Neural Circuits and Behaviour CAN 2026 Satellite Meeting
Schedule
Mon May 18 2026 at 09:00 am to 04:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Hotel Bonaventure Montréal | Montréal, QC
The third-annual CAN satellite event, bringing together Canadian neuroscientists studying circuits and behaviour.About this Event
Event will take place in the Grand East room.
Agenda
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:05 AM
Opening Remarks
Host: Paul Frankland
🕑: 09:05 AM - 09:35 AM
Dorsal Peduncular Cortex Modulation of Affective Behaviour and Emotional Learn
Host: Maithe Arruda-Carvalho
🕑: 09:35 AM - 09:50 AM
TBD
Host: Trainee Talk 1 (TBD)
🕑: 09:50 AM - 10:20 AM
How the brain orientates itself with and without vision
Host: Stuart Trenholm
🕑: 10:20 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee break (provided by satellite)
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Astrocyte-driven neurovascular alterations underlie stress responses and mood
Host: Caroline Menard
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
TBD
Host: Trainee Talk 2 (TBD)
🕑: 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Social isolation impairs learning by reducing the nervous system’s capacity
Host: Anna Phan
🕑: 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Lunch (provided by satellite)
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
An amygdala-hypothalamic circuit gates negative valence & stress vulnerability
Host: Zach Pennington
🕑: 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM
TBD
Host: Trainee Talk 3 (TBD)
🕑: 01:45 PM - 02:15 PM
Hyperexcitability of serotonergic circuits underlies anxiety behaviour
Host: Benedicte Amilhon
Info: Epigenetic modifications have an established function in learning and memory, but a role for histone variants in behavioral regulation was only recently uncovered. I will discuss emerging evidence for opposing actions of individual histone variants in memory, whereby histone H2A.Z suppresses and histone macroH2A1 promotes memory formation. Their effects on memory will be discussed in the context of transcriptional changes in the mouse hippocampus and related to sex differences in Alzheimer’s disease.
🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:30 PM
Coffee break (provided by satellite)
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Prefrontal dopamine signalling during context fear learning and expression
Host: Rob Rozeske
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM
TBD
Host: Trainee Talk 4 (TBD)
🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:45 PM
Pain and drugs: short-circuiting the central nervous system
Host: Tuan Trang
🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Top speaker award announcement and closing remarks
Host: Mark Cembrowski
Where is it happening?
Hotel Bonaventure Montréal, 900 Rue De la Gauchetière Ouest, Montréal, Canada
Tickets
CAD 87.98
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