Please join us at Databinge on January 27th for “Data Deposit Basics” with Eugene Barsky. Eugene is the UBC Library’s Research Data Management Librarian and he will cover file naming, folder structures, README files, metadata, PIDs, Data Management Plans and FAIR principles. Contact Jeff LeDue (jledue@mail.ubc.ca) with any questions. Zoom link
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Objectives: 1) Neural stem cells build and regenerate the brain in part by forming oligodendrocytes, the myelinating cells of the central nervous system 2) Endogenous neural stem cells can be engaged in mouse models of neurodegenerative disorders for […]
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Decision-making is an unobservable cognitive process. This makes it challenging to investigate the underlying neuronal mechanisms. This lecture will discuss how techniques borrowed from the brain-machine interface field, such as decoding population activity and closed-loop […]
This month, Prof. Beck Todd from the Department of Psychology will present on "Using fMRI to model representational content in a translational context." Zoom link if unable to attend in person: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/5747966049?pwd=N1ppY2tUS3o4bk9vTkFSTzBna3k0Zz09 Meeting ID: 574 796 6049 Passcode: 052059
Dr. Annie Ciernia: "Mechanisms of Peripheral Lipopolysaccharide Induced Brain Inflammation" Dr. Paul van Donkelaar: "Characterizing tau pathology in survivors of intimate partner violence-related traumatic brain injury" Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258
Neha Suvindran: "Reimagining Neuro-Bioelectronic Systems: Sustainable, Stable and Self-healing Fiber Electrodes" Drs. Rebecca Todd and Stan Floresco: "Translation Investigation of Neurophysiological Substrates of Active and inhibitory Avoidance in healthy and depressed populations." Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Learned fear often relapses after extinction, suggesting that extinction training generates a new memory that coexists with the original fear memory. Recent work from our lab has identified the hippocampus as a region where such […]
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Puberty and ensuing adolescence represent a time when the brain is rapidly developing and is sensitive to environmental stimuli. This lecture will discuss evidence that pubertal adversity puts females at risk for altered stress responding […]
This month, Dr. Catharine Winstanley from the Department of Psychology will present "A Tale of Three Studies: Updates on rat behavioural studies evaluating chronic ropinirole, cannabis, and psychedelics." Specifically, she will be talking about: some of her lab's latest studies with ropinirole to model iatrogenic gambling disorder her lab's forays into cannabis administration, including vaped […]
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 In the early stages of substance abuse, subjects receive a drug that is highly reinforcing and are thus likely to repeat the actions that led them to obtain it. This is termed positive reinforcement. However, in a minority of people who […]
Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 The vast majority of drugs fail when trying to go from animals to humans. Some fields fail more than others, with psychiatry being at the pinnacle of a competition no field wants to win. Understanding […]
Spend an interactive morning with some of UBC's top researchers in areas such as healthy aging, dementia, mental health, brain injury, Parkinson's disease and autism to learn how their research is improving the lives of British Columbians and what some of the next discoveries in brain health might be. Speakers include: Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Healthy […]
The Neuroscience Research Colloquium (NRC), is a series of lectures featuring local and international neuroscientists.
