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MNN Visiting Speaker - Dr. Michael Salter
Friday, April 15th, 2016

Michael Salter, PhD (brief bio below)
Chief of Research, The Hospital for Sick Children Senior;  Scientist - Program in Neurosciences & Mental Health;
Professor of Physiology, University of Toronto

1)  Scientific Lecture:   From receptors to pain: The Molecular dynamics of pain
12:00 Noon   |   Theatre C,  Bannatyne Campus

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2) Trainee Lunch - All neuroscience-related trainees (including students, postdoctoral fellows & research associates) are invited to attend!)
1:00 PM   |  Room SR415, Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine

Dr. Salter’s main research focus is on synaptic physiology, in particular in relation to pain, and he has done groundbreaking work that has led to new paradigms about neuroplasticity and about how synaptic transmission in the central nervous system is regulated by biochemical processes within neurons and by glial-neuronal interactions. His discoveries have broad implications for the control of cell-cell communication throughout the nervous system and his work has regularly appeared in elite journals including Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Medicine and Neuron. Dr. Salter has a broad interest in neuroscience and his work relevant to learning and memory, stroke-induced neuron death, epilepsy and schizophrenia. As a distinct line of research, he and his collaborators reported in Cell in 2006 their discovery of a previously unsuspected role for sensory neurons in the pathogenesis of diabetes and in the control of glucose homeostasis.

/sent on behalf of

Dr. Eftekhar Eftekharpour
Coordinator - Seminar & Visiting Speaker Series
Tel:  204.789.3214  Email:  eftekhar.eftekharpour@umanitoba.ca

Manitoba Neuroscience Network
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Winnipeg, MB  R2H 2A6

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