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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
