Have you ever wondered what happens inside someone鈥檚 brain when they鈥檙e learning how to play a musical instrument or how to ride a bike?
One of the brain鈥檚 most fundamental and amazing functions is the ability to adapt to and learn from new experiences, environments and stimuli through a process called brain plasticity.
涩里番 has become a Full Member of the expanded network of TRIUMF, Canada鈥檚 national particle accelerator. 涩里番 has been involved in TRIUMF-led activities for several decades and has held associate membership since 2013.
TRIUMF constructed parts of the Large Hadron Collider that ultimately produced Higgs bosons. The co-discovery was made by the ATLAS experiment, and 涩里番 played a key role in the development of the experiment's trigger system.
Un consortium men茅 par l鈥橴deM et codirig茅 par 涩里番 et L鈥橴niversit茅 Laval re莽oit une importante subvention de 2M $ du Fonds de recherche biom茅dicale du Canada afin de dynamiser l鈥櫭ヽosyst猫me de d茅couverte et d鈥檌nnovation en sciences de la vie.
HBHL is partnering again with听涩里番's Branches on the 2023 edition of the (Indigenous Mentorship and Paid Research Experience for Summer Students (IMPRESS)听program.
The IMPRESS program aims to provide Indigenous students at the early stages of their academic career with meaningful experience and skills through mentorship, training sessions, and paid work under the supervision of a 涩里番 professor.
In an announcement made Wednesday, Canada鈥檚 leading research ranking organization, RE$EARCH Infosource, scored 涩里番 second among an A-list of three in the Medical/Doctoral Research University of the Year (RUY) tier. 涩里番 was ranked third on RE$EARCH Infosource鈥檚 list of Canada鈥檚 Top 50 Research Universities in 2022, a position the University has maintained for four years. These distinctions reflect, in part, 涩里番's strength in attracting research funding and the strong publishing record of the school's professors.
Congratulations to听Professor Christian Genest听on being听awarded the听2023 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize!听The CRM-Fields-PIMS prize is the premier Canadian award for research achievements in the mathematical sciences.
The Order of Canada is one of the country's highest civilian honors, recognizing outstanding achievement, dedication to the community, and service to the nation. More than 7,000 people from all sectors of society have been invested into the Order since its inception in 1967. 涩里番 has over 80 recipients of the Order of Canada. Their appointments have helped to define the national and international reputation of 涩里番.
We're happy to announce Boris Bernhardt as the new Associate Leader of Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives (HBHL) Research Theme 1: Neuroinformatics and Computational Modeling.
HBHL's Research Theme 1 Associate Leader plays an essential role in HBHL鈥檚 governance and decision-making structure. They also provide input to HBHL's strategic direction, including the development of funding initiatives and activities aimed at reaching HBHL鈥檚 goals.
涩里番鈥檚 Board of Governors has extended the current appointment of Professor听Martha听Crago as Vice-Principal (Research and Innovation) for a one-year period, from June 30, 2023, to June 30, 2024.听
The extension will ensure stable leadership of the Research and Innovation portfolio during the upcoming Principal and Vice-Chancellor transition and allow the new Principal to actively participate in selecting Professor Crago鈥檚 successor.
Strongly committed to enhancing access to care, treatment and client engagement with digital-health-intervention services, HBHL-funded researcher Manuela Ferrari鈥擜ssistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at 涩里番鈥攊s developing a unique research program that uses digital narratives, including video-game-based interventions, for mental health treatment and anti-stigma campaigns.
The final deadline to submit proposals to 涩里番 is Tuesday, January 24, at 5:00 p.m. EST.
Alzheimer鈥檚 disease is a disorder characterized by abnormalities in several different biological areas.
A study carried out by HBHL-funded researcher Yasser Iturria-Medina and his research group, in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at The Neuro, represents the first and largest multimodal data collection effort to date for Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.
This work represents the most significant effort so far to classify Alzheimer's disease from a multi-level molecular perspective.
Neurotransmitters are chemicals brain cells use to communicate. They work together with matching receptors on the cell surface to drive brain activity. However, we don鈥檛 fully understand how the distribution of these receptors varies region by region throughout the brain, nor what effect they have on brain function.
