HBHL trainees come from diverse backgrounds and locations, from the main campus to all McGill-affiliated institutions across Montreal. The objective of the monthly HBHL Trainee Get-Togethers is to provide an opportunity for trainees who are interested in neuroscience to network, learn from each other and build collaborations. The Get-Togethers include a variety of research talks as well as social activities.
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October 29, 2021
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Virtual Fellows Networking Event |
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November 25, 2021
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- Dr. Yue Li (keynote)
- Neelima Vaddadi (PhD Fellow): “Structural basis and function of Kirrel3 homophilic adhesion in axonal targeting”
- Nadia Blostein (MSc Fellow): “Heritability, Cross-Species Differences and Latent Variables of Behaviour in Shape Measures of the Striatum, Thalamus and Globus Pallidus”
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January 25, 2022
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- Dr. Yang Zhou (keynote): “Synaptic gene mutation in neurodevelopmental disorders, a view from basic research”
- Sneha Senthil (MSc Fellow): “Development of Rapid High-Resolution MR Spectroscopic Imaging In The Human Brain”
- Brittany Intzandt (PhD Fellow): “Sex-specific effects of obesity on cerebral macrostructure in older adults, does physical activity have a compensatory role?”
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February 25, 2022
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- Dr. Yasser Iturria-Medina (keynote): “Multiscale Brain Models for Understanding Disease Mechanisms and Treatment Needs in Neurology”
- Refilwe Mpai (MSc Fellow): “A characterization of perineuronal nets in the human cerebellum: are these structures impacted by child abuse?”
- Quadri Adewale (PhD Fellow): “Multiscale interactions between neuroimaging signals and gene expression in aging and Alzheimer’s disease”
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| March 28, 2022 |
- Dr. Claudine Gauthier (keynote): Quantitative imaging of cerebrovascular health in aging”
- Alexandra Chapleau (MSc Fellow): “Using Patient-Derived iPSCs to Model a Rare Neurodegenerative Disorder”
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| October 27, 2020 |
Virtual Fellows Networking Event |
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View photo from Oct. 27, 2020 Get-Together |
| November 24, 2020 |
- Dr. Manuela Ferrari (keynote): A 2.0 Mental Health Services Model: from Measurement-based Care to Video Game Interventions
- Kadjita Asumbisa (Doctoral fellow, trainee of Stuart Trenholm): Dynamics of the head direction system following vision loss
- Konstantin Senkevich (Postdoctoral fellow, trainee of Ziv Gan-Or): Comprehensive analysis of shared biologic architecture between neurologic and psychiatric traits
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| January 20, 2021 |
- Dr. Jean-Baptiste Poline (keynote)
- Dr. Noha Gerges (guest speaker)
- Ali Fazlollahi (MSc, trainee of Rolando Del Maestro): Effectiveness of the Virtual Operative Assistant Compared to Expert-based Instruction in Neurosurgical Training
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| February 24, 2021 |
- Dr. Loydie Jerome-Majewska (keynote): "Forming the head of an embryo - what is the contribution of splicing?"
- Mikka Cabral (BASC student in Molecular Biology and International Development Studies): “An insight into the cancer burden of a majority-Black population: the case of Bermuda”
- Abdullah Azeem (PhD Fellow, trainee of Jean Gotman): “Interictal Spike Networks Predict Surgical Outcome in Patients with Drug-resistant Focal Epilepsy”
- Jasmine Phénix (PhD Fellow, trainee of Lisa Münter): “The Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein (CETP) in Alzheimer’s Disease”
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| March 24, 2021 |
- Nadia Blostein, (MSc Fellow, trainee of Mallar Chakravarty): "Subcortical structure areal expansion in the human compared to the chimpanzee and heritability"
- Arna Ghosh (PhD Fellow, trainee of Blake Richards): "BP2T2: Towards biologically-plausible temporal credit assignment in recurrent neural networks"
- Laura Suárez, (PhD Fellow, trainee of Bratislav Misic): "Learning function from structure in neuromorphic networks"
- Dr. Marie-Elyse Lafaille-Magnan (postdoc, Ashley Wazana lab)
- Anne-Sophie Pépin (PhD candidate in Pharmacology): "WIN4Science: a Women's Initiative for Science to hack the gender gap"
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| April 28, 2021 |
- Susan Molnar (Graduate Career Advisor): "Strategies & Misconceptions of the Job Search Process for Neuroscientists"
- Arielle Crestol (MSc Fellow, trainee of Natasha Rajah): “Women’s brain health at midlife: Assessing the circuitry for spatial context memory”
- Jisoo Choi (PhD Fellow, trainee of Sylvain Williams): “Neuronal mechanism of memory consolidation during REM sleep”
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| October 16, 2019 |
Fellows Meet and Greet |
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View photos from the Oct. 16, 2019 Get-Together |
| November 19, 2019 |
- Dr. Danilo Bzdok (keynote): Data science in neuroscience: 3 examples in 30 minutes
- Dr. Noha Gerges (Business Development Director, Mitacs): Programs for graduate students offered by Mitacs
- Camille Cassel de Camps (Master's fellow, trainee of Dr. Christopher Moraes): Microengineering brain organoids: addressing variability in organoid generation
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View photos from the Nov. 19, 2019 Get-Together |
| January 16, 2020 |
- Dr. Sarah Woolley (keynote): Plasticity of auditory preferences in a female songbird
- Stephanie Tullo (Doctoral fellow, trainee of Dr. Mallar Chakravarty): Mapping alpha synuclein spreading and disease progression in a mouse model of Parkinson's Disease
- Manesh Girn (Master's fellow, trainee of Dr. Nathan Spreng): LSD attenuates the macroscale functional hierarchy of the brain
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View photos from the January 16, 2020 Get-Together |
| February 11, 2020 |
- Dr. Adrien Peyrache (keynote): Memory replay during sleep: wherever the brain may roam
- Amanda McFarlan (Doctoral fellow, trainee of Dr. Jesper Sjöström): Spike timing-dependent plasticity at neocortical VIP interneuron outputs
- Dr. Rhalena Thomas (Postdoctoral fellow, trainee of Dr. Edward Fon): Midbrain organoids as a model for Parkinson’s Disease and single cell RNA sequencing
- Dr. Oualid Benkarim (Postdoctoral fellow, trainee of Dr. Boris Bernhardt): Approaches to functional idiosyncrasy characterization in typical and atypical
- Lani Cupo (Doctoral fellow, trainee of Dr. Mallar Chakravarty): Methods development: multimodal, longitudinal magnetic resonance techniques in mice
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View photos from the February 11, 2020 Get-Together |
| April 30, 2020 (virtual) |
- Dr. Sylvia Villeneuve (keynote): Functional brain age prediction suggests accelerated aging in preclinical familial Alzheimer’s disease, irrespectively of amyloid pathology
- Nicholas James (Master's fellow, trainee of Dr. Gerhard Multhaup): Towards understanding neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s disease with the amyloid-β42-oligomer interacting peptide (AIP)
- Arielle Rabinowitz (Doctoral fellow, trainee of Drs. Robert Zatorre and Alain Dagher): How apathy and anhedonia affect music reward in Parkinson's Disease
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| June 2, 2020 (virtual) |
- Dr. Laurence Dumont (keynote): Doing research during a pandemic – Opportunities and Obstacles
- Min Ju You (Master's fellow, trainee of Drs. Kieran O’Donnell and Michael Meaney): Genetic and environmental contribution to Perinatal Maternal Mental Health
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Oct. 16, 2017
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All HBHL Fellows: meet and greet
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Bon Opus Bio
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Nov. 21, 2017
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- Dr. Laurence Kirmayer (keynote): The place of social science in HBHL: thinking through context
- Greg Kiar (trainee of Dr. Alan Evans): Enabling scalable, sustainable, and reliable big-data neuroscience
- Seung Hyun (Sam) Min (trainee of Dr. Robert Hess): The effect of patching duration on ocular dominance plasticity
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Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Jan. 30, 2018
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- Dr. Timothy Kennedy (keynote): Playing well with others in the McGill Program in Neuroengineering
- Vincent Laliberte (trainee of Dr. Lawrence Kirmayer): How can the social sciences contribute to the neurosciences?
- Carolina Makowski (trainee of Dr. Martin Lepage): The hippocampus and psychosis: Lessons from a little structure with big responsibilities
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Integrated DNA Technologies
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Feb. 21, 2018
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- Dr. Olaf Witkowski (keynote): From life to brains: The emergence of collective intelligence
- Kaitlyn Easson (trainee of Dr. Marie Brossard-Racine): Quantifying myelin integrity in youth born with congenital heart disease
- Edwin Wong (trainee of Dr. Timothy Kennedy): Animal models of Alzheimer's disease: The good, the bad, and the ugly
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Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Mar. 13, 2018
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- Dr. Robert Zatorre (keynote): From perception to pleasure: Musical processing in the brain
- Tyler Cannon (trainee of Dr. Samantha Gruenheid): Intestinal infection as a trigger for Parkinsonism in genetically susceptible hosts
- Isabella Straub (trainee of Dr. Eric Shoubridge): Functional studies on mitochondrial proteins CHCHD10 and CHCHD2 associated with neurodegenerative disease
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Apr. 18, 2018
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- Dr. Suparna Choudhury (keynote): Critical neuroscience: The adolescent brain in its social context
- Ricardo Pizarro (trainee of Dr. Amir Shmuel): Using deep learning to automatically identify brain MRI contrast
- Andy Gao (trainee of Dr. Anne McKinney): How a cellular "traffic jam" impairs learning
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