From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu May 1 09:17:40 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 09:17:40 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience, Tomorrow, Thursday, May 1st - Development of human gyrification Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Reminder: Lana Vasung, M.D. Ph.D. Student Department of Developmental Neuroscience Croatian Institute for Brain Research School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia Development of human gyrification Thursday, May 1st, 2008 W201 3801 University Street 1:30 p.m. Host: Michael Petrides About the speaker: Last summer, she graduated from the School of Medicine at Zagreb University with an MD diploma. In November 2007, she commenced her PhD research concerning fetal brain imaging (volumetric, cortical thickness and gyrification index studies). The aim of her PhD thesis is to study and to enhance the histological, neurobiological and MRI processing methods and to use them in diagnostic purposes. She works under the supervision of Prof. Kostovic (CIBR); who is one of Dr. Alan Evans collaborators and is currently on a research visit at Alan Evans lab. From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu May 1 09:38:38 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 09:38:38 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Reminder Spring Fling Today Message-ID: P LEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER ****REMINDER**** SPRING FLING TODAY Time: 11:45 Place: Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre PIZZA WILL BE SERVED!!!! Enza Ferracane Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 Director's Office, Rm 636 Tel: (514) 398-1903 Fax: (514) 398-8248 Email: enza.ferracane at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We find that bilinguals are more advanced in domain- general executive functions. After presenting a series of experiments carried out using an eye-tracking device we draw general theoretical consequences for language acquisition. Dr. Jacques Mehler is head of the Language, Cognition and Development Lab at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy. He was editor in chief of Cognition until 2007, and became an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. This lecture is jointly sponsored by the CRLMB, BRAMS and CERNEC Please note that this is a change in venue for Dr. Jacques Mehler's lecture. The lecture will be held in the Redpath Museum Auditorium. Refreshments will be served after the talk. Vincent L. Gracco, PhD McGill University Faculty of Medicine School of Communication Sciences & Disorders 1266 Pine Avenue West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1A8 Telephone: (514) 398-7386 Fax: (514) 398-8123 E-mail: vincent.gracco at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080506/47929c67/attachment.htm From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue May 6 15:28:03 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 15:28:03 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?FW=3A_Killam_Lecture_Series_-_May_1?= =?iso-8859-1?q?3=2C_2008_-_invited_guest_Dr__Denis_Par=E9_-_Role_o?= =?iso-8859-1?q?f_intercalated_amygdala_neurons_in_the_extinction_o?= =?iso-8859-1?q?f_conditioned_fear_responses?= Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:54 PM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Killam Lecture Series - May 13, 2008 - invited guest Dr Denis Par? Dear Doctors/Professors, Dr. Massimo Avoli has invited Dr. Denis Par?, from the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, at Rutgers State University, to speak in the Killam Lecture Series, on Tuesday May 13th, 2008. The title of his talk is: "Role of intercalated amygdala neurons in the extinction of conditioned fear responses" Abstract of Dr. Par?'s talk: Congruent findings from studies of fear learning in animals and humans indicate that research on the brain circuits mediating fear constitutes our best hope of understanding human anxiety disorders. In animals and humans, repeated presentations of a conditioned stimulus (CS) that was previously paired to a noxious stimulus leads to the gradual disappearance of conditioned fear responses. Although much evidence suggests that this extinction process depends on plastic events in the amygdala, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. During my talk, I will review the behavioral properties of extinction as well as what is known about the underlying cellular mechanisms. On this basis, I will derive a set of criteria that should be met by the amygdala neurons mediating extinction. Next, we will consider whether ITC neurons meet these criteria. Finally, I will present the results of recent experiments that directly tested whether ITC neurons mediate extinction. Overall, our results show that ITC neurons constitute likely mediators of extinction because they receive CS information from the basolateral amygdala (BLA), and contribute inhibitory projections to the central nucleus, the main output station of the amygdala for conditioned fear responses. Thus, following extinction training, ITC cells could reduce the impact of CS-related BLA inputs to the central nucleus of the amygdala via feed-forward inhibition. Because ITC cells exhibit an unusual pattern of receptor expression, these findings open new avenues for the treatment of anxiety disorders. Brief Bio: Dr. Par? completed a PhD degree in Neurobiology at Universit? Laval under the supervision of Dr. Mircea Steriade (1985-1989). He then performed a post-doctoral internship with Dr. Rodolfo Llinas at New York University (1990-1992), after which he accepted an assistant professor position at Universit? Laval (1992-2001). Since 2002, Dr. Denis Par? holds the position of Professor at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. Please let me know if you are interested in meeting with Dr. Par? on this day. Please email me at toula.papadopoulos at mcgill.ca with your availability for that day, or call me at 1952, no later than Thursday May 8, 2008. Thank you, Toula Papadopoulos Administrative Assistant for Massimo Avoli, MD, PhD ------ End of Forwarded Message From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Wed May 7 15:33:08 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 15:33:08 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Abstract submission and registration TMS symposium Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER -----Original Message----- From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:25 PM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Abstract submission and registration TMS symposium Importance: High Dear all, Following our last e-mail we would like to inform you that abstract submission is open until the 31st of JULY for the 1st North American Symposium on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Neuroimaging in Cognition and Behavior. Also we strongly encourage early registration as space is limited. The symposium will take place at the Institut Universitaire de G?riatrie de Montr?al, Montr?al, Qu?bec, Canada?on the 25th and 26th of September 2008. Confirmed invited speakers include Profs. V. Walsh, S. Grafton, E. Wasserman, O. Pogarell, H.R. Siebner, Z Nahas, and M. Petrides. All information can be found on the website: http://unfweb.criugm.qc.ca/TMS We look forward to seeing you at this event, The organisers: Oury Monchi, University of Montreal, Antonio P. Strafella, University of Toronto, and Alain Ptito, McGill University together with Magstim and Rogue Research.? From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Wed May 7 16:32:55 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 16:32:55 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] NO BIC SEMINAR ON MONDAY, MAY 12, 2008 Message-ID: PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO BIC SEMINAR ON MONDAY, MAY 12, 2008 . BIC SEMINAR SERIES Date: Time: Place: Speaker: Title: Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Personnel From: Belinda Preziosi Date: May 12th, 2008 Subject: PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION Hello, Please note that if you have any new or re-submission protocols for review by the PET Working Committee, Fifteen (15) copies of the protocol along with both the English and French consent forms (one copy, only, of the French Consent Form) must be submitted by Friday, May 23rd, 2008 in Webster 220. For the most recent version of the Protocols and English and French Consent Forms, please see: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/admin/protocols. Regards Jean Paul Soucy Belinda Preziosi Administrative Coordinator McConnell Brain Imaging Center Montreal Neurological Institute Room WB220 3801 University Montreal, QC H3A 2B4 Tel: (514) 398-1585 Fax: (514) 398-8948 Email: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -----Original Message----- From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Grace Flynn, Ms. Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 11:04 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Special Lecture - Dr. Edward Bilsky, Tuesday, May 13, Noon - de Grandpre Communications Centre Special Lecture: Speaker: Edward Bilsky, Phd, Department of Pharmacology, College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England Title: Constitutive Activity of Opioid Receptors: Implications for Treating Pain and Addiction Date/Time: Tuesday, May 13, Noon Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre, MNI ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, Tomorrow's special lecture will be given by Edward Bilsky, Phd, Department of Pharmacology, College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England Below is an overview of Dr. Bilsky?s research and some of his papers. Expertise: General pharmacology, neuroscience, opioid pharmacology, acute and chronic pain, addiction, neuropharmacology. General Research: Drug development for neurological disorders including pain and addiction; Mechanisms of opioid receptor regulation in health and disease. Current Research: The research in my laboratory is focused on understanding mechanisms associate with chronic pain and addiction, and developing novel treatments for these conditions. Recent Publications: Lowery, J.J., Yeomans, L., Keyari, C.M., Davis, P., Porreca, F., Knapp, B.I., Bidlack, J.M., Bilsky, E.J. and Polt, R. Glycosylation Improves the Central Effects of DAMGO. Chemical Biology & Drug Design, 69:41-47, 2007. Hiebel, A-C., Lee, Y.S., Bilsky, E.J., Giuvelis, D., Deschamps, J.R., Aceto, M.D., May, E.L., Harris, L.S., Coop, A., Dersch, C.M., Rothman, R.B., Jacobson, A.E. and Rice, K.C. Probes for Narcotic Receptor Mediated Phenomena. 34. Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationships of a Potent ?-Agonist ?-Antagonist and an Exceedingly Potent Antinociceptive in the Enantiomeric 9-Substituted 5-(3-Hydroxyphenyl)-N-phenylethylmorphan Series. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 50(16): 3765-3776, 2007. Cheng, K., Kim, I.J., Lee, M-J, Adah, S.A., Raymond, T.J., Bilsky, E.J., Aceto, M.D., May, E.L., Harris, L.S., Coop, A, Dersch, C.M., Rothman, R.B., Jacobson, A.E. and Rice, K.C. Opioid ligands with mixed properties from substituted enantiomeric N-phenethyl-5-phenylmorphans. Synthesis of a ?-agonist ??antagonist and ?-inverse agonists. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 5 (8): 1177-1190, 2007. From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon May 12 11:23:24 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 11:23:24 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Special Lecture - Dr. Ian Meng, Wednesday, May 14, 4:00 p.m. - de Grandpre Communications Centre - Chronic morphine-induced sensitization of dura responsive neurons Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -----Original Message----- From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Grace Flynn, Ms. Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 11:17 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Special Lecture - Dr. Ian Meng, Wednesday, May 14, 4:00 p.m. - de Grandpre Communications Centre Special Lecture: Speaker: Ian Meng, Phd, Department of Physiology, College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England Title: Chronic morphine-induced sensitization of dura responsive neurons Date/Time: Wednesday, May 14, 4:00 p.m. Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre, MNI ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, Wednesday's special lecture will be given by Ian D. Meng, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England Below is an overview of Dr. Meng's research and some of his papers. Expertise: Neuroscience; pain; headache; addiction. General Research: Migraine headache; medication overuse headache; transformation of migraine headache to chronic daily headache. Current Research: Mechanisms of migraine headache; effects of chronic drug exposure on headache; transformation of migraine to chronic daily headache. Recent Publications: Meng ID, Harasawa I. Chronic morphine exposure increases the proportion of on-cells in the rostral ventromedial medulla in rats. Life Sci. 2007 Apr 24;80(20):1915-20. Epub 2007 Feb 24; Ogawa A, Meng ID.The cannabinoid receptor agonist, WIN 55,212-2, inhibits cool-specific lamina I medullary dorsal horn neurons. Neuroscience. 2006 Nov 17;143(1):265-72. Epub 2006 Sep 1. Jordt SE, Bautista DM, Chuang HH, McKemy DD, Zygmunt PM, Hogestatt ED, Meng ID, Julius D. Mustard oils and cannabinoids excite sensory nerve fibres through the TRP channel ANKTM1. Nature. 2004 Jan 15;427(6971):260-5. Epub 2004 Jan 7. Meng ID, Manning BH, Martin WJ, Fields HL An analgesia circuit activated by cannabinoids. Nature. 1998 Sep 24;395(6700):381-3. From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon May 12 14:48:26 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:48:26 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Special lecture - Dr Frans Leijten- Wed May 14/ - MEG: is it better than EEG and cheaper that ECoG for the localization of epileptic sources? Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER SPECIAL LECTURE Dr. Frans Leijten University of Utrecht, The Netherlands MEG: is it better than EEG and cheaper that ECoG for the localization of epileptic sources? Wednesday May 14, 2008 1:00 pm DeGranpr? Communication Center/MNI From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue May 13 09:25:44 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 09:25:44 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - TODAY - Role of intercalated amygdala neurons in the extinction of conditioned fear responses Message-ID: P LEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER REMINDER MNI/KILLAM SEMINAR SERIES Denis Pare, PhD Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Rutgers State University Newark, New Jersey Tuesday May 13, 2008 4:00 pm de Grandpr? Communications Centre BTRC, 3B The title of his talk is: "Role of intercalated amygdala neurons in the extinction of conditioned fear responses" Abstract of Dr. Par?'s talk: Congruent findings from studies of fear learning in animals and humans indicate that research on the brain circuits mediating fear constitutes our best hope of understanding human anxiety disorders. In animals and humans, repeated presentations of a conditioned stimulus (CS) that was previously paired to a noxious stimulus leads to the gradual disappearance of conditioned fear responses. Although much evidence suggests that this extinction process depends on plastic events in the amygdala, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. During my talk, I will review the behavioral properties of extinction as well as what is known about the underlying cellular mechanisms. On this basis, I will derive a set of criteria that should be met by the amygdala neurons mediating extinction. Next, we will consider whether ITC neurons meet these criteria. Finally, I will present the results of recent experiments that directly tested whether ITC neurons mediate extinction. Overall, our results show that ITC neurons constitute likely mediators of extinction because they receive CS information from the basolateral amygdala (BLA), and contribute inhibitory projections to the central nucleus, the main output station of the amygdala for conditioned fear responses. Thus, following extinction training, ITC cells could reduce the impact of CS-related BLA inputs to the central nucleus of the amygdala via feed-forward inhibition. Because ITC cells exhibit an unusual pattern of receptor expression, these findings open new avenues for the treatment of anxiety disorders. Brief Bio: Dr. Par? completed a PhD degree in Neurobiology at Universit? Laval under the supervision of Dr. Mircea Steriade (1985-1989). He then performed a post-doctoral internship with Dr. Rodolfo Llinas at New York University (1990-1992), after which he accepted an assistant professor position at Universit? Laval (1992-2001). Since 2002, Dr. Denis Par? holds the position of Professor at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue May 13 15:51:29 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 15:51:29 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Special lecture - Dr Frans Leijten- Wednesday, May 14, - 1:00 p.m. - de Grandpre Communication Centre Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] Hello everyone: Please be reminded of tomorrow's lecture. If you are interested in meeting with Dr. Leijten, please contact Dr. Jean Gotman at jean.gotman at mcgill.ca . Thank you. ________________________________ SPECIAL LECTURE Dr. Frans Leijten University of Utrecht, The Netherlands MEG: is it better than EEG and cheaper that ECoG for the localization of epileptic sources? 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URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080514/4284d84b/attachment-0001.htm From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Wed May 14 10:00:16 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 10:00:16 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Mark Lewandoski lecture - Thursday May 15th - The role of FGF signaling in outgrowth and patterning of embryonic structures Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER This Thursday at 3pm, Mark Lewandoski from the NCI in Maryland will be giving a special lecture at the MNI de Grandpr? room of the BTRC. Mark is an old friend from UCSF. As a post-doc with Gail Martin, he played a key role in the development of cre and flp mediated recombination strategies to generate conditional knockouts in mice. A substantial amount of his work has focused on roles for FGF signaling regulating patterning, both in the CNS and in other organ systems; however, his work goes well beyond FGFs. Mark has published many high profile papers, but to provide just one example, with Gail Martin, he described a method for selectively deleting an entire chromosome at a specific time during mouse development. Lewandoski M, Martin GR. Cre-mediated chromosome loss in mice. Nat Genet. 1997 Oct;17(2):223-5. Mark is a very creative scientist and an equally engaging speaking. Let me know if you or someone in your lab would like to meet with Mark during his visit. Best Tim Kennedy (398-7136) Special Lecture 3 pm to 4 pm May 15 Brain Tumour Research Centre - de Grandpr? Communications Centre Title "The role of FGF signaling in outgrowth and patterning of embryonic structures" Mark Lewandoski, Ph.D. Genetics of Vertebrate Development Section National Cancer Institute Frederick Cancer Research & Development Center Frederick, Maryland, USA Recent papers include the following: Aulehla A, Wiegraebe W, Baubet V, Wahl MB, Deng C, Taketo M, Lewandoski M, Pourqui? O. A beta-catenin gradient links the clock and wavefront systems in mouse embryo segmentation. Nat Cell Biol. 2008 Feb;10(2):186-93. Dunty WC Jr, Biris KK, Chalamalasetty RB, Taketo MM, Lewandoski M, Yamaguchi TP. Wnt3a/beta-catenin signaling controls posterior body development by coordinating mesoderm formation and segmentation. Development. 2008 Jan;135(1):85-94. Wahl MB, Deng C, Lewandoski M, Pourqui? O. FGF signaling acts upstream of the NOTCH and WNT signaling pathways to control segmentation clock oscillations in mouse somitogenesis. Development. 2007 Nov;134(22):4033-41. Jacques BE, Montcouquiol ME, Layman EM, Lewandoski M, Kelley MW. Fgf8 induces pillar cell fate and regulates cellular patterning in the mammalian cochlea. Development. 2007 Aug;134(16):3021-9. Pajni-Underwood S, Wilson CP, Elder C, Mishina Y, Lewandoski M. BMP signals control limb bud interdigital programmed cell death by regulating FGF signaling. Development. 2007 Jun;134(12):2359-68. Waters ST, Lewandoski M. A threshold requirement for Gbx2 levels in hindbrain development. Development. 2006 May;133(10):1991-2000. Perantoni AO, Timofeeva O, Naillat F, Richman C, Pajni-Underwood S, Wilson C, Vainio S, Dove LF, Lewandoski M. Inactivation of FGF8 in early mesoderm reveals an essential role in kidney development. Development. 2005 Sep;132(17):3859-71. From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue May 20 10:01:26 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:01:26 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Request from Beth Tannenbaum - for a plastic model of the brain Message-ID: Hi Everyohne: Request from Beth - her coordinates are below. jennifer "I am making an appearance as a guest brain "expert" on a children's show being filmed at the MNI this Wednesday May 21 (in the MRI ctr) and I was curious if any of my "brainy colleagues" had a plastic model of the brain or something brainy-like I could borrow? If not do you know anyone who might have one? Many thanks! Beth" __________________________ Beth M. Tannenbaum, PhD McConnell Brain Imaging Center Montreal Neurological Institute Room WB218 3801 University Montreal, QC H3A 2B4 Tel: (514) 398-4906 Fax: (514) 398-8948 beth.tannenbaum at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080520/a766c8dd/attachment.htm From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue May 20 13:28:32 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 13:28:32 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam for TODAY - Signaling Between Synapse and Nucleus During Synaptic Plasticity Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -----Original Message----- From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:31 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Killam for TODAY Killam Lecture Speaker: Kelsey Martin, MD, PHD Departments of Psychiatry & Biological Chemistry UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Title: Signaling Between Synapse and Nucleus During Synaptic Plasticity Date: TODAY Time: 4:00 pm Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre -------------------------------------------- Dear All, Please join me for an exciting Killam seminar today from Kelsey Martin entitled "Signaling between synapse and nucleus during synaptic plasticity". Kelsey's interests are broad and she has made fundamental advances in our understanding of the communication between the nucleus and the synapse including major advances in understanding the synaptic tag, identifying the mRNAs that are sent out processes, identifying a pathway for molecules to be sent back from the processes to the cell body and many others. Please join me for what will be an exciting seminar. -- Wayne Sossin Professor, Dept. Neurology and Neurosurgery William Dawson Scholar Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University Phone: 1-514-398-1486 Email Wayne.sossin at mcgill.ca From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Wed May 21 13:21:14 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 13:21:14 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] NO BIC SEMINAR ON Monday, May 26, 2008 Message-ID: Please note there will be NO BIC SEMINAR on Monday, May 26, 2008. Thank you. 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For the most recent version of the Protocols and English and French Consent Forms, please see: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/admin/protocols. Regards Jean Paul Soucy Belinda Preziosi Administrative Coordinator McConnell Brain Imaging Center Montreal Neurological Institute Room WB220 3801 University Montreal, QC H3A 2B4 Tel: (514) 398-1585 Fax: (514) 398-8948 Email: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080522/ff4f949e/attachment.htm From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Fri May 23 13:39:59 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 13:39:59 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Reminder: Monday: Poster Presentations / Lecture Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 ???????????????????????? All are welcome !!! Monday, May 26, 2008 2:00-4:00 p.m. Poster Presentations by members of the Neuropsychology/Cognitive Neuroscience Unit Foyer of the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre N.B. Some of the posters will be presented by members of the BRAMS Laboratory 4:30 p.m. The 11th Annual Brenda Milner Lecture in Cognitive Neuroscience Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre Stanislas Dehaene, Ph.D. Professor, Coll?ge de France Chair, Experimental Cognitive Psychology Director, INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit Saclay, France Is the brain massively parallel or single-core? Frontal lobe, dual-task and the limits of human consciousness Lecture hosted by Michael Petrides FYI This is an article written by Jim Holt for the New Yorker: "Numbers Guy" http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/03/080303fa_fact_holt?printable=true JJ From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Wed May 28 13:11:35 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 13:11:35 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Special Lecture - June 4th, 2008 - Exploring Cellular Dynamics with Digital Holographic Microscopy Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER SPECIAL LECTURE MCGILL PROGRAM IN NEUROENGINEERING SPECIAL LECTURE Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Rappez Department of Life Sciences and The Brain Mind Institute EPEL, Lausanne, Switzerland Title: Exploring Cellular Dynamics with Digital Holographic Microscopy Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Time: 3:00 pm Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Enza Ferracane Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 Director's Office, Rm 636 Tel: (514) 398-1903 Fax: (514) 398-8248 Email: enza.ferracane at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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