AMAP Meeting 2023

White Point Resort

Agenda

subject to minor changes

  • Sunday 24/09

    4.00pm Check-in
    5.00pm Trainee Meeting  
    6.00pm Welcome Remarks
    followed by Dinner
    7:00pm Guest Speaker
    - Dr. Réjean Dubuc, Dubuc Lab
    8.30pm Entertainment

  • Monday 25/09

    9.00am Guest Speaker
    - Dr Dr. Sten Grillner, Grillner Lab
    10:00am Presenter Session 1
    11.00am Coffee Break
    11.15am Presenter Session 2
    12.45pm  Lunch
    1.30pm  Afternoon Break
    & Group Activities                  
    5:45pm Group Photo
    6.00pm  Dinner
    7.00pm Trivia

  • Tuesday 26/09

    8.45am Presenter Session 3
    10.30am Coffee Break
    10.45am Presenter Session 4
    12.30pm Closing

    followed by Lunch to Go  

Guest Speakers

“Brainstem control of locomotion”

Dr Rejan Dubuc, Département de neurosciences, Université de Montréal
Chair: Dr. Ying Zhang

“The Logics of Networks in Motion - from Microcircuits to Integrative Function” 

Dr. Sten Grillner Department of Neuroscience, Karolina Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Chair: Dr Turgay Akay

Speaker List

(subject to minor changes)

Presenter Session 1

Chair: Mady Thompson

Hijacking of a conserved inducible promoter by a newly-evolved primate long noncoding RNA - Shelby Squires

Pilot Study Work in Progress: Virtual Reality Guided Breathing Exercise for Anxiety Management in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Lauren Casey

Establishing a Spatio-Temporal Baseline of Gene Expression After Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury - Proposal - Laura Dauphinee

Presenter Session 2

Chair: Pooja Kaur Labana

A novel strategy to restore meaningful function to permanently denervated skeletal muscles - Asal Yans

The role of Twist2+ interstitial cells in postnatal mouse myogenesis - Griffen Wakelin

SenNovel polarity protein involved in kidney development and function - Kavita Krueger

Prism adaptation: Updating forward models during motor imagery practice - Juliet Rowe

Presenter Session 3

Chair: Xinrui Li

Comparing Electrical Properties of ALS Patient-Derived Motor Neurons - Paige Reynolds

Cholinergic and serotonergic interactions during ALS disease progression - Tyler Wells 

Behavioural modelling of a candidate gene implicated in connectopathies - Emily Witt

Collagen Multifilament Bundles with Tendon-like Structure and Tunable Tensile Properties Fabricated by Contact Drawing Technique - Hessameddin Yaghoobi

Hydrogel Delivery of a Novel Neuroprotectant in Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury - Myra Ahmad

Presenter Session 4

Chair: Griffen Wakelin

The magnet principle: Exploring Forelimb-Hindlimb Interaction in Walking - Mohammad Amin Dolatkhah

Investigating the presence of error during motor imagery - Theresa Gaughan

Mitochondrial dysfunction underlies impaired neurovascular coupling during spreading depolarization and seizure activity following traumatic brain injury - Gerben vanHameren

Are you Game? Exploring virtual reality exergaming for aerobic exercise in spinal cord injury - Shane McCullum