Congratulations to our M.Sc. and Ph.D. students for receiving research funding from the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec - Sant茅 (FRQ-S) and听Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec - Nature et technologies (FRQ-NT) this year! These provincial funding programs听provide researchers with financial support, with the goal of promoting the spread of scientific knowledge and collaboration. Below are a few of our 2020 recipients:听
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Barbara Barth
(Ph.D. student, Dr. P.听Pelufo Silveira)
"The role of the dopamine transporter gene network expression on the brain in modulating responses to early life environmental factors"
Harry Glickman
(M.Sc. student, Dr. S. Baillet)
"Personalized Neuromodulation Strategies for Cognitive Rehabilitation"
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Ziyaan Harji
(Ph.D. student, Dr. G. Armstrong)
"Investigating synaptic defects in novel听TARDBP听knock-in zebrafish models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis"
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Eric Krochmalnek
(Ph.D. student, Dr. M. Srour)
"Examining the Pathophysiology of Individual Cell Type(s) Carrying Somatic Mutations in Focal Cortical Dysplasias"
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Cynthia Kwan
(Ph.D. student, Dr. P. Huot)
"Towards therapies for Parkinson鈥檚 Disease: treatment-related complications and animal models"
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Firoza Zubeida Lussier
(M.Sc. student, Dr. P. Rosa-Neto)
"Investigating the associations between mild behavioral impairment and imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease in cognitively unimpaired and impaired elderly individuals"
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David听MacDonald
(M.Sc. student, Dr. M. Chakravarty)
"Autism Spectrum Disorders: Heterogeneity in the Morphology of Subcortical Structures due to Age, IQ, and Sex /听Troubles du spectre autistique: h茅t茅rog茅n茅it茅 de la morphologie des structures sous-corticales due 脿 l'芒ge, au QI et au sexe"
Malosree Maitra
(Ph.D. student, Dr. G. Turecki)
"Cell-type specific multiomics of the prefrontal cortex in major depressive disorder"
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Jillian McCarthy
(Ph.D. student, Drs. S. Ducharme and Y. Iturria-Medina)
"Determination of multimodal MRI cerebral changes in preclinical frontotemporal dementia using data-driven multivariate statistical modeling"
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Amanda McFarlan
(Ph.D. student, Dr. J.听Sj枚str枚m)
"The Role of Neocortical Vip Interneuron Plasticity in Epileptic Seizures"
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Kendra Oudyk
(Ph.D. student, Dr. J-B Poline)
"Are we meta-analyzing results or methods? Evaluating bias caused by methodological trends in neuroimaging of mood disorders"
Kaan Salcin
(Ph.D. student, Dr. M. Leyton)
"PET Neuroimaging of Epigenetic Processes in Stimulant Drug-Users"
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Rackeb Tesfaye
(Ph.D. student, Dr. M.听Elsabbagh)
"Investigating circadian dysfunction in youth with autism"
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Stephanie Tullo
(Ph.D. student, Dr. M. Chakravarty)
"L鈥檌mpact de la propagation de la prot茅ine alpha-synucl茅ine 脿 travers le听connectome c茅r茅bral dans un mod猫le murin de la maladie de Parkinson"
Neelima Vaddadi
(Ph.D. student, Dr. J-F Cloutier)
"Understanding role of Kirrels in circuit formation in the brain"
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Johnson Ying
(Ph.D. student, Dr. M. Brandon)
"Base neurale de la m茅moire spatiale"
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Sheida Zolfaghari
(Ph.D. student, Dr. R. Postuma)
"Restless leg syndrome and atherosclerosis: Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging / Syndrome des jambes sans repos et ath茅roscl茅rose: L'脡tude Longitudinale Canadienne sur le Vieillissement (脡LCV)"
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FRQ-NT
Ross Markello
(Ph.D. student, Dr. B. Misic)
"Network models of brain morphometry and behavior"
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