Graduate students
An open competition was launched in Spring 2018, for which 132 complete and eligible applications were received: 50 at the Master's level and 82 at the doctoral level.
Twenty Master's students each received $10,000 per year for one year and 34 doctoral students each received $15,000 per year for one year.
| HBHL Research Theme | Level of study | Recipient | Supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Master's | Heather Anderson-Keightly | Frederic Charron | The role of senescent cells in medulloblastoma progression |
| 2 | Master's | Katrina Cruickshank | Jamie Near | Implications of TNFa inhibition in Alzheimer’s disease: A neuroimaging study in the TgF344-AD rodent model |
| 3 | Master's | Bernat de las Heras | Marc Roig | Promoting brain plasticity during sub-acute stroke: The interactive role of exercise and genotype |
| 2 | Master's | Alexa Derksen | Genevieve Bernard | Clinical, genetic, and pathophysiological characterization of non-hypomyelinating leukodystrophy |
| 4 | Master's | Stefan Drakulich | Sherif Karama and Alan Evans | Early childhood adversity, epigenetic age acceleration, and the brain: Impacts on intelligence |
| 3 | Master's | Kaitlyn Easson | Marie Brossard-Racine | Evaluating white matter microstructure in youth born with congenital heart disease |
| 3 | Master's | Eviatar Fields | Alanna Watt | Understanding the cellular underpinnings of declining motor coordination in healthy ageing |
| 3 | Master's | Rana Ghafouri-Azar | Pia Wintermark | May sildenafil repair injury to the cerebellum following neonatal hypoxia-ischemia? |
| 1 | Master's | Arna Ghosh | Marie-Helene Boudrias and Georgios Mitsis | The use of deep learning to optimize neurorehabilitation strategies |
| 2 | Master's | Manesh Girn | Nathan Spreng | Default-mode network resting-state dynamics in older adults with and without an elevated risk for Alzheimer’s disease |
| 2 | Master's | Jacqueline Hsiao | Lisa Munter | Protein-protein interactions of RHBDL4 by proximity-dependent biotin identification under varying cellular conditions with analyses by mass spectrometry |
| 1 | Master's | Zhenqi Liu | Bratislav Misic | Multimodal biotyping in psychiatric disease |
| 2 | Master's | Emma MacDougall | Edward Fon | Rab gene expression and protein modification in PD brain models |
| 1 | Master's | Victoria Madge | Louis Collins | Deep learning for multimodal linear registration |
| 2 | Master's | Melissa McSweeney | Sylvia Villeneuve | Characterizing early cortical tau accumulation in late-middle-aged adults at increased risk of Alzheimer's disease |
| 2 | Master's | Matthew Pilgrim | Madeline Sharp | Role of award sensitivity in attention deficits in Parkinson's disease |
| 4 | Master's | Jose Maria Restrepo | Cecilia Flores | Differential effects of high and low doses of amphetamine in adolescence on resilience to stress in adulthood |
| 3 | Master's | Pierre-Luc Rochon | Arjun Krishnaswamy | The role of sdk1 in the assembly and function of feature-detecting retinal circuits |
| 2 | Master's | Chin Chia Sung | Kalle Gehring | Structural studies of activated Parkin |
| 3 | Master's | Sonali Uttam | Arkady Khoutorsky and Luda Diatchenko | Investigation of gene expression mechanisms in chronic pain |
| 2 | Doctoral | Fulya Akcimen | Guy Rouleau and Patrick Dion | Genetic analysis of restless leg syndrome |
| 1 | Doctoral | Saishree Badrinarayanan | Mark Brandon | Role of disinhibition in the spatial navigation circuit |
| 2 | Doctoral | Emily Banks | Peter McPherson | Unravelling the genotype/phenotype relationship of DENND5A in epileptic encephalopathy |
| 2 | Doctoral | Andrew Bayne | Jean-Francois Trempe | Characterization of the human mitochondrial processing peptidase in Parkinson’s disease |
| 2 | Doctoral | Sara Bermudez | Nahum Sonenberg | Altered mRNA translation in microglia implicated Alzheimer’s disease |
| 3 | Doctoral | Matteo Bernabo | Karim Nader | Breaking bad memories: PKMζ in fear memory reconsolidation |
| 2 | Doctoral | Tyler Cannon | Samantha Gruenheid | Gram-negative intestinal infection triggers transient parkinsonism in PINK1 knockout mice |
| 2 | Doctoral | Daryan Chitsaz | Tim Kennedy | A novel micro-engineered culture system to unravel mechanisms underlying myelin production and pathology |
| 3 | Doctoral | Christina Chou | Jesper Sjöström | A novel rapid plasticity mapping method |
| 2 | Doctoral | Anna Cook | Alanna Watt | Identifying developmental disruption and potential therapeutic interventions in spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 |
| 2 | Doctoral | Caitlin Fowler | Jamie Near | A neuroimaging study of the effects of early versus late anti-inflammatory treatment in the TgF344-AD rat model of Alzheimer’s disease |
| 3 | Doctoral | Isabelle Groves | Oliver Hardt | The role of pro-apoptotic signalling in the active decay of long-term memories |
| 1 | Doctoral | Michalis Kassinopoulos | Georgios Mitsis | Physiological noise correction in fMRI using a fusion approach based on model-based and data-driven techniques |
| 2 | Doctoral | Rahul Kumar | Peter McPherson | Unravelling the GTPase target of a major Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis gene C9orf72 |
| 3 | Doctoral | Christopher Lafferty | Jonathan Britt | Probing pathway-specific control of reward-seeking behaviour with in vivo optogenetic inductions of synaptic plasticity |
| 4 | Doctoral | Malosree Maitra | Gustavo Turecki | Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing in the post-mortem brain in depression and suicide |
| 1 | Doctoral | Ross Markello | Bratislav Mišić | Individualized models of network atrophy in neurodegenerative disorders |
| 3 | Doctoral | Amanda McFarlan | Jesper Sjöström | The synaptic plasticity of seizure-controlling VIP INs |
| 4 | Doctoral | Pierre-François Meyer | John Breitner | Timing the benefits of anti-inflammatory treatment for AD prevention |
| 3 | Doctoral | Effie Pereira | Jelena Ristic | Characterizing adaptive and maladaptive thought patterns via individual variability in genetic factors and neural activity |
| 2 | Doctoral | Blandine Ponroy | Keith Murai | Investigating neuron-astrocyte communication in brain development and neurodegeneration in Down Syndrome using iPSC modelling and human tissue analysis |
| 4 | Doctoral | Angela Potes | Soham Rej and Danielle Groleau | A mixed methods randomized controlled trial of mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindful self-compassion adapted for university students experiencing psychological distress |
| 4 | Doctoral | Maxwell James Ramstead | Laurence Kirmayer | System dynamics and looping effects in models of psychopathology |
| 3 | Doctoral | Shima Rastegarpouyani | Artur Kania | Development of the ability to localize pain by studying DCC mutant mice and humans |
| 4 | Doctoral | Aislinn Sandre | Anna Weinberg | The influence of familial vulnerability and gestational stress on neural markers of risk for anxiety disorders in infants |
| 4 | Doctoral | Stephanie Scala | Marco Leyton | Mapping neural function in cocaine addiction |
| 1 | Doctoral | Laura Estefany Suarez | Bratislav Mišić | Connectome-informed optimization of brain stimulation protocols |
| 4 | Doctoral | Kristina Tchalova | Jennifer Bartz | Examining the neurochemical substrates of social buffering |
| 2 | Doctoral | Joseph Therriault | Pedro Rosa-Neto | Unbiased assessment of global amyloid burden as determined by voxel-wise receiver operating characteristic curve analysis |
| 4 | Doctoral | Neelima Vaddadi | Jean Francois Cloutier | Role of Kirrel3 in circuit formation in the brain |
| 2 | Doctoral | Bruno Vieira | Austen Milnerwood | Understanding acutely-induced synucleinopathy in neurons and the influence of Parkinson’s disease gene mutations |
