We are happy to announce that a recording of the satellite meeting “New avenues pursued by the Canadian Neurophotonics Platform/Optogenetics & Vectorology Foundry” presented at the 14th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting August 26th, 2021 is now available on the Neurophotonics youtube channel.
Check out the recording here:
Due to technical difficulties during the recording, the first talk by Antoine Légaré and Vincent Boily entitled ‘Whole brain Ca2+ imaging in the zebrafish’ was not recorded. We apologize for the inconvenience
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Note: All times refer to Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Thematics of the 2021 edition:
NEW AVENUES PURSUED BY THE CANADIAN NEUROPHOTONICS PLATFORM/OPTOGENETICS & VECTOROLOGY FOUNDRY
11:00 WELCOME: Yves de Koninck (CERVO Brain Research Center, Université Laval)
SESSION 1: Invertebrates and lower vertebrates. Chair: Ed Ruthazer
11:10 Antoine Légaré and Vincent Boily (Paul De Koninck’s lab, Université Laval)
Whole brain Ca2+ imaging in the zebrafish
11:40 Tomoko Ohyama (McGill University)
Optogenetic and connectome approaches for mapping of small brain circuit
12:10 LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 2: Human cells & tissue. Chair: Reza Sharif
13:45 Tom Durcan’s lab, MNI, McGill University
Nguyen-Vi Mohamed: Microfabricated disk technology: rapid scale up in midbrain organoid generation
Ghislaine Deyab: Characterizing Patterns of Neural Activity in Midbrain Organoids as a Model for Parkinson’s Disease
13:15 Pierre Marquet (Université Laval)
Digital Holographic Microscopy: a high-speed label-free technique to resolve neuronal network activity
14:15 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 3: Rodents (slice work and whole-animal). Chair: Paul De Koninck
14:45 Stephanie Borgland (Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary)
Optogenetic stimulation of lateral hypothalamic orexin inputs to the VTA activate dopamine neurons in a circuit-specific manner to drive reward-seeking
15:15 Jean-Claude Béique (U. Ottawa)
Integrated computational, electrophysiological and optical frameworks to study synaptic and network dynamics
15:45 SHORT BREAK
SESSION 4: Non-human primates and human disease models Chair: Martin Parent
16:00 Keith Murai’s lab (RI-MUHC, McGill University)
Jean-Bastien Bott: Calcium imaging: From mice to non-human primates Keith Murai: Imaging Astrocytes in Marmosets
16:30 Marja Sepers and Ellen Koch (Lynn Raymond’s lab, UBC)
Using in vivo optogenetic sensors to elucidate cortico-striatal dysfunction in mouse models of Huntington’s Disease
17:00 SHORT BREAK 3
PANEL DISCUSSION (10 min each followed by discussion): Open science Chair: Yves De Koninck
17:15 Adrien Peyrache (McGill University)
NWB pipeline for mini-scope data
17:30 Jeffrey LeDue (University of British Columbia)
Enabling Collaborative Neuroscience Research: the UBC Dynamic Brain Circuit cluster’s Databinge forum
17:45 Marie-Eve Paquet (Université Laval)
Viral vectors – Discovering novel AAVs in the context of Open science
18:00 Ted Fon (The Neuro – McGill)
Open Science as a Mission Enabler at The Neuro
18:15 Panel Discussion
19:00 Networking events (1 breakout room per session)
20:00 CLOSING REMARKS: Yves De Koninck
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