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Tuesday May 20th, 2025
Victoria College Building
Registration
8.00AM
8.30AM
Coffee and Light breakfast
Welcome and introduction
8.30AM
8.45AM
Opening Lecture
Veronique Miron (Unity Health Toronto; University of Toronto)
8.45AM
9.45AM
Microglia prevent spontaneous and recurrent age-dependent CNS demyelination
Break
9.45AM
10.15AM
Coffee, Session 1 Poster setup
Session 1: CNS Function and Dysfunction
Chair: Chiara Beretta
10.15AM
11.45AM
  • Naguib Mechawar (Douglas Institute; McGill University)

    Glial cells as modulators of perineuronal nets in humans

  • Georgina A Craig (Unity Health Toronto; University of Toronto, Postdoctoral Fellow – Miron Lab)

    Dysfunctional Oligodendrocytes Accumulate in Human Cognitive Decline with Aging

  • Lewis Depaauw-Holt (Université de Montréal, PhD student - Murphy-Royal Lab)

    Astrocytes drive sexually dimorphic effects of stress on orexin neurons and behaviour

  • Vina W Li (Queen's University, PhD student – Ghasemblou Lab)

    Glial circadian rhythm as a modulator of pain in an animal model of multiple sclerosis

  • Industry Talk

    RWD Talk

Poster Session 1
11.45AM
12.45PM
11.45AM
12.15PM
Poster judging/networking
Lunch
12.45PM
1.45PM
1.15PM
1.45PM
Session 1 Poster take down / Session 2 Poster Setup
Poster Session 2
1.45PM
2.45PM
2.15PM
2.45PM
Poster judging/networking
Session 2: Regeneration
Chair: Jonathan Monteiro
2.45PM
3.45PM
  • Olamide Adebiyi (University of Saskatchewan)

    Rescuing Myelin: Uncovering toxic drivers of demyelination and enhancing repair through chemogenetic activation

  • Seyedeh Sara Fooladi (Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, MSc student – Bremner Lab)

    Harnessing the Potential of Mammalian Retinal Müller glia to Regenerate Cone Photoreceptors

  • Ai Tian (University of Toronto- The Hospital for Sick Children, Postdoctoral Fellow – Muffat Lab)

    Human PSC-derived multi-lineage assembloid to study interactions between CNS environment and microglia

Coffee Break
3.45PM
4.15PM
Session 2: Development
Chair: Jonathan Monteiro
4.15PM
5.15PM
  • Jessica Rosin (University of British Columbia)

    Exploring sex-specific changes in the microglial phenome in response to maternal stress

  • Mia Till (University of Victoria, Undergraduate student- Christie Lab)

    Changes in Microglia Morphology and CD68 Expression in the Rat Hippocampus Following Prenatal THC Exposure

  • Industry Talk

    Parse Biosciences Talk

Keynote Speaker
John Lukens (University of Virginia)
5.15PM
6.15PM
Role of Innate Immune Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Disease
Banquet dinner
6.30PM
8.30PM