BRC Newsletter
Neurotransmitter
International Partnerships
Dalhousie BRC and Ben Gurion University of the Negev
TBI Research Partnership
In 2017 the BRC received funding from the Department of Labour and Advanced Education to develop a business model to include the provision of continuing and individualized care to brain injured patients while combining with research/investigation and delivery of support through a collaborative care model. This model is based on the development of a patient-centric, inter-disciplinary and collaborative research effort that aims to improve prevention policies for all Nova Scotians and clinical outcomes for TBI survivors.
The Brain Repair Centre welcomes you to learn more about this partnership by downloading the digital version of the business plan. Click on the cover image to learn more about the proposed model concept, which promotes patient driven research projects, and exploits and capitalizes on existing talent and facilities to bring the concept of a living laboratory to the fore.
Dates/Calendar
Form and Function in Ocular Disease
Oct 19-20, Halifax, NS
Bioport 2018
Nov 7-8 Halifax
Toronto ABI Network Conference
November 15-16
13th World Congress on Brain Injury
March 13-16, 2019
BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK
March 11-15th 2019
JOURNAL CLUBS 
Next Meeting dates
ABI Journal Club - Nov 20th
Interdisciplinary Science Journal Club - Nov 6th
AMAP Journal Club - Oct 25th
Click here for info on all the journal clubs, upcoming meeting times and papers for discussion
BRC News
Congratulations to BRC members Dr James Fawcett and Dr Kazue Semba who have been awarded CIHR Project grants in the Spring 2018 competition. Dr Fawcett received a grant for his project titled Control of movement: contribution of cerebellar glial cells and Dr Semba for her project titled Microglia response to chronic sleep restriction. for more info, click on the project titles.
The James M. Flaherty Program Awards, funded by the Governments of Canada and Ireland, has announced the 2018 call for applications to its awards programs. Senior researchers and academics, on sabbatical leave, can apply for the James M. Flaherty Visiting Professorship as visiting professors in a university department where they will collaborate in both research and teaching. Early-career researchers or PhD students may apply for the Flaherty Research Scholarship, which supports research visits of 4-6 weeks in Ireland or Canada. More info here.
Dr Angelo Iulianella presented at CAN 2018 as part of the symposium: "Development and function of motor circuits: from hardwired patterning to functional maturation and sensory integration". The Brain Repair Centre and the Department of Medical Neuroscience at Dalhousie are pleased to have been sponsors of this international event.
Dr James Fawcwett and colleagues reveal that the polarity protein Angiomotin p130 controls dendritic spine maturation downstream of the Lats1 kinase (published in Journal of Cell Biology, Jan 2018)
Discovery at Dalhousie brain tissue lab could lead to Alzheimer treatment (Jan 2018)
Attentional dysfunction and recovery in concussion: effects on the P300m and contingent magnetic variation
BRC Researchers Dr Steven Beyea, Dr Aaron Newman and Dr Tim Bardouille in collaboration with other investigators from Dalhousie University, IWK Health Centre, and the Nova Scotia Health Authority.
Traumatic brain injury: a priority for public health policy (The Lancet, Dec 2017)
Ventral neural patterning in the absence of a Shh activity gradient from the floorplate
A recent publication on the work of one of the Brain Repair Centre's researchers - Angelo Iulianella & colleagues.
Exenatide once weekly versus placebo in Parkinson's . . . (The Lancet)
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