Department of Neuroscience Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience Polaris Brain Dynamics Research Group “Facilitation memory persistence through consolidation in young and middle-aged rats” by Alexandra Gros, Ph.D. University of Edinburgh, UK http://cvscience.aviesan.fr/cv/1964/alexandra-gros Friday, January 12, 2018 9:00 am   EP 1201 Everyone is Welcome!

Visiting guest Dr. István Katona from the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences will be presenting "Non-canonical forms of endocannabinoid signaling” on Friday, January 12th, 2018, Noon-12:50 PM in HSC Theatre One.

Dr. Greg Neely presenting “Acute and chronic pain; an evolutionary perspective” in the conference room on the south side of the HRIC building, floor 1A, room 1AC56 on Thursday from 11:00 AM - Noon.

You are invited to the public release and celebration of the Top 11 Depression Research Priorities as determined by Albertans. Date: January 25, 2018 Time: 10:00am-12:00pm Location: North Atrium, 3rd Floor, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (11405-87 ave NW) RSVP by January 10th at dpslaunch.eventbrite.ca For more information on the project visit: http://www.aihealthsolutions.ca/initiatives-partnerships/spor/patient-engagement-platform/alberta-depression-priority-setting-project/

Department of Neuroscience Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience Harley Hotchkiss Memorial Lecture "Imaging Neuromodulatory Activity in Mouse Visual Cortex" by Jack Waters, PhD Associate Investigator Allen Institute for Brain Science University of Washington Seattle, Washington   Friday, January 26, 2018  11:00 am   EP1201 Everyone is Welcome!

Dr. Laura Stone from the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, will be presenting "Low back pain: Intervertebral Disc Degeneration and Epigenetic Regulation of Supraspinal Neuroplasticity” on Friday, January 26th, 2018, Noon-12:50 PM in HSC Theatre One. See poster below and website for more info: http://www.stonepainlab.com/

Monday, January 29, 2018 6:30 to 8 p.m. Bernard Snell Hall Walter C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre University of Alberta Hospital 8440 112 Street, Edmonton, AB featuring DR. VERNA YIU President & CEO, Alberta Health Services Professor of Pediatrics and Former interim Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta University of Alberta and Harvard [...]

Dr. Michael Woodside, iCORE Chair in Biophysics, Department of Physics, University of Alberta "Studying protein misfolding in neurodegeneration at the level of single molecules"

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 [...]