ANNULÉ: Neuro Sleep Symposium - In the honor of Professor Barbara Jones [en anglais]
The Neuro will hold a symposium focused on sleep in honor of Professor Barbara Jones’ illustrious career and her official retirement. The Neuro Sleep Symposium will take place at the Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital) on June 5, 2020. The one-day symposium will include two keynotes. One delivered by Professor Luis de Lecea (Stanford University, USA) and the second from Professor Jerry Siegel (UCLA, USA) as well as contributions from colleagues and friends of international standing.
Professor Barbara Jones has made tremendous contributions to the field of sleep research with implication both in experimental and clinical research. During her outstanding career, Professor Jones focused at understanding how the brain generates states of waking and sleep, including slow wave sleep (SWS) and paradoxical sleep (PS, or rapid eye movement sleep, REM, when dreaming occurs) using immunohistochemical and neuroanatomical techniques combined with neurophysiological recording, and optogenetics. She is a world expert in the anatomy and physiology of sleep. Amongst many important findings, Dr. Jones identified the modulatory action of cholinergic neurons on cortical activation, the influence of inhibitory GABA neurons on sleep states and the activity of hypocretins/orexins neurons as key regulators of waking and narcolepsy with cataplexy in humans and animal model.
We expect a large audience of both experimental and clinical scientists ranging from students to principal investigators from the Faculty of Medicine and others at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº as well as colleagues from other Montreal universities.
Program
8:30 - 9:00 | Welcome address |
9:00 - 10:00 | Keynote Lecture Jerome M. Siegel, Chief, Neurobiology Research Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Professor In-Residence, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior Brain Research Institute, UCLA, USA |
10:00 - 10:30 | Refreshment pause |
10:30 - 11:30 | Talk 1 M. Mulehtaler Univesité de Genéve, Switzerland |
11:30 - 12:30 | Honoring Barbara Jones Alain Beaudet Edith Hamel, Professor, The Neuro, Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Philippe Séguéla, Professor, The Neuro, Æ»¹ûÒùÔº |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 - 15:00 | Keynote Lecture Luis de Lecea Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford Medicine, USA |
15:00 - 16:00 | Talk Pierre-Hervé Luppi Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, France |
16:00 - 17:00 | Talk (TBC) |
17:00 | Closing Remarks |
17:10 | Cocktail reception |
Scientific Committee
Adrien Peyrache, The Neuro, Æ»¹ûÒùÔº
Antoine Adamantidis, University of Bern, Switzerland
Organizing Committee
Adrien Peyrache, The Neuro, Æ»¹ûÒùÔº
Antoine Adamantidis, University of Bern, Switzerland
Edith Hamel, Professor, The Neuro, Æ»¹ûÒùÔº
Deborah Rashcovsky, Events Officer, The Neuro, Æ»¹ûÒùÔº
Philippe Séguéla, Professor, The Neuro, Æ»¹ûÒùÔº
Hotels
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