CPIN Research Day
The 2018 CPIN Research Day will be held on Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the U of T Medical Sciences Building. The Symposium with the theme of Mental Health will be co-organized by the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute ASR Suicide and Depression Studies Unit, St. Michael’s Hospital.
The event will feature a Keynote Talk delivered by Michael Landsberg (Canadian sports journalist and host of TSN Radio’s Landsberg in the Morning) who suffers from generalized anxiety disorder and depression and is a robust supporter for mental health awareness (https://www.sicknotweak.com/category/michael-landsberg/).
Please register and submit your abstracts through the links below (Note: Only CPIN members are eligible for poster presentation abstract submissions):
2014 CPIN Research Day & International Symposium on Synaptic Plasticity and Brain Disorders Event Summary
Photo credits in the Research Day Events: Hong-Shuo Sun, Isabelle Aubert, Suhail Asrar and Denis Osipov
Click here for the 2014 CPIN Research Day Report
The 2014 University of Toronto CPIN Research Day & the International Symposium on Synaptic Plasticity and Brain Disorders was held in collaboration with the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in honour of Professor John C. Roder on April 8, 2014. Dr. Graham Collingridge, Professor of Neuroscience in Anatomy in the School of Physiology & Pharmacology at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom & Fellow of the Royal Society, delivered the 2014 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture. Over 250 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty members & friends attended the CPIN Research Day.
Click here for the 2014 Research Day Program Booklet
The CPIN Research Day began with a welcome by Prof. Zhong-Ping Feng, the CPIN Director, at 9:30 a.m. at the Stone Lobby of the Medical Sciences Building. Prof. Feng also acknowledged the Research Day sponsors and the CPIN participating departments/units from 6 Faculties at the University of Toronto. Prof. Jeff Henderson, the Chair of the CPIN Poster Award committee, acknowledged the faculty judges and announced the evaluation process for Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Poster Presentations and the Student‘s Choice Poster Presentation Awards.Poster Presentations and Evaluations 82 poster presentations were given by the CPIN trainees at the MSB Stone Lobby from 9:30 to 11:30 am. The presentations were evaluated by 25 poster judges based on visual presentation, project content, oral presentation and the ability to answer questions. 11 Outstanding Graduate Student Poster Presentations and 2 Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Poster Presentations were recognized by the faculty judges. The CPIN students also voted for their favored posters, resulting in 3 Student Choice Poster Presentation Awards. This inter-faculty and inter-department interactive event was a tremendous success. The CPIN Executive Committee would like thank all participants, the poster judges, and graduate student volunteers.
CPIN Research Day Sponsorship The 2014 CPIN Research Day Organizing Committee wish to acknowledge the following sponsors: the Faculty of Medicine (Graduate and Life Sciences Education; Research and International Relations), Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (Mount Sinai Hospital), St. Michael’s Neuroscience Research Program, the Brain Sciences Research Program at the Sunnybrook Research Institute, Parkinson Society Canada, the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation, and the 15 CPIN participating Departments and their faculties: Departments of Cell & System Biology, Psychology, and Computer Science from Faculty of Arts and Science; Graduate Department of Dentistry from Faculty of Dentistry; Departments of Biochemistry, Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Medical Biophysics, Pharmacology, Physiology, Rehabilitation Science, Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, and Institute of Medical Science from Faculty of Medicine; Graduate Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences from Faculty of Pharmacy; Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development from Ontario Institute For Studies in Education; and the Graduate Department of Music from Faculty of Music. (http://neuroscience.utoronto.ca/events/CPIN_ Research_Day.htm)
The first session of the International Symposium was chaired by Prof. Lu-Yang Wang (Professor, Dept. of Physiology). The notable speakers included Dr. Jeff Henderson (Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences), Dr. Robert Gerlai (Professor, Dept. of Psychology), Dr. Donglin Bai (Associate Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, UWO), and Dr. Ana Martinez (Professor, Medicinal Chemistry Institute of Spanish National Council for Research) who delivered the CPIN Distinguished Lecture. Prof. Zhengping Jia (Professor, Dept. of Physiology) chaired the second session and introduced the notable speakers, Dr. Albert Wong (Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology) , Dr. Michael Tymianski (Professor, Depts. of Surgery and Physiology) , and Dr. Michael Salter (Professor, Depts. Of Physiology and IMS). Prof. Zhong-Ping Feng introduced the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Visiting Neuroscientist at the University of Toronto Lecture Series and acknowledged the sponsorships. Prof. Michael Salter introduced the 2014 Sackler Lecturer/Symposium keynote lecturer, Dr. Graham Collingridge. Dr. Collingridge is a Professor of Neuroscience in Anatomy in the School of Physiology & Pharmacology at the University of Bristol, UK and a Fellow of The Royal Society since 2001. Dr. Collingridge is also a former Director of the MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity and former president of the British Neuroscience Association. Dr. Collingridge delivered a world-class lecture on memory mechanisms in health and disease, and highlighted the roles of different forms of synaptic plasticity in these states. The lecture was educational, informative and inspirational.
Congratulates to Awardees
Following the Sackler/Keynote Lecture, Prof. Jeff Henderson announced the winners of the Graduate Student and the Postdoctoral Fellow Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards, and the Student’s Choice Poster Presentation Winners. Prof. Zhong-Ping Feng presented the Lifetime-Achievement Award to Professor John C. Roder.
Graduate Student Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards
Marie K. Bermejo (Pharmacology; Supervisor: Ali Salahpour)Marielle Deurloo (Physiology; Supervisor: Zhong-Ping Feng)
Katie Ferguson (Physiology; Supervisor: Frances Skinner)
Sean Haffey (Physiology; Supervisor: Beverley Orser)
Celeste Leung (Physiology; Supervisor: Zhengping Jia)
Lia Mesbah-Oskui (Physiology; Supervisor: John C. Roder)
Hyemin Oh (IMS; Supervisor: Lucy Osborne)
Rageen Rajendram (IMS; Supervisor: Paul Arnold)
Morrison Steel (IMS; Supervisor: Karen Gordon)
Nikolaus Wolter (IMS; Supervisor: Karen Gordon)
Agnieszka Zurek (Physiology; Supervisor: Beverley Orser)
Student’s Choice Poster Presentation Winners
Aaron Kucyi (IMS; Supervisor: Karen Davis)
Steven Tran (CSB; Supervisor: Robert Gerlai)
Axel Guskjolen (Physiology; Supervisor: Paul Frankland)
Postdoctoral Fellow Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards
Benjamin Dunkley (Sick Kids; Supervisor: Margot J. Taylor)
Jacqueline Gleave (CSB; Supervisor: Joanne Nash)
The immense success of the 2014 CPIN Research Day and the Symposium is attributable to the enormous team effort by the CPIN faculty members, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, and CPIN Research Day/Symposium Organizers, particularly the CPIN Research Day Sponsors.
The 2014 CPIN Research Day was generously sponsored by:
