Headache Rounds

Date: November 26th, 2025. 

Location: Victoria Hospital room E4-013 or Online.  

Description: 12:00pm.  

Meeting ID: 291 996 536 705 6
Passcode: sT7yx7a9

Joint Mental Health Research and Innovation Day

Date: November 27^th 2025.  

Location: Best Western Lamplighter Inn and Conference Centre

Description: Joint Mental Health Research and Innovation Day.

Registration Link/Info: Register Here.  

Neuroradiology Rounds 

Date: November 27th, 2025. 

Location: University Hospital Radiology Conference Room (C2-222) or Online.  

Description: 12:00pm.

 Meeting ID: 243 717 580 679
Passcode: QGhGiy

Impact Seminars

Date: November 27th, 2025. 

Location: Dental Sciences Building Room 1002 and Online.    

Description: Dr. Liisa Galea and Ms. Kendra Loedige.  "The importance and impact of Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+) in brain research"  Moderated by Dr. Lisa Saksida.  2:00pm.    

Registration Link/Info: Register Here.  

Epilepsy Rounds

Date: November 28th, 2025. 

Location: University Hospital Auditorium C or Online.  

Description: "Understanding Brain Representations with Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA)".  1:00pm.  

Meeting ID: 937 1193 4215
Passcode: 226934

Methods Lunch: GLMsingle: A Practical Overview

Date: December 1st, 2025. 

Location: Western Interdisciplinary Research Building Room 4190 or Online.  

Description:  Ali Ghavampour.  1pm.  

Registration Link/Info: All are welcome.  

Blume-Girvin Lecture 

Date: December 2nd, 2025. 

Location: University Hospital Auditorium A

Description: Dr. Robert E. Gross - "15 Years of Stereotactic Laser Ablation in Epilepsy: What does the LITTerature show?"  8:00am.

All are welcome

Center for Bioethics Launch

Date: December 4th, 2025. 

Location: Conron Hall, University College room 3110

Description: Inaugural Lecture - Dr. Francoise Baylis - "Bioethics: A play in three acts" and "Altered Inheritance: "What kind of world do we (you) want to live in?".  Followed by an introduction to Western's Centre for Bioethics. 

Registration Link/Info: All are welcome.  Please RSVP here.

ReproducibiliTea Journal Club Meeting

Date: December 11th, 2025. 

Location: Western Interdisciplinary Research Building, room 3189 or Online.  

Description: "High-Performance Computing as Infrastructure for Reproducible Science".  12:30pm.  

Clinical Neuroscience Grand Rounds

Date: January 6th, 2026. 

Location: University Hospital Auditorium C.   

Description: Dr. Rishi Ganesan.  "Delirium - Vode Gridlock of the Brain".  8:00am

Registration Link/Info: All are welcome.

Panel Discussion: Who Owns Our Knowledge?

Date: January 14th, 2025. 

Location: The Wave, Western University.  

Description: This panel will dive into the evolving landscape of intellectual property, AI, and equitable access to knowledge, examining how these factors intersect with open science and open data. 9:30am.  

Panelists: Mark Daley, PhD, Chief AI Officer; Joanna Redden, PhD, Co-director of the Starling Centre and Data Justice Lab; Stephen Spong, J.D., M.I., Copyright Officer and Associate Librarian; James Shelley, AI in Research Facilitator, Western Research. Moderator: Emiko Muraki, PhD, Post-doctoral fellow in Psychology.

Perspectives in Neuroscience Speaker Series

Date: January 20, 2026.  

Location: North Campus Building, Western University. 

Description: Dr. Tabrez Siddiqui, University of Manitoba.  Talk title coming soon.  9:00am.  

Registration Link/Info: Neuroscience Graduate Program Website

Perspectives in Neuroscience Speaker Series

Date: January 27, 2026.  

Location: North Campus Building, Western University. 

Description: Dr. Natasha Rajah, TMU - "Viological sex and menopause status affects episodic memory and related brain function at midlife".  9:00am.    

Registration Link/Info: Neuroscience Graduate Program Website

Clinical Neuroscience Grand Rounds

Date: February 3rd, 2026. 

Location: University Hospital Auditorium C.   

Description: Drs. Michael Strong and Elizabeth Finger.  "Brain autopsy and the Brain and BioBank".  8:00am.  

Registration Link/Info: All are welcome.  

Annual Epilepsy Research Day

Date: February 6th, 2026.  

Location: Great Hall, Somerville House, Western University. 

Description: Drs. Yemi Damisah and Tugce Balci  

Registration Link/Info: Register Here.

2025-2026 Ivey Modules

Date: February 10th, 2026.  

Location: Ivey Business School, Room 1120

Description: Supply chain and operations management - Dave Barrett.  1:00-4:00pm.  

Registration Link/Info: Register here (*Note - this opportunity is for trainees only).

Perspectives in Neuroscience Speaker Series

Date: March 3, 2026.  

Location: North Campus Building, Western University.  

Description: Dr. Isaac Ming-Cheng Chiu, Harvard Medical School - "Bacteria interactions with sensory neurons in pain and itch".  9:00am.   

Registration Link/Info: Neuroscience Graduate Program Website

Perspectives in Neuroscience Speaker Series

Date: March 10, 2026.  

Location: North Campus Building, Western University. 

Description: Dr. Cory Miller, University of California, San Diego - "How monkeys 'really' see the world".  9:00am.    

Registration Link/Info: Neuroscience Graduate Program Website

2025-2026 Ivey Modules

Date: March 10, 2026.

Location: Ivey Business School, Western University.  Room 1120.

Description: Strategic management accounting - Mary Gillett. 1:00-4:00pm.  

Registration Link/Info: Register here (*Note - this opportunity is for trainees only)

2026 kNOw-PAIN Conference

Date: March 26, 2026. 

Location: Great Hall, Somerville House, Western University.  

Description:  Keynote speakers Drs. Hance Clarke and Margot Latimer, and Mr. John R. Sylliboy.       

Registration Link/Info: kNOw-PAIN website.    

Perspectives in Neuroscience Speaker Series

Date: March 31, 2026.  

Location: North Campus Building, Western University. 

Description: Dr. Elizabeth Bess, University of California, Irvine - "Finding catalysts of gut reactions: the gut microbiota in disease onset and treatment".  9:00am.  

Registration Link/Info: Neuroscience Graduate Program Website