Past Seminars 2024‑2025

Presenter Date Title

Ansgar Büschges, Professor, Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne.

 

Oct 1, 2024 Controlling Multi-segmented Limbs for Locomotion – from Studying Insects to General Concepts.

Yoshiyuki Kubota, PhD, Section of Electron Microscopy, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki & Support Unit for Electron Microscopy Techniques, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Japan.

 

Oct 15, 2024 Large volume electron microscopy investigation of microcircuits in the marmoset prefrontal cortex: Preliminary findings.

Lorielle Dietze, PhD Student, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University.

 

Oct 22, 2024 Interplay between metabolic alterations, bipolar disorders, and white matter microstructure.

Armen Saghatelyan, Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa.

 

Nov 5, 2024 The guidelines for parenting kids in the neurogenic region.

Laura Dauphinee, MSc Student, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University.

 

Nov 14, 2024 Establishing a Spatio-Temporal Baseline of Gene Expression after Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.

Xinrui Li, MSc Student, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University.

 

Nov 19, 2024 Source of Brainstem Raphe and Locus Coeruleus nuclei Inputs Modulating Spinal Cord Inhibitory Cross Reflex. 

Dr. Jeremy Dasen, Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

 

Nov 26, 2024 Modulation of spinal circuits for flexible motor control.
Can Souzer, Research Associate, Semba Lab. Dec 3, 2024 Analyzing structure function relationships in sleep need dependent astrocytic regulation of synapses from 3D nanoscale reconstructions using computer simulations.

Nicanor Gonzalez-Morales, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University.

 

Feb 25, 2025 Investigating the Role of Filamins in Muscle Repair Using Drosophila.

Wali Khan, MSc Student, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University

 

Mar 18, 2025 Mechanisms Underlying Resilience in a Female Rat Model of Repetitive Mild Traumatic.

Dr. Yves De Koninck, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Laval University.

 

Mar 25, 2025 Chloride homeostasis as a new therapeutic target: from chronic pain to neurodegenerative diseases.
Abdallah Alshanti, MSc Student, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University. Mar 27, 2025

Impact-detecting helmets as indicators of concussion and traumatic microvascular injury in university football players.

 

Reynaldo Popoli, PhD Student, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University.

 

Apr 1, 2025 New directions in ALS Management.

Yang Zhou, Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2), Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University.

 

Apr 8, 2025 Modulating Reactive Gliosis and Neuroinflammation by ASD-associated Chd8 in the Adult Mouse Brains.

Maya Selitser, MSc Student, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University.

 

Apr 10, 2025 The interplay between metabolic health, brain structure, and cognition in severe mental illness.
Alienor Jamet, PhD Student, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University. Apr 15, 2025 Neuroprotection of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in experimental glaucoma with the novel gene therapy construct AAV2 hSYN1-TrkB-2A-mBDNF in adult and aged mice.