Graduate Students
Open competition launched in January 2021.
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 | Supervisior | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PhD | Tamir Avigdor | Birgit Frauscher | Fast oscillations in the awakening brain: Connectivity evolution using direct cortical recordings in humans |
| 1 | PhD | Abdullah Azeem | Jean Gotman | The Use of Multimodal Epileptic Networks to Improve Localization of the Epileptic Focus |
| 4 | PhD | Lani Cupo | Mallar Chakravarty | Longitudinal investigation of the effects of prenatal cannabis exposure on neurodevelopment with magnetic resonance spectroscopy |
| 2 | PhD | Sajjad Feizollah | Christine Tardif | Development of high-resolution diffusion-weighted imaging at 7 tesla for imaging cortical microstructure |
| 3 | PhD | Eviatar Fields | Alanna Watt | Why we fall: elucidating the roll of cerebellar Purkinje cell firing in age-related motor decline |
| 4 | PhD | Lisa-Marie Giorgio | Reut Gruber | Characterizing the Relationship Between Sleep and Environment in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders |
| 1 | PhD | Vladimir Grouza | David Rudko | Quantitative Non-Invasive Evaluation of Myelin g-ratio Using Microstrural MRI |
| 3 | PhD | Soraya Lahlou | Madeleine Sharp | Consolidation and selectivity of memory in Parkinson's disease |
| 2 | PhD | Kevin Lancon | Philippe Séguéla | Dopaminergic Modulation of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Neuropathic Pain |
| 1 | PhD | Dongyan Lin | Blake Richards | The formation and roles of “time cells” in hippocampus and artificial neural networks |
| 1 | PhD | Charlotte Maschke | Stefanie Blain-Moraes | Prognosticating recovery in disorders of consciousness using machine-learning and EEG-based functional connectivity |
| 4 | PhD | Alice Morgunova | Cecilia Flores | Brain and circulating miR-218 expression as a predictor of vulnerability to depression-like behaviors in adolescence |
| 3 | PhD | Vaishali Mutreja | Julien Doyon | A sleep spindle mechanism for declarative memory consolidation: providing causal evidence using a targeted memory reactivation |
| 4 | PhD | Lidia Panier | Anna Weinberg | Impacts of Maternal Depression and Parenting on Infants’ Brains and Behaviour |
| 3 | PhD | Sabine Rannio | Per Jesper Sjostrom | Location-specific Roles of NMDA Receptors in Synaptic Plasticity |
| 3 | PhD | Lynden Rodrigues | Marc Roig | Intensity Matters: A Comparison of HIIT vs. MICT to Promote Brain Plasticity and Cardiovascular Health in Stroke Recovery |
| 4 | PhD | Quinta Seon | Outi Linnaranta | Culturally Adapted VR-CBT for Inuit |
| 2 | PhD | Yuri Ludwig Sosero | Ziv Gan-Or | Modifying effect of genetic variants on risk and time to develop levodopa-induced dyskinesia in Parkinson’s disease |
| 2 | PhD | Frédéric St-Onge | Sylvia Villeneuve | Fingerprints of functional brain variation related to age and Alzheimer’s disease |
| 2 | PhD | Cécile Tissot | Pedro Rosa-Neto | Sleep and Alzheimer’s disease: pathology and pathophysiology |
| 3 | PhD | Airi Watanabe | Per Jesper Sjostrom | The Role of Astrocytes in Neocortical Cellular Learning |
| 3 | PhD | Joshua Wyrosdic | Charles Bourque | Mechanisms of Ecstasy Induced Inappropriate Vasopressin Release |
| 1 | PhD | Xuanteng Yan | Georgios Mitsis | Characteristics of β-waves underlying transcranial alternating current stimulation |
| 1 | PhD | Wenmin Zhang | Yue Li | Understanding genetically encoded machineries regulating gene expression dynamics in complex neurological disorders |
| 2 | Master's | Tristin Best | Simon Ducharme | The Role of the Cerebellum and Subcortical Structures in Disease Progression and Psychiatric Symptomatology in Genetic Frontotem |
| 1 | Master's | Joshua Bierbrier | Louis Collins | Estimation of medical image registration uncertainty in the absence of a gold standard |
| 4 | Master's | Matt Fillingim | Etienne Vachon-Presseau | Deriving and Validating a Brain-Based Biomarker for Chronic Pain |
| 2 | Master's | Hung-Hsiang Ho | Simon Wing | Cellular mechanisms underlying USP19 regulation of ɑ-synuclein homeostasis |
| 1 | Master's | Hadis Kalantar Hormozi | Mallar Chakravarty | Multivariate Analysis of Cortical Morphometry across Human Brain Development |
| 2 | Master's | Nathan Karpilovsky | Edward Fon | Genetic Modulators of α-synuclein Propagation in Parkinson’s Disease Pathology |
| 2 | Master's | Julia Macintosh | Genevieve Bernard | Characterizing the role of Polr3a, Polr3b and Polr1c in oligodendrocyte development in vitro |
| 4 | Master's | Refilwe Mpai | Naguib Mechawar | Characterizing cerebellar perineuronal nets in human post-mortem samples and their alterations in MDD and early life adversity |
| 2 | Master's | Maria Nicole Palacio Prada | Gerard Multhaup | Towards preventing Alzheimer’s Dementia: Behavioral and mechanistic analysis of D-AIP’s effects on the pathology of mouse models |
| 1 | Master's | Sneha Senthil | Jamie Near | Development of rapid high-resolution MR Spectroscopic Imaging in the human brain |
| 3 | Master's | Sophie Sun | Madeleine Sharp | Investigating the brain-behavior relationships in prodromal Parkinson's disease: a window to the neural basis of early cognitive |
| 2 | Master's | Yara Yakoub | Sylvia Villeneuve | Evaluating plasma amyloid-β and tau biomarkers in association with PET measures in preclinical Alzheimer's disease |
