Dear colleagues,

Thank you for your support and participation in the 7^th MNN annual meeting held at the Radisson on the 16^th of June.

We have received positive reviews of the meeting and by all measures, the event was a success. All talks, including those by the keynote speakers, Drs. Jeff Lichtman and Jitender Sareen, were well received.

Many of you also enjoyed and found value in the special session “Science and Society: collaborating for change”. This was our attempt to connect neuroscientists to the community.

We would like to thank all speakers, session chairs, keynote speakers, poster presenters, volunteers, sponsors and all participants.

The MNN poster session was especially engaging and the judging was tightly competitive. Congratulations to all the poster winners.

Poster winners are listed below.

Nick Shepel poster prizes (students)

1^st Place ($400) –  Pandian Nagakannan

2^nd Place ($200) – Christopher Hart

Thermo Fisher Scientific poster prizes (PDFs/RAs)

1^st Place ($200) –  Reiko Roppongi

2^nd Place ($200) – Shahia Shojaei

Honourable mentions

Students

Arsalan Alizadeh

Shreya Dhume

Abbas Rezaeian Mehrabadi

Chetan Patil

Kevin Solar

Shubhamsingh Tanwar

Albert Yeung

PDFs/RAs

Harish Gangadharappa,

Hardeep Kataria,

Ping Lu

Gurjit Nagra

Award winners will be contacted by MNN in the coming days. We look forward to the 8^th MNN Scientific Meeting next year.

Sincerely,

Tabrez J. Siddiqui  (meeting chair of the 7^th MNN Scientific Meeting)

Chris Anderson (President of the Manitoba Neuroscience Network)