Dates/Calendar

Journal Club Meeting dates
ALL JOURNAL CLUB MEETINGS ARE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED
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BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK - POSTPONED
March 23-27, 2020 

BRAIN BEE 2020 - POSTPONED
Mar 27th 
@Brain Repair Centre

BRC Neurodevelopment Cluster 

8th Annual Atlantic Regional Developmental Biology Symposium
Friday June 5th, 2020
MSVU

 
AdvaMedMedTech Conference
Toronto, October 24-28, 2020

Neuroscience 2020 (SfN)
Washingon, DC - Oct 24-28, 2020 
April 30: Deadline for abstract submissions

Canadian Neuroscience Meeting
Vancouver, May 2021 

BRC News

**Due to the situation with Covid-19, all events planned for Brain Awareness Week have been postponed.  We look forward to rescheduling as many of these events as possible at some point in the future.**

BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK is POSTPONED. This year the BRC is organising events during the week of March 23-27. See our events page for individual listings including: 

• Slam Your (Neuro)Science - a competition for Undergrads 
• Meet The BRC - a public lecture 
• Brain Fair - open to the public and school groups (Grades 5-8) 
• Brain Bee - a competition for High School Students
• Neuroscience as Art - bid for some new art to hang on your walls 

Atlantic Canada’s life sciences companies reaching global markets- four Halifax-area companies awarded grants to bring their innovative healthcare solutions for a wide range of challenges to the world

NSHA announces HEALTH CHALLENGE PITCH EVENTS (March 2020)

Innovation for a Better Canada (Govt of Canada) The innovation race is on! A bright future for Canadian businesses, creators, entrepreneurs and innovators starts with access to programs, services and tools that push ideas forward, create jobs and grow the Canadian economy.

Dr Alon Friedman's research features in an article in Science Translational Medicine (Dec 2019). Read about it in DALNews or see the full article Drugs that quell brain inflammation reverse dementia.  

The Iulianella group recently published a paper detailing how a central signalling pathway regulates the formation and targeting of nerves in the spinal cord. The Hedgehog receptor Patched1 regulates proliferation, neurogenesis, and axon guidance in the embryonic spinal cord (published October 2019)