Graduate students
An open competition was launched in Spring 2019, for which 195Â complete and eligible applications were received: 68Â at the Master's level, and 127Â at the doctoral level.
Sixteen Master's students each received $10,000 per year for one year and nineteen doctoral students each received $15,000 per year for one year.
| HBHL Research Theme | Level of study | Recipient | Supervisor | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Master's | Abdullah Azeem | Jean Gotman | Using epileptic networks delineated by intracranial EEG functional connectivity to improve surgical outcome in patients with focal refractory epilepsy |
| 2 | Master's | Camille Cassel de Camps | Christopher Moraes | Addressing variability in brain organoid development: A microengineering approach to organoid models |
| 2 | Master's | Alexandra Chapleau | Geneviève Bernard | Generating a cellular model to study EPRS-related leukodystrophy |
| 3 | Master's | Rana Ghafouri-Azar | Pia Wintermark | Sildenafil to repair cerebellar injury following neonatal hypoxia-ischemia |
| 2 | Master's | Manesh Girn | Nathan Spreng | Macroscale cortical organization in older adults with and without preclinical Alzheimer’s disease |
| 2 | Master's | Nicholas James | Gerhard Multhaup | Investigating the effects of amyloid-β-42 oligomer interacting peptide on neuroinflammation in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease |
| 2 | Master's | Jake Levy | Simon Ducharme | Investigation of the Positron-Emission Tomography [18F]MK-6240 tau ligand as a molecular diagnostic marker in frontotemporal dementia |
| 4 | Master's | Ingrid Olivia Norrmén-Smith | Suparna Choudhury and Laurence Kirmayer | Plasticity and epigenetics in the public sphere: Translational impacts of new research trends in epigenetics and cognitive neuroscience, for motherhood and family life |
| 2 | Master's | Hazal Ozlen | Sylvia Villeneuve | Investigating associations between sleep disturbance, amyloid beta deposition and memory decline in individuals with a family history of Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 3 | Master's | Stephania Palimeris | Marie-Hélène Boudrias and Marie-Hélène Milot | Combining a tailored strength training program with transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation (tDCS) to improve upper extremity function in chronic stroke patients |
| 2 | Master's | Christian Rampal | Gary Armstrong | Investigating precision therapeutic strategies for treating the ALS-causing FUSR521H missense mutation using zebrafish |
| 3 | Master's | Aline Giselle Rangel Olguin | Arjun Krishnaswamy | The role of Cadherin 4 in the assembly of retinal circuits |
| 1 | Master's | Aaron Spahr | Geneviève Bernard | Building a rare disease research database for a natural history study of 4H leukodystrophy |
| 4 | Master's | Christophe Tanguay-Sabourin | Etienne Vachon-Presseau | Brain determinants of opioid craving in chronic pain patients prescribed opioid therapy |
| 3 | Master's | Airi Watanabe | Jesper Sjöström | Astrocytes in neocortical cellular learning |
| 4 | Master's | Min Ju You | Kieran O'Donnell and Michael Meaney | The DNA methylome and maternal mental health: Building a biologically informed prediction model of postpartum depression |
| 2 | Doctoral | Mehrdad Asghari Estiar | Ziv Gan-Or and Guy Rouleau | The genetics of hereditary spastic paraplegia |
| 2 | Doctoral | Andrew Bayne | Jean-François Trempe | Characterization of the mitochondrial processing peptidase in neurodegenerative disease |
| 3 | Doctoral | Taryn Berman | Mathieu Roy | The neural correlates of intertemporal decision-making between pain and money |
| 3 | Doctoral | Matteo Bernabo | Oliver Hardt | Breaking bad memories: PKMζ in fear memory reconsolidation |
| 2 | Doctoral | Tyler Cannon | Samantha Gruenheid | Intestinal infection in PINK1 KO mice triggers autoimmunity and Parkinson’s disease-like symptoms |
| 2 | Doctoral | Anna Cook | Alanna Watt | Developmental disruption and potential therapeutic interventions in spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 |
| 4 | Doctoral | Lani Cupo | Mallar Chakravarty | The effects of prenatal THC exposure on mouse neuroanatomy, functional connectivity, and behaviour |
| 2 | Doctoral | Emma MacDougall | Edward Fon | Using patient-derived brain models to characterize LRRK2-Rab signaling in Parkinson Disease |
| 3 | Doctoral | Amanda McFarlan | Jesper Sjöström | The role of Vip interneuron plasticity in epileptic seizures |
| 4 | Doctoral | Ivan Marbaniang | Joseph Cox and Erica Moodie | Understanding the role of ethnicity and socioeconomic status in the causal relationship between substance use and mental health outcomes among young Canadian gay and bisexual men |
| 2 | Doctoral | Pierre-Francois Meyer | John Breitner | Neuro-inflammation in aging and early Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 1 | Doctoral | Jeremy Moreau | Roy Dudley and Sylvain Baillet | Presurgical evaluation for drug-resistant paediatric epilepsy: Application of statistical learning approaches to resting-state magnetoencephalography for localisation of epileptogenic cortex |
| 2 | Doctoral | Virginie Petel Légaré | Gary Armstrong | Unravelling the in vivo cellular functions of mitochondrial proteins CHCHD10 and CHCHD2 in a vertebrate model of ALS |
| 2 | Doctoral | Alexa Pichet Binette | Sylvia Villeneuve and Louis Collins | Pathway-specific changes in white matter bundles with Alzheimer’s disease pathology |
| 3 | Doctoral | Arielle Rabinowitz | Robert Zatorre and Alain Dagher | How apathy and anhedonia affect music reward in Parkinson’s Disease |
| 4 | Doctoral | Kaan Salcin | Marco Leyton | PET [11C]Martinostat neuroimaging of HDAC expression in cocaine users |
| 3 | Doctoral | Roni Setton | Nathan Spreng | Leveraging semantic memory for goal-directed cognition in healthy aging |
| 2 | Doctoral | Stephanie Tullo | Mallar Chakravarty | Mapping alpha-synuclein spreading and disease progression in a mouse model of Parkinson’s Disease |
| 1 | Doctoral | Mohammad Yaghoubi | Mark Brandon and Blake Richards | Developing deep-learning tools for understanding high-dimensional neuronal data |
