Fellowships Competition 8

Graduate Students

Open competition launched in January 2022.

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

2

PhD

Abdelrahman AlOkda

Jeremy Van Raamsdonk

Identifying common downstream mediators of neuroprotection in C. elegans models of Parkinson's disease

1

PhD

Amin Akhshi

Anmar Khadra

Investigating mechanisms underlying synchronization in pyramidal cells

2

PhD

Aurelie Bussy

Mallar Chakravarty

Investigation of the brain in physiological and pathological aging using multi-contrast imaging techniques

3

PhD

Bruna de Souza

Alanna Watt

Axonal plasticity during cerebellar development

1

PhD

Charlotte Maschke

Stefanie Blain-Moraes

Prognosticating recovery in disorders of consciousness using dynamic EEG responses to anesthesia

4

PhD

Cindy Lucero Garcia

Mallar Chakravarty

Cerebral blood flow relationship with neuroanatomical changes and lifestyle in aging

4

PhD

Emmanuel Olarewaju

Lena Palaniyappan

Interpersonal language and motor coordination in psychosis: a neurobehavioural study in youth

3

PhD

Franziska Hildesheim

Alexander Thiel

Prediction of treatment response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and rehabilitation in stroke patients

3

PhD

Grace Allison

Anna Weinberg

Impacts of social and monetary neural reward response and COVID-19 stress on depression

2

PhD

Haoyi Qiu

Reza Sharif-Naeini

Downregulation of spinal cord parvalbumin leads to chronic pain

2

PhD

Nathan Karpilovsky

Edward Fon

Genetic modulators of alpha-synuclein propagation in Parkinson's Disease

3

PhD

Niloofar Gharesi

Sylvain Baillet

Cortical network dynamics of non-motor decisions in the human brain

4

PhD

Refilwe Mpai

Naguib Mechawar

Characterizing perineuronal nets in the human cerebellum: Are these structures impacted by child abuse?

2

PhD

Sajjad Feizollah

Christine Tardif

Development of high-resolution diffusion-weighted imaging at 7-Tesla for imaging cortical microstructure

2

PhD

Sarah Hales

Michel Cayouette

Regulation of the intracellular accumulation of Tau by Numb and its role in tauopathies

2

PhD

Shanny Foo

Nathan Spreng

A novel, multi-modal approach for early detection and staging of frontotemporal dementia disease progression

3

PhD

Sophie Sun

Madeleine Sharp

The role of substantia nigra and locus coeruleus degeneration in the cognitive phenotype of Parkinson's disease

1

PhD

Theresa Degenhard

Kevin Petrecca

Characterisation of meningioma tumor heterogeneity and origin through single cell technologies

2

PhD

Ting Qiu

Sylvia Villeneuve

The role of structural network efficiency in cognitive resilience to AD pathology in preclinical AD

1

PhD

Vladimir Grouza

David Rudko

Quantitative non-invasive evaluation of myelin g-ratio using microstructural MRI

2

PhD

Zahra Bahmanpour

Myriam Srour

Characterization of focal cortical dysplasias using single nucleus RNA sequencing

1

PhD

Zhen-Qi Liu

Bratislav Misic

Structure-function relationship of human neocortex across temporal scales

3

Master's

Caitlin Walker

Maiya Geddes

The Healthy Aging Brain Study: an intergenerational social motivation intervention to increase physical activity in older adults

2

Master's

Clara MacMahon

Irah L. King

Targeting the gut microbiome for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease

3

Master's

David Foubert

Edward Ruthazer

Role of radial astrocytes on the encoding of visual signals and learning in the developing Xenopus laevis optic tectum

3

Master's

Eden Redman

Marie-Hélène Boudrias

A remote web-based neuroimaging platform for cognitive neuroscience researchers: at-home biosignal acquisition

2

Master's

Hannah Derue

Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva

Effect of exercise on the neuropathic component of arthritis pain: characterization and therapeutic possibilities

4

Master's

Justine Marsault

Rachel Rabin

Effects of chronic cannabis consumption on cognition and brain morphology in older adults

3

Master's

Madeleine Morris

Jonathan Britt

Role of thalamic inputs to the nucleus accumbens in compulsivity

1

Master's

Mashbayar Tugsbayar

Blake Richards

Biologically based recurrent visual network

1

Master's

Nagashree Thovinakere

Maiya Geddes

Predicting successful and sustained smoking cessation from brain structure and function

3

Master's

Nicia John

David Ostry

Priming iTBS with tDCS to enhance consolidation of motor adaptation tasks

4

Master's

Sivan Klil-Drori

Soham Rej

Modifying physical inactivity by merging behavioral economics and CBT

3

Master's

Audrey Jiang

Kathleen Mullen

Contrast constancy in peripheral colour vision

2

Master's

Karthikeyan Swaminathan

Adam Hendricks

Tau hyperphosphorylation by GSK-3β and its effect on organelle transport

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