We invite you to join us to learn about the neuroimaging capabilities in Manitoba and if they could be of use to you at the upcoming Brain Canada Manitoba Neuroimaging Platform Mini-Symposium, with Keynote Speaker Dr. Ravi Menon.
Title: Neuroimaging approaches in research: Role of the Manitoba Neuroimaging Platform for experimental design and analysis.
Date: October 14th, 2016
Time: 1-5pm
Location: Apotex Centre, Room 071 (750 McDermot Avenue)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ravi Menon, Canada Research Chair in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Biosketch:
Dr. Ravi Menon is Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Professor of Medical Biophysics, Medical Imaging, Physics and Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario, where he is also a member of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering and Director of Western's Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping. He holds a Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of Alberta (1990), a M.Sc.(A) in Medical Physics from McGill University and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics from the University of British Columbia. He did his postdoctoral work in the world-renowned laboratory of Dr. Kamil Ugurbil at the University of Minnesota.
He serves on numerous advisory boards, including 7 years on the Canada Gairdner Foundation and recently completed a term on the Science Advisory Council of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. He served for 7 years (the last 4 as Chair) on the Institute Advisory Board of the Institute for Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction of the CIHR. He is also one of Canada's two scientific advisory board members on the International Traumatic Brain Injury Research EU-NIH-CIHR consortium.
He has held grants from a broad spectrum of agencies; CIHR, NSERC, NIH, McDonnell-Pew, Human Frontiers, ORDCF, CFI, OIT, ORF and an Ontario-NCE. He was in the first round of recipients of a Premiers Research Excellence Awrd, a Canada Research Chair and an Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award. He received a CIHR Foundation Award in 2016. His publication record in top-tier journals also reflects this broad scope, from fundamental imaging mechanism papers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, to neuroscience papers in Science, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron and Current Biology or invited reviews in Trends and Current Opinion in Neurobiology. In 2015, he was elected as a Senior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Registration for the mini-symposium is open! Space is limited - Register soon!
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Please do not hesitate to email Nasir Uddin, uddinmn(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:uddinmn@umanitoba.ca>, if you have any questions, comments, or would like to get involved.
Best,
Kae Normandeau
Platform Facilitator
Brain Canada Manitoba
T: 204.318.2569
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/sent on behalf of Dr. Stephanie Booth
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Room 540B, Basic Medical Sciences
DR. VALERIE SIM
Associate Professor
Division of Neurology
Department of Medicine
Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases
University of Alberta
“Targeting prion disease with "3C" combination therapy”
Bio:
Dr. Valerie Sim self-identifies as a scientist who practices medicine
to support her music habit. By day she is a prion scientist at the
Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases at the University of
Alberta and a clinical neurologist consultant for rapidly progressive
dementia cases locally and throughout Canada. By night she is a
violinist and fiddler.
After her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of
Calgary and her neurology residency at University of Ottawa, Dr. Sim
completed a post-doctoral fellowship in prion disease research at
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIH, Montana, under the supervision of
Dr. Byron Caughey. She joined the University of Alberta Division of
Neurology in 2009 and was promoted to associate professor with tenure
in July, 2016.
In her research lab, Dr. Sim grows prion-infected brain slices in a
dish in order to ask: 1) how a prion’s size and shape can influence
patterns of disease and risks of transmission; and 2) how targeting
multiple steps along the disease pathway might produce more effective
treatments. From protein biochemistry to animal treatment experiments,
her research publications have received international media attention.
She also promotes science communication, and regularly presents the
science of prion disease to diverse communities across Alberta,
Canada.
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Kelly Jorundson
Administrative Manager
Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders
Albrechtsen Research Centre, St. Boniface Hospital
& Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Manitoba
Room R4046 - 351 Taché Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6 CANADA
Tel: 204.235.3939 | Fax: 204.237.4092
Email: kjorund(a)sbrc.ca OR Kelly.Jorundson(a)umanitoba.ca
S e m i n a r & V i s i t i n g
S p e a k e r S e r i e s
Date
Friday, September 30th, 2016
9:00am
Location
PX236/238
PsychHealth Building
Speaker
Dr. Brian Lithgow
Topic: Quantitative Depressive phase separation of
Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
Dr. Brian Lithgow
Senior Research Fellow - Alfred Hospital
Adjunct Associate Professor - Monash
Alfred Psychiatric Research Centre
Adjunct Professor - University of Manitoba,
Riverview Health Centre
Head of Research - Neural Diagnostics Ltd.,
Chief Scientific Officer -Neurovest Ltd
/On behalf of Eftekhar Eftekharpour
(eftekhar.eftekharpour(a)umanitoba.ca)
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Kelly Jorundson
Manitoba Neuroscience Network
R4046 - 351 Tache Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6
Tel: 204.235.3939 Fax: 204.237.4092
S e m i n a r & V i s i t i n g
S p e a k e r S e r i e s
Date
Friday, September 30th, 2016
9:00am
Location
PX236/238
PsychHealth Building
Speaker
Dr. Brian Lithgow
Topic: Quantitative Depressive phase separation of
Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
Dr. Brian Lithgow
Senior Research Fellow - Alfred Hospital
Adjunct Associate Professor - Monash
Alfred Psychiatric Research Centre
Adjunct Professor - University of Manitoba,
Riverview Health Centre
Head of Research - Neural Diagnostics Ltd.,
Chief Scientific Officer -Neurovest Ltd
/On behalf of Eftekhar Eftekharpour
(eftekhar.eftekharpour(a)umanitoba.ca)
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Kelly Jorundson
Manitoba Neuroscience Network
R4046 - 351 Tache Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6
Tel: 204.235.3939 Fax: 204.237.4092
We invite you to join us to learn about the neuroimaging capabilities in Manitoba and if they could be of use to you at the upcoming Brain Canada Manitoba Neuroimaging Platform Mini-Symposium, with Keynote Speaker Dr. Ravi Menon.
Title: Neuroimaging approaches in research: Role of the Manitoba Neuroimaging Platform for experimental design and analysis.
Date: October 14th, 2016
Time: 1-5pm
Location: Apotex Centre, Room 071 (750 McDermot Avenue)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ravi Menon, Canada Research Chair in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Biosketch:
Dr. Ravi Menon is Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Professor of Medical Biophysics, Medical Imaging, Physics and Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario, where he is also a member of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering and Director of Western's Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping. He holds a Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of Alberta (1990), a M.Sc.(A) in Medical Physics from McGill University and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics from the University of British Columbia. He did his postdoctoral work in the world-renowned laboratory of Dr. Kamil Ugurbil at the University of Minnesota.
He serves on numerous advisory boards, including 7 years on the Canada Gairdner Foundation and recently completed a term on the Science Advisory Council of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. He served for 7 years (the last 4 as Chair) on the Institute Advisory Board of the Institute for Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction of the CIHR. He is also one of Canada's two scientific advisory board members on the International Traumatic Brain Injury Research EU-NIH-CIHR consortium.
He has held grants from a broad spectrum of agencies; CIHR, NSERC, NIH, McDonnell-Pew, Human Frontiers, ORDCF, CFI, OIT, ORF and an Ontario-NCE. He was in the first round of recipients of a Premiers Research Excellence Awrd, a Canada Research Chair and an Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award. He received a CIHR Foundation Award in 2016. His publication record in top-tier journals also reflects this broad scope, from fundamental imaging mechanism papers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, to neuroscience papers in Science, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron and Current Biology or invited reviews in Trends and Current Opinion in Neurobiology. In 2015, he was elected as a Senior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Registration for the mini-symposium is now open! Space is limited - Register soon!
Click here to register for the mini-symposium<https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/1Wz9Wpgzp8ejnAcqpD9_AG_jxK8Vmg46paRqnsr…>
Please do not hesitate to email Nasir Uddin, uddinmn(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:uddinmn@umanitoba.ca>, if you have any questions, comments, or would like to get involved.
Best,
Kae Normandeau
Platform Facilitator
Brain Canada Manitoba
T: 204.318.2569
E: kae.normandeau(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:kae.normandeau@umanitoba.ca>
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/On behalf of Eftekhar Eftekharpour
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to request nomination for our 2016-2017 MNN invited speaker
series. Over the last few years, the MNN has actively invited more than 30
national and international distinguished speakers to come to Winnipeg and
interact with our scientific community. This has been achieved through a
close interaction between the MNN, Kleysen Neuroscience group and the Saint
Boniface Hospital. This has been a real opportunity for our Neuroscientists
to interact with the speakers and establish successful collaborative
projects. Many of these speakers visited our city for the first time and
were quite impressed with the quality, quantity and the depth of
neuroscience research at U of M.
I am writing to request your help in inviting world class scientists for
this year. I would like to extent this invitation to all aspects of
Neuroscience research and therefore would need your input.
Please send me name, email, and a line or two for the impact they have had
in your field of interest.
Looking forward to your emails.
Regards
Eftekhar
(eftekhar.eftekharpour(a)umanitoba.ca)
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Kae Normandeau
Administrative Manager, Neuroscience Research Program
Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine
T: 204.318.2569
E: kae.normandeau(a)umanitoba.ca
We invite you to join us to learn about the neuroimaging capabilities in Manitoba and if they could be of use to you at the upcoming Brain Canada Manitoba Neuroimaging Platform Mini-Symposium, with Keynote Speaker Dr. Ravi Menon.
Title: Neuroimaging approaches in research: Role of the Manitoba Neuroimaging Platform for experimental design and analysis.
Date: October 14th, 2016
Time: 1-5pm
Location: Apotex Centre, Room 071 (750 McDermot Avenue)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ravi Menon, Canada Research Chair in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Biosketch:
Dr. Ravi Menon is Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Professor of Medical Biophysics, Medical Imaging, Physics and Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario, where he is also a member of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering and Director of Western's Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping. He holds a Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of Alberta (1990), a M.Sc.(A) in Medical Physics from McGill University and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics from the University of British Columbia. He did his postdoctoral work in the world-renowned laboratory of Dr. Kamil Ugurbil at the University of Minnesota.
He serves on numerous advisory boards, including 7 years on the Canada Gairdner Foundation and recently completed a term on the Science Advisory Council of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. He served for 7 years (the last 4 as Chair) on the Institute Advisory Board of the Institute for Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction of the CIHR. He is also one of Canada's two scientific advisory board members on the International Traumatic Brain Injury Research EU-NIH-CIHR consortium.
He has held grants from a broad spectrum of agencies; CIHR, NSERC, NIH, McDonnell-Pew, Human Frontiers, ORDCF, CFI, OIT, ORF and an Ontario-NCE. He was in the first round of recipients of a Premiers Research Excellence Awrd, a Canada Research Chair and an Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award. He received a CIHR Foundation Award in 2016. His publication record in top-tier journals also reflects this broad scope, from fundamental imaging mechanism papers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, to neuroscience papers in Science, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron and Current Biology or invited reviews in Trends and Current Opinion in Neurobiology. In 2015, he was elected as a Senior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Registration for the mini-symposium is now open! Space is limited - Register soon!
Click here to register for the mini-symposium<https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/1Wz9Wpgzp8ejnAcqpD9_AG_jxK8Vmg46paRqnsr…>
Please do not hesitate to email Nasir Uddin, uddinmn(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:uddinmn@umanitoba.ca>, if you have any questions, comments, or would like to get involved.
Best,
Kae Normandeau
Platform Facilitator
Brain Canada Manitoba
T: 204.318.2569
E: kae.normandeau(a)umanitoba.ca