Schedule for 2025W1:
Date | Presenter | Topic | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 3, 2025 | Isabella Gallello | Investigating the role of the anterior cingulate cortex in hyperkatifeia during opioid withdrawal | Seamans Lab |
| October 10, 2025 | CANCELLED - No BNS | ||
| October 17, 2025 | Camilla Cavalli | Socio-cognitive profile of dogs participating in Animal Assisted Interventions | Department of Psychology |
| October 24, 2025 | Daria Oleinichenko | Role of T-type calcium channels in the regulation of pain and negative affect in opioid use disorder | Phillips & Snutch Labs |
| October 31, 2025 | Brandon Forys | Similar factors predict cognitive effort preferences when working for rewards vs. avoiding losses | Motivated Cognition, Kingstone & Winstanley Labs |
| November 7, 2025 | Stephanie Salia | From placenta to behaviour: How sex chromosomes and hormones mediated immune signaling shape neurodevelopmental trajectories and behaviour | Swift-Gallant Lab (Memorial University of Newfoundland) |
| November 14, 2025 | CANCELLED - No BNS | ||
| November 21, 2025 | Marwa Idrissi | Investigating the relationship between pre-existing anxiety levels and adolescent nicotine vapor-induced anxiety and impulsivity changes, using a rat model | Laviolette (Western University) |
| November 28, 2025 | Ryan Tomm | From Passivity to Persistence: Translational Investigations of Avoidance Learning Across Depressive Symptoms | Motivated Cognition Lab |
| December 5, 2025 | Tony Fong | Unveiling Mice Behaviours in 3D: Capture and Analysis Pipelines | Murphy Lab |
Schedule for 2024W2:
Date | Presenter | Topic | Lab | Principal Investigator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 31st, 2025 | Kyler Pressman-Cyna & Nahanni Musiani | Delay in Discounting and Decision-Making: How Time Shapes Probabilistic Choice | Laboratory of Molecular and Behavioural Neuroscience | Catharine Winstanley |
| February 7th, 2025 | Jackson Schumacher | Fiber photometry and optogenetic investigation of mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic regulation of risk/reward decision making | Neural Circuits and Cognition Lab | Stan Floresco |
| February 14th, 2025 | Elena Greenall | Impacts of psilocybin and the 5-HT2A antagonist M100,907 on behaviours in the cued rat Gambling Task | Laboratory of Molecular and Behavioural Neuroscience | Catharine Winstanley |
| February 21st, 2025 | Daria Oleinichenko | Role of the PAG signaling in opioid withdrawal-induced hyperalgesia | Phillips and Snutch Labs | Phillips and Snutch |
| February 21st, 2025 | Giulia Cocco | Modelling early-life stress: Investigating its long-term impact on fear and anxiety in adulthood | The Snyder Lab | Jason Snyder |
| February 28th, 2025 | Michelle Jung | Interaction between maternal and offspring sucrose consumption | The Soma Laboratory | Kiran K. Soma |
| March 7th, 2025 | Alex Yu | Multiple neuropeptides underlie different forms of behavioural facilitation | The Behavioural Neurogenetics Lab | Catharine Rankin |
| March 14th, 2025 | Cancelled - No BNS | Cancelled - No BNS | Cancelled - No BNS | Cancelled - No BNS |
| March 21st, 2025 | Brittany Docolas | Intranasal administration of estradiol to increase motivation to exercise in rats | The Soma Laboratory | Kiran K. Soma |
| March 28th, 2025 | Anna Mazurenko | Measuring free glucocorticoids using ultrafiltration – implication on brain and behaviour | The Soma Laboratory | Kiran K. Soma |
| April 4th, 2025 | Cancelled - No BNS | Cancelled - No BNS | Cancelled - No BNS | Cancelled - No BNS |
| April 11th, 2025 | Cancelled - No BNS | Cancelled - No BNS | Cancelled - No BNS | Cancelled - No BNS |
| April 25th, 2025 | Nikolas Kokan | Understanding the impact of timing on habituation | The Behavioural Neurogenetics Lab | Catharine Rankin |
Schedule for 2024W1:
Date | Presenter | Topic | Lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 18, 2024 | Peiying Wen | The effect of adult-neurogenesis in ECS (electroconvulsive shocks)-induced amnesia | Snyder / Vila Rodriguez |
| October 25, 2024 | Annie Kim | Novel Virtual Reality (VR) Spatial Navigation Task, Neural Circuits for Computation, Cognition and Control | Madhav |
| November 1, 2024 | Ava Momeni & Abhijit Chinchani | Using fMRI to Detect Cognitive Modes and tACS to Modulate the Neural Underpinnings of Cognitive Modes | Woodward |
| November 8, 2024 | Dr. Federico Bolanos | Exploring neural circuits for visual texture discrimination | NeuroImaging and NeuroComputation Core |
| November 15, 2024 | Judy Cheng | Neuromodulatory control of glutamate transmission and motor learning in Huntington’s Disease mice | Raymond |
| November 22, 2024 | Jessica Liu | Representational Drift of Contextual Fear Neuronal Representations Across the Brain | Snyder |
| November 29, 2024 | Tony Fong | Automated Home-Cages for High-Throughput Assessments of Rodent Behaviors | Murphy |
| December 6, 2024 | Peiran Zhou | Monoaminergic modulation of behavioral inhibition: insights from a novel rodent task | Floresco |