Updated: Sun, 10/06/2024 - 10:30

From Saturday, Oct. 5 through Monday, Oct. 7, the Downtown and Macdonald Campuses will be open only to McGill students, employees and essential visitors. Many classes will be held online. Remote work required where possible. See Campus Public Safety website for details.


Du samedi 5 octobre au lundi 7 octobre, le campus du centre-ville et le campus Macdonald ne seront accessibles qu’aux étudiants et aux membres du personnel de l’Université McGill, ainsi qu’aux visiteurs essentiels. De nombreux cours auront lieu en ligne. Le personnel devra travailler à distance, si possible. Voir le site Web de la Direction de la protection et de la prévention pour plus de détails.

Fellowships Competition 6

Graduate students

Open competition launched in January 2020.

Master's fellowships are valued at $10,000 for one year and PhD fellowships at $15,000 for one year.

HBHL Research Theme Level of Study Recipient Supervisor Project title
1, 3 Master's Nadia Blostein Mallar Chakravarty The Modular Organization of Cortical Connectivity and Genetic Effects
2 Master's Alexandra Chapleau Genevieve Bernard Generation of a Cellular Model to Study EPRS1-Related Leukodystrophy
3 Master's Arielle Crestol Natasha Rajah The Effects of Menopausal Status on Memory-Related Functional Connectivity
2 Master's Alyssa Dai Mallar Chakravarty Examining the progression of microstructural biomarkers of psychosis in high-risk groups using MRI
2 Master's Ghislaine Deyab Edward Fon Human midbrain organoids as a potential tool for developing personalized medicine for Parkinson's disease patients
1 Master's Ali Fazlollahi Rolando Del Maestro Comparing the Virtual Operative Assistant to Instructor-based Instruction in Surgical Education: A Randomized Controlled Trial
3 Master's Thalia Garvock-de Montbrun Jonathan Britt Investigating the salience hypothesis of dopamine signaling through optogenetic manipulations of the mesolimbic pathway
3 Master's Elly Htite Marie Brossard-Racine Hippocampal Growth in Preterm Infants
3 Master's Max Levinson Sylvain Baillet Seeing context: neural oscillatory mechanisms of perceptual inference in peripheral vision
3 Master's Lilyan Merovitz-Budning Marc Roig Associations between brain biomarkers of cognitive decline and functional measures in adults with and without mild cognitive impairment
2 Master's Jasmine Phénix Lisa Munter The cholesteryl ester transferase protein (CETP) in Alzheimer's disease
1 Master's Sydney Sue Gustavo Turecki Predicting epigenomic signatures using a recurrent neural network in major depression and suicide
2 Master's Hannah Swick Maia Kokoeva Gila-Neuron Interaction in Neurodegeneration-Related Obesity
2 Master's Risavarshni Thevakumaran David Rudko Assessing Neurodegeneration in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Using Multimodal High Field MRI and PET Neuroimaging
3 Master's Elly Htite Marie Brossard-Racine Hippocampal Growth in Preterm Infants
2 Doctoral Sushmetha Ananthanarayanan Mohan Frederic Charron Investigation of a novel tumor suppressor mechanism in medulloblastoma
3 Doctoral Kadjita Asumbisa Stuart Trenholm Dynamics of the head direction system following vision loss and vision restoration
1 Doctoral Abdullah Azeem Jean Gotman Using Interictal Spike Propagation to Localize the Presumed Epileptogenic Zone and Improve Surgical Outcome in Focal Epilepsy Patients
4 Doctoral Amanda Brown Gustavo Turecki Orbital Frontal Cortex of Suicides with a History of Early Life Adversity
3 Doctoral Isabella Catalano Sarah Woolley Role of the secondary auditory cortex in learning and memory
4 Doctoral Anjali Chawla Gustavo Turecki Single-nucleus ATAC-sequencing to decipher cell-type specific regulome and operative genetic variants in Major Depression and Suicide
3 Doctoral Jisoo Choi Sylvain Williams Neuronal mechanism of memory consolidation during REM sleep
3 Doctoral Can Fenerci Signy Sheldon The role of cognitive style in shaping the neural mechanisms of remembering
2 Doctoral Caitlin Fowler Jamie Near A longitudinal neuroimaging study of the effects of early versus late anti-inflammatory treatment in a rat model of Alzheimer's disease
1 Doctoral Arna Ghosh Blake Richards A Biologically-plausible Deep Learning framework to model murine visual cortex
2 Doctoral Kimberly Gruver Alanna Watt Contribution of the DCN to disease pathology in a mouse model of ARSACS
3 Doctoral Amirah-Iman Hicks M. Prager-Khoutorsky Circadian regulation of the blood-brain barrier
3 Doctoral Leonora King Ashley Wazana Resilience in the Context of Early Life Adversity: Exploring Gene-by-Environment Interactions
4 Doctoral Ivan Marbaniang Joseph Cox Using a quantitative intersectionality approach to understand the effect of discrimination on depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in Canadian gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men
4 Doctoral Alice Morgunova Cecilia Flores Brain and circulating miR-218 expression as a predictor of vulnerability to depression-like behaviors in adolescence
4 Doctoral Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo Nathan Spreng An fMRI investigation of responses to social exclusion in lonely older adults
2 Doctoral Virginie Petel Légaré Gary Armstrong Unraveling the In Vivo Cellular Functions of Mitochondrial Proteins CHCHD10 and CHCHD2 in a Vertebrate Model of ALS
2 Doctoral Alexandra Potvin-Desrochers Caroline Paquette Neural Mechanisms of Freezing in Gait in Parkinson's Disease
2 Doctoral Gerardo Ramos Abbas Sadikot Development of a Neurotrophin Rescue Strategy in a Model of Huntington's Disease
3 Doctoral Aline Giselle Rangel Olguin Arjun Krishnaswamy The role of Cadherin 4 in the assembly of retinal circuits
3 Doctoral Sabine Rannio Jesper Sjöström Location-Specific Roles of NMDA Receptors in Synaptic Plasticity
1 Doctoral Lazaro Sanchez Rodriguez Yasser Iturria Medina Integrating Multimodal Brain Imaging Biomarkers and Eletrophysiological Recordings in Alzheimer's Disease Research
3 Doctoral Roni Setton Nathan Spreng Leveraging Semantic Memory for Goal-Directed Cognition in Healthy Aging
3 Doctoral Sujata Sinha J. Bruno Debruille Functional plasticity of cognitive processing observed across social contexts: An egg and event-related brain potential study in schizophrenia and healthy controls
3 Doctoral Sofia Skromne Carrasco Adrien Peyrache The role of cortical spindles and hippocampal sharp-wave ripples in memory function
2 Doctoral Frédéric St-Onge Sylvia Villeneuve Fingerprinting functional connectivity in the Alzheimer's disease continuum
4 Doctoral Sivaniya Subramaniapillai Natasha Rajah Sex differences in predicting age from cortical structure and its relation to memory and sociocultural factors: a multisite lifespan study
2 Doctoral Shannon Tansley Jeffrey Mogil Single cell RNA-seq to study microglia transcriptional states at various phases of pain development following nerve injury
4 Doctoral Rackeb Tesfaye Mayada Elsabbagh Investigating sleep disturbance in autism
2 Doctoral Joseph Therriault Pedro Rosa-Neto Does brain connectivity provide a framework for tau to aggregate in Alzheimer's disease?
4 Doctoral Marina Wakid Naguib Mechawar Examining blood-brain barrier integrity in depressed suicides with a history of child abuse
1 Doctoral Xuanteng Yan Georgios Mitsis & Marie-Hélène Boudrias Closed-loop neurofeedback for enhancing motor learning
4 Doctoral Chun Yao Ronald Postuma Dream Enactment Behaviors and their Indication of Neurological/Psychiatric Outcomes
1 Doctoral Wenmin Zhang Yue Li A probabilistic topic model for decoding heterogeneity in major depressive disorder with single-cell RNA-sequencing
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