Marie Giguère Travel Awards

Basic Neuroscience Division:

• Ashraf Mahmud (team of Dre Cecilia Flores)
  Social Defeat Stress Alters PFC Molecular Markers Dissimilarly Between Sexes in Adult Mice
  Conference name: Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting 2023
  Dates: November 11-15, 2023
  Location: Washington, D.C., USA
• Shashank Srikanta (team of Dr Nicolas Cermakian)
  The role of the circadian deubiquitinase USP2 in modulating photic entrainment and the clock
  Conference name: Gordon research conference (GRC) in Chronobiology
  Dates: June 17-23, 2023
  Location: Lewiston, Maine, USA

Human Neuroscience Division:

•  Barbara Barth (team of Dre Patricia Silveira)
  Sex-differences in the long-term effects of early life adversity in the nucleus accumbens transcriptome
  Conference name: 11th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience
  Dates: September 9-13, 2023
  Location: Granada, Spain
• Jonathan Gallego Rudolf (team of Dre Sylvia Villeneuve)
  Neurophysiological activity linked to Alzheimer’s disease pathology relates to longitudinal cognition and progression to mild cognitive impairment
  Conference name: AAIC: Alzheimer’s Association International Conference
  Dates: July 16-20 2023
  Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Clinical Research Division:

• Cassandra Zephirin (team of Dr Massimiliano Orri)
  Understanding pathways of association between childhood irritability, harsh parenting, and youth suicide attempt: a 23-year longitudinal study
  Conference name: International Summit on Suicide Research
  Dates: October 15-18, 2023
  Location: Barcelona, Spain
• Jana Totzek (team of Dr Martin Lepage)
  Longitudinal Inference of Multiscale Markers in Psychotic Disorders
  Conference name: 2023 Annual Congress Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS)
  Dates: May 11-15, 2023
  Location: Toronto, ON

Mental Health and Society Division:

• Fjolla Berisha (team of Dr Jai Shah)
  Exploring longitudinal symptom trajectories in first episode psychosis: A network analysis approach
  Conference name: IEPA (International Conference on Early Intervention in Mental Health)
  Dates: July 10-12, 2023
  Location: Lausanne, Switzerlandd
• Roxanne Sicotte (teams of Dr Srividya Iyer & Amal Abdel-Baki)
  A cross-cultural comparison of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in two early intervention services for psychosis in India and Canada
  Conference name: IEPA (International Conference on Early Intervention in Mental Health)
  Dates: July 10-12, 2023
  Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

Basic Neuroscience Division:

• Tanya Capolicchio (team of Dre Cecilia Flores)
  Dysregulates the Signaling Pathway that Orchestrates Dopamine Development  
  Conference name: Society of Biological Psychiatry conference
  Dates: April 28-30, 2022
  Location: New Orleans, USA
• Shashank Srikanta (team of Dr Nicolas Cermakian)
  Altered Light Responses in Mice Lacking the Circadian Deubiquitinase USP2  
  Conference name: Society for Research in Biological Rhythms conference
  Dates: May 14-18, 2022
  Location: Amelia Island, FL, USA

Human Neuroscience Division:

• Alyssa Dai (team of Dr Mallar Chakravarty)
  Relationships between symptom dimensions and cortical morphometry patterns in the adolescent psychosis spectrum using an integrated approach leveraging insights from structural, functional, and transcriptomic neuroimaging 
  Conference name: Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Annual Meeting
  Dates: June 19-23, 2022
  Location: Glasgow, Scotland
• Yara Yakoub (team of Dre Sylvia Villeneuve)
  Longitudinal Blood Biomarker Trajectories in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease 
  Conference name: Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC)
  Dates: July 31-August 4, 2022
  Location: San Diego, USA

Clinical Research Division:

• Marjolaine Rivest-Beauregard (teams of Drs Alain Brunet & Manuela Ferrari)
  Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic : A comparison of the severity of trauma and stressor-related symptoms in the USA, Canada, Italy and France  
  Nom de la conférence : International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, 38th Annual Meeting
  Dates : November 9-12, 2022
  Lieu : Atlanta, USA

Mental Health and Society Division:

• Xinyuan Li (team of Dre Suzanne King)
  Functional connectivity of centromedial amygdala mediates the association between prenatal maternal stress and autistic-like phenotypes in young adults: project ice storm 
  Conference name: DOHaD World Congress 2022
  Dates: August 27-31, 2022
  Location: Vancouver, BC
• Gil Grunfeld (team of Dr Jai Shah)  
  The presentation of delusions in young people experiencing a first episode psychosis (FEP)
  Conference name: International Association for Youth Mental Health (IAYMH) 2022
  Dates: September 29-October 1, 2022
  Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Basic Neuroscience Division:

• Ashraf Mahmud (team of Dre Cecilia Flores)
  Potential role of DCC-positive neurons in the adult prefrontal cortex projecting to the nucleus accumbens shell in susceptibility to social defeat stress
• Jiamin Song (team of Dre Claire-Dominique Walker)
  Fear-induced Glutamate Release and Parvalbumin Interneuron Maturation in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex of Juvenile Rats is Sex-dependent and Modified by Exposure to Early Life Stress

Human Neuroscience Division:

• Rixing Lin (teams of Drs Gustavo Turecki et Corina Nagy)
  The role of small nucleolar RNAs in antidepressant drug action
• Claudia Belliveau (team of Dr Naguib Mechawar)
  Perineuronal nets in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex of depressed suicides with a history of child abuse

Clinical Research Division:

• Danielle Penney (équipe de Dr Martin Lepage)
  Exploring the factor structure of the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 in psychotic disorders
• Lara Kojok (équipe de Dr Alain Brunet)
  COVID-19 related stress: the mediating effect of social support / Suicide Risk Among Active and Retired Canadian Forces (2 presentations)

• Joseph Therriault (Lab of Dr Rosa-Neto)
• Stephanie Tullo (Lab of Dr Chakravarty)
• Daniel Almeida (Lab of Dr Turecki)
• Claudia Belliveau (Lab of  Dr Mechawar)
• Weam Fageera (Lab of Dr Joober)
• Benzhyna Daniel (Lab of Dre King)
• Niamh Power (Lab of Dr Schmitz)
• Sereena Pigeon (Lab of Dr Brunet)