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You can access the program for 2024 HERE
This year Neuroscience Day will be held on May 10 2024 in the SSC atrium for the meals, poster session and keynote address, the student oral presentations will be held in RICH2520 and 2529 and run concurrently.
As always we encourage one student from every lab to register for an oral presentation, and anyone else who wishes to present to register for a poster. Please register HERE, where you want to present or not, if you are attending the conference, please register, this will ensure we have enough food and room for everyone.
This years keynote speaker is Dr. Jaideep Bains, his research focuses on how the brain responds to stress, focusing on using various approaches to look at how the molecular, hormonal and behavioural changes elicited by stress will effect how the brain will respond to future stressors. His talk is titled “Synapses, circuits and stress”
Abstract: A stress response is essential for survival. But when stress is intense, unpredictable or pervasive, it can have lasting, negative consequences on behaviour and physiology. How stress changes the brain to affect behaviour is still largely unresolved. We propose that stress imprints the brain, causing biochemical and molecular changes that alter synaptic, cellular and circuit function. Here I will present data linking stress-induced synaptic changes to behavioural changes and discuss distinct ways to erase these synaptic memories of stress.
| Time | Event (Location) |
| 8:45-9:20AM | Sign in, Breakfast (Atrium) |
| 9:40AM-12PM | Student Oral Presentations (RICH2520 and 2529) |
| 12-2PM | Lunch and Poster Session (Atrium) |
| 2PM | Coffee/Tea and Snacks |
| 2:30-4PM | Keynote talk by Jaideep Bains (Atrium) |
| 4PM | Closing remarks and prizes (Atrium) |