Past Seminars 2022‑2023
Presenter |
Date |
Title |
Emily Witt, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University |
September 20, 2022 |
The Effects of Cocaine Self-Administration and Nicotinamide on Astroglial Mitochondria |
Timothy Bredy, PhD, Associate Professor, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and Fellow, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California Irvine |
October 4, 2022 |
RNA in Neuroscience |
Cindi Morshead, PhD, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto (Joint Seminar of Department of Medical Neuroscience and Department of Pharmacology) |
October 18, 2022
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Promoting Self-Repair of the Injured Brain: A Tale of Two Cells |
Kazue Semba, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University |
October 25, 2022 |
Sleep/Wake-Dependent Astrocytic Plasticity at Synapses to Lateral Hypothalamic Neurons |
Yoshiyuki Kubota, PhD, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Okazaki, Japan; and RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Japan |
October 28, 2022 |
Cortical Spine Dynamics During a Single Seed Grasp Motor Learning |
Gerben van Hameren, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Friedman Lab, Department of Neuroscience, Dalhousie University |
November 1, 2022 |
Targeting Calcium Uptake to Reduce Mitochondrial Dysfunction After Traumatic Brain Injury and Cortical Spreading Depolarization |
John Frampton, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University |
November 29, 2022 |
Bioengineered Culture systems for Neurobiology |
Manuel Mattheisen, Associate Professor, Depts. of Psychiatry and Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University. |
January 24, 2023 |
Complex traits genetics – What we have learned and what we still need to understand. |
Dr. Kevin Duffy, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University. |
January 31, 2023 |
Retinal inactivation as a means of correcting the effects of early visual deprivation. |
Jae Ho Han, MSc Candidate, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University |
February 14, 2023 |
Identification of plasma derived extracellular vesicle small RNA biomarkers of high grade gliomas. |
Tuan Bui, Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Dept. of Biology, University of Ottawa. |
February 21, 2023 |
Insights into the neural control of movement by spinal circuits learned from its development. |
February 28, 2023: Tim Bardouille, Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University. |
February 28, 2023 |
Transient Neuromagnetic Signals in the Human Brain: Age-Related Trends are Revealed in Big Data. |
Delaney Henderson, PhD Candidate, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University |
March 21, 2023 |
“Effects of optic nerve damage and age on retinal ganglion cell function” |
Jamil Muradov, PhD Candidate, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University. |
April 4, 2023 |
Memantine Inhibits Cortical Spreading Depolarization and Improves Neurovascular Function Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Results of a Randomized Pre-Clinical Trial. |
Daniel Murage, MSc Candidate, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University |
April 11, 2023 |
Brain Default Mode Network Connectivity and Familial Risk for Major Mood Disorders. |
Paige Drake, PhD Candidate, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University |
April 18, 2023 |
Where did they go? Using hydrocortisone inhibition to study conjunctival papillae and placode formation in the embryonic chicken eye. |
Frank Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University. |
April 25, 2023 |
Neurons in the heart: why, what and how. |
Sheida Mirloo, PhD Candidate, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University. |
May 23, 2023 |
The heterogeneity of the blood-brain barrier in healthy individuals. |
Claire Reardon, MSc Candidate, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University. |
May 30, 2023 |
Investigating the impact of Insulin Resistance on changes in activity and functional connectivity in Bipolar Disorder: an fMRI study. |
Saara Mansoor, PhD Candidate, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University. |
June 6, 2023 |
Understanding, Predicting and Preventing Concussion Susceptibility in a Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Model. |
Marley Blommers, MSc Candidate, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University. |
June 8, 2023 |
The Role of Mllt11 in the Development of Retinal and Cerebellar Cytoarchitecture. |
| John Martin, PhD,Medical Professor and Department Chair, Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, City University of New York School of Medicine. | June 16, 2023 |
Using Motor Cortex Neuromodulation to Repair the Damaged Corticospinal Motor System. |
| Claire Mitchell, Professor, Department of Basic and Translational Sciences, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania | August 17, 2023 | Lysosomal dysfunction and repair |