Dr. Michael Schlossmacher, Faculty of Medicine (Neurology), University of Ottawa
Title: A Road Map for Parkinson's Disease
Location: 416 Southam Hall
Dr. Frances Champagne, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Title: Epigenetics and Plasticity in the Developing Brain
Location: 416 Southam Hall
Dr. Stephanie Fulton, Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal
Title: Letting go is hard to do: Behavioural and neural adaptations induced by a high-fat and sugar diet
Location: 416 Southam Hall
Dr. Virginia Penhune, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
Title: Parallel contributions of cerebellar, striatal and M1 mechanisms to human motor sequence learning.
(Co-sponsored by the University of Ottawa)
Location: University of Ottawa, Lamoureux Hall, Room 390
Dr. Norman White, Psychology Department, McGill University
Title: Competition Among Memory Systems in the Rat Brain
(Co-sponsored by the University of Ottawa)
University of Ottawa: Lamoureux Hall, Room 390
Dr. Alfred Aziz, Health Canada.
Title: Interactions between diet and the gut in the regulation of food intake, body weight, and metabolism
Location: 416 Southam Hall
Location: 4499 Mackenzie Bldg (except when hosted at University of Ottawa
Dr. Masako Hirotani, Department of Linguistics, Carleton University
Title: The role of Broca's area in language processing
Dr. Martin Wojtowicz, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto
(Co-sponsored by the University of Ottawa)
University of Ottawa: Tabaret Hall, Room 333
Dr. Samuel Weiss, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary
Title: Adult neurogenesis and the formation of social memories (Co-sponsored by the University of Ottawa)
University of Ottawa: Lamoureux Bldg, Room 360 at 2:30pm (note time difference)
Dr. Stephen Fai, Department of Architecture, Carleton University
Dr. Masako Hirotani, School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University
Title: Rethinking the role of Broca's area in language processing
Dr. Jacqueline Blundell, Department of Psychology, Memorial University
Title: Extinction and Reconsolidation as Treatment Targets of Acquired Anxiety Disorders: preclinical studies
Dr. Nathalie Berube, Associate Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics
University of Western Ontario
Title: Disrupting chromatin structure in the developing brain: local and systemic effects
Dr Francesca Cicchetti, Axe Neurosciences, Centre de Recherche du CHUL (CHUQ), and Département de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
Dr. Peter Hall, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo
Dr. Peter Shizgal, Centre for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Department of Psychology, Concordia University.
(Co-sponsored by the University of Ottawa)
University of Ottawa: Simard Hall, Room 423
Brain Awareness Week Grass Lecture
Dr. Charles Peck, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
Location: 2224 and 2228 River Building; Lunch provided by Office of the Vice-President (Research and International); RSVP required by March 28th to grace_bryan@carleton.ca
Title: The Computational Brain: Can we extend objective understanding to subjective experience?