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DESCRIPTION:Neurogenesis Speaker Series\n\nWednesday\, December 11\, 2024\n
 	4:30–5:30 p.m. (with post-event reception)\n\nThe Neurogenesis Speaker Ser
 ies will give you the opportunity to get to know HBHL’s new recruits first
 hand\, learn about their research\, ask questions and network with your pe
 ers during the post-event reception.\n\nEach event in this series will fea
 ture two HBHL faculty recruits whose research areas provide an interesting
  contrast or intersection for discussion.\n\nDecember's Speakers: \n\n\n	Da
 nilo Bzdok\, MD\, PhD - On hammer-nail matching in the neuroscience applic
 ation domain\n	Katie Lavigne\, PhD- Cognitive and brain health in transdiag
 nostic psychiatry\n\n\nPlaces are limited. Secure your spot today!\n\n\nSp
 eakers\n\n\n	Danilo Bzdok\n\n	Danilo Bzdok is a medical doctor and computer 
 scientist with a dual background in systems neuroscience and machine learn
 ing algorithms. After training at RWTH Aachen University (Germany)\, Unive
 rsité de Lausanne (Switzerland) and Harvard Medical School (USA)\, he comp
 leted one PhD in cognitive neuroscience (Jülich Research Centre\, Germany)
  and one PhD in computer science in machine learning statistics at INRIA S
 aclay and Neurospin (France). Danilo currently serves as Associate Profess
 or at �鶹ɫ��Ƭ's Faculty of Medicine and as Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila - 
 Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute\, Montreal\, Canada\, including c
 ross-appointments at the McConnell Brain Imaging Center\, Montreal Neurolo
 gical Institute\, Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health and
  the School of Computer Science at �鶹ɫ��Ƭ. His interdisciplinar
 y research activity centres on narrowing knowledge gaps in the brain basis
  of human-defining types of thinking\, with a special focus on the higher 
 association cortex in health and disease.\n\n\n\n	Katie Lavigne\n\n	Katie La
 vigne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at �鶹ɫ��Ƭ 
 University and a Researcher at the Douglas Research Centre\, where she als
 o leads the Douglas Open Science Program. She received a PhD in Neuroscien
 ce in 2018 from the University of British Columbia and completed a postdoc
 toral fellowship at the Neuro and Douglas Research Centre in 2023. Her res
 earch focuses on cognitive dysfunction in psychiatric disorders\, “from EM
 A to MRI”\, including developing open-source digital tools to improve cogn
 itive assessment\, measuring cognitive variability using ecological moment
 ary assessment (EMA) and identifying mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction w
 ith multimodal magnetic resonance imaging and computational neuroscience t
 echniques.\n\n
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LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2B4\, The Neuro (Montreal Neurological In
 stitute-Hospital) - de Grandpré Communications Centre\, 3801 University St
 reet
SUMMARY:Neurogenesis Speaker Series
URL:/hbhl/channels/event/neurogenesis-speaker-series-3
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