All talks are held in the Brain Research Centre Conference Centre, unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Host | Speaker | Title | Time |
| Sept. 7 | Judy Illes | Dr. Michael Zigmond, Univ. of Pittsburg School of Medicine | Exercise as a neuroprotective intervention for neurodegenerative disease: Studies in models of Parkinson’s disease | 11am-12pm |
| Sept. 14 | Shernaz Bamji | Dr. Jaideep Bains, Univ. of Calgary | Neuromodulators, synaptic plasticity and stress | 11am-12pm |
| Oct. 5 | Kiran Soma | Dr. George Bentley, Univ. of California, Berkeley | GnIH action in vertebrate brain, pituitary and gonads | 11am-12pm |
| Oct. 12 | No Seminar – SFN | |||
| Oct. 19 | No Seminar – SFN | |||
| Nov. 2 |
Liisa Galea and Joanne Weinberg |
Dr. Susan Andersen, McLeans Hospital, Harvard | The effects of adverse experience on the developing brain and their role in adolescent depression | 10am-11am |
| Nov. 9 | Miriam Spering | Dr. Douglas Munoz, Queen’s Univ. | Using eye movements to probe brain function and dysfunction | 11am-12pm |
| Nov. 16 | Max Cynader | Dr. Nick Rawlins, Univ. of Oxford, England |
Dissecting memory using glutamate receptor knockouts
|
11am-12pm |
| Nov. 23 | Max Cynader | Dr. Brian Cairns, UBC | Neurotrophins as a target for the treatment of pain | 11am-12pm |
| Nov. 30 | Dan Goldowitz | Dr. Nathan Fox, Univ. of Maryland | The impact of psychosocial deprivation on the developing brain and behavior: Lessons from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project | 11am-12pm |
| Dec. 7 | Jeremy Seamans | Dr. Mark Laubach, Yale University | Adaptive Control and the Medial Prefrontal Cortex | 11am-12pm |
| Dec. 14 | Liisa Galea | Dr. Sheena Josselyn, Univ. of Toronto | Making and breaking memories | 11am-12pm |
| Jan. 4 | Neil Cashman | Horatio Bach, PhD, Director of the IIRC Antibody Engineering Facility, UBC | Single-chain antibodies: The next generation of research and diagnostic antibodies | 11am-12pm |
| Jan. 11 | Dan Goldowitz | Dr. Brian Link, Anatomy Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee | Polarized signaling, organelle dynamics, and apical domain size of progenitor cells cooperate during neurogenesis | 11am-12pm |
| Jan. 25 | Liisa Galea | Dr. Paul Frankland, Univ. of Toronto | Adult neurogenesis and hippocampal memory | 11am-12pm |
| Feb. 1 | Naznin Virji-Babul | Dr. Paul van Donkelaar, UBC Okanagan | Biomechanical, neurocognitive, and sensorimotor deficits following concussion | 11am-12pm |
| Feb. 8 | Michael Gordon | Dr. Lisa Stowers, The Scripps Research Institute |
Specialized odors and neural mechanisms that generate innate behavior |
11am-12pm |
| Mar. 1 | Stephanie Borgland | Dr. Scott Sternson, Janelia Farms | Deconstruction of neural circuits for hunger | 11am-12pm |
| Mar. 8 | Stephanie Borgland | Dr. Garrett Stuber, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Dissecting the neural circuits that mediate reward and aversion | 11am-12pm |
| Mar. 15 | Michael Gordon | Dr. Anandasankar Ray, Univ. California, Riverside | Receptors, neurons and genes for olfactory behavior and learning in insects | 11am-12pm |
| Mar. 22 | Max Cynader | Dr. Craig Brown, Univ. of Victoria | Working towards more realistic animal models of stroke: Understanding how diabetes and anesthetics influence stroke recovery | 11am-12pm |
| Apr. 5 | Miriam Spering | Dr. Mel Goodale, Univ. of Western Ontario | Blindsight in action: What patients with damage to primary visual cortex tell us about the neural substrates of visually guided actions. | 11am-12pm |
| Apr. 12 | Matt Farrer | Dr. Sahara Naruhiko, Univ. of Florida | Challenge of tau research in neurodegenerative diseases: seeking a “toxic” form of tau protein | 11am-12pm |
| Apr. 19 | Kurt Haas | Mei Zhen, Univ. Toronto | The developmental and circuit control of rhythmic movements | 11am-12pm |
| Apr. 26 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 11am-12pm |
| May 3 | Jeremy Seamans | Dr. Bruno Averbeck, NIMH/NIH, MD | Action selection and action value in frontal-striatal circuits | 11am-12pm |
| May 10 | Weihong Song | Dr. Zixu Mao, Emory Univ., Atlanta, Georgia | The real estate of survival business: novel molecular circuitry of neuronal stress response and therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases | 11am-12pm |
| May 17 | Dan Goldowitz | Dr. Guoping Feng, MIT, Cambridge, MA | Dissecting synaptic and circuitry mechanisms of psychiatric disorders | 11am-12pm |
| May 24 | 11am-12pm | |||
| May 31 | Miriam Spering | Dean Dennis Levi, Univ. of California, Berkeley | Removing the brakes on plasticity in the adult visual system | 11am-12pm |
| Jun 14 | Naznin Virji-Babul | Dr. Alan Wing, Univ. of Birmingham, UK | Apraxia rehabilitation: the development of a system for guiding activities of daily living | 11am-12pm |
