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During this day, members of NeuroQuébec from the various research sites of Laval University in Quebec City gather to present their research work, learn more about the work of others, meet new colleagues and establish fruitful scientific collaborations.

This event is intended for students, postdoctoral fellows, professors and clinicians who are members of the Université Laval network and who are involved in neuroscience research, as well as for those who are interested in this field of research.

2025 Keynote Speaker

Ivan de Araujo, DPhil

Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Ivan de Araujo studied philosophy at the University of Brasilia, followed by postgraduate studies in the field of artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD in medical physiology and imaging from the University of Oxford. As a postdoctoral researcher in neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center, he identified brain neural networks that interact with the digestive tract. From 2007 to 2018, he directed the Neurobiology of Feeding Laboratory at Pierce Labs (Yale University) before moving to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in August 2018. Since May 2023, he has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. His laboratory aims to understand how the numerous processes in the human body are recorded and controlled by the brain and how these in turn influence neuronal processing.

His previous work demonstrated that optogenetic stimulation of the vagal gut-to-brain axis produces reward behaviors and that asymmetric brain pathways of vagal origin mediate motivation and dopamine activity (Cell 2014). He also established that gastric volume is sensed by hypothalamic neurons via spinal afferent pathways (Cell 2022) and that stress inhibits the central amygdala leading to a suppression of Brunner’s glands via vagal nerves (Cell 2024).

We look forward to seeing many of you there!

Andréanne Michaud, Alexandre Caron, Aurélie Rose De Rus Jacquet, Lisa Topolnik, Gabriel Bossé, Amélie Lachance, Dylan Musiol, Olivier Lavoie, Christophe Proulx, and Catherine Déry.

Organizing Committee for the 17th Research Day in Neuroscience at Université Laval