The K.A.C. Elliott Lecture

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The K.A.C. Elliott Lecture

Tuesday, May 1, 2018 16:00to17:30

Montreal Neurological Institute Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre, 3801 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, CA

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The K.A.C. Elliott Lecture, " Mechanism of Episodic Memories " will be delivered on May 1, 2018 by Susumu Tonegawa, Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, Director, RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, Director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Principal Investigator, Tonegawa Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. This important named lecture will take place in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (3801 University Street). A reception will follow.

The KAC Elliott Lecture was instituted in honour of Dr. Kenneth Allan Caldwell Elliott who was a neurochemist at the MNI (1958-1968). Dr. Elliott contributed immensely to the understanding of the basic chemical mechanisms of cerebral edema, epilepsy, and brain tumours.听 Importantly, in 1957, Dr. Elliot and his colleagues identified the role of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), now believed to be the major inhibitory transmitter in the brain.

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Susumu Tonegawa

Professor Tonegawa is the sole recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his seminal discovery on the genetic origin of antibody diversity. Since the late 1980s, Professor Tonegawa has made a series of equally seminal discoveries in the field of neuroscience of learning and memory, in health and in disease. His recent studies conducted by combining molecular genetic and optogenetic technology have revolutionized memory research, uncovering new possibilities for the treatment of brain diseases and elucidating fundamental questions about the mechanisms of memory.