09:30 – 09:45

Welcome

09:45 – 10:45

Chair: Yesekiel Ben-Ari

Yesekiel Ben-Ari

INSERM/INMED U29, France

KK and GABAergic inhibition: very exciting

Rene Pumain

INSERM, France

GABA, epilepsy and hypometabolism

Jasna Kriz

Université Laval

From axons to live imaging

Fernando Cervero

McGill University

GABA and pain

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:15

Jean-Louis Bossu

Univ Louis Pasteur, France

The organotypic slice cultures the missing link between brain acute slices and dissociated cell cultures

Ellis Cooper

McGill University

The functional plasticity of cholinergic nerve terminals

Mauro Costa-Mattioli

McGill University

Translational control mechanisms of memory storage

Mladen Glavinovic

McGill University

Molecular dynamics simulations of glutamate diffusion in synaptic cleft

12:15 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:15

Chair: Ante L. Padjen

Ricardo Miledi

University of California, USA

Propagating nerve impulses with Kris

John F. MacDonald

University of Toronto

TRP'ing the light fantastic

Mike Salter

University of Toronto

Molecular signalling in pain neuroplasticity

Derek Bowie

McGill University

Looking at ionotropic glutamate receptors and still finding surprises

15:15 – 15:45

Break

15:45 – 17:00

Leo Renaud

University of Ottawa

From cortical inhibitory neurons to central autonomic and neuroendocrine regulation

Serge Rossignol

Université de Montréal

Plasticity of spinal locomotion

Liang Zhang

University of Toronto

Adenosine a local regulator of hippocampal sharp waves

Ante L. Padjen

McGill University

From GABA to leaky myelin