Invitation to the CAN 2014 satellite workshop on “Neural circuits of health and disease: from computation to experiment”

We would like to invite you to join us at the CAN 2014 satellite workshop on “Neural circuits of health and disease: from computation to experiment” to be held on Monday, May 26 between 5pm and 10pm at the Montreal Hilton Bonaventure. This workshop is organized by the Canadian Association for Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience (CNCN) and jointly sponsored by CIHR and NeuroDevNet.

The goals of this workshop are to (1) showcase the significance of CNCN-experimental collaborations, (2) enable new breakthroughs on major health questions through break-out sessions matching CNCN expertise with experimentalists, and (3) prepare a joint vision on how CNCN will optimally benefit health research in Canada. We hope to build new collaborations, exchange ideas and demonstrate the usefulness of CNCN. In addition, we aim at providing specific suggestions to funding agencies on how CNCN could further boost Canadian health research. We are also very honored to have Dr. Eve Marder (Brandeis University; former SfN president) as a keynote lecturer. Please see below for a detailed program.

If you are interested in participating, please email Dr. Gunnar Blohm (gunnar.blohm@queensu.ca) with a short statement of interest and benefit of participation to you. Although this workshop is mainly intended for PIs, we also encourage senior graduate students and postdocs to apply. Participation is by invitation only. The CNCN steering committee will select 60 participants (10 students/postdocs) out of all applications. Thanks to CIHR and NeuroDevNet, workshop participation is free and includes dinner.

We hope to see you at the workshop!

Sincerely

Gunnar Blohm & Paul Pavlidis (co-organizers, co-directors of CNCN)

Preliminary Program:

5pm – 5:15pm – Welcome by Paul Pavlidis & Gunnar Blohm

Showcases of CNCN-experimental collaborations

5-15pm – 5:45pm: Neurodevelopmental disorders (TBD)

5:45pm – 6:15pm: Stroke (TBD)

6:15pm – 6:45pm: Changes in the dynamics of network oscillations in hippocampus as markers of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer disease mice models (Frances Skinner, U Toronto; Sylvain Williams, McGill)

6:45pm – 7:15pm: Genomics and neuropsychiatric disorders (Gustavo Turecki, McGill; Paul Pavlidis, UBC)

7:15pm – 8:30pm: 6 chaired round table discussions & dinner

8:30pm – 9:30pm: keynote lecture (Dr. Eve Marder)

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Dr. Gunnar BLOHM
Assistant Professor in Computational Neuroscience

Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Departments of Biomedical
and Molecular Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, and 
Psychology, School of Computing, and 
Canadian Action and Perception Network (CAPnet)

Queen’s University
18, Stuart Street
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
Tel: (613) 533-3385
Fax: (613) 533-6840
Email: Gunnar.Blohm@QueensU.ca
Web: http://www.compneurosci.com/