Neuroscience Student Seminars

Name

Seminar

Date

Christina Merkley


Tyler Peel

"Estrogen induced plasticity in glutamatergic inputs to Kiss1 neurons in the mouse."

"The behavioural effects of unilateral cryogenic inactivation of FEF and the FEF's contribution to SC neuronal activity."

September 17, 2012

Teresa McAdam


Melanie Kok


Robert Whitwell

"Grasping with a twist: decoding action intentions in the human brain using fMRI."

"Structural and functional cross-modal reorganization in the dorsal zone of deaf auditory cortex."

"Object size constancy in action."

September 24, 2012

Invited Speaker
Dr. Carlo Marzi

October 1, 2012

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Thanksgiving Holiday

October 8, 2012

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SFN - no seminars

October 15, 2012

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October 22, 2012

Invited Speaker
Dr. Amy Poremba

October 29, 2012

Benjamin Wheal


Tasha Ahmad


Sahand Babapoor-Farrokhran

"Localized elevation of cytosolic free calcium is required for uropod retraction in osteoclast migration."

"Cannabinoid transmission in the medial prefrontal cortext controls sub-cortical opiate reward and aversion signals."

"Role of anterior cingulate cortex in saccade generation."

November 5, 2012

Jennifer Milne


Laura Beamish


Taylor Parrott

"The neural correlates of material perception through active human echolocation in the blind."

"The influence of auditory brainstem encoding on the use of auditory feedback during speech production."

"Examining memory for beat based rhythms."

November 12, 2012

Jeffrey Wong


Jordan Robinson


Amir Mohseni

"Working memory: Are category and process specific models orthogonal or mutually exclusive."

"Anterior vs. Posterior lesions of the pedunculopontine tegmentum (PPT)."

"Long lasting effect of early life seizure."

November 19, 2012
*Note: these seminars will be held at LHSC Auditorium B

Invited Speaker
Dr. Keir Pearson

November 26, 2012

Diedre Desouza


Heather McGregor


Brittany Draycott

"The organization of the human auditory cortex: Responses to frequency modulated sounds."

"Exploring the neural basis of observational motor learning using resting-state fMRI."

"The effects of cortical cannabinoid transmission on emotional learning and memory."

December 3, 2012

Invited Speaker
Dr. Susanne Ferber

December 10, 2012

 James Kryklywy


Loretta Norton


Daniel Cameron

tba

"Innovative prognostic testing of comatose patients using fMRI."

"Stages of beat perception and the influence of incongruity: Preliminary results from fMRI."

December 17, 2012 

Alvin Chin

Amber Good

Aaron Kirschner

tba

tba

tba

January 14, 2013

Scott Macdonald

Justin Arcaro

Stacey Holbrook

tba

tba

tba

January 21, 2013

Invited Speaker
Dr. Michael Poulter

"Remodeling of the epileptic brain."

January 28, 2013

Peter Nguyen

Chris Fields

Samantha Podrebarac

tba

tba

tba

February 4, 2013

Adrianna Diez

Danielle Bell Boucher

Christian Battista

"Testing the template hypothesis of vocal learning in songbirds."

tba

tba

February 11, 2013

February 18, 2013

Invited Speaker
Dr. Deda Gillespie

February 25, 2013

Ben Kolisnyk

Chao Gu

Teddy Chow

March 4, 2013

Ravnoor Singh

Tanaz Javan

Lindsay Oliver

tba

tba

tba

March 11, 2013

Carmen Wong

Jordan Zunder

Komal Shaikh

tba

tba

tba

March 18, 2013

March 25, 2013

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Easter Monday - No Seminars

April 1, 2013

 Alex Moszczynski

Abraham Kunnilathu

Jason Chan

tba

tba

tba

April 8, 2013

 Adam Wang

Ambrose Ty

Nikoo Hashemi

tba

tba

tba

April 15, 2013

Invited Speaker
Dr. Yu-Tian Wang

"Allosteric potentiation of GABA-A receptor function by glutamate."

April 22, 2013