Invited Speakers 2021

DECEMBER 16, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Jean-Claude Lacaille
Université de Montréal, Canada
https://neurosciences.umontreal.ca/jean-claude-lacaille/
Hippocampal somatostatin interneurons and memory

DECEMBER 9, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Vivien Chevaleyre
Paris Descartes University, France
https://ipnp.paris5.inserm.fr
Sequential inhibitory plasticities in hippocampal CA2 underlie social memory

DECEMBER 2, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Sylvain Williams
Douglas Institute – McGill University, Canada
https://sylvainwilliams.ca/
Memory rescue in Alzheimer mice models; Underlying mechanisms and sleep

NOVEMBER 25, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Cyril Herry
INSERM, France
https://www.bordeaux-neurocampus.fr/en/staff/cyril-herry/
From single cell to population coding during defensive behaviors in prefrontal circuits

NOVEMBER 18, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Mahesh Karnani
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
https://www.amsterdamumc.org/mahesh-karnani.htm
Neural circuitry for sensorimotor processing in the lateral hypothalamus

NOVEMBER 4, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Jesper Sjöström
McGill University, Canada
https://www.mcgill.ca/crn/research/sjostrom
Unconventional NMDA receptor signalling in neocortical plasticity

OCTOBER 28, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Jayeeta Basu
New York University Neuroscience Institute, USA
https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/jayeeta-basu
Multimodal sensory cortical input modulates hippocampal dendritic excitability by recruiting a local disinhibitory microcircuit

OCTOBER 21, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Romain Goutagny
The European Neuroscience Institute at Strasbourg, France
https://www.eni-net.org/members/dr-romain-goutagny/
Decoding the hippocampal oscillatory Complexity to predict behavior

OCTOBER 14, 2021
11-00 TO 12-00 EST
Vikaas Sohal
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, USA
https://profiles.ucsf.edu/vikaas.sohal
How do oscillations and emergent patterns of multineuron activity contribute to the normal and pathological function of prefrontal circuits?

OCTOBER 7, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Rebecca Piskorowski
Paris Descartes University, France
https://ipnp.paris5.inserm.fr
Memorable first impressions : a hypothalamic-hippocampal circuit underlying novel social memory formation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Michele Giugliano
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Italy
http://phdneurobiology.sissa.it/michele-giugliano
Correlation transfer in cortical neurons

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Simon Chen
University of Ottawa, Canada
https://med.uottawa.ca/cellular-molecular/people/chen-simon
Dissecting neural circuits underlying motor learning in normal and disease mouse models

MAY 27, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Derek Bowie
McGill University, Canada
http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/pharma/dbowielab
NMDA receptor dysfunction in the Fragile X brain

MAY 20, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Klas Kullander
Uppsala University, Sweden
https://www.neuro.uu.se/research/research-groups/klas-kullander/
Inhibitory interneurons next to principal cells – what do they do?

MAY 13, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Roberto Araya
Université de Montréal, Canada
https://umontreal.ca/recherche/les-chercheurs/roberto-araya/
A spike-timing-dependent plasticity rule for single, clustered and distributed dendritic spines

MAY 6, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Marco Canepari
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique (LIPhy),
Université Grenoble Alpes, France
http://marco-canepari.com
Optical analysis of neuronal ionic currents in their native system

APRIL 29, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Sylvain Crochet
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
https://people.epfl.ch/sylvain.crochet
The mouse cortical states in wakefulness, sleep and task-engagement

APRIL 15, 2021
9-30 TO 10-30 EST
Alexey Semyanov
IBCH RAS, Russia
http://www.ibch.ru/structure/groups/ext
Decoding calcium activity in single astrocytes and astrocytic networks

APRIL 8, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Frances K Skinner
Krembil Research Institute, Canada
https://www.skinnerlab.org/
Insights derived from inhibitory cell modeling in the hippocampus over two decades

MARCH 18, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Ivo Spiegel
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/neurobiology/labs/spiegel
Behavioral state-dependent modulation of sensory processing and plasticity in cortical circuits

MARCH 11, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Elsa Rossignol
University of Montreal,
CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Canada
https://www.chusj.org/elsa-rossignol
Cortical inhibition and genetic epilepsies

MARCH 4, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Steven Prescott
University of Toronto, SickKids, Canada
http://prescottlab.ca/
Inhibition in the spinal dorsal horn and its reduction in chronic pain

FEBRUARY 25, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Balázs Rózsa
Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungary
https://rozsalab.eu/
Sharp-wave ripple events induce complex dendritic spikes in parvalbumin interneurons in behaving mice

FEBRUARY 18, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Sebastien Royer
Korea Institute of Science and Technology,
South Korea
https://bsi.kist.re.kr/dt_team/sebastien-royer
How the mapping of the space by place cells develops with experience?

FEBRUARY 11, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Graziella Di Cristo
University of Montreal, Canada
https://neurosciences.umontreal.ca/recherche/les-chercheurs/graziella-di-cristo
Altered connectivity of PV interneurons in autism-related phenotypes

FEBRUARY 4, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Karri Lamsa
University of Szeged, Hungary
https://www.researchgate.net/Karri_Lamsa2
High-accuracy signaling and plasticity in the human basket cells

JANUARY 21, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Afia Ali
UCL London, UK
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/dr-afia-b-ali
Mechanistic insights into synaptic microcircuit imbalance in Alzheimer’s disease

JANUARY 14, 2021
10-00 TO 11-00 EST
Lisa Topolnik
CRCHUQ-Laval University Research Centre, Canada
http://www.crchudequebec.ulaval.ca/en/research/researchers/lisa-topolnik/