Fellowships Competition 1

Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students

An open competition was launched in Spring 2017, for which 221 complete and eligible applications were received: 46 at the Master's level, 117 at the doctoral level and 58 at the postdoctoral level.

Nine Master's students each received $10,000 per year for one year, 24 doctoral students each received $15,000 per year for one year, and five postdoctoral fellows each received $35,000 (plus benefits) per year for one or two years.

Theme Level of study Recipient Supervisor Project title
1, 4 Master's

Saashi (Alexandra) Bedford

Mallar Chakravarty

Large scale analysis of neuroanatomical variation and sex differences in autism spectrum disorders

4

Master's

Jessica Burdo

Howard Steiger and Lea Thaler

Contributions of nutrient levels and stress exposures to DNA methylation levels in individuals with anorexia nervosa

2

Master's

Tyler Cannon

Samantha Gruenheid

Intestinal infection induces neurological dysfunction in Parkinson-susceptible hosts

3

Master's

Kaitlyn Easson

Marie Brossard-Racine

Quantifying myelin integrity in youth born with congenital heart disease

2

Master's

Ryan McPhedrain

Edward Ruthazer Characterization of different function roles of Wnt signalling at the synapse
3

Master's

Seung Hyun Min

Robert Hess

Duration dependency of monocular deprivation induced visual plasticity

3, 4

Master's

Anmol Nagpal

Nahum Sonenberg

eIF2α signaling in autism spectrum disorders

2

Master's

Edwin Wong

Timothy Kennedy

Dysregulation of netrin-1 signaling through deleted-colorectal cancer and amyloid precursor protein promotes synaptic dysfunction and neurodegeneration

2

Master's

Yang Zhang

Alyson Fournier

Neuroprotective effects and mechanisms of neuronal miR-27a in multiple sclerosis

3 Doctoral

Elizabeth Ankudowich

M. Natasha Rajah

Functional networks related to episodic memory and performance across the adult lifespan

4

Doctoral

Sarah Barnett Burns

Gustavo Turecki and Giamal Luheshi Depression as a gut feeling: Gut microbiomeregulation of the neural epigenome in hte context of early life stress induced depression
3

Doctoral

Matteo Bernabo

Karim Nader

Breaking bad memories: PKMζ in fear memory reconsolidation

1

Doctoral

Peter Donhauser

Sylvain Baillet

Novel scalable approaches to study predictive coding using human electrophysiology

3

Doctoral

Elizabeth DuPre

R. Nathan Spreng

Neural variability as a predictor of cognitive resilience

4

Doctoral

Nellie Fotopoulos

Ridha Joober and Sherif Karama

Neuroimaging study of genetic and environmental risk factors in children with ADHD

2, 4

Doctoral

Andy Gao

Anne McKinney

The role of NHE6 mutations in the pathogenesis of neurological disorders

1

Doctoral

Nuwan Hettige

Carl Ernst

Building better brains with big data to study neurodevelopmental disorders

2

Doctoral

Dorelle Hinton

Caroline Paquette

Investigating the effects of Parkinson’s Disease on the brain structures involved in complex walking: A PET study

1

Doctoral

Alexandre Hutton

Tal Arbel Machine learning for multi-modal medical image registration
4

Doctoral

Jace Jones-Tabah

Terence Hébert and Paul Clarke

Measuring G protein-coupled receptor signaling in vivo with resonance energy-based
biosensors

1

Doctoral

Gregory Kiar

Alan Evans

SCIENCE: Scalable Cloud Infrastructure Enabling Neuroscience Computation with Ease

4

Doctoral

Vincent Laliberté

Laurence Kirmayer

The neurobiological discourse in psychiatry

1

Doctoral

Carolina Makowski

Martin Lepage and Alan Evans

Probing the dysconnectivity hypothesis in early psychosis: A multi-modal model of hippocampal centrality

1

Doctoral

Philip Novosad

Louis Collins

Towards robust multi-site MRI segmentation using sparse patch-matching and corrective learning

2

Doctoral

Felix Oestereich

Lisa Munter

The role of the ‘cholesteryl ester transfer protein’ in Alzheimer’s disease

2

Doctoral

Sarah Rosen

Jeffrey Mogil

T-cell dependent reversal of allodynia in pregnant mice
2

Doctoral

Dorothee Schoemaker

Jens Pruessner

Investigation of entorhinal dysfunction in the prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease

1

Doctoral

Golia Shafiei

Bratislav Misic

Multimodal data fusion for subtyping in Parkinson’s Disease

2

Doctoral

Isabella Straub

Eric Shoubridge

The role of the mitochondrial proteins CHCHD10 and CHCHD2 in neurodegenerative disorders

4

Doctoral

Kristina Tchalova

Jennifer Bartz

Examining the neurochemical substrates of social buffering

2

Doctoral

Lianne Trigiani

Edith Hamel

Investigating the role of white matter and the endothelium in mediating the benefits of physical exercise
in a mouse model of vascular cognitive impairment

2

Doctoral

Bruno Vieira

Austen Milnerwood

Understanding acutely-induced synucleinopathy in neurons and the influence of Parkinson’s disease gene mutations

1 Postdoctoral

Boris Chaumette

Guy Rouleau

Prediction of the conversion to psychosis by integrative multi-omic analyses

2 Postdoctoral

Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad

Ronald Postuma and Alain Dagher

Completing the puzzle of Parkinson’s disease subtypes: Longitudinal analysis of clinical, imaging, biospecimen and genetic data

1

Postdoctoral

Ricardo Pizarro

Amir Shmuel

Using deep learning algorithms to automate noise identification in structural brain MRI

4 Postdoctoral

Elizaveta Solomonova

Phyllis Zelkowitz

Biological foundations of Theory of Mind and empathy: A longitudinal epigenetic, hormonal and behavioural study

2 Postdoctoral

Benoît Vanderperre

Edward Fon

The influence of novel PD‐associated endolysosomal proteins on alpha‐synuclein propagation

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