Dear All,

The Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience would like to make you aware of the following upcoming neuroscience presentation…..

The Centre for Research & Treatment of Atherosclerosis Seminar Series: Dr. Richard Bazinet

Date: Friday, October 1, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: A229 Chown Bldg.**

(**This event will be video-linked to St. Boniface Campus - Room R1002, St. Boniface Research Centre)

Dr. Richard Bazinet

Department of Nutritional Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

TOPIC: Maintaining brain polyunsaturated fatty acid concentrations: Uptake and Metabolism.

Dr. Bazinet’s Biosketch: Dr. Bazinet received his BSc from the University of Western Ontario and completed his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Cunnane at the University of Toronto in 2003. Dr. Bazinet then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Dr. Stanley Rapoport’s Brain Physiology and Metabolism Section at the National Institute on Aging where he examined the brain arachidonic acid cascade as a target of drugs used to treat bipolar disorder. Dr. Bazinet joined the University of Toronto in 2006, where he is currently an assistant professor. Dr. Bazinet is also the 2008 recipient of the Early Career Award from the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids as well as the 2010 recipient of the Jordi Folch-Pi award from the American Society for Neurochemistry. Dr. Bazinet sits on several editorial boards and is an Associate Editor for Senior Associate Editor of Lipids and in 2010 he became the Editor-in-Chief of Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids.
The goal of Dr. Bazinet’s research program is to identify the mechanisms that regulate brain lipid uptake and metabolism (signaling) and to identify the role of brain lipid metabolism in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases and neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Bazinet’s group uses a combination of molecular biology, biochemistry and using kinetic approaches.