Students awards – 18th annual meeting of the FRQS Vision Health Research Network
ORAL PRESENTATIONS CATEGORY
Cornea and anterior segment session / Visual impairment and rehabilitation
Pascal Belleau (laboratory: Dr Vincent Raymond)
Award: Best oral presentation in the category PhD graduate
Title: Mapping of the first modifier locus for glaucoma severity within the GLC1K region at 20p12
Retina and posterior segment session
Kanawarpal Singh (laboratory: Dr Mark Lesk and Dr Santiago Costantino)
Award: Best oral presentation in the category PhD graduate
Title: Pulsatile movement of the optic nerve head and the peripapillary retina in normal subjects and in glaucoma
Brain and perception session
Mina Gheiratmand (laboratory: Dr Kathy T. Mullen)
Award: Best oral presentation in the category PhD graduate
Title: A dual role for human color vision in shape processing: psychophysical evidence for isotropic and orientation-tuned responses
POSTER PRESENTATIONS CATEGORY
Yasmin Kerouch (laboratory: Dr Pierre Lachapelle)
Award: Best oral presentation in the category undergraduate students in clinical or basic research
Title: An environmental enrichment (ee) prevents the rodent light-induced retinopathy (lir)
Barbara Morquette (laboratory: Dre Adriana di Polo)
Award: Best oral presentation in the category graduate students in basic research
Title: mtor activity rescues retinal ganglion cell dendritic arbors and glutamatergic inputs after axonal lesion in vivo
Ariel Wilson (laboratory: Dr Adriana di Polo)
Award: Best oral presentation in the category graduate students in basic research
Title: p53 activators aspp1 and aspp2 regulate retinal ganglion cell death in vivo via regulation of fas/cd95 and puma
Hosni Cherif (laboratoire: Dr Jean-François Bouchard)
Award: Best oral presentation in the category graduate students in basic research
Title: Le récepteur gpr55 module le développement du système nerveux visuel
Agustin Cerani (laboratory: Dr Mike Sapieha)
Award: Best oral presentation in the category graduate students in basic research
Title: Semaphorin 3a induces vascular permeability in diabetic retinopathy
Mathieu Gauvin (laboratory: Dr Pierre Lachapelle)
Award: Best oral presentation in the category graduate students in clinical research
Title: Docteur, quand deviendrai-je aveugle? Étude rétrospective de cas choisis dans la banque de diagnostics fonctionnels de pathologies rétiniennes du RRSV
Simon Clavagnier (laboratory: Dr Robert Hess)
Award: Best oral presentation in the category graduate students in clinical research
Title: Long lasting contrast sensitivity improvement after daily ctbs sessions in adults with amblyopia
Éric Lapalme (laboratory: Dr Mike Sapieha)
Award: Award: Best oral presentation in the category research assistant
Title: The omega-3 fatty acid metabolite 4-hdha reduces vegf-induced choroidal neovascularization in a vegfr2-independent manner