Brain Fair 2024
The 2024 BRAIN FAIR will be bigger than ever before. This is a public event which will showcase some brain-related research that is taking place at Dalhousie. There will be games, competitions, prizes, experiments, demonstrations, interactive booths and all kinds of information. Learn about how the brain works and what it can do!!
When: Thursday March 14th 10:00AM - 2:00PM
Where: The Atrium of the LSRI, 1348 Summer St., Halifax, B3H 4R2
All ages welcome - kids, parents, march break campers - come and check it out and have some fun.
With special Guest Hon. Lena Metlege Diab. MP Halifax West
Labs attending the 2024 Brain Fair:
Psychiatry & Early Psychosis (Tibbo)
Akay Lab
Blood Brain Barrier Lab (Friedman)
Dalhousie Ultrasound Lab (Brown)
Human-to-Human Interfaces (Robertson)
Neurosurgery / Cerebrovascular Drug and Device Clinical Research (Pickett, Weeks)
Psychology & Neuroscience Undergraduates (LeBlanc)
Dalhousie Chess Club “Chess for Brain”
Some pictures from past in-person Brain Fairs:
Brain Fair Videos
In 2022 we had to host BAW online so we created some video footage of the labs. This year we are in person again but for those that can’t make it, here’s a taste of what kind of research is happening in the labs that usually take part in the Brain Fair!
You may be wondering what some of the items in the video are. If you’re curious read below :)
Electrophysiology recording chamber
Dendritic tree of a spinal cord interneuron
Nerve tracts running up and down spinal cord
Visualization of gene expression in spinal cord
Oxygenated and CO2 buffered cerebrospinal fluid
Nerve tracts running up and down spinal cord