BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:78@womenshealthresearchcluster.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210302T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210302T130000 DTSTAMP:20250107T184154Z URL:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/events/jan-21-2021-womens-brai n-health-initiative-trainee-mentor-session-dr-robert-paul-juster/ SUMMARY:Women's Brain Health Conference Trainee-Mentor Session: Dr. Robert- Paul Juster DESCRIPTION:Women's Brain Health Initiative Trainee-Mentor Session:\nStres s and Resilience Neuroscience - Navigating Transdisciplinary Research App roaches That Nuance Sex\, Gender\, and Sexual Orientation\nMentor: Dr. Ro bert-Paul Juster\, Assistant Research Professor\, Department of Psychiatry and Addiction\, University of Montreal\n\n\n\nThe Women's Brain Health I nitiative Trainee-Mentor Sessions intend to provide students with the oppo rtunity to meet and engage with sex and gender experts through informal co nversations on diverse topics including professional development and resea rch. To ensure an intimate and valuable experience\, each Trainee-Mentor s ession will be limited to 30 registrants.\n\nPlease note that these sessio ns are for registrants of the Women's Brain Health Conference (2020-2021) . If you have not registered for the conference\, you may do so here bef ore you register for the session(s) you would like to attend.\n\n\n\nRober t-Paul Juster is the Director of the Center on Sex*Gender\, Allostasis\, a nd Resilience (CESAR) situated at the Research Center of the Montreal Ment al Health University Institute. Dr. Juster is an Assistant Research Profes sor in the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction at the University of Mon treal and holds a CIHR Sex and Gender Science Chair. Dr. Juster completed his graduate studies in Psychology at Concordia University (BSc) and Neuro science at McGill University (MSc\, PhD) before completing a Post-Doctoral fellowship in Psychiatry at Columbia University.\n\nDr. Juster’s resear ch focuses on teasing apart the role of biological sex and socio-cultural gender in explaining pathways that render us vulnerable or resilient to st ress-related disease. Dr. Juster has become an expert in the measurement o f allostatic load\, the ‘wear and tear’ of chronic stress and unhealth y behaviors that he measures with biomarkers collected from saliva and blo od. Robert-Paul has led research on understanding how stigma\, stress\, an d strain influence the health of lesbian\, gay\, bisexual and more recentl y transgender individuals. In his newly launched laboratory CESAR\, he and his students aim to further advance sex/gender and allostatic load resear ch among diverse populations such as the LGBT community\, workers\, and ps ychiatric patients.\n\nIn this talk\, I will share my career path and phil osophy regarding transdisciplinary research approaches that nuance sex\, g ender\, and sexual orientation in relation to stress biology and mental he alth. By applying a sex- and gender-based analysis that appreciates indivi dual variation beyond sex binaries\, I will demonstrate how one’s sex\, sex hormones\, gender-roles\, gender identity\, and sexual orientation uni quely influence functioning of the stress hormone cortisol and multi-syste mic physiological dysregulation known as allostatic load linked to both ph ysical and mental health. The take-home message of this decade’s worth o f integrative neuroscience research can be summarized as follows: when stu dying stress-related phenomena that appears to differ between the sexes\, accounting for interactions among sex and gender (sex*gender) is essential .\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/wp-conte nt/uploads/2024/11/6.jpg CATEGORIES:Conferences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Vancouver BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR