Archives of Previous Announcements for 2005
Student
presentation awards at the annual meeting
Four Vision Network students each
received a $500 prize for the quality of their
présentation at the annual meeting (2006)
of the network. Congratulations to the winners:
Amna Kooli, Ingrid Osswald, Jean-Sébastien
Joyal, et Martin Villeneuve.
De gauche à droite : Martin
Villeneuve, Elvire Vaucher, Jean-Sébastien
Joyal, Jean-François Bouchard, Ingrid Osswald,
CLaude Giasson, Maurice Ptito, Amna Kooli, et
Mike Sapieha.
Members
who have obtained grants for 2005-2006
Here are the Network members who
have obtained grants for the 2005-2006 year in
the following categories : Student recruitment
assistance, collective projects support, and collective
research infrastructure support:
Student recruitment assistance
(bursaries of $10 000 each)
1. Pascal Belleau, student
of Dr.Vincent Raymond, for his project; Identification
des gènes modifiant l'âge d'apparition
du glaucome primaire à angle ouvert.
2. Daniel-Robert Chebat, student
of Dr. Maurice Ptito, for his project; La plasticité
intermodale chez les aveugles nés utilisant
leur langue dans l'accomplissement de tâches
comportementales sensorielles.
3. Madeleine Fortin, student
of Dr. Franco Lepore, for her project; Bases cérébrales
de la localisation spatiale chez des sujets non-voyants.
4. Karine Lebel, student of
Dr.Vincent Raymond, for her project; Le caractère
délétère des mutations impliquées
dans le syndrome de Usher.
5. Ingrid Osswald, student
of Dr. Derek Bowie, for her project; Does Disruption
of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptor Signaling lead
to blindness?
6. Isabelle Pelletier, student
of Dr.Franco Lepore, for her project; Cartographie
du cortex visuel chez l'aveugle à l'aide
de l'IRMf: réorganisation de mode tonotopique
ou rétinotopique?
7. Judith Renaud, student
of Dr.Marie-José Durand and Dr.Olga Overbury,
for her project; Qualité de vie et participation
sociale des personnes agées avec une déficience
visuelle: influence du moment de prise en charge
en réadaptation.
Collective projects support
1. Motion perception in amblyopia, presented by Dr. Christian Casanova and Dr. Robert
Hess.
2. Rôle des kinines dans l'établissement
de la rétinopathie diabétique, presented
by Dr. Elvire Vaucher, Réjean Couture and
Dr. Florina Moldovan.
3. Régulation du gène
cPLA2a par le facteur de transcription Sp1 durant
la cicatrisation cornéenne, presented
by Dr. Sylvain Guérin and Dr. Christian
Salesse.
4. Development of a new non-invasive
diagnostic instrument for the measurement of the
pulsatile biomechanical compliance of the lamina
cribrosa of the optic nerve head in glaucoma, presented by Dr. Mark Lesk and Dr. Osaki Tsuneyuki.
Collective research infrastructure support
1. The Dr. Isabelle Brunette and her
collaborators, for the Québec
refractive surgery data bank.
2. The Dr. Lucie Germain and her collaborators, for the Ocular Tissue Bank for Vision Research.
3. The Dr. Vincent Raymond and his
collaborators, for the Québec
Clinical and Genetic Data Bank of Hereditary Eye
Diseases.
Congratulations
to Walter Wittich
Congratulations to Walter Wittich
who obtaines a master's bursary from the Vision
Network last year. Moreover, he recently won the
gold medal for his presentation at the "Salon
de la Recherche". Finally, he has also received
a Master's bursary from the FRSQ for a period
of two years.
Congratulations
to the recipients
of the CIHR-Baker 2005 studentships
The four recipients are from Québec
and are members of the Network!
Anteneh Argah, Université
de Montréal
Les mécanismes moléculaires qui
régulent la stabilisation et la rétraction
des projections axonales des cellules ganglionnaires
de la rétine.
Supervisors: Maurice Ptito and Jean-François
Bouchard
Eric Demers, Université
Laval
Surexpression et purification de la phospholipase
A2 gamma cytosolique et caractérisation
de ses propriétés enzymatiques et
interfaciales de la rétine.
Supervisor: Christian Salesse
Sébastien Desgent, Université de Montréal
Réorganisation de la circuiterie neuronale
corticale suite à l'induction de projections
rétiniennes aberrantes vers le cortex auditif
chez le hamster: Études anatomo-fonctionnelles.
Supervisor: Maurice Ptito
Nawal Zabouri, Montreal
Neurological Institute
Fonctions visuelles post-rétiennes dans
un model expérimental de la rétinopathie
de prématuré.
Supervisors: Pierre Lachapelle and Christian Casanova
Reimbursement
of cost for ARVO and VSS
This year, the reimbursement of
cost for attending ARVO and VSS must be preceded
by a request to the Vision Network as a bursary
receipient. To do so, you need only send an e-mail,
stating your participation in a presentation (poster
or talk) as first authour, the name of your director,
as well as the axis to which you belong. Depending
upon the number of request, their will probably
be more than one student per laboratory that mayreceive
a bursary. Send your request before April 15 2005.
Doctor
Daniel Guitton was Honoured
The Doctor Daniel Guitton, professor
at McGill University (Montreal Neurological Institute),
was honored at the meeting of the Canadian Physiologcal
Societity, which was held at Mont St-Anne on February
6 2005. Among the invited speakers at the symposium
held in his honour, there were some of his past
students, collaborators and friends. Professoir
Guitton has greatly contributed to the advancement
of knowledge in the area of eye movement control.
Among other things, he discovered the existance
of mesenphalic neurons involved in fixation and
proposed a model that explains the visuo-motor
integration requires the control of eye movements.
The Ntework, along with the scientific community,
congratulates Dr Guitton.
Dr Daniel Guitton
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Dr John O'keefe, Dr Daniel Guitton
and Suzanne Lamothe
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Dr Daniel Guitton
and Dr Maurice Ptito
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Dr Maurice Ptito
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Dr John O'keefe
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Dr Ed Keller
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Dr Robert Wurtz
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Dr Henrietta Galiana
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Dr Doug Munoz
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Dr Denis Pelisson
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Congratulations
to Jean-Sébastien Joyal!
Jean-Sebastien Joyal (a student
with Dr. Chemtob), has just received the most
prestigious CIHR studentship. This studentship
covers a period of four years and has a value
of 70 000$ per year. His project is entitled 'FVIIa-PAR-2
interactions in retinopathy of prematurity'.
Grant
possibilities from the Foundation
for Fighting Blindness.
The Network is willing to help
finance groups that wish to submit grant proposals.
REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
Genomic Medicine and Human Development
The Foundation Fighting Blindness in Partnership
with the Institute of Genetics, is pleased to
invite research proposals that will advance the
understanding of the causes and improve the diagnosis,
prevention, and treatment of retinal developmental
disorders that affect vision. The Foundation gives
high priority to studies of clear and direct relevance
to developmental disorders of the retina, including
genetics, molecular genetics, molecular biology,
biochemistry and cell biology studies of human
subjects, animal or cellular models. Recognizing,
however, that the properties of the retina cells
and tissues most affected by these developmental
disorders are often shared by other cells and
tissues, the Foundation also invites more general
studies of high merit on general developmental
processes that have broad relevance to developmental
aspects of the retina.
For detailed information, application forms
and guidelines for the
allocation of funding please follow this link
to CIHR:
www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/25552.html
Harland
Sanders research chair in vision science
The Harland Sanders chair in Vision
Science was officially inaugurated on Wednesday
October 12 at the Université de Montréal.
The ceremony was held in the presence of the University's
administration and representatives of the Colonel
Harland Sanders Foundation. The research chair
was attributed to Dr Maurice Ptito, tenured professor
at the School of Optometry. The commemorative
plaque was unveiled by the president of the foundation
as well as the recipient. The official ceremony
was preceeded by scientific conferences which
were sponsored by Nikon and the FRSQ-Vision Network,
and presided by Dr Christian Casanova. The professors
Ron Kupers (Denmark) and Paul Bach-y-rita (USA)
presented research conducted in collaboration
with Dr Ptito. More than one hundred people assisted
to the different activities, including a cocktail
offered by the Université de Montréal
and a guided tour of the new laboratories associated
with the chair.
Funded
projects
THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS HAVE BEEN
FUNDED BY THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE VISION NETWORK
AND THE FONDATION DES MALADIES DE L'OEIL.
1- Adriana Di Polo, department of Pathology and Cellular Biology at
the Université de Montréal.
Title of project: Retinal ganglion cell
survival in glaucoma: does structural neuroprotection
correlate with functional recovery.
2- Marc Hébert, department of Ophtalmology from the Centre de
recherche du CHUL.
Title of project: Démonstration de
l'utilisation d'une nouvelle technologie électrophysiologique
dans le suivi et dans la gestion des patients
avec dégénérecence maculaire
de type humide traités par photodynamie.
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