Behavioral Neuroscience

Upcoming Behavioural Neuroscience 

 

Past Behavioral Neuroscience

WINTER 2018

January 15
DR. JASON LERCH, Hospital for Sick Children
Talk Title: The plastic anatomy of the brain

February 12. 
BO LI, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Talk Title: The amygdala circuits in the regulation of divergent behaviors  
NOTE: Talk will begin at 4:15 in Room 110, Ramsay Wright, 25 Harbord Street. Reception to follow in room 4043 Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street. 

March 19 
DR. DAPHNA BUCHSBAUM, Psychology, University of Toronto 
Talk Title: What did you do that for: How do children, capuchin monkeys and dogs learn from others?

April 9 
BRAIN & BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH DAY 
Session 1
Iva Zovkic (UTM) Untanglingthe role of histone variants in memory
Junchul Kim & Robin Nguyen(St. George) Evaluating the function of cholecystokinin and parvalbumininterneurons in working memory
Rutsuko Ito (UTSC) Cortico-limbic-striatalsystems and approach-avoidance conflict processing
Sheena Josselyn (SickKids) LinkingMemories
Melissa Holmes (UTM) Neuroendocrinologyof social phenotype in eusocial mammals

Session 2
Paul Frankland (SickKids) Hippocampalneurogenesis and forgetting
Loren Martin (UTM) Thesocial and environmental modulation of pain
Martin Ralph (St. George) Potentialconsequences of temporal disorder in the regulation of thought and action
Paul Fletcher (CAMH) Rewarduncertainty, dopamine sensitization and gambling-like behaviour
Ashley Monks (UTM) Androgenreceptor and sexual differentiation of brain and behaviour
Kaori Takehara (St. George) Mnemonicvalue code in the medial prefrontal cortex

NOTE: This event runs from 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. in room 4043, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street with reception to follow.

FALL 2018

N/A

WINTER 2017

N/A

FALL 2017

October 18
SYLVAIN WILLIAMS PhD, McGill University
Talk Title: What can we learn by visualizing neuronal cell assemblies during behavior?
Location: Room 2117, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St.
NOTE: Talk will start at 4:15 pm 

November 23
MAITHE ARRUDA-CARVALHO, PhD, Psychology, University of Toronto at Scarborough
Talk Title: Maturation of the prefrontal-amygdala circuit and emotional learning

December 7
LAURA CORBIT, PhD, Psychology, University of Toronto St George
Talk Title: Understanding the effects of diet on decision-making and the neural circuits underlying behavioural control

For further information about any of these talks, contact: 
Kaori Takehara at takehara@psych.utoronto.ca or Laura Corbit at corbit@psych.utoronto.ca

WINTER 2016

February 12
Dr. Christopher Honey, Psychology Department, University of Toronto 
Talk Title: Rhythmic regulation and dysregulation of population firing in the human cerebral cortex

March 18
Dr. Ashley Monks, Psychology Department, University of Toronto at Mississauga
Talk Title: Genetic analysis of testosterone function in sexual differentiation of brain and behaviour

April 8
Dr. Tod R. Thiele, Department of Biological Science, University of Toronto at Scarborough
Talk Title: Structure and function of sensorimotor circuits underlying visual behaviours of larval zebrafish

FALL 2016

N/A

WINTER 2015

February 6
Dr. Min Zhuo, Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto
Talk Title: Cortical Synaptic Mechanisms for Chronic Pain and its Related Anxiety 
Rooms: 560A lecture / psychology lounge reception

March 6 
Dr. Iva Zovkic, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga 
Talk Title: Epigenetic Mechanisms of Memory: A role for histone variants 
Location: Room 560A, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street

April 17 
Dr. John Yeomans, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at St. George
Talk Title: Mouse Pup Songs and Schizophrenia: From Hormones to Hippocampus
Location: Room 560A, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street

FALL 2015

October 9
Dr. Robert Bonin, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto
Talk Title: Reconsolidating Memory Traces of Pain

November 6
Dr. Loren Martin, Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga
Talk Title: The Genetic and Psychosocial Modulation of Pain in Mice and People

December 9
Dr. John F. Disterhoft, Northwestern University
Talk Title: Neuronal changes in forebrain during acquisition and after consolidation of trace eyeblink conditioning
LOCATION: Room 2170, Medical Sciences Building, 1 King's College Circle
Joint Collaborative Program in Neuroscience Lecture
Note: The usual reception that follows B&B talks will NOT be taking place after this talk.

WINTER 2014

Friday, January 31 
Sheena Josselyn, PhD 
Hospital for Sick Children, Physiology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto 
Talk Title: Making, Breaking and Linking Memories 
Location: Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2106 

Friday, March 7 
Amy Ramsey, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto 
Talk Title: Tracing the Developmental Onset of Cellular and Behavioural Abnormalities due to NMDA Receptor Hypofunction 

Friday, March 21 
Blake Richards, Assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough 
Talk Title: Memories are not Formed in a Vacuum: How the Medial Prefrontal Cortex uses Previous Experience to Shape New Learning 

Friday, April 4 
Fiona Zeeb, Post-doctoral fellow, Centre for Addiction, Mental Health 
Talk Title: Contributions of Dopamine and Serotonin to Impulsivity and Risky Decision-Making 

Monday, June 2 at 4:00 p.m.
Karim Nader, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology, McGill University 
Talk Title: We Forgot Forgetting: Evidence for Forgetting Being an Active Neurobiological Process
Location: Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2102

FALL 2014

October 3
Robert R. Hampton PhD, Emory University 
Talk Title: Cognitive Monitoring and Cognitive Control in Monkey
Location: Room 2117, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street

November 7
Boyer Winters PhD, University of Guelph
Talk Title: Studying the Neural Bases of Crossmodal Cognition in Rodents
Location: Room 2117, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street

November 21
Tim Bussey, PhD, University of Cambridge 
Talk Title: Stategies for Cognitive Translation From Animals to Humans: Neurogenesis, neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disease 
Location: Room 2117, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street

December 12
John G. Howland PhD, University of Saskatchewan 
Talk Title: Maternal Immune Activation during Pregnancy as a Risk Factor for Psychiatric Disorders in the Offspring 
Location: Room 560A, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street

WINTER 2013

Friday, January 11 
Marco Prodo, PhD 
University of Western Ontario, London
Talk Title: Genetic Analysis of Cholinergic Function 
Reception for this talk will take place in the Linguistics Lounge, Room 4065, Sidney Smith Hall

March 1 (rescheduled from February 8) 
Thilo Womelsdorf, PhD
York University
Talk Title: Cells and Circuits Controlling the Focus of Attention in Primate Frontal Cortex 

March 8 
Yogita Chudasama, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology
McGill University, Montreal
Talk Title: Hippocampal Contribution to 'Prefrontal' Executive Function 

April 12 
John Peever, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto 
Talk Title: REM Sleep - Its Mechanisms and Disorders

June 4
Tadashi Isa, MD & PhD, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
Talk Title: Viral Vector-Mediated Neural Pathway-Selective and Reversible Transmission Blockade in Non-Human Primate and Rodent Models
(note: there will be no reception following this talk)

FALL 2013

Friday, October 4 
Dean Buonomano, PhD 
Department of Neurobiology and Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 
Talk Title: Time and the Brain 
This talk is presented with the Collaborative Program in Neuroscience. Host: Sheena Josselyn, PhD 
LOCATION: Koffler House, Room LM159, 80 St. George Street   

Friday, November 1 
John Yeomans, PhD 
Department of Psychology, St. George Campus, University of Toronto 
Talk Title: Mesopontine Control Opioid-Induced Locomotion and Rewards 
LOCATION: Lash Miller Chemical Labs, Room KP108, 569 Spadina Crescent

Friday, December 6 
Caleb Browne (Psychology, Fletcher Lab, University of Toronto and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) 
Reduced responding for conditioned reinforcement in mice lacking the serotonin transporter is rescued by blockade of the serotonin 2C receptor
Vladimir Ljubojevic (Psychology, DeRosa Lab, University of Toronto) 
Neural correlates of visual-spatial orienting of attention in rats
Christina Nona (Psychology, Nobrega Lab, University of Toronto and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) 
Behavioural sensitization to ethanol is associated with increased pCREB expression in the nucleus accumbens and bed nucleus of stria terminalis 
Stephanie Tanninen (Psychology, Takehara Lab, University of Toronto) 
Entorhinal tau pathology alters stimulus-induced hippocampal and prefrontal theta activity 
David Wasserman (Psychology, Yeomans Lab, University of Toronto) 
Pharmacogenetic control of RMTg GABA Neurons on Morphine-induced Locomotion 
Location: Sidney Smith Hall, Room 560A

WINTER 2012

January 20 
Matthijs van der Meer, Ph.D. 
Canada Research Chair, Department of Biology and Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience University of Waterloo 
Talk Title: Spike timing, oscillations, and ensemble decoding in hippocampus-ventral striatum interactions 

February 10 
Cheryl McCormick, Ph.D. 
Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Science, Brock University 
Talk Title: Adolescence as a "sensitive period" to the effects of social stressors: Effects on the HPA axis and on cognitive function 

March 9 
Steve Laviolette, Ph.D. 
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario 
Talk Title: The Role of Cannabinoids in Fear, Paranoia and Schizophrenia 

April 20 
Nathan Insel, Ph.D. 
Neuroimaging Research Section, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 
Talk Title: How does the medial prefrontal cortex compute? Investigations into the state and pace of cortical communication during goal-directed behavior 

FALL 2012

Friday, October 5 
Paul Frankland, PhD 
Senior Scientist, Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children 
Talk Title: Adult Neurogenesis, Forgetting and Infantile Amnesia 

Friday, November 9 
Martin Ralph, PhD 
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto 
Talk Title: Time Memory and Circadian Rhythms in Animal Cognition 

Friday, December 7 
Kari Hoffman, PhD 
Associate Professor, Centre for Vision Research, Department of Psychology, Biology, York University 
Talk Title: Neural Coding in Perception and Memory: More than Meets the Eye

WINTER 2011

February 11 (re-scheduled) 
Paul Frankland, Ph.D.
Department of Pysiology, University of Toronto/Hospital for Sick Children
Talk Title: The Network Organization of Recent and Remote Memory

March 11 
Derek van der Kooy, Ph.D.
Molecular Genetics, St. George Campus, University of Toronto
Talk Title:  Modelling Human Motivation and Learning in Worms

FALL 2011

October 14 
Rutsuko Ito, Ph.D. 
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Scarborough 
Title Talk: Corticostriatal Regulation of Hippocampus - and Amygdala - Dependent Reward Learning 

November 4 
Diano Marrone, Ph.D. 
Faculty of Science, Wilfred Laurier University 
Title Talk: Pattern Separation in the Dentate Gyrus and Beyond 

December 2 
James G. Burns, Ph.D. 
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Department of Biology, University of Toronto at Mississauga 
Title Talk: Sensitivity to Context: Interactions Between Early Life, Environment and Genotype

WINTER 2010

January 15 John Yeomans, Ph.D. Psychology – St. George 
Talk Title: Rewards, Opiates and Addictions: Changing Cholinergic and Dopaminergic Contributions

February 12 Melissa Holmes, Ph.D. Psychology – Mississauga 
Talk Title: Sex and the Social Brain

March 12 Sheena Josselyn, Ph.D. Physiology, Hospital for Sick Children 
Talk Title: Making and Erasing Fear Memories

April 9 Martin Wojtowicz, Ph.D. Physiology, BRAIN Research Platform 
Talk Title: Two Faces of Hippocampal Neurogenesis and their Functional Consequences

FALL 2010

October 1 
Lique M. Coolen, Ph.D.
University of Western Ontario
Talk Title: Mixing Pleasures: Interactions between Drug and Sex Reward

October 29 
Patrick McGowan, Ph.D.
Biological Sciences, University of Toronto in Scarborough
Talk Title: Epigenetic Mechanisms of Early Adversity on Brain Function

December 3 
Junchul Kim, Ph.D.
Psychology, St. George Campus, University of Toronto
Talk Title: Linking Genetically Defined Neuron Types to Specific Behaviors

FALL 2009

November 13 Kaori Takehara, Ph.D. Psychology – St. George 
Talk title: Network Organizations of the Neocortex Underlying Long-Term Memory

December 4 José Nobrega, Ph.D. Psychology, Pharmacology, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) 
Talk Title: Deep Brain Stimulation in Models of Depression