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NeuroEvents

NeuroEvents

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NeuroEvents

Your one stop for all the Neuroscience events happening on campus and throughout the Western community.

ReproducibiliTea Journal Club

Date: January 27th, 2026. 

Location: Western Interdisciplinary Research Building room 3189 or Online.  

Description: Jessica Lammert, Topic: Arts-Based Knowledge Translation

All are welcome. 1:30pm.

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

Impact Seminars

Date: January 29th, 2026. 

Location: Ronald D. Schmeichal Building.

Description: There's life after a neuroscience degree! Discover different paths.

A discussion featuring past BrainsCAN researchers on their career paths post graduation.

Link/Info: All are welcome.

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: Please register in advance.

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

kNOw-PAIN 2026 Annual 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: Register Here.  

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

Child Health Research Day

Date: May 27th, 2026. 

Location: Kings University College, Western.  

Description: Medical and Basic Science Research in Paediatric Health

Registration Link/Info: Call for abstracts now open (until March 1, 20026).  Registration will open April 1, 2026.

Child Health Symposium

Date: May 28th, 2026. 

Location: Kings University College, Western.  

Description: Research and Best Practices in Child and Youth Health and Well-Being  

Registration Link/Info: Call for abstracts now open (until March 1, 20026).  Registration will open April 1, 2026.