Mr. Luis Souto Maior, BSc (MSc Candidate working with Dr. Richard Frayne, Vascular Imaging Lab, University of Calgary) Title: “Automatic quality control on large medical imaging datasets using a hybrid machine learning model”.   Mr. Maior's Research Page   Mr. Aron Sahand Talai, BSc (MSc Candidate working with Dr. Nils Forkert, Medical Image Processing and Machine Learning Lab, University of Calgary) Title: “Machine learning in Parkinson's disease [...]

Visiting guest Dr. Robert Malenka from Stanford University will be presenting "Neural Mechanisms of Social Reward” on Friday, February 2nd, 2018, Noon-12:50 PM in HSC Theatre Four.

Visiting guest Dr. John Huguenard from Stanford University will be presenting "Dynamics of the thalamocortical system in epilepsy” on Friday, February 9th, 2018, Noon-12:50 PM in HSC Theatre One.

HBI Seminar Series § Speaker: Manuel Hulliger – Title TBA § 3:30pm § University of Calgary, HSC Library, History of Medicine Room

Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Speaker: Benjamin Tucker – Title TBA 11:30 am–12:30 pm University of Alberta, CAB-365

FEB 15 @ 12-12:50 Alberta MS Network Seminar Dr. Patrizia Casaccia Professor, Dept. Neuroscience, Dept. of Genomics and Multiscale Biology CGD Center for Multiple Sclerosis Friedman Brain Institute Center for Myelin Repair Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai “Investigating Mechanisms of Disease Progression and Therapeutic Responses in MS" UofA ECHA Telus Centre 145, UofC HSC O1500 (live site), UofL EP1201 SHC 410030

Visiting guest Dr. Patrizia Casaccia from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will be presenting "Oligodendrocytes as Environmental Sensors” on Friday, February 16th, 2018, Noon-12:50 PM in HSC Theatre Four.

FEB 16 @ 3-4:00 Journal Club Discussant: Nathan Michaels, PhD Candidate, Yong Lab Article: Dillenburg A, Ireland G, Holloway RK, Davies CL, Evans FL, Swire M, Bechler ME, Soong D, Yuen TJ, Su GH, Becher JC, Smith C, Williams A, Miron VE. Activin receptors regulate the oligodendrocyte lineage in health and disease. Acta Neuropathol. 2018 Feb 3. HSC 750

FEB 28 @ 12-1:00 *Special Alberta MS Network Seminar and Calgary MS Rounds  Dr. Jeroen Geurts, Associate Professor, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, and Dr. Bert t'Hart, Professor, University of Groningen, Amsterdam. UofA TBD, UofC FMC Coombs Theatre (live site), UofL EP1201 SHC 580088 * Lunch provided to those who RSVP by Feb 21 to info@albertamsnetwork.ca or t.lichtenberger@ucalgary.ca

Speaker: Aishah Abdul Rahman – Title TBA 11:30 am–12:30 pm University of Alberta, CAB-365