Banff International Conferences on Behavioural Science - Autism in Transition

We're enjoying a wonderful conference at the Banff Centre, nestled in one of the most picturesque environments in North America. Even though the days are packed with inspiring talks and workshops, some of us went for a walk along the crystal-clear bow river while Signe ran up tunnel mountain!

Manu presented a poster about her work on "Striatal volumes in Autism Spectrum Disorders", a collaboration with Mallar Chakravarty, PhD, from the Douglas Institute, McGill University.

Unexpected guests showed up during one of the coffee breaks.

Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2014

We are on our way to the SfN 2014 meeting in Washington DC where our lab will be giving two presentations about Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). Join us for our talks!  

Manu Schuetze will be presenting the morning of Sunday November 16th

Dr. Bray will be presenting the afternoon of Monday November 17th 

New paper on brain network changes between resting and attentive states

Have you ever wondered how brain networks reconfigure when people are resting compared to paying attention to a movie? We did! The results of our study, a collaboration with Aiden Anold and Giuseppe Iaria of the NeuroLab at the University of Calgary, are now online, here.

NeuroDevNet / ISDN 2014

We are enjoying lovely sunny days in Montreal and excited to be be part of the 2014 International Society for Developmental Neuroscience and NeuroDevNet meeting. Lab member Sarah Vinette presents a poster in Monday evening's session!

Postdoctoral Scholar position available

We are thrilled to have the opportunity to recruit a post-doctoral scholar into our group, through the University of Calgary Eyes High program.

Please view the ad here and email Dr. Bray with any pre-application inquiries (slbray @ ucalgary.ca).

Some of us ran the AstraZeneca 5km run last Sunday

Join us on September 14, 2014 for the 15th Allies for Autism Run

CFI funding

The Bray, Lebel and MacMaster labs are delighted to be the recipients of a Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunity Fund award. See the story in UToday here.

Paper accepted in Cerebral Cortex

We have a new study in press in Cerebral Cortex, using functional MRI to investigate how visuotopic regions along the intraparietal sulcus are involved in manipulating information in working memory. Abstract here.

Intraparietal Sulcus Activity and Functional Connectivity Supporting Spatial Working Memory Manipulation 
Signe Bray; Ramsha Almas; Aiden E. G. F. Arnold; Giuseppe Iaria; Glenda MacQueen
Cerebral Cortex 2013; doi: 10.1093/cercor/bht320

SickKids Foundation New Investigator Grant

Dr. Bray has been awarded a New Investigator Grant from the SickKids Foundation and CIHR Institute for Human Development, Child and Youth Health. 

This three year award will fund research into abnormalities in learning and reinforcement in adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders. 

NeuroDevNet 2013

We are thrilled to be participating in this year's NeuroDevNet conference in Vancouver BC.

Dr. Signe Bray is speaking in the New Investigators Mini-Symposium on Monday Oct 1st.

Honors student Sanjay Achal is presenting a poster on resting state networks in dyslexia on Monday Sept. 30th.  

Paper accepted in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

As part of our collaboration with Aiden Arnold and Giuseppe Iaria of NeuroLab at the University of Calgary.

Cougratulations Aiden! 

Neural Network Configuration and Efficiency Underlies Individual Differences in Spatial Orientation Ability

A big thank you to the Children's Hospital Aid Society

For being such great friends of the Alberta Children's Hospital and for supporting our research!

From today's Calgary Herald: 'Girl power' helps improve kids' health

UToday story

Our research is featured on UToday today.

Thank you to the UofC University Research Grants Committee

​For awarding us a seed grant to study learning and reinforcement in adolescents with ASD, using brain imaging.

Paper accepted in NeuroImage

​Our combined DTI and fMRI study entitled 'Structural connectivity of visuotopic intraparietal sulcus' was recently accepted for publication in NeuroImage.

Thank you to co-authors Aiden Arnold, Giuseppe Iaria and Glenda MacQueen.​

Thank you to NSERC

For funding our research. The lab was awarded a discovery grant to look at 'Structure-function relationships in healthy brain development.​'

Fernie Brain and Behaviour meeting

The Canadian Spring Conference on Behaviour and Brain is around the corner (Feb 21-23, 2013). Submit a talk abstract by Feb 1 2013 and hope for snow!