In this issue....

1) Fundamentals of Neuroscience course offering

2) The Inaugural Dr. Patrick Choy Distinguished Seminar in Translational Research

Fundamentals of Neuroscience course offering

The Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience would like to make graduate students/supervisors aware of the following upcoming course.....

Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. (Tentative course outline is attached.)

Physiology Library - Room 431, 4th Floor, Basic Medical Sciences Building

The course starts September 7, 2010 and ends April 15, 2011. Registration is open to all graduate students enrolled in any Faculty/School/Department interested in Neuroscience from both the Fort Garry & Bannatyne Campuses.

More information:

IMED 7100 http://aurora.umanitoba.ca/banprod/bwckctlg.p_disp_course_detail?cat_term_in=200890&subj_code_in=IMED&crse_numb_in=7100 - Fundamentals of Neuroscience

(Formerly 165.710) An interdepartmental multidisciplinary course providing a comprehensive overview of cellular, molecular, developmental and systems neuroscience, as well as the neurobiology of disease. Emphasis will be placed on the application of the fundamental principles of neuroscience to contemporary lab research. ANAT 7270 http://aurora.umanitoba.ca/banprod/bwckctlg.p_disp_course_detail?cat_term_in=200890&subj_code_in=ANAT&crse_numb_in=7270 (or 080.727) (offered in alternate years) will provide instruction in neuroanatomy and structure-function in the nervous system.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

6.000 Credit Hours | Levels: Graduate | Class Schedule: Medicine | Faculty of Medicine | Medicine Interdisciplinary Department

For more information contact:

Dr. David Eisenstat (course director) at eisensta@cc.umanitoba.ca / 787-1169,

Dr. Brent Fedirchuk (course director) at brent@scrc.umanitoba.ca / 789-3762

Cybel de Juan (administrative assistant) at Cybel.dejuan@cancercare.mb.ca/ 787-4170

The Inaugural Dr. Patrick Choy Distinguished Seminar in Translational Research

Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Time: 9: am - 5:30 pm

Location: Theatre A, BMSc Bldg.

Moderator: Redwan Moqbel, Professor & Head, Immunology, University of Manitoba

Please see attached program for further details.

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

Pharmacology & Therap., University of Manitoba

R4046 - 351 Taché Avenue Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6 CANADA

'Tel: 204.235.3939 7Fax: 204.237.4092 *Email: kjorund@sbrc.ca mailto:kjorund@sbrc.ca ; OR kjorund@yahoo.ca mailto:kjorund@yahoo.ca