Program 2020

Research Day Program 2020

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

WELCOME Virtual room A
12:00-13:00	Welcome, familiarization with the platform, networking
13:00-13:05	A word of welcome from Caroline Ménard, on behalf of the organizing committee
13:05-13:30	Laurent Bouyer’s speech and presentation of the CTRN’s annual report
CTRN RESEARCHERS Virtual room according to your choice
13:30-14:00	Oral presentations (25 minutes + 3 minutes of questions) Jasna Kriz (Virtual room A): Deregulation of immunity in brain pathologies: exploring novel regulatory mechanisms and targets * Moderator: Caroline Ménard* Jessica Deslauriers (virtual room B): Vulnérabilité au trauma psychologique: un rôle potentiel de l’inflammasome? Moderator: Hugo Massé-Alarie Ayman ElAli (virtual room C): : Immuno-microvascular crosstalk in the pathobiology and therapy of brain disorders Moderator: Martin Lévesque
COFFEE BREAK (10 minutes) Virtual room A
EMERGING RESEARCHERS Virtual room according to your choice
14:10-14:25	Oral presentations (10 minutes + 3 minutes of questions) Maxime Robert (Virtual room A): Les mécanismes neurophysiologiques de l’apprentissage moteur et de la planification motrice chez les enfants avec la paralysie cérébral Moderator: Caroline Ménard Silvia Pozzi (virtual room B): Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: form biomarkers to therapeutic targets * Moderator: Hugo Massé-Alarie* Christoforo Silvestri (virtual room C): The gut microbiome-endocannabinoid system as an integrator of extreme environmental influences Moderator: Martin Lévesque
“POSTER” PRESENTATIONS “Posters” virtual room
14:25:14:55	POSTERS AND BOOTH VISIT – SESSION 1
14:55-15:25	POSTERS AND BOOTH VISIT – SESSION 2
WINNERS OF CTRN EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIPS Virtual room A
15:25-16:25	Oral presentations (8 min + 2 min of questions) Moderator: Caroline Ménard Andrea Zangrandi (Cyril Schneider) Title: Individual phenotypes of brain and chronic pain for custom-made treatment of neurostimulation Anne-Marie Castonguay (Martin Lévesque) Title: Des mini-anticorps comme agent thérapeutique afin de prévenir la propagation de l’alpha-synucléine pour le traitement de la maladie de Parkinson Cedric Happi Mbakam (Jacques-P Tremblay) Title: Valproic acid improves the PRIME Editing efficiency to introduce point mutations in the dystrophin gene Narges Karimi (Frédéric Bretzner) Title: Contribution of the brainstem to locomotor control and recovery after spinal cord injury Muhammad Umair (Manu Rangachari) Title: Male sex chromosomal complement exacerbates the pathogenicity of Th17 cells in a chronic model of central nervous system autoimmunity Katherine Picard (Marie-Ève Tremblay) Title: Rôle des microglies dans la régulation du sommeil
COFFEE BREAK (20 minutes) Virtual room A
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Virtual room A
16:45-17:45	STACI BILBO, Duke University
17:45-18:00	PRIZE-GIVING and closing remarks
COCKTAIL Virtual room “cocktail”
18:00-19:00	Virtual cocktail