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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 Closingfollowed 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