The Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience is pleased to announce this upcoming

Manitoba Neuroscience Network Seminar http://www.sfn-manitoba.ca/news/?id+20101018wcsn.txt ...

Date: Friday, March 25, 2011 Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Location: Theatre B, Basic Medical Sciences Bldg., Bannatyne Campus

Dr. David Eisenstat, MD, MA, FRCPC

Director, Advanced Degrees in Medicine Program, Faculty of Medicine Director, Neuro-Oncology, CancerCare Manitoba Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics & Child Health, Human Anatomy & Cell Science, Ophthalmology, and Biochemistry & Medical Genetics Senior Investigator, Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology Scientist, Manitoba Institute of Child Health University of Manitoba

Title: "Regulation of progenitor cell fate and survival in the developing retina".

Dr. David Eisenstat is a Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist and Neuro-Oncologist. He is also Director of the Advanced Degrees in Medicine Program in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, the Director of Neuro-Oncology for CancerCare Manitoba, a Senior Investigator of the Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology and a Scientist, Manitoba Institute of Child Health. Dr. David Eisenstat's laboratory is interested in the interface between Cancer and Development as well as understanding the genetic regulation of brain and retina development.

Dr. Eisenstat graduated from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine in 1985. Following an internship emphasizing surgery and a subsequent residency year in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Toronto, David completed his Pediatrics residency at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto in 1990. After a Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, also at the Hospital for Sick Children, he was awarded a Fellowship from the Pediatric Scientist Development Program. David moved his family to San Francisco, where he joined the Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In 1993, David began a second postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Medical Research Council of Canada with Dr. John Rubenstein, also at UCSF, and was awarded a Master's degree in Neuroscience from UCSF in 1997.

In 1998, David was a Clinical Fellow in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. After over 13 years of post-medical school training, he began his first faculty appointment at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, in 1999. Since 2005, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics & Child Health, and holds full cross-appointments as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Human Anatomy & Cell Science, Biochemistry & Medical Genetics and Ophthalmology, all at the University of Manitoba.

For more information, contact the MNN Office at (T) 235.3939 or email: mnn@sbrc.ca

Presented in co-operation with University of Manitoba Clinical Neuroscience Rounds An initiative of the Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience

Kelly Jorundson

Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience

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