Archives of Previous Announcements for 2002

Special grant possibility

This is to announce a joint initiative of the FRSQ Vision Research Network and the Provincial Network for Research in Re-adaptation (REPAR).

Researchers who are members and the students of either of the two above mentioned networks are invited to send grant proposals. These proposals should aim to develop new collaborations and new research themes that meet the mission statements of both research networks.

Proposal I : Research project
The objective of this grant is to encourage the realisation of a research project that will reunite researchers in each network. These new collaborations should be related to themes that interest both networks.

Specific objectives :
To develop a inter-network project that would unite researchers and clinicians that would;
Contribute, via the convergence of inter-network expertise, an increase of the knowledge base for problems related to a particular target group of patients.
Produce preliminary data to establish a base from which to construct a new project. This project will then be submitted to granting agencies.

Criteria for evaluation :
Originality of the project and the pertinence of the project in regards to the objectives of the program;
The creation of starting points for inter-network and multidisciplinary projects. The authors of the proposal should show how their expertise is complementary. They must also demonstrate that the project will favour the consolidation or creation of an inter-network research group.
The proposal must be presented by at least one full member of each network.
The methodological quality of what is proposed (according to the criteria used by the FRSQ).
The multidisciplinary starting point means that a succinct explanation must be given regarding the contribution of each member of the team in regards to the realisation of the project.

The team of researchers should cover all of the fields of expertise required to complete the project. This concerns both the disciplines and the methodologies involved.

The authors should explain both the contribution and complementarity of each of the research fields.

Scientific report : A scientific report must be submitted no latter than 18 months after the receipt of the funds by the principal author of the proposal.

The maximum amount of money allotted is $25 000 for one year and it is not renewable. The completed forms (see attached documents) should be received by the secretariat of the Vision Network no later than December 2nd 2002.

More than meets the cyclopean eye: Contributions
of area MT to stereo vision in the alert monkey

Speaker: Gregory DeAngelis, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University
Site: École d'Optométrie, 3744 Jean-Brillant, auditorium 180
Date and time: December 13 2002, 12h15
Contact: maurice.ptito@umontreal.ca




Call for proposals concerning research partnership

Dear colleagues,

A recent directive from the FRSQ invited research networks to allocate funds in their budget to allow for eventual partnerships. This directive may be summed up as follows : It is crucial that each network reserve funds in order to participate and lead partnership opportunities. These opportunities will emerge, in the coming months, via interactions with the CIHR and other groups (i.e. the European Union). These opportunities may include the financing of a project in tandem with the CIHR, within the framework of a CIHR strategic group program. Alternatively, these opportunities may arise under the form of a preparation of or partial financing of a project within one of the eight major initiatives that are to be announced by the CIHR. Finally, these funds are to be reserved for any future, presently unknown, opportunities that may arise.

It is with this in mind that the Vision Network has set aside 80 000.00$ in order to be able to support such an initiative.

The present call for offers aims to determine your intentions concerning the eventual large scale projects that would group together many vision researchers. The aforementioned funds are to be used as a starting point, which will ease the procurement of larger grants from programs that already exist (i.e. the usual granting agencies such as the CIHR).

Priority for funding will be given to projects that are open to the participation of researchers that are presently in different axes of the Vision Research Network.

In order to examine the need for such funding and to verify that the projects meet the above mentioned criteria, we would like to receive letters of intent before November 15 2002. This letter must contain the following information :

Project title:
Short description of the project (approximately half a page).

The name of the researchers involved, affiliation, each researchers status within the vision network (i.e. researcher, associate researcher, fundamental or clinical).

Limit: November 15
Send the document to: reseau.vision @mcgill.ca

Thank you for your collaboration.

Pierre Lachapelle, PhD
Scientific director



REMEMBERING VISUAL MOTION:
CORTICAL MECHANISMS

Speaker: Tatiana Pasternak, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Rochester
Location: École d'Optométrie, 3744 Jean-Brillant, auditorium 180
Date and time: October 21, 2002, 12h15
Contact : maurice.ptito@umontreal.ca




The annual meeting of the Vision Research Network will be held on April 12 2002 at the Delta Hotel in Trois-Rivières.

The registration forms and the final program of the meeting will soon be available on this site. You may download the preliminary program (see the link below). In contrast with previous years, students must present their work orally (i.e. there will be no poster session).

One of the invited speakers will be the Dr Giorgio M. Innocenti of the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. His conference is titled: The cortical visual areas of the ferret: phylogenetic and developmental issues.



THE CORTICAL VISUAL AREAS OF THE FERRET:
PHYLOGENETIC AND DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES

Speaker: Giorgio M. Innocenti , Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Suède
Location: Hôtel Delta, Trois-Rivières
Date and Time: April 12th 2002
Contact : maurice.ptito@umontreal.ca