montreal General Hospital, room L7 140
For more information, visit: www.mcgill.ca/crn
Happy new year!
January 4, 2010
The Library team extends very best wishes for a happy and healthy 2010!
Holiday hours at the Neuro Library
December 16, 2009
Thursday December 24th CLOSED
Friday December 25th CLOSED
Saturday December 26th CLOSED
Sunday December 27th CLOSED
Monday December 28th 9 am – 3 pm
Tuesday December 29th 9 am – 3 pm
Wednesday December 30th 9 am – 3 pm
Thursday December 31st CLOSED
Friday January 1st CLOSED
Saturday January 2nd CLOSED
Sunday January 3rd CLOSED
