2016/17
Invited Speakers
Please visit our events page for the location of our invited speaker seminars. All seminars begin at 9:30 a.m.
| Date | Name | Affiliation | Seminar Title |
| September 27 | Dr. Marc Schieber Professor, Department of Neuroscience |
Rochester University | "Reaching and grasping are separated more in time than in space" |
| October 4 | Dr. Esteban Fernandez-Juricic Professor of Biological Sciences and Showalter Faculty Scholar |
Purdue University | "Predator-prey interactions: the avian visual sensory perspective" |
| November 29 | Dr. Rosie Cowell Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences |
University of Massachusetts Amherst | "Recollection without Hippocampal Engagement" |
| January 17 | Dr. Michael Salter Chief of Research at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Senior Scientist in the Program of Neurosciences & Mental Health, and Professor of Physiology |
University of Toronto | "From receptors to pain: the molecular dynamics of pain" |
| February 28 | Dr. Beverley Orser Canada Research Chair in Anesthesia and Professor of Anesthesia |
University of Toronto | "Targeting astrocytes-neuron crosstalk to reverse cognitive deficits" |
| March 7 | Dr. Marie-Ève Tremblay Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine |
Laval University | "Targeting microglia to rescue brain circuits from elimination in chronic stress, aging, and Alzheimer's disease" |
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April 18 Treva Glazebrook Lecture |
Dr. Stan Floresco |
University of British Columbia |
"Prefrontal GABA regulation of cognition: Implication for psychiatric disorders" |
| June 13 | Dr. Abigail Marsh Associate Professor, Department of Psychology |
Georgetown University | "The Altruistic Brain" |
