Maja Ramljak – Ottawa, ON
On June 10-11th 2021, please join Society for Neuroscience Ottawa Chapter as we partner with The University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute (uOBMRI) and the Neuroscience and Mental Health Trainee Network (NeuMe-TN) to virtually host this year’s Brain Health Research Day: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond.
Brain Health Research Day (BHRD, formerly also known as Young Researcher’s Day) is a two-day conference event jointly hosted by The University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute (uOBMRI) and the Neuroscience and Mental Health Trainee Network (NeuMe-TN) with representation from Carleton University’s Neuroscience Department and the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Ottawa Chapter.
Hosted virtually, BHRD will include poster sessions, keynote speaker, student presentations, and networking opportunities. The goal of this event is to bring together trainees, researchers and clinicians from our neuroscience and mental health community to highlight exciting new research and foster initiatives for collaboration. This year’s conference theme is From Bench to Bedside and Beyond as we encourage our attendees to reflect on the value of translational neuroscience research.
BHRD typically welcomes approximately 200 trainees from the Ottawa and Quebec area at varying stages of their educational careers from the undergraduate to postdoctoral researcher level as well as clinicians, researchers, principal investigators, etc.
Keynote Speaker
The Dr. Antoine Hakim Lecture presents:
Catherine Jensen Peña, PhD
Assistant Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Presenting: “Early life stress primes sensitivity to future stress: from epigenetics to engrams”
Dr. Catherine Jensen Peña completed her PhD at Columbia University and continued her training as a postdoctoral fellow at the Neuroscience Department in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). Afterwards, she joined the Princeton Neuroscience Institute where she currently conducts her research as an Assistant Professor. Her research focuses on neurodevelopment, stress, and transcriptomic regulation. Dr. Peña is interested in understanding how early life stress affects brain development at multiple levels with the hopes of applying this knowledge towards innovative therapies relevant to individuals who have experienced childhood stress and trauma.
For more on Dr. Peña’s research, please see her website here.
Date and Time
Thursday, June 10, 2021 – 9AM to 1PM
Friday, June 11, 20201 – 9AM to 4PM
REGISTER FOR THE EVENT
Deadline for registration to attend the event is Friday, June 4 2021
Click here for the registration form.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
Award and publication opportunities
Submit an abstract here for an opportunity to be published in the uOttawa Journal of Medicine (UOJM). Please note that trainees must be judged at the poster session to be considered for publication and that space will be limited. There will also be opportunities to present your most exciting work in a 20min. oral presentation.
Submission deadline for abstract registration is Wednesday, May 12, 2021.
DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL WEDNESDAY, MAY 19 2021
Contact
For more information, please contact:
neume-tn@theroyal.ca
brainday@uottawa.ca
majaramljak@cmail.carleton.ca
Additional Links
The Neuroscience & Mental Health Trainee Network (NeuMe-TN) Conference page here.
The University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute (uOBMRI) here.
The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research here.
Thank you to the sponsors of this event:
