Scientific Presentation and Training Award Recipients
March 1st 2022
Kadjita ASUMBIA (supervisor: Dr. Stuart Trenholm)
PhD student – Montreal Neurological Institute – McGill Université
Congress: Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2022 – March 16 to 22 2022, Lisboa Congress Center, Lisboa, Portugal
Title: Flexible cue anchoring strategies enable stable head direction coding in blind animals
Deborah VILLAFRANCA-BAUGHMAN NOEL (supervisor: Dr. Adriana Di Polo)
PhD student – Centre de recherche du CHUM (CRCHUM)- Université de Montréal
Congress: The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) – May 1st to 4th 2022, Colorado Convention Center, Denver (Colorado), USA
Title: A novel femtomolar hemodynamic modulation strategy reveals major microvascular defects in glaucoma at single-pericyte scale
June 1st 2022
Gabrielle AUBIN (supervisor: Dr. Walter Wittich)
PhD student – École d’optométrie – Université de Montréal
Congress: 13th International Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation conference (Vision 2022) – July 5 to 8 2022, The Convention Centre Dublin (CCD), Dublin, Ireland
Title: Words on the Brain: Can Reading Rehabilitation for Low Vision Improve Cognitive Functioning?
Anne Xuan-Lan NGUYEN (supervisor: Dr. Isabelle Hardy)
MD student – McGill University
Training: Ophthalmic Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (Dr. Albert Wu research group)- July 4 to 31 2022, Stanford, California, USA
September 1st 2022
Katarzyna JUREWICZ (supervisor: Dr. Suresh Krishna)
Postdoctoral Fellow – McGill University
Training: EMBO practical course: Barcelona Summer School for advanced modeling of behavior – September 1st to 8 2022, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona, Spain
Title: Modeling goal-directed search during active vision
December 1st 2022
… to come….