21st Annual Meeting of ISBN
Dates: June 1 – 5, 2013
Place: Montreal, Canada
Organizer: Natasha Rajah
Hotel: St. Paul Hotel, 355 rue McGill, Montreal (Qc), H2Y 2E8, Canada, http://www.hotelstpaul.com/. To register, please contact the reservation manager, Karen, whose email is ktisserand@hotelstpaul.com and telephone is 514-380-2222.
Travel: The airport serving Montreal is Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL). The airport is about 25-30 min from the hotel, and a taxi will cost $40-50 depending on traffic. If you opt for public transportation, our hotel representative said that you can take the public transport 747 bus ($8, which includes the metro) to the Terminus, and from there take the metro to Square Victoria (4 stations down the terminus). The Hotel St. Paul is a few minutes walk from the metro station.
Welcome Reception: The welcome reception will be June 1, 2013, 6:30-8:30 PM at Suite 701, located at 701, Côte de la Place d’Armes, Montreal (phone: 514-904-1201). The website is http://www.suite701.com.
Banquet Site: The banquet will be held on June 4th at Restaurant Chez l’Épicier, 311, rue Saint-Paul Est, H2Y 1H3, Montreal, tel: 514-878-2232. The website is http://www.chezlepicier.com
Group Outing: Group will take a coach from Hotel St-Paul, leaving at 12:30pm on June 3rd, 2013. The bus will travel approx. 1h to Bromont via autoroute 10. The group will pick up guide at the Tourism Bureau in Bromont, and then proceed to visit 2 local vineyards (Les Brome and La Mission) and an alpaca farm (Norli farm). The trip around Bromont/Lac Brome area, with history and local attractions pointed out by guide should take approximately 3h (including stops, winetasting, guided tours of vineyards and farm). The group will then proceed to the old village of Bromont for a historic walking tour, allowing for shopping and sightseeing. The group will then dine at La Trattoria at the Auberge Bromont, overlooking the famous romont golf course and mountain. Return via coach to Montreal, arriving around 10:30 -11:00pm at Hotel.
Websites of vineyards and other attractions for outing:
Les Brome – http://www.domainelesbrome.com/site/accueil
La Mission – http://www.vignoble-lamission.com/index.php?lg=en
Website of alpaca farm: http://www.alpagasfermenorli.ca/index_en.php
Walking tour of Bromont: freeBromont Tourism website: http://www.tourismebromont.com/en/
Dinner at La Trattoria – Auberge Bromont:
This includes 4 course meal (wine and drinks extra).
http://www.chateaubromont.com/en/restaurants-bromont/la-trattoria
Group outing dinner entree selection: La Trattoria restaurant has asked us to provide counts for the 3 entree selections that they are offering (chicken, beef, Thai noodles). Please help us provide those counts by clicking on the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GP2WPSN
Meeting Schedule:
June 1, 2013 (Sat)
6:30 – 8:30 pm Welcome Reception
June 2, 2013 (Sun)
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast served outside of meeting room
9:00 – 12.00 Symposium 1: How the Cerebellum Contributes to Motor and Cognitive Function: An Overview of History to Cutting Edge
Organizer: Cherie Marvel
9:00 – 9.25 Catherine Stoodley*, American University.
Topography of Cerebellar Motor and Cognitive Function
9:25 – 9.50 Julien Doyon, University of Montreal.
The Cerebellum and Motor Learning
9.50 – 10.15 Dominic Cheng, Johns Hopkins University.
A History of Eyeblink Classical Conditioning as a Model of Learning
10:30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
10.45 – 12.00 Symposium 1 – continued
10.45 – 11.10 John Desmond, Johns Hopkins University.
Evidence for Cerebellar Contributions to Higher-Order Cognition
11.10 – 11.35 Cherie Marvel, Johns Hopkins University.
Role of the Cerebellum in Clinical Disorders
11.35 – 12.00 General discussion
2:00 – 5.10 Traditional Paper Session
2:00 – 2.20 Pascal Belin
2:20 – 2.40 Jonathan Peelle*
2:40 – 3.00 Andrea Protzner
3:00 – 3.20 Florin Dolcos
3:20 – 3.50 Coffee break
3:50 – 4.10 Christine Nicole Smith*
4:10 – 4.30 Mary Pat McAndrews
4:30 – 4.50 Laurie Miller
4:50 – 5.10 Kristen Kennedy
June 3, 2013 (Mon)
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast served outside meeting room
9.00 – 10.20 Works in Progress
9.00 – 9.20 Simon Overduin* (traditional paper)
9.20 – 9.40 Mark Baxter
9.40 – 10.00 Anna Mitchell
10.00 – 10.20 Ludise Malkova
10:20-10.40 Coffee break
10.40 – 12.00 Works in Progress, continued
10.40 – 11.00 Paula Croxson
11.00 – 11.20 Scott Hayes
11.20 – 11.40 Donna Rose Addis
11.40 – 12.00 Angela Gutchess
12:30 pm Board bus for group outing to Bromont
June 4, 2013 (Tues)
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast served outside of meeting room
8:30 – 10.00 Symposium 2: NeuroDevelopmental Plasticity
Organizer: Holly Fitch
8.30 – 9.10 Holly Fitch, University of Connecticut.
Introduction and Animal models of early plasticity — term versus pre-term models of
brain injury and behavioral outcomes
9.10 – 9.50 Heather Bortfeld*, University of Connecticut.
Infants will tune to (pretty much) anything: implications for pediatric cochlear implant
users
9.50 – 10.30 April Benasich, Rutgers University.
Early plasticity in language development: Determinants of efficient auditory mapping
and emerging linguistic competence
10:30 – 10.50 Coffee Break
10.50 -12.00 Symposium 2 – continued
10.50 – 11.30 Tomas Paus. The Rotman Research Institute; Department of Psychology
and Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Prenatal Environment and Plasticity of the Adolescent Brain
11.30 – 12.10 Jessica Grahn, Western University Ontario.
Early musical training and alterations in brain function
12.10 – 12.30 General Discussion
12.30 – 2.00 Lunch break
2:00 pm Presidential Lecture: Dr. Brenda Milner
3:45 – 5.30 Special Anniversary Session
Organizer: Marie Banich
Alice Cronin-Golomb, Tomas Paus, Mark Baxter, Mary Pat McAndrews
Special awards and songs: Sandra Neargarder, Kristen Kennedy
6:30 Banquet dinner at Chez L’Epicier
June 5, 2012 (Wed)
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast served outside of meeting room
8:30 – 10.00 Business Meeting
10:00 – 10.30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11.50 Traditional Paper Session
10:30 – 10:50 Jessica Andrews-Hanna
10:50 – 11.10 Donna Rose Addis
11:10 – 11.30 Lynette Tippett
11:30 – 11:50 Mark Mapstone
12:00 Close
*denotes prospective members