May 31, 2023
Thanks to the generous support from Ms. Marie Giguère, awards worth up to $500 are available to support travel and attendance for graduate students (MSc and PhD candidates) presenting their work at a national or international scientific conference.
Division Basic Neuroscience:
• Ashraf Mahmud (team of 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 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
Division Human Neuroscience:
• Barbara Barth (team of 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 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
Division Clinical Research:
• Cassandra Zephirin (team of 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 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
Division Mental Health and Society:
• Fjolla Berisha (team of 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, Switzerland
• Roxanne Sicotte (teams of 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