| 
                Date | 
                
                Speaker | 
                
                Lecture | 
                
                Host | 
              
              
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				2012 | 
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				September 11, 2012 | 
                
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				September 18, 2012 
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				Andres Barria, PhD 
				Department of Physiology & Biophysics 
				University of Washington 
				Seattle, WA  USA | 
                
				
				 
				Trafficking and Function of NMDA-Receptors: 
				A Tale of Two Receptors | 
                
				 
				Edward Ruthazer | 
              
				
                
				 
				September 20, 2012 
				THURSDAY | 
                
				 
				A. James Barkovich, MD 
				Chief, Pediatric Neuroradiology 
				UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital 
				San Francisco, CA  USA 
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				Denis Melançon Neuroradiology Lecture 
				Malformations of Cortical Development: Update 2012 | 
                
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				September 25, 2012 
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				Suzanne Haber, PhD 
				Department of Pharmacology & Physiology 
				University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry 
				Rochester, NY  USA | 
                
				
				 
				The Circuit of Reward and Value: Linking Connectivity to 
				Function and Disease | 
                
				 
				Lesley Fellows | 
              
				
                
				
				 
				October 2, 2012 
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				Gary Landreth, PhD 
				Alzheimer Research Laboratory 
				Department of Neurosciences 
				Case Western Reserve University 
				Cleveland, OH  USA | 
                
				
				 
				
				Nuclear 
				Receptors as Therapeutic Targets in Alzheimer's Disease | 
                
				
				 
				 
				Phil Barker | 
              
				
                
				
				 
				October 9, 2012 
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				Leonard A. Levin, MD, PhD 
				Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology 
				McGill University 
				Physician-in-Chief of Ophthalmology 
				McGill University Health Centre | 
                
				 
				Cut and Dyed: 
				Redox Signaling of Axonal Injury | 
                
				 
				Phil Barker | 
              
				
                
				
				 
				October 16, 2012 
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				Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 
				New Orleans, LA 
				October 13-17, 2012 | 
                
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				October 23, 2012 
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				Tom Jessel, PhD 
				Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics 
				Center for Neurobiology & Behavior 
				Columbia University 
				New York, NY  USA | 
                
				 
				Gairdner Lecture | 
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				October 30, 2012 
  | 
                
				 
				Gary Bassell, PhD 
				Emory University 
				Department of Cell Biology 
				Atlanta, GA  USA | 
                
				 
				
				mRNA Transport, Local Translation and Fragile X 
				Syndrome | 
                
				 
				Wayne Sossin | 
              
				
                
				
				 
				November 6, 2012 
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				Marco Prado, PhD 
				Robarts Research Institute 
				University of Western Ontario 
				London, ON  CANADA | 
                
				 
				Physiology of the Prion 
				Protein | 
                
				 
				Ted Fon | 
              
				
                
				
				 
				November 13, 2012 
  | 
                
				 
				Donald Van Meyel, PhD 
				Centre for Research in Neuroscience 
				McGill University 
				Montreal, QC  CANADA | 
                
				 
				Novel Mechanisms 
				Controlling the Complex and Diverse Morphologies of Neuronal 
				Dendrites | 
                
				 
				Ed Ruthazer | 
              
				
                
				
				 
				November 20, 2012 
  | 
                
				 
				Patrick Cavanagh, PhD 
				Université Paris Descartes, Paris V 
				Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception 
				Paris, FRANCE | 
                
				 
				
				Attention and the Position Sense | 
                
				 
				Dan Guitton | 
              
				
                
				
				 
				November 27, 2012 
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				Ann Marie Craig, PhD 
				Brain Research Centre 
				University of British Columbia 
				Vancouver, BC  CANADA | 
                
				
				 
				
				Molecular Organizing Complexes for Excitatory and 
				Inhibitory Synapses | 
                
				
				 
				Ken Hastings | 
              
				
                
				
				 
				December 4, 2012 
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				Stanley H. Appel, MD 
				Methodist Hospital Research Institute 
				Houston, TX   USA | 
                
				 
				T-Cells Step Up 
				to the Plate in Lou Gehrig Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral 
				Sclerosis | 
                
				 
				Jack Antel | 
              
				
                
				
				 
				December 11, 2012 
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				Sylvain Williams, PhD 
				Department of Psychiatry 
				Douglas Mental Health University Institute 
				Montreal, QC  CANADA | 
                
				 
				Understanding the Role of GABAergic 
				Interneurons in Hippocampus using 
				Optogenetics | 
                
				 
				Philippe Séguéla | 
              
				
                
				
				 
				December 18, 2012 | 
                
				 
				Santiago Costantino, PhD 
				Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre 
				Montreal, QC  CANADA | 
                
				 
				New Laser Tools 
				to Probe Neural Cells: From the Lab to the Clinic | 
                
				 
				Tim Kennedy | 
              
				
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				2013 | 
                
				 
				
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				January 8, 2013 
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				January 15, 2013 
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				Karen Moxon, PhD 
				Drexel University 
				School of Biomedical Engineering 
				Philadelphia, PA   USA | 
                
				 
				Dynamics of 
				Network Oscillations During the Transition to Seizures | 
                
				 
				Massimo Avoli | 
              
              
                
				
				 
				January 22, 2013 
  | 
                
				 
				Angela Vincent, PhD 
				Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine 
				University of Oxford 
				United Kingdom | 
                
				 
				Antibody-Mediated Neurological Diseases: 
				Triumphs, Trials and Tribulations | 
                
				 
				Jack Antel | 
              
              
                
				
				 
				January 29, 2013 
  | 
                
				 
				Ivan De Araujo, DPhil 
				Yale University School of Medicine 
				New Haven, CT  USA | 
                
				 
				Gastrointestinal 
				and Metabolic Regulation of Striatal Dopamine Signaling | 
                
				 
				Alain Dagher | 
              
              
                
				
				 
				February 5, 2013 
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				Gerhard Multhaup, PhD 
				Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics 
				McGill University | 
                
				 
				
				 
				The Role of Secretases in the Amyloid Puzzle  | 
                
				 
				Ted Fon | 
              
              
                
                
                 
				February 12, 2013 
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				David Mikulis, BSc, FRCR, MD 
				Toronto Western Hospital 
				Toronto, ON  CANADA | 
                
				 
				Cerebrovascular Reserve and Neurovascular 
				Uncoupling Syndrome | 
                
				 
				Bruce Pike | 
              
              
                
				
				 
				February 19, 2013 
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				Michael Fehlings, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS 
				Toronto Western Hospital 
				Toronto, ON  CANADA | 
                
				 
				Repair and 
				Regeneration of the Injured Spinal Cord: From Molecule to Man | 
                
				 
				Alyson Fournier | 
              
              
                
                
                 
				February 26, 2013 
  | 
                
				 
				Fady Malik, MD, PhD, FACC 
				Senior Vice President, Research and Early Development 
				Cytokinetics, Inc. 
				South San Francisco, CA  USA | 
                
				 
				 
				
				Concept to Clinic:  
				Fast Skeletal Troponin Activators and their Application to 
				Neuromuscular 
				Diseases  | 
                
				
				
				 
				Angela Genge | 
              
              
                 
                   
                   
					March 5, 2013 
  | 
                
				 
				François Rassendren, PhD 
				Département Pharmacologie Moléculaire 
				Institut de Genomique Fonctionnelle 
				CNRS UMR5203 
				Montpellier, FRANCE | 
                
				 
				Sensing danger 
				signals: an emerging role for ATP-gated P2X receptors | 
                
				 
				Philippe Séguéla | 
              
              
                
                
                 
				March 12, 2013 
  | 
                
				 
				Anton Reiner, PhD 
				Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology 
				University of Tennessee Health Science Center 
				Memphis, TN  USA | 
                
				 
				Drug Therapy for 
				Huntington’s Disease: Targeting Corticostriatal Transmission | 
                
				 
				Abbas Sadikot | 
              
              
                
				
				 
				March 19, 2013 
  | 
                
				 
				Francis Lee, MD, PhD 
				Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology 
				Weill Medical College of Cornell University 
				New York, NY   USA | 
                
				 
				
				Role of Neurotrophins in Neuropsychiatric Disorders | 
                
				 
				Jean-François Cloutier | 
              
              
                 
                   
                   
					March 26, 2013 
  | 
                
				 
				
				Leo Pallanck, PhD 
				Department of Genome Sciences 
				University of Washington 
				Seattle, WA  USA | 
                
				 
				Genetic and 
				Proteomic Analysis of Mitochondrial Quality Control 
				 | 
                
				 
				Ted Fon | 
              
              
                 
                   
                   
					April 2, 2013 
  | 
                
				 
				Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD 
				Department of Neuroscience 
				Georgetown University Medical Center 
				Washington, DC   USA | 
                
				 
				
				Neural Mechanisms of Object Recognition in Cortex: About 
				Pipelines, Phonemes, and Flying Crossbodies | 
                
				 
				Christopher Pack | 
              
              
                
				
				 
				April 9, 2013 
  | 
                
                 
				Minh Dang Nguyen, PhD 
				University of Calgary 
				Calgary, AB | 
                
				 
				MAPping Brain 
				Development and Maturation  | 
                
                 
				Alyson Fournier | 
              
              
                 
                   
					April 15, 2013 (MONDAY) | 
                
				 
				Randy Buckner, PhD 
				Harvard
				University 
				Center for Brain Science 
				Cambridge, MA  USA | 
                
				 
				Brenda Milner 
				Lecture in Cognitive Neuroscience 
				Exploring the Large-Scale Architecture of the Human Brain | 
                
				 
				Michael Petrides | 
              
              
                 
                   
                   
					April 16, 2013 
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				Matthijs Verhage, PhD 
				Department of Functional Genomics 
				Center for Neurogenomics & Cognitive Research 
				Vrije Universiteit and VU Medical Center 
				Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS | 
                
				 
				The Secretion of 
				Different Chemical Signals from Mammalian Neurons | 
                
				  
				Peter McPherson
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				April 23, 2013 
  | 
                
				 
				Seung Jae Lee, PhD 
				Department of Biomedical Science & Technology 
				Konkuk University 
				Seoul, KOREA | 
                
				 
				
				Extracellular Alpha-Synuclein: Unusual Suspect of Lewy Body 
				Diseases | 
                
				 
				Ted Fon | 
              
              
                
                 
				April 29, 2013 
				MONDAY | 
                
				 
				Carla Shatz, PhD 
				Director, Bio-X 
				Stanford University 
				Standord, CA  USA | 
                
				 
				Dorothy J. Killam Lecture | 
                
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				April 30, 2013 
  | 
                
				
				 
				Matthias Johannes Koepp, MD, PhD 
				Department of Clinical & Experimental Epilepsy 
				UCL Institute of Neurology 
				London, UNITED KINGDOM 
				  | 
                
				
				 
				Imaging Epilepsy Syndromes: Salmon Fishing 
				in the Yemen MRI?
				 
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				Andrea Bernasconi | 
              
              
                
				
				 
				May 7, 2013 
  | 
                
				
				 
				Ronald Davis, PhD 
				Department of Neuroscience 
				Scripps Research Institute Florida 
				Jupiter, FL  USA | 
                
				
				 
				Jerzy
				Olszewski Lecture 
				 
				
				Brain's Logic for Memory Formation and Forgetting 
  | 
                
				
				 
				Barbara Jones | 
              
              
                
				
				 
				May 14, 2013 
  | 
                
				
				 
				Robert Ferrante, PhD, MS 
				Director, Translational Therapeutics Laboratory 
				Co-Director, Center for ALS Research 
				University of Pittsburgh 
				Pittsburgh, PA  USA 
				  | 
                
				
				 
				
				The Magrums: Huntington's Chorea  - Hunting for a 
				Cure | 
                
				
				 
				Abbas Sadikot | 
              
              
                
				
				 
				May 21, 2013 
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				Canadian Association for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 
				Toronto, ON 
				May 21-24, 2013 | 
                
				 
				
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					May 28, 2013 
  | 
                
				 
				Elizabeth M. McNally, MD, PhD 
				Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics 
				University of Chicago 
				Chicago, IL  USA | 
                
				 
				
				
				George Karpati Lecture 
				 
				
				Genetic Modifiers for Muscular Dystrophy | 
                
				 
				
				Ken Hastings | 
              
              
                 
                   
					 
					June 4, 2013 | 
                
				 
				Ehud Isacoff, PhD 
				University of California 
				Berkeley, CA  USA | 
                
				 
				Gating Synaptic 
				Plasticity with Light Controlled Glutamate Receptors | 
                
				 
				Edward Ruthazer | 
              
              
                 
                   
                   
					June 11, 2013 
  | 
                
				 
				Vincenzo Crunelli, PhD 
				Cardiff School of Biosciences 
				Cardiff, UK | 
                
				 
				Pathophysiological Mechanisms of 
				Absence Seizures | 
                
				 
				Massimo Avoli |