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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dear colleagues,</span><br>
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<p>Our talented undergrads, grads, and postdocs are presenting their research on <strong>
August 9 / 10</strong> at the Symposium on in Nonlinear Dynamics of Brain and Behaviour (program below). Poster presenters and speakers are listed below. </p>
<p>Please share with interested colleagues. </p>
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<p><strong>Symposium in Nonlinear Dynamics of Brain and Behaviour</strong><span> </span>(online)</p>
<p><strong>Monday, August 9th (all times listed in EDT)</strong></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">click<strong><span> </span><a title="https://cd-create.org/form/aug-9-10-registration-" href="https://cd-create.org/form/aug-9-10-registration-" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HERE</a></strong> to
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><strong><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Professor Sara Solla, Northwestern University</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><strong><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Population Dynamics in Neural Systems</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong>1pm</strong> (via zoom)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The ability to simultaneously record the activity from tens to thousands and tens of thousands of neurons has allowed us to analyze the computational role of population
activity as opposed to single neuron activity. Recent work on a variety of cortical areas suggests that neural function may be built on the activation of population-wide activity patterns, the<span> </span><em>neural modes</em>, rather than on the independent
modulation of individual neural activity. These neural modes, the dominant covariation patterns within the neural population, define a low dimensional<span> </span><em>neural manifold</em><span> </span>that captures most of the variance in the recorded neural
activity. We refer to the time-dependent activation of the neural modes as their<span> </span><em>latent dynamics</em>, and argue that latent cortical dynamics within the manifold are the fundamental and stable building blocks of neural population activity.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong>3:30-5pm: Graduate student poster session</strong> featuring </span></p>
<p><em>Amin Akhshi, Alexander Albury, Sebastian Andric, François Bourassa, Marina de Oliveira Emerick, Manda Fischer, Erica Flaten, Niloofar Gharesi, Lucas Klein, Florence Mayrand, Pauline Palma, Jesse Pazdera, Anisha Khosla, Maxime Perron, Lee Whitehorne,
Shannon Wright</em></p>
<p><strong>Tuesday, August 10</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><strong><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Professor Nicolas Cermakian, McGill University</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><strong><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Circadian Disruption and Schizophrenia</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong>2pm</strong> (via zoom)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Schizophrenia is a multifactorial disease caused by an interaction between genetic variations and exposure to environmental insults. About 80% of individuals with schizophrenia
show disrupted sleep and circadian rhythms. As a first step to understanding why schizophrenia is associated with such circadian disturbances, we have studied locomotor activity rhythms in two mouse models currently used to study the neurobiological bases
of this disease: 1) the Sandy mice, which bear a mutation of the schizophrenia risk gene Dtnbp1, and 2) offspring from mouse dams that have undergone maternal immune activation (MIA). In both models, altered locomotor activity rhythms in running wheels have
been noted, similar to abnormal rhythms observed in patients with schizophrenia. Our work highlights circadian disruption as a core pathophysiological component of schizophrenia, as both an integral symptom of the disease, and a likely risk factor for its
development.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong>3pm-4:30pm Undergraduate/Postdoc poster session</strong> featuring: </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><em>Valentin Begel,<span> </span></em><em>Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden,<span> </span></em><em>Jimmy Hernandez, Daria Lissus, Ella Sahlas, Sophia Stegeman, Michelle
Wang, Margot Button, Mathilde Rioux</em></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong>Registration is required: click<span> </span><a title="https://cd-create.org/form/aug-9-10-registration-" href="https://cd-create.org/form/aug-9-10-registration-" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HERE<span> </span></a></strong>to
register </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Full program (attached) includes posters, workshops, and award ceremony.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Sponsored by NSERC-CREATE in Complex Dynamics</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">Regards,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">Caroline Palmer and Amena Ahmad</p>
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