3.00pm Check-in
5.00pm Trainee Meeting  
6.00pm Welcome Remarks
followed by Dinner
7:00 Speaker Session 1
8.30pm Live Music in Lounge

9.00am Guest Speaker - Dr Tim Bredy
10:00 Speaker Session 2
11.00am Coffee Break
11.15am Speaker Session 3
12.45pm  Lunch
1.30pm  Afternoon Break
& Group Activities                  
6.00pm  Dinner
7.00pm Guest Speaker - Claudette Sturk
8.00pm Trivia + Live Music (in Lounge)

8.45am Speaker Session 4
10.15am Coffee Break
10.30am Speaker Session 5
12.00pm Closing

followed by Lunch to Go  

Chair: Dr. Gerben van Hameren

Transitioning mobility outcomes into the orthopaedic clinic to inform patient-specific robotic surgery - Dr. Janie Wilson

Nervous system involvement in tissue repair - Dr. Adam Johnston

Using Drosophila to understand exercise-induced muscle damage - Dr. Nicanor Gonzalez-Morales

“RNA in Neuroscience” 

Dr. Tim Bredy Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland

Chair: Tyler Wells

Prolonged joint analgesia by blocking NaV1.7 ion channels with a biologic - Dr. Jason McDougall

Neuroprotection after spinal cord injury - Saranyan Pillai

ALS and environmental factors - Daniel Saucier

Longitudinal research in the assessment of robot-assisted joint replacement for osteoarthritis - Wilson Lab

Chair: Laura Dumas

Feasibility of delivering home-based interventions to improve gait and cognition in older adults at risk for dementia: Preliminary findings of the SYNERGIC@Home trial - Alana Gullison

Developing an in vivo model to study human iPSC motor neurons from ALS patients - Jack Guthrie

Sensory neuropathy and limb destruction in four siblings caused by a nonsense mutation in WNK1/HSN - Behrouz Rahmani

The influence of spasticity on exoskeleton gait training in people with spinal cord injury – a single-subject design - Brooke Peters (Dr. Chris McGibbon)

Claudette Sturk - ALS ambassador

Chair: Alana Gullison

Metabolomics targeted and untargeted approaches and how they can help your research question - Venus Baghalabadi

Mitochondrial structural and functional changes during cortical spreading depolarization - Dr Gerben van Hameren

Virtual-Reality Exergaming in Spinal Cord Injury - Sam Campbell

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

Chair: Jack Guthrie

A Novel Cystokeletal-Interacting Protein Implicated in Cell Migration, Neuritogenesis, and Laminar Organization of Neural Structures - Marley Blommers

Distinct roles of spinal commissural interneurons in the transmission of contralateral sensory information - Dr. Olivier Laflamme

TGFB receptor antagonists as a novel treatment for moderate TBI - Shayna Cort