SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
Day One: Thursday, April 23th
 8:00 am
Speaker Lounge Open  
 8:00-8:45 am
REGISTRATION: Cafeteria  
 8:50-9:00 am Welcome, Introduction, and Announcements:Auditorium
 9:00-9:20 am Opening remarks: University of Ottawa and National Research Council
 9:20-10:10 am Dr. ART PETRONIS Epigenomics of major psychosis
 10:10-10:40 am Dr. Alexandre Blais A functional genomic analysis of Six transcription factors during myogenesis
 10:40-11:00 am REFRESHMENT BREAK Sponsored by Dionex
 11:00-11:30 am Dr. Jean-François Couture Ash2L: a link between histone methylation and homeobox genes expression
 11:30-11:45 pm Leroi DeSouza Potential Glioblastoma Multiforme markers: From discovery, to screening, to functional characterization
 11:45-12:00 pm Jean-Philippe Lambert Revisiting the Budding Yeast Protein Interactome: Histones, their Chaperones and Beyond
 12:00-1:30 pm LUNCH AND POSTERS  
 1:30-2:20 pm Dr. HANFA ZOU Sample preparation and data processes for phosphoproteome analysis
 2:20-2:50 pm Dr. Michael Silver Functional networks underlying visual spatial attention in the human brain
 2:50-3:20 pm Dr. William J. Costain Proteomic and glycomic exploration of the ischemic synapse reveals systematic disturbances implicated in neuronal cell death
 3:20-3:40 pm REFRESHMENT BREAK Sponsored by Dionex
 3:40-4:10 pm Dr. Danica Stanimirovic Discovery to Diagnostics: Using In Vivo Molecular Imaging as Biomarker Validation Paradigm
 4:10-5:00 pm Dr. ALEXANDRA GOLBY Neurosurgical insights into brain organization
 5:30 pm WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION Sponsored by Canadian Stroke Network AND Parkinson Research Consortium

SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
Day Two: Friday, April 24th
 8:00-9:00 am
Speaker Lounge Open  
 9:00-9:10 am Welcome and Announcements
 9:10-10:00 am Dr. FRANK R. SHARP Gene Expression in Blood as a window to Brain
 10:00-10:30 am Dr. Ruth Slack The AIF-Opa1 link, connecting mitochondrial structure to apoptosis signaling
 10:30-11:00 am REFRESHMENT BREAK Sponsored by Thermo Scientific
 11:00-11:30 am Dr. David Park Role of DJ-1 in Parkinsons disease
 11:30-12:00 pm Dr. Steffany Bennett The glycerophospholipidome in Alzheimer Disease: The missing link between amyloid beta and tau?
 12:00-12:15 pm Leigh Anne Swayne Pannexin 2 is expressed in postnatal hippocampal neural progenitor cells
 12:15-12:30 pm Camille Gomez-Laberge Exploring cerebrovascular dynamics in the human brain: steps toward corroborating cellular and molecular findings using in vivo neuroimaging data
 12:30-2:00 pm LUNCH AND POSTERS
 2:00-2:50 pm Dr. FREDA MILLER Neural stem cells: from development to repair
 2:50-3:20 pm Dr. J.P. Thivierge The Role of Synchronized Activity in Healthy and Pathological Neuronal Circuits
 3:20-3:40 pm REFRESHMENT BREAK Sponsored by Thermo Scientific
 3:40-4:10 pm Dr. Mary Cheng Genes to Behaviour: The Genetic Basis of Circadian Rhythms in Mice
 4:10-5:00 pm SETH GRANT Synapse systems biology and the origins of the brain
 4:50-5:00 pm CLOSING REMARKS