Scientific Presentation and Training Award Recipients
March 1st 2023
Pascale CHARPENTIER (laboratory: Dr. Stephanie Proulx)
MSc student – Universite Laval
Congress: Association for Research in Vision and Ophtalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting 2023 – April 23 to 27 2023, Ernest N. Morial Convention Centre, New-Orleans, USA
Title: Role of SLC4A11 and its Third Extracellular Loop in Adhesion of Corneal Endothelium
Samantha SASSEVILLE (laboratory: Dr. Stephanie Proulx)
MSc student – Universite Laval
Congress: Association for Research in Vision and Ophtalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting 2023 – April 23 to 27 2023, Ernest N. Morial Convention Centre, New-Orleans, USA
Title: Impact of Substrate Stiffness on Human Corneal Endothelial Cells
Olivier CHANCY (laboratory: Dre Solange Landreville)
PhD student- Universite Laval
Congress: Association for Research in Vision and Ophtalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting 2023 – April 23 to 27 2023, Ernest N. Morial Convention Centre, New-Orleans, USA
Title: Tumorigenic properties of uveal melanoma cancer cells cultured in 3D or on a reconstructed extracellular matrix
Kelly COUTANT (laboratory: Dre Solange Landreville)
PhD student – Universite Laval
Congress: Association for Research in Vision and Ophtalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting 2023 – April 23 to 27 2023, Ernest N. Morial Convention Centre, New-Orleans, USA
Title: Hepatic pre-metastatic niche formation by uveal melanoma extracellular vesicles
Dominique GEOFFRION (laboratoires: Dr Mona Harissi-Dagher and Miguel N. Burnier)
MDCM-PhD student – McGill University
Congress: Pan-American Congress of Ophthalmology – March 17 to 20 2023, La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentine
Titles (4 presentations): Clinical & hitopathological study of corneal stromal dystrophies: A 15-year experience in Canada, Clinical & hitopathological study of pterygia: A 15-year experience in Canada, Feasibility and outcomes of endoscopy-assisted total pars plana vitrectomy at the time keratoprosthesis et Novel technique of concomitant endoscopy-assisted total pars plana vitrectomy in Boston keratoprosthesis type 1
Julie OUERFELLI-ETHIER (laboratories: Drs Aarlenne Khan and Laure Pisella)
PhD student – Ecole d’optometrie – University of Montreal
Congress: Vision Sciences Society – May 19 to 24 2023, TradeWinds Island Resorts, St. Pete Beach, États-Unis
Title: Posterior parietal cortex damage causes endpoint biases relative to the visual target during antisaccades
Pedro SANTOS-FRANÇA (laboratory: Dr Michel Cayouette)
PhD student – Montreal Clinical Research Institute
Congress: 11th Canadian Developmental Biology Conference – March 23 to 25 2023, Marriot Bonvoy conference center – Mont Sainte-Anne, Beaupré, Canada
Title: Ikzf2 regulates amacrine cell diversification in the developing mouse retina
Ange TCHATCHOUANG (laboratory: Dr. Stéphanie Proulx)
PhD student – Universite Laval
Congress: Association for Research in Vision and Ophtalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting 2023 – April 23 to 27 2023, Ernest N. Morial Convention Centre, New-Orleans, USA
Title: Expression of Endothelial-Mesenchymal Transition-Related Proteins in Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy Cells ex vivo and in vitro
Katarzyna JUREWICZ (laboratory: Dr. Suresh Krishna)
Postdoctoral Fellow – McGill University
Congress: Canadian Neuroscience Meeting – May 28 to 31st 2023, Hotel Bonaventure Montreal (Congress Center), Montreal, Canada
Title: Trans-saccadic information carry-over in visual search
June 1st 2023
Samantha BOUDREAU (laboratory: Dr. Michel Cayouette)
MSc Student – Montreal Clinical Research Institute
Congress: FASEB: The Biology and Chemistry of Vision Conference– 25 au 29 juin 2023, Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Title: Uncovering the role of Podocalyxin-like protein (Podxl) in photoreceptor polarity and function
Luke (Ajay) DAVID (laboratory: Dr Michel Cayouette)
PhD student – Montreal Clinical Research Institute
Congress: XVI European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease – July 8-11 2023, Esterel Congress Center (ECC), Berlin, Germany
Title: Unlocking the regenerative potential of the mammalian retina
Francis NOËL (laboratory: Dr. Élodie Boisselier)
PhD student – Universite Laval
Internship: Dr. Stefan W. Vetter’s lab – August 15 to November 15 2023, School of Pharmacy, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Title: Studying interactions between RAGE, S100A16 and Annexin A4 using Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)
September 1st 2023
Catarina Sofia MICAELO FERNANDES (laboratories: Dr. Maurice Ptito and Jean-François Bouchard)
PhD student- École d’optométrie- Université de Montréal
Congress: IBRO 2023 – IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience – September 9 to 13 2023, Granada Exhibition and Conference Centre, Granada, Espagne
Title: Anatomical evidence that the visual cortex is a potential model for studying the effects of cannabinoids
Shima SHIRZAD (laboratory: Dr. Elvire Vaucher)
PhD student- École d’optométrie- Université de Montréal
Congress: The European Retina Meeting 2023 – September 17 to 20 2023, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Allemagne
Title: Effect of laser-induced choroidal neovascularization on visual function in mice
December 1st 2023
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