Program

8h00 - 8h30

Regulation of neural precursor cell function by GABAergic neurons

Anastassia Voronova | University of Alberta

Control of inhibitory interneuron number and diversity in the developing cerebellar circuitry

Julie Lefebvre | SickKids, University of Toronto

Network activity in the development of inhibitory circuits

Natalia de Marco | WCM Brain & Mind Research Institute, USA

Synapse-type-specific plasticity in neocortical circuits

Jesper Sjöström | McGill University

Somatostatin interneuron plasticity and memory

Jean-Claude Lacaille | Université de Montréal

Inhibitory synaptic plasticity in health and disease

Melanie Woodin | University of Toronto

Heterogeneous glial regulation of inhibitory hippocampal synapses

Richard Robitaille | Université de Montréal

Hippocampal disinhibitory circuits: cell types, connectivity and function

Lisa Topolnik | Université Laval

Harnessing interneuron cell-specific computational models to understand GABAergic microcircuit contributions and predict function

Frances Skinner | Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto

Cell-type specific regulation of motor learning by the activity-dependent transcription factor Npas4

Simon Chen | University of Ottawa

Identification of discrete populations of spinal inhibitory interneurons responsible for coordinating mammalian locomotor activity

Simon Gosgnach | University of Alberta

Session 4: GABAergic circuits: network activity in health and disease (chairs Sylvain Williams and Elsa Rossignol)

Prefrontal interneurons and oscillations in cognitive and emotional behaviors

Vikaas Sohal | University of California, San Francisco, USA

Revealing the role of interneurons in memory with calcium imaging in freely behaving mice

Sylvain Williams | McGill University

Inhibition, focal seizures and epileptogenesis

Massimo Avoli | McGill University

Frontal interneurons and cognitive-behavioral impairments in epilepsy

Elsa Rossignol | Université de Montréal