Title: Pain in Mice and Man: Ironic Adventures in Translation Welcome Dr. Jeff Mogil - Professor, Department of Psychology. McGill University, Canada Research Chair Chair: Dr. Bradley Kerr, Co-hosted by the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute and the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain

Our speakers will be: Ms. Nancy Shie, BSc (MSc candidate working in the MR Neuroimaging Lab with Dr. Bruce Pike (http://people.ucalgary.ca/~gbpike/Bruce_Pike/Lab.html), Biomedical Engineering, University of Calgary) Title: “Thalamic segmentation using fMRI for image-guided deep brain stimulation” Profile sketch: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nancy_Shie https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Shie+N%5BAuthor%5D+AND+Canada Ms. Melany Mclean, BSc (MSc candidate working in the MR Neuroimaging Lab with Dr. Bruce Pike (http://people.ucalgary.ca/~gbpike/Bruce_Pike/Lab.html), Biomedical Engineering, University [...]

APR 19 @ 12-12:50 MS Think Tank Dr. Samuel Ludwin Professor Emeritus, Queens University, Kingston "Updates in the pathology of MS" This seminar is sponsored in part by Novartis. FMC Coombs Theatre (live site), SHC 510007

Dr. Samuel Ludwin Professor Emeritus Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine Queens University, Kingston “What Role could Astrocytes and other Glia play in the Pathogenesis of Progressive MS?” UofA ECHA 2-140  · UofC HSC 500 (live site) · UofL EP1201 · SHC  510007 April 20, 9:00 - 9:50 pm* *not the usual noon time Everyone is welcome [...]

April 26 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm Clara Christie Theatre, HSC Brain and Behaviour

"Neural Circuits Controlling Sleep" by Yang Dan, Ph.D. Professor of Neurobiology & HHMI Investigator University of California, Berkeley Thursday, April 27, 2017   1:00 pm   EP 1201 Everyone is Welcome!

May 1 - 2, 2017 Clara Christie Theatre, Health Sciences Centre Foothills Campus, University of Calgary RSVP HERE by April 21, 2017 Questions directed to jason.ng1@ucalgary.ca Bios for speakers can be downloaded here The Hotchkiss Brain Institute, the Melbourne Neuroscience Institute at the University of Melbourne, and the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health [...]

The second annual UAlberta MS Centre Research Symposium will be taking place on May 5, 2017 at the Telus Theatre (University of Alberta). Registration is free and open to physicians, faculty, trainees, students, and public. Guest Speakers have been invited to present their research regarding STEM CELLS; their biology and application in the search for [...]

The 36th meeting of BASICS will be held in 2017 on Friday, May 5 and Saturday, May 6. The conference will begin Friday afternoon with an invited talk at 5:00; four other talks will be presented on Saturday. There will be a poster session and reception Friday evening after dinner, and another poster session will be [...]