REGISTRATION
Registration for the Brain to Nanodomain Symposium is mandatory for all attendees and will close on October 5, 2018 at 4:00 pm.  

For inquiries about this event, please contact carley.mcpherson@uhnresearch.ca.

AGENDA
 

8:00 – 8:45 AM
Breakfast

Chair: Dr. Gerald W Zamponi, Senior Associate Dean, Research, University of Calgary

8:45 – 9:00 AM
Welcome from UHN Executive
Bradly Wouters, PhD
Executive Vice President, Science and Research
University Health Network
 
Opening Remarks
Elise Stanley PhD
Canada Research Chair in Molecular Brain Science
Senior Scientist, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network
Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto
 

9:00 - 9:45 AM
Richard W. Tsien, DPhil
Druckenmiller Professor of Neuroscience
Chair, Neuroscience and Physiology
Director, Neuroscience Institute, NYU

“New Perspectives on Synaptic Powers”
 

9:45 - 10:15 AM
Elias Aizenman, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
 
“Neuroprotection by inhibition of Kv2.1-syntaxin interaction” 
  

10:15 - 10:45 AM
Rajesh Khanna, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience and Center for Innovation in Brain Sciences, The University of Arizona
Chief Scientific Officer, Regulonix Holding Inc.
 
“CRMPing Pain”
 

10:45 - 11:00 AM
Break
 

11:00 - 11:30 AM
Allen W. Chan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta
 
“Mesoscale functional neuroimaging: Insights into cortical dynamics and neuropsychiatric disorders in mouse models”
 

11:30 - 12:00 PM
Professor Tobias Moser
Institute for Auditory Neuroscience &
InnerEarLab, University Medical Center
Göttingen

“Quantitative nanophysiology of the presynaptic active zone”
 

12:00 - 1:00
Lunch
 

 
Chair: Dr. Milton Charlton, Professor Emeritus, department of Physiology, University of Toronto
 

1:00 - 1:30 PM
Sumiko Mochida, PhD
Professor of Tokyo Medical University
 
“Action potential induced millisecond Ca2+ dynamics activate multiple protein cascades for synaptic vesicle control”
 

1:30 - 2:00 PM
Hartmut Schmidt, PhD
Senior Scientist, Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology
University of Leipzig, Germany

“Regulation of presynaptic calcium influx – transmitter release coupling in cortical synapses”
 

2:00 - 2:30 PM
Ling-Gang Wu, PhD
Senior Investigator, NINDS, NIH
 
“Illuminating membrane structural remodeling of fusion and fission”
 

2:30 - 2:45 PM
Break
 

2:45 - 3:15 PM
Henrique von Gersdorff, PhD
Senior Scientist, The Vollum Institute
Oregon Health & Science University

"Building fast and resilient synapses with Ca2+  nanodomains and microdomains"
 

3:15 - 3:45 PM
Gerald W Zamponi, FRSC, FCAHS
Canada Research Chair in Molecular Neuroscience
Senior Associate Dean, Research
University of Calgary
 
“Calcium channel dysregulation during neuropathic pain”  
 

3:45 - 4:45 PM
Elise Stanley PhD
Canada Research Chair in Molecular Brain Science
Senior Scientist, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network
Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto
 
"Turning points and straightaways."
 

4:45 - 6:00 PM
Reception and Jazz by “15 Crows”

LOCATION

The Brain to Nanodomain Symposium will be held at the BMO Education & Conference Centre located in the Krembil Discovery Tower at 60 Leonard Ave.

Comments and inquiries should be sent to the Krembil Research Institute at carley.mcpherson@uhnresearch.ca.