still have a few spots left for our circuits&behaviour pre-CAN satellite meeting. trainees, register by this week for consideration for a talk at the satellite!

Here's the program for the inaugural Circuits & Behaviour satellite at CAN... Trainees: This is your last chance to sign up to be considered for a talk (speaker selection will happen at the end of this week). Registration details here:
can-acn.org/meeting-2024/s…

Fun times at #CNS2024 (with 20% of Pavlov’s Dogz)

I think I’m more offended by their layout, text justification and font choices than having my inbox filled with these every morning.

What is it with predatory conferences and bad typography?

Big game. Hopefully we do enough to make the second leg interesting #COYI

Sharing that once in a lifetime solar eclipse experience with…. my dentist

If you live in a city with winter there’s nothing better than that first sunny, warm spring day. Everyone is out in Toronto this afternoon. Walking, hitting the patio and enjoying the sun.

New research suggests that the brain can actually create memories before the age of three, but we can’t consciously access them.

CIFAR's Tomás Ryan and Paul Frankland speak to Science Magazine about their research into “infantile amnesia”:

science.org/content/articl…

'The poet W.B Yeats wrote that 'All that is personal soon rots, it must be packed in ice or salt'. Here we show that in Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes, simple animals with just 302 neurons, memories are preserved on ice and in lithium salt.'
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It’s been a fantastic visit, Ted! And thanks for the ride in the ‘Iowa Neuro’ car!

This is a really good read from Charan Ranganath. Makes the important point that not all forgetting is bad. Rather, forgetting, at least forgetting of the minutiae of everyday life, is an important component of a healthy memory system.

Last snow of the year… maybe. As seen from the 5th floor interactive zone in the The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) research tower

Only 60 days to CAN2024, and the inaugural Circuits and Behaviour Satellite (with a stellar line up of speakers confirmed) We have a limit of 100 attendees and spaces are filling up fast so please register early (only $50) to avoid disappointment:
eventbrite.com/e/neural-circu…

Copenhagen is so photogenic. Morning run through Christianshavn

Exploring Copenhagen!

Copenhagen cat