ORAL PRESENTATIONS CATEGORY
Retina and posterior segment session
Khalil Miloudi (laboratory : Dr Mike Sapieha)
Award : Excellence award – Oral presentation category – Retina & Posterior Segment Axis – 1st place
Title : Une molécule issue de la dégradation de la nétrine-1 lors de la rétinopathie diabétique est impliquée dans l’augmentation de la perméabilité vasculaire
Marine Lacomme (laboratory : Dr Michel Cayouette)
Award : Excellence award – Oral presentation category – Retina & Posterior Segment Axis – 2nd place
Title : Numb regulates axonal homeostasis
Cornea and anterior segment session
Cristina Bostan (laboratory : Dr Isabelle Brunette)
Award : Excellence award – oral presentation category – Cornea & Anterior Segment Axis
Title : In vivo functionality of a corneal endothelium transplanted by cell-injection therapy in the anterior chamber of a feline endothelial deficiency model
Brain and perception session
Gunnar Schmidtmann (laboratory : Dr Frédérick Kingdom)
Award : Excellence award – Oral presentation category – Brain & Perception Axis –1st place
Title : Shape recognition: convexities, concavities and things in between
Jerome Carriot (laboratory : Dr Kathleen Cullen)
Award : Excellence award – Oral presentation category – Brain & Perception Axis – 2nd place
Title : Vestibular coding strategies for representing natural self-motion
ORAL PRESENTATION BY A LAST YEAR PhD CATEGORY
Sébastien Tremblay (laboratory : Dr Julio Martinez-Trujillo)
Award : Excellence award – Oral presentation by a last year PhD
Title : Instantaneous filtering of visual information by neuronal ensembles in the primate prefrontal cortex
VISUAL IMPAIRMENT AND REHABILITATION ORAL AND POSTER CATEGORY
Jonathan Jarry (laboratory : Dr Walter Wittich)
Award : CRIR-RRSV Best presentation of the Visual Impairment & Rehabilitation Axis Award
Title : Training of Occupational Therapists in Sensory Impairment: Are we doing enough?
POSTER PRESENTATIONS CATEGORY
Retina and posterior segment session
Jessica Agostinone (laboratory : Dr Adriana Di Polo)
Award : Excellence award – poster presentation category – Retina & Posterior Segment Axis
Title : Insulin promotes dendrite regeneration after axonal injury through activation of mTORC1 and mTORC2
Ali Belayachi (laboratory : Dr Bruno Larrivée)
Award : Excellence award – poster presentation category – Retina & Posterior Segment Axis
Title : Role of type II BMP receptors in ALK1 signalling
Marius Chiasseu (laboratory : Dr Adriana Di Polo)
Award : Excellence award – poster presentation category – Retina & Posterior Segment Axis
Title : Increased retinal tau is neurotoxic in experimental glaucoma
Samy Omri (laboratory : Dr Sylvain Chemtob)
Award : Excellence award – poster presentation category – Retina & Posterior Segment Axis
Title : Discovery of novel CD36 receptor modulators as potential drug candidates for choroidal neovascularization
Cornea and anterior segment session
Julia Talajic (laboratory : Dr Mark Terry)
Award : Excellence award – poster presentation category – Cornea & Anterior Segment Axis
Title : DSAEK : Endothelial Cell Loss is Greater for Pseudophakic Bullous Keratopathy than for Fuchs’ Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy
Brain and perception session
Tiphaine Dolique (laboratory : Dr Frédéric Charron)
Award : Excellence award – poster presentation category – Brain & Perception Axis
Title : Loss of depth perception by genetic silencing of ipsilateral retinal projections
Vanessa Hadid (laboratory : Dr Franco Lepore)
Award : Excellence award – poster presentation category – Brain & Perception Axis
Title : Performance visuelle et réhabilitation chez le sujet hémianopsique
Bruno Richard (laboratory : Dr Aaron Johnson)
Award : Excellence award – poster presentation category – Brain & Perception Axis
Title : The effects of trans-cranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on the Contrast Sensitivity Function