Dates: September 27 - 29, 2020

Location: Whitepoint Lodge Resort, NS

Agenda 

Sunday 
3.00pm onwards - Check-in 
5.00pm Trainee/Staff Meeting 
6.00pm Dinner  
7.00pm Session #1

Monday 
9.00am Session #2
10.30am Coffee Break 
11.00am Session #3 
12.30pm Lunch 
1.30pm Afternoon Break & Activities 
6.00pm Dinner & Trivia
8.30pm Entertainment - Live music in WP Lounge 

Tuesday 
9.00am Session #4
10.30am Coffee Break
11.00am Session #5
1.00pm Lunch & Discussion 
2.00pm Closing

PRESENTERS (subject to minor changes)

 Session #1 (Chaired by Borbala Podor) 

• Vic Rafuse
  - Opening remarks 
•  Joel Ross (UPEI) 
  - Modeling neurodevelopmental disorders with personalized human neurons
• Pooyan Moradi, DAL (Friedman) 
  - Blood-brain barrier-targeted therapy for the prevention of post-traumatic epilepsy
• Alexandre Banks UNB (Sensiger)
  - Balancing best-practices and personalization for stroke rehabilitation using computational models and optimal control
• Ibrahim Shahin, DAL (Fawcett)  
  - Integrin dependent activation of Rho

Session #2 (Chaired by Pooyan Moradi)

• Gerben van Hameran, DAL (Friedman)
  - The ins and outs of mitochondria: What changes during neuronal hyperactivity?
• Adam Johnston UPEI
  - Cellular Senescence in Neuromuscular Health and Disease
• Kennedy Brittain, DAL (Christie) 
  - Neuroprotection after traumatic spinal cord injury by inhibiting the mitochondrial calcium uniporter
• Luke Dillman, UNB (McGibbon) 
  - UNB Centre for Adaptive Rehabilitation - An Update on Current Affairs
• Dylan Deska-Gaultier DAL (Zhang)
  - Uncovering excitatory interneuron diversity in the spinal cord

Session #3 (Chaired by Brandon Smith) 

• Anjana Arunachalam, UNB (Sensiger) 
  - Intuitive prosthesis tuning through user-tuned preference of effort, accuracy, and time
• Melissa O’Brien, DAL (MacDougall) 
  - Sex-Specific Pain Responses in a Rodent Model of Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis
• Alana Gullison, UNB (McGibbon) 
  - The Interaction Between Overground Robotic Gait and Lower Limb Spasticity in People with Spinal Cord Injury
• Asal Yans, DAL (Rafuse)
  - Towards the development of a strategy to restore meaningful function to permanently denervated skeletal muscles
• Dylan Quinn, DAL (Fawcett)
  - The stability of glutamatergic synapses is independent of activity level, but predicted by synapse size

Session #4 (Chaired by Alexandre Banks) 

• Mustafa Nadi, DAL (Christie)
  - MicroRNA expression patterns following traumatic spinal cord injury
• Brandon Smith, UPEI (Ross) 
  - CRISPR-based tools for functional analysis of activity-dependent genes
• Han Zhang, DAL (Zhang) 
  - Differential Regulatory Function of V3 Interneurons in Different Behaviors
• Ana Arantes, UNB, presented by Chris McGibbon 
  - Analysis of a Real-Time, Adaptive, Assist-as-Needed Controller for Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation of the Upper-Extremity Following Stroke 
• Julia Harrison, DAL (Rafuse) 
  - Investigating the role of BMP4 in neuromuscular function and nerve regeneration

Session #5 (Chaired by David Burbidge) 

• Daniel Saucier, UNB (O'Connell) 
  - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis hotspots in New Brunswick: Is the surrounding environment to blame?
• Tyler Wells, DAL (Akay)
  - C-Boutons and Their Influence on ALS Disease Progression
• Hamza Imtiaz, DAL/NSHA
  - Can paroxysmal cortical slowing predict epilepsy prognosis?
• Rafaela Andrade-Viera, DAL (Fawcett) 
  - Loss of adaptor proteins impact satellite cells expression and muscle function
• Olivier Laflamme, DAL (Akay)
  - Role of V3 interneurons in the transmission of sensory afferent signals