[BIC-announce] FW: Robert E. Bell Lecture - Wiring the brain: The molecules and mechanisms of neuronal guidance

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975


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From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms.
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:46 AM
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Subject: Robert E. Bell Lecture

A reminder of our R.E. Bell Lecture, this Friday. 

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January 27th, our R. E. Bell Lecture will be given this year by a leading biophysicist. The details are:

R.E. Bell Lecture
"Wiring the brain: the molecules and mechanisms of neuronal guidance"

Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Rockefeller University

The functioning of the brain is dependent on the billions of connections among nerve cells that are formed during embryonic development to establish the neuronal circuits that underlie all brain functions - perception, the control of movement, memory, consciousness. To generate these connections, neuronal growth cones must navigate over long distances through the embryonic environment along specific pathways to find their correct targets, guided by attractive and repulsive guidance cues. These guidance mechanisms act simultaneously and in coordinate fashion to direct pathfinding, and are mediated by mechanistically and evolutionarily conserved ligand-receptor systems. This presentation will describe some recent advances in elucidating neuronal growth and guidance mechanisms, including evidence that defects in these mechanisms underlie some human neurological disorders, and discuss mounting evidence that molecules that regulate neuronal guidance during development also contribute to wiring other tissues and organs and to regulating nerve regeneration following injury in the adult nervous system.

Friday, January 27th 2012, 15:30
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)

Tessier-Lavigne is a McGill Physics alumnus (BSc 1980), a former Rhodes Scholar, and is the current President of Rockefeller University. He has served as Vice-President of Genentech (Research Drug Discovery), and has been Professor at UCSF, and at Stanford. Instructors, please advertise his talk in your class(es). We're looking forward to seeing you there! 
Cheers,  -Charles

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Charles Gale, Department of Physics, McGill University,
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