/sent on behalf of Dr. Sari Hannila
Hello everyone,
Best wishes to all of you for a happy and productive 2018! You will be
hearing about our upcoming outreach events for Brain Awareness Week over the
next several weeks, but today I am writing to ask for your help with an
event that will be happening slightly later in the year.
Last year at the MNN meeting, I was approached by one of the leaders of
Let's Talk Science - a student-run science outreach organization based at
the U of M Fort Garry campus. Every year they host a science career day for
high school students that focuses on a particular field. This year, they
want to feature neuroscience and I'm excited to announced that we will be
hosting "Neurotalks" at the U of M Bannatyne campus on Thursday, May 3rd!
As part of this event, we will be hosting hands-on workshops for the
students, and I am looking for volunteers to lead 4 different
neuroscience-themed workshops that afternoon. The workshops can be led by
individuals or by a group. Grad students and postdocs, you can lead these
workshops if you wish! Just be sure to speak with your supervisor first -
especially if you will be using your lab space, equipment, or materials.
Here are the details and guidelines:
1. The workshops will be held from roughly 12-3 pm on May 3rd. The
students will rotate through each workshop over the course of the afternoon,
so you will repeat your activity four times.
2. Each workshop session should be approximately 30 minutes in length.
3. We anticipate that there will be 20-25 students in each group (max).
4. You are responsible for providing all of the materials required for your
workshop.
5. Regarding the content, it can be anything you want! Just ensure that
the content is appropriate for high school students. Workshops focusing on
clinical subjects are most welcome!
6. A qualifier to the statement above: no live animals and no blood. If
you want to use prepared tissues or cells, that's absolutely fine. I'm sure
the students would enjoy recording from patch-clamped neurons!
7. Try to make the workshop as interactive and hands-on as possible.
I'm sending this message now because if you are thinking of developing a
workshop, you can pilot it during the Winnipeg Brain Bee in March. We would
love to have some new activities for the Brain Bee this year! For those of
you who have done workshops for Health Sciences Discovery Day, you are very
welcome to modify those workshops for Neurotalks.
Please send me the title and description of your workshop at your earliest
convenience, along with a list of the members of your group (if applicable).
There is no firm deadline, but if you would like to hold a pilot workshop
during the Brain Bee, your plans should be in place by mid-February. Thank
you all for your participation. Let's make this a memorable day for these
students!
Best wishes, Sari
Sari S. Hannila, PhD
Director of Outreach, Manitoba Neuroscience Network
Sari S. Hannila, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science
Associate Member, Spinal Cord Research Centre
Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Manitoba
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Friday, February 9th, 2018
12:00 NOON
L O C AT I O N
071 Apotex Bldg.
S P E A K E R
Dr. Katalin Toth <https://cervo.ulaval.ca/en/katalin-toth>
CERVO Brain Research Centre
Université Laval
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
T O P I C
Information coding and calcium dynamics in hippocampal mossy fibre terminals
Abstract:
Neurons encode and transmit information in the frequency and temporal
precision of action potentials (APs) they discharge Presynaptic terminals
are key elements involved in the translation of electrical signals to
neurotransmitter release. The differential spatial assembly of a myriad of
voltage-gated channels, calcium buffers and calcium sensors confers specific
properties to presynaptic terminals.The dynamic modulation of
neurotransmitter release is thought to support the neuronal code used to
transfer information. We use electrophysiological measurements in acute
hippocampal slices with rapid presynaptic two-photon calcium imaging and
experimentally-constrained modelling to study the mechanism by which mossy
finer terminals in the hippocampus translate granule cell firing to
postsynaptic signals. Our aim is to elucidate how a mossy fiber boutons
integrate incoming bursts of action potentials to propagate information to
CA3 pyramidal neurones.
Bio:
Katalin Tóth earned her PhD in 1995 from the Eötvös Loránd University in
Budapest, Hungary, under the supervision of Tamás F. Freund, after
completing an undergraduate degree in Biology. She then spent the next 2
years as postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Richard Miles at the
Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, and studied the properties of synaptic
interactions between connected pairs of neurons. She moved to the National
Institutes of Health in the USA where she worked with Chris J. McBain on the
plastic properties of hippocampal networks. She established her laboratory
in 2000 at Laval University where she is currently a Professor in the
Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Her research is focused on
presynaptic release mechanisms and information processing at hippocampal
mossy fibres.
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Coordinator, Seminar & Visiting Speaker Series
Manitoba Neuroscience Network
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Manitoba Neuroscience Network
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Friday, January 26, 2018
9:00am
L O C AT I O N
PX236/238 PsycHealth Building
S P E A K E R
Dr. Saeid Ghavami <http://chrim.ca/researcher/saeid-ghavami/>
Department of Human Anatomy & Cell Science,
Max Rady College of Medicine
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Manitoba
T O P I C
Mevalonate Cascade Inhibition and Glioblastoma Multiform: Role of Autophagy
Modulation in Sensitizing the glioblastoma cells to Temozolomide.
Biosketch: Originally from Mashad, Khorasan, Iran, Dr. Ghavami has received
his Bachelor of Chemistry degree from Shiraz University, Iran in 1989. He
then completed his Master of Science and PhD degree in the Department of
Clinical Biochemistry at Tarbiat Modarres University, Iran in 1996 and 2004
in Clinical Biochemsitry. Prior to joining to the Department of Human
Anatomy and Cell Science, University of Manitoba in October 2013 as an
Assistant Professor, Dr. Ghavami worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow in
CancerCare Manitoba, Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology and St.
Boniface Research Centre at the University of Manitoba for 9 years
(2004-2013) and has built his research career on the effects of cellular
stress in the regulation of cellular fate. Currently Dr. Ghavami is an
Assistant Professor and Principal investigator and one of his major research
focus is developing new therapeutic approaches in glioblastoma multiform,
based on modification of apoptosis, autophagy, and unfolded protein response
(UPR) pathway via cholesterol metabolism pathway.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this presentation the audience should be
able to:
· Describe the cholesterol metabolism pathway and its effect on
regulation of small Rho GTPase protein
· Describe the development of statin drug family and their pleotropic
effects.
· Describe the general effects of statins in cancer
· Describe mechanism of regulation of autophagy pathway and autophagy
flux
· Describe how cholesterol metabolism pathway regulate autophagy and
cell death in glioblastoma cells
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Dr. Eftekhar Eftekharpour
Coordinator, Seminar & Visiting Speaker Series
Manitoba Neuroscience Network
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Manitoba Neuroscience Network
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