News & Upcoming Events
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On May 28th, Dr. Jesse Hay will present "Mechanisms of ER to Golgi Transport: Unanticipated Roles for Luminal Calcium and ties to Neurodegeneration and Cancer" as part of the OHRI Neuroscience Seminar Series.

On June 4th, Dr. Guo-Li Ming will present "Regulation of neural development by risk genes for mental disorders" as part of the OHRI Neuroscience Seminar Series.
The 2012 Ottawa Brain Bee was held at Carleton University on Saturday, April 28th, 2012. Ten students from six local high schools participated in the event. Adil Abdulla will represent Ottawa at the National Brain Bee at McMaster University on May 25-26, 2012. Visit our Brain Bee page for details and visit our photo gallery for photos from the event.
Our first Brain and Mental Health Art Competition was a great success. $1700 was raised for Do It For Daron, with just short of 40 art pieces on display, which included videos, paintings, and photographs from both scientists and members of the community. Attendees ranged from the age of 3 to 90 years-old. We would like to thank all the artists who participated, all the attendees, our volunteers, and the staff at Grounded Kitchen and Coffeehouse for being amazing hosts. We will be holding our next art competition early in 2013. Please view our gallery for photos and art from the event.

Our Facebook Page is now up and running! Click the "Like" button above to follow us and take part in discussions on our Facebook page. You can also follow our new Twitter feed @SfNOttawa, or visit back here to see the feed live on the right side of this page.

Welcome to the fourth year of Ottawa's chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. The new academic year has begun and we have some changes coming soon. We will continue our regular activities such as Neuroscience Recruitment Week, and Brain Awareness Week (to be held in March), and Journal Club (now run by Chris Rudyk and Parnell Davis).

On the management side of things, Zack Patterson has stepped in as President and Treasurer, and we have a whole new exec on the table. Brianne Wartman and Catherine Smith will be acting as school co-ordinators, while Harry MacKay has taken the new position of Audio Visual Coordinator, with Faisal Al-Yawer, Trevor Rodrigues, and Jesse Howell as Equipment Managers. Nazneen Rustom, Veronique St.-Onge, and Rob Gabrys will be acting as our new PR Representatives. Val Charbonneau and Sam King are our new Event Coordinators.

In addition to this, we are making some changes to our online presence. Martin Wellman will continue as WebMaster, but we have recently created a new Facebook Page as well as a new Twitter account @SfNOttawa. Our Twitter feed will be updated regularly by several members of our exec.

As with the past two years, we are planning a large social for our Brain Awareness Week celebration in March. This year we will be holding a multi-media exhibit of photos, videos, and other media of work by local neuroscientists and students. We also hope to host a prominent neuroscientist to present his or her research, open to the general public.

We encourage all visitors to return to get updates on all our exciting events we have for the year ahead of us.

The Society for Neuroscience Ottawa Chapter is a collection of neuroscience researchers and students alike - encompassing the two universities and the various research hospitals and research facilities in the National Capital. The Chapter facilitates collaborations, information transfer and accessibility to resources. As a sector of the Society for Neuroscience - an internationally renowned organization - we represent the Neuroscience research that takes place in the city, and the various ways to project this information to the public. As such the Chapter has three main objectives.
  1. A gathering of researchers and students to form a consortium of Neuroscience (Psychology/Science) with passive information transfer at all levels of education. This information transfer would be facilitated through collaborations between researchers of like interest, the exchange of students for an assortment of projects and an open forum for all parties.
  2. A reciprocity of student research, sharing information on a regular basis and reinforcing the information via journal clubs, student workshops and mock lectures among peers. The primary objective is to take the information we learn on an abstract level and transform it into everyday use.
  3. Advocacy of Neuroscience to the future generations at both the elementary and high school level. Increasing the awareness of Neuroscience (eg. Brain Awareness Week) and implementing a keen sense of the field at a younger age will ensure that we increase the first year enrollment into Neuroscience. The primary focus at this point is to provide a strong family of Neuroscience in Ottawa, thus claiming a reputation for Neuroscience right here in our city.