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2013 Speaker Series

Date	Speaker	Lecture	Host	Contact
2012
November 16, 2012	Evelyn K. Lambe, Ph.D. Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cortical Physiology Associate Professor Departments of Physiology and OBGYN University of Toronto	Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and developmental vulnerability in prefrontal attention circuitry	Dr. Peter Carlen, MD, FRCPC Division Head, Fundamental Neurobiology, Interim Director, TWRI	Julie Wan
November 23, 2012 TWRI Internal Seminar Series	Dr. Michael Fehlings, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Genetics and Development	Repair and regeneration of the injured spinal cord: from molecule to man	Dr. Peter Carlen, MD, FRCPC Division Head, Fundamental Neurobiology, Interim Director, TWRI	Ava Lucero
December 7, 2012	Dr. Lyanne Schlichter Senior Scientist Genetics and Development	Microglial activation, CNS inflammation & white-matter damage	Dr. Peter Carlen, MD, FRCPC Division Head, Fundamental Neurobiology, Interim Director, TWRI	Julie Wan
January 4, 2013
January 11, 2013	Dr. Charles Tator,MD, PhD Senior Scientist Genetics and Development	Spinal Cord Derived Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells for Spinal Cord Injury	Dr. Peter Carlen, MD, FRCPC Division Head, Fundamental Neurobiology, Interim Director, TWRI	Ava Lucero
January 18, 2013	Dr. Joan Wither, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Genetics and Development	B cell abnormalities in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	Dr. Cathy Barr, PhD, Senior Scientist, Genetics & Development, TWRI	Manoj Vasudeva
February 1, 2013	Dr. Chetan Tailor, Ph.D Director of Vector Core Facility	UHN Vector Core Facility: Application of Virus vectors for gene delivery and therapy	Dr. Peter Carlen, MD, FRCPC Division Head, Fundamental Neurobiology, Interim Director, TWRI	Julie Wan
February 8, 2013	Dr. Christian Naus, PhD Director, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia	Connexins, Pannexins and Stroke: "Gaps" in Therapeutic Potential	Dr. Peter Carlen, MD, FRCPC Division Head, Fundamental Neurobiology, Interim Director, TWRI	Ava Lucero
February 15, 2013	Dr. Mary Pat McAndrews, PhD Senior Scientist Brain Imaging & Behaviour-Systems Neuroscience	From blobs to networks: fMRI applications to understanding memory in the context of medial temporal lobe damage	Dr. Karen Davis, Ph.D. Division Head, Brain Imaging & Behaviour-Systems Neuroscience	Julie Wan
March 1, 2013
March 8, 2013
March 15, 2013	David Hampson, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Director, University of Toronto, Collaborative Program in Neuroscience; Chairman, University of Toronto, Radiation Protection Authority	Cerebellar Abnormalities in Fragile X Syndrome and Autism and Why They Are Important	Dr. Peter Carlen, MD, FRCPC Division Head, Fundamental Neurobiology, Interim Director, TWRI	Julie Wan
March 18, 2013	Dr. Simon Gosgnach, PhD Assistant Professor, University of Alberta	Functional investigation of genetically defined classes of interneurons in the mammalian locomotor network	Dr. Michael Fehlings, MD, FRCSC, PhD Senior Scientist, Genetics & Development, TWRI	Julie Wan
April 5, 2013
April 12, 2013	Massimo Avoli, MD, PhD Professor, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Physiology, McGill University	Mechanisms of ictogenesis in temporal lobe epilepsy	Dr. Peter Carlen, MD, FRCPC Division Head, Fundamental Neurobiology, Interim Director, TWRI	Ava Lucero
April 19, 2013	Dominique Durand, PhD Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Director, Neural Engineering Center, Cleveland, Ohio	Seizure reduction with electrical stimulation: from in-vitro studies to the clinic	Dr. Peter Carlen, MD, FRCPC Division Head, Fundamental Neurobiology, Interim Director, TWRI	Ava Lucero
May 3, 2013
May 10, 2013	Ivan Soltesz, Ph.D. Professor & Chair: Anatomy & Neurobiology Professor: Physiology & Biophysics, Neurobiology & Behavior University of California - Irvine California	Organization and Control of Hippocampal Chronocircuits	Dr. Frances Skinner, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Fundamental Neurobiology	Ava Lucero
May 15, 2013 Research Day	Dr. Daniel Drachman Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience WW Smith Charitable Trust Professor of Neuroimmunology Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, MD	Myasthenia Gravis, and a few other things the Neuromuscular Junction has taught us.	Dr. Elise Stanley Senior Scientist, Genetics & Development, TWRI	Julie Wan
May 17, 2013	Dr. Melanie Woodin, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Cell & Systems Biology, Neuroscience University of Toronto	Inhibitory synaptic plasticity and chloride regulation in the hippocampus	Dr. Peter Carlen, MD, FRCPC Division Head, Fundamental Neurobiology, Interim Director, TWRI	Manoj Vasudeva
May 24, 2013
May 27, 2013	Igor Spigelman, Ph.D. Professor, Dentistry Faculty of Biomedical Engineering IDP UCLA California	Peripherally-restricted cannabinoids for chronic pain	Dr. Peter Carlen, MD, FRCPC Division Head, Fundamental Neurobiology, Interim Director, TWRI	Manoj Vasudeva
June 7, 2013
June 14, 2013	Dr. Georg Zoidl Professor Faculty of Health - Department of Psychology York University	TBA	Dr. Peter Carlen, MD, FRCPC Division Head, Fundamental Neurobiology, Interim Director, TWRI	Julie Wan
June 21, 2013	Dr. Michael Tymianski Senior Scientist Fundamental Neurobiology	Delivering on the "Bench-to-Bedside" promise: development of PSD95 inhibitors for the treatment of stroke	Dr. Peter Carlen, MD, FRCPC Division Head, Fundamental Neurobiology, Interim Director, TWRI	Ava Lucero
July 5, 2013	Dr. D. Samba Reddy, Ph.D., R.Ph. Associate Professor Dept of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics College of Medicine Texas A&M Health Science Center	TBA	Dr. Liang Zhang Affiliate Scientist Fundamental Neurobiology	Manoj Vasudeva
July 12, 2013
July 19, 2013
August 2, 2013
August 9, 2013
August 16, 2013
August 23, 2013


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