Department of Neuroscience Colloquium Series 2011-12

Friday, September 23, 2011 - Monday, April 30, 2012

All talks are scheduled at 10:30 am, usually on Fridays with some exceptions.  The rooms will vary so please check the date and location carefully.

FALL

September 23rd

Dr. Michael Schlossmacher, Faculty of Medicine (Neurology), University of Ottawa
Title: A Road Map for Parkinson's Disease
Location:  416 Southam Hall

September 30th

Dr. Frances Champagne, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Title: Epigenetics and Plasticity in the Developing Brain
Location: 416 Southam Hall

October 21st

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

October 28th

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

November 4th

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 

December 2nd

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

 

WINTER

Location: 4499 Mackenzie Bldg (except when hosted at University of Ottawa
  

January 13th - Cancelled; will be rescheduled.

Dr. Masako Hirotani, Department of Linguistics, Carleton University
Title: The role of Broca's area in language processing

January 20th

Dr. Martin Wojtowicz, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto
(Co-sponsored by the University of Ottawa)
University of Ottawa: Tabaret Hall, Room 333

January 27th

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)

February 3rd

Dr. Stephen Fai, Department of Architecture, Carleton University 

February 10th

Dr. Masako Hirotani, School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University
Title: Rethinking the role of Broca's area in language processing

March 2nd

Dr. Jacqueline Blundell, Department of Psychology, Memorial University
Title: Extinction and Reconsolidation as Treatment Targets of Acquired Anxiety Disorders: preclinical studies

March 9th

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

March 16th

Dr Francesca Cicchetti, Axe Neurosciences, Centre de Recherche du CHUL (CHUQ),  and Département de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

March 23rd

Dr. Peter Hall, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo

March 30th

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

Thursday, April 5th @ 11am

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?