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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Invitation
to the CAN 2014 satellite workshop on “Neural circuits of
health and disease: from computation to experiment”<br>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We
would like to invite you to join us at the CAN 2014 satellite
workshop on “Neural circuits of health and disease: from
computation to experiment” to be held on
<b>Monday, May 26 between 5pm and 10pm </b>at the Montreal
Hilton Bonaventure. This workshop is organized by the Canadian
Association for Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience
(CNCN) and jointly sponsored by CIHR and NeuroDevNet.
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
<b>goals </b>of this workshop are to (1) showcase the
significance of CNCN-experimental collaborations, (2) enable new
breakthroughs on major health questions through break-out
sessions matching CNCN expertise with experimentalists, and (3)
prepare a joint vision on how CNCN will optimally benefit health
research in Canada. We hope to build new collaborations,
exchange ideas and demonstrate the usefulness of CNCN. In
addition, we aim at providing specific suggestions to funding
agencies on how CNCN could further boost Canadian health
research. We are also very honored to have <b>Dr. Eve Marder</b>
(Brandeis University; former SfN president) as a keynote
lecturer. Please see below for a detailed program.<br>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If
you are interested in participating, please email Dr. Gunnar
Blohm (</span><a href="mailto:gunnar.blohm@queensu.ca"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">gunnar.blohm@queensu.ca</span></a><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">)
with a short statement of interest and benefit of participation
to you. Although this workshop is mainly intended for PIs, we
also encourage senior graduate students and postdocs to apply.
Participation is by invitation only. The CNCN steering committee
will select 60 participants (10 students/postdocs) out of all
applications. Thanks to CIHR and NeuroDevNet, workshop
participation is free and includes dinner.
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We
hope to see you at the workshop!<br>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sincerely</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gunnar
Blohm & Paul Pavlidis (co-organizers, co-directors of CNCN)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Preliminary
Program</span></u><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">5pm
– 5:15pm – Welcome by Paul Pavlidis & Gunnar Blohm</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Showcases
of CNCN-experimental collaborations</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">5-15pm
– 5:45pm: Neurodevelopmental disorders (TBD)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">5:45pm
– 6:15pm: Stroke (TBD)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">6:15pm
– 6:45pm: Changes in the dynamics of network oscillations in
hippocampus as markers of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer disease
mice models (Frances Skinner, U Toronto; Sylvain Williams,
McGill)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">6:45pm
– 7:15pm: Genomics and neuropsychiatric disorders (Gustavo
Turecki, McGill; Paul Pavlidis, UBC)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
7:15pm – 8:30pm: 6 chaired round table discussions & dinner</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
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8:30pm – 9:30pm: keynote lecture (Dr. Eve Marder)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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9:30pm – open end: open discussion on vision of CNCN</span>
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Dr. Gunnar BLOHM
Assistant Professor in Computational Neuroscience
Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Departments of Biomedical
and Molecular Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, and
Psychology, School of Computing, and
Canadian Action and Perception Network (CAPnet)
Queen’s University
18, Stuart Street
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
Tel: (613) 533-3385
Fax: (613) 533-6840
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Gunnar.Blohm@QueensU.ca">Gunnar.Blohm@QueensU.ca</a>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.compneurosci.com/">http://www.compneurosci.com/</a>
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