Students awards – 19the annual meeting of the FRQS Vision Health Research Network
ORAL PRESENTATIONS CATEGORY
Cornea and anterior segment session / Visual impairment and rehabilitation
Renaud Manuguerra (laboratory: Dr Mark Lesk)
Award: Best oral presentation in the PhD graduate category
Title: Thérapie cellulaire pour le glaucome : activation de cellules progénitrices oculaires par facteurs paracrines des cellules souches mésenchymales
Virginia Kenyon (laboratory: Dr Walter Wittich)
Award: Best oral presentation in the graduate student category
Title: Combined vision and hearing loss: exploring the stigma of assistive technology through discourse analysis of Canadian media
Marie-Catherine Drigeard-Desgarnier (laboratory: Dr Patrick Rochette)
Award: Best oral presentation in the graduate student category
Titre: Étude comparative de la réparation des dommages mutagènes induits par les rayons ultraviolets dans les cellules épithéliales de la cornée et les kératinocytes de l’épiderme
Retina and posterior segment session
Ankush Madaan (laboratory: Dr Sylvain Chemtob)
Award: Best oral presentation in the PhD graduate category
Titre: Regulation of retinal angiogenesis by a novel lactate receptor, gpr81
Agustin Cerani (laboratory: Dr Przemyslaw Sapieha)
Award: Best oral presentation in the graduate student category
Title: Neuron-derived semaphorin 3A is an early inducer of vascular permeability in diabetic retinopathy via neuropilin-1
Suna Jung (laboratory: Drs Pierre Lachapelle et Pia Wintermark)
Award: Best oral presentation in the graduate student category
Title: Contre toute attente, l’hypoxie-ischémie néonatale affecte aussi la rétine
Brain and perception session
Ashkan Golzar (laboratory: Dr Erik Cook)
Award: Best oral presentation in the PhD graduate category
Title: Linking neural activity to visual correlation computations
Chiara Perico (laboratory: Dr Armando Bertone)
Award: Best oral presentation in the graduate student category
Title: Training the brain to learn using an automated attention task: assessing the role of feedback
Gunnar Schmidtamann (laboratory: Dr Gunter Loffler)
Award: Best oral presentation in the graduate student category
Title: Inferior superiority: shape discrimination is best in the lower visual field