Discovering the interaction between genes and environment in shaping brain development.

 

Neurodevelopment

The Neurodevelopment cluster involves researchers interested in the interaction between genes and environment in shaping brain development. Neurodevelopment involves a wide spectrum of investigations from the molecule to the embryo to the establishment of neural connections to the shaping of the child's brain and personality. Areas of research include neurodevelopment disorders, Epilepsy, mood disorders, autism spectrum disorders, aging, stress, bipolar disorder, attention, memory, learning and genetic disorders.

Researchers

  • Tara Perrot — neuroscience, development, epigenetics, behavioural endocrinology, adolescence, stress, prenatal stress, sex differences

  • Angelo Iulianella — neural development, neurogenesis, maintenance of neural phenotypes, cell fate, peripheral nervous system, neural crest cells, embryology

  • Ian Weaver — neurobehavioural epigenetic mechanisms, early life experience, steroid hormone function, DNA and chromatin modification, programming of gene expression, cortical development, endocrine and behavioural stress responses, pharmacological interventions, psycho-social interventions

  • Richard Brown — behavioural endocrinology, developmental psychobiology, drugs and behaviour, behaviour of transgenic and mutant mice, development, animal behaviour, memory

  • Kevin Duffy — development, neuroscience, vision impairment, cellular mechanisms, neuroplasticity

  • Tamara Franklin — neuroscience, epigenetics, in vivo electrophysiology, animal behaviour, neuroconnectivity, sociability

  • Aaron Newman — neuroimaging, language, neuroplasticity, aphasia, deafness, gesture, second language acquisition, sign language

  • Leslie Phillmore — learning, memory, songbirds, perception, neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, seasonality

  • Rudolf Uher — early interventions interventions to prevent severe mental illness, classification of psychopathology, the treatment of depression, the use the clinical assessment and genomics to personalize and optimize treatment and the interplay of genes and environment in the causation of mental illness.

2024 Neurodevelopment Cluster Meeting
April 8th 2024 at Westin Hotel, Halifax

with Special Guest Speaker: Dr Karun Singh, Krembil Research Institute at the University Health Network in Toronto.

“Identifying neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorder mechanisms and treatments
using human stem cell models”
Dr Karun’s research focuses on induced pluripotent stem cell based approaches to model human neurodevelopmental and vision disorders using both 2D and 3D organoid cell culture systems.

Other speakers include:
Dr. Ian Weaver, Dr. Tamara Franklin, Dr. Mark Paramlall, Dr. Richard Brown, Dr. Aaron Newman, Dr. Leslie Philmore,
Dr. James Fawcett, Dr. Danielle Stanton-Turcotte, and Shuya Li.
Full agenda with talk titles coming soon

Registration is required, please complete the form below to save a seat. There is no charge to attend. This event is sponsored by the Brain Repair Centre.