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 |
