Manitoba Neuroscience Network

5th Scientific Meeting | June 12th, 2015

What: Manitoba Neuroscience Network 5th Scientific Meeting

Date: Friday, June 12th, 2015

Location: Radisson Hotel Winnipeg Downtown

The Winnipeg Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (WCSN) actively promotes neuroscience research, education and outreach in Manitoba. The Manitoba Neuroscience network represents the cornerstone approach of the WCSN to encourage communication, cooperation and collaboration among Manitoba's broad basic and clinical neuroscience research community.

Since 2010, the Manitoba Neuroscience Network held annual scientific meetings of neuroscience faculty and train­ees. These gatherings have been received with tremendous enthusiasm, attracting around 150 attendees each year. We are pleased to build on this success by holding a sixth annual meeting in 2015. In 2015, the meeting content will centre on, synaptic plasticity, neural networks, epigenetic and genetic modeling of CNS disorders, and neural repair and regeneration. There will be participation by principal investigators, trainees and invited speakers. There will also be a poster competition for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The 2015 meeting program is chaired by Dr. Soheila Karimi, with participation from junior, senior, basic science and clinical faculty. Thank you to all speakers, session chairs and poster judges. Welcome to MNN 2015. Please register for and attend this chance to maximize your awareness of the research quality and opportunities in your community in an atmosphere designed to encourage social interaction.

This year we are delighted to have Dr. Michael Fehlings, a distinguished neurosurgeon and neu­roscientist, from the University of Toronto and the University Health Network. Dr. Fehlings is a world-renowned neuroscientist in the area of neural repair and regeneration with a focus on spinal cord injury and disease.

For more information, registration and abstract submission, please visit:

www.sbrc.ca/mnn2015

/sent on behalf of

Soheila Karimi Meeting Chair 272-3109

soheila.karimi@umanitoba.ca

Kelly Jorundson Administrative Manager Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders St. Boniface Hospital Research

& 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@sbrc.ca OR Kelly.Jorundson@umanitoba.ca Website: www.sbrc.ca/dnd OR www.umanitoba.ca/medicine/units/pharmacology