Archives of Previous Announcements for 2008
Submission
for the 18th Vision Network Prize
This message is to inform you that the contest for the Vision Network Prize, December 2008 edition will open on November the 14th 2008. It will close on the December the15th 2008
This prize is meant to reward students and post doctoral fellows who published an article in vision health. The applicants can submit their article in the 6 months following the publication date, a maximum of two submissions for the same paper.
Evaluation:
The evaluators will consider the quality of the article as well as the prestige of the journal
Conditions of admissibility:
* The article should be sent in both electronic and paper format to the Vision Research Network.
* A short biography (1 page) and picture of the candidate must be submitted.
Deadline: December the 15th 2008
The required documents should be sent electronically to the secretariat of the network: reseau.vision@mcgill.ca
Good luck to all!
Scientific director elections (stages)
Dear colleagues,
FRSQ regulations, as well as our own statutes, require that we proceed with
the election of a new scientific director. Please note that any interested
party must submit his or her candidacy by December 15, 2008. Documents may
be submitted either to Dr. Vincent Raymond
(vincent.raymond@crchul.ulaval.ca) or to Dr. Stéphane Molotchnikoff
(stephane.molotchnikoff@umontreal.ca).
Thank you for your attention to this letter.
1) October 17 to December 15, 2008: Candidate application period.
· A single PDF document per candidate: CV, letter of intention, brief
letters of support from 3 members of the Vision Network.
· Applications must be submitted to the Electoral Advisory Committee
: Drs Stéphane Molotchnikoff (stephane.molotchnikoff@umontreal.ca) or
Vincent Raymond (vincent.raymond@crchul.ulaval.ca)
· Preselection by the Selection Committee: examination of the
eligibility of the candidates.
2) December 15, 2008: Deadline for candidate applications.
3) January 15, 2009: Scientific Committee conference call: presentation
of candidate applications by the Electoral Advisory Committee, approval of
candidate applications.
4) January 16 to February 15, 2009: Approved candidates are contacted
and must submit their electoral platform (5 to 10 lines), a short biography
(5 to 10 lines) and a photo.
5) February 16 to March 15, 2009: Candidates are posted on the Vision
Network website.
6) March 15 to March 31, 2009: Voting period (via password-protected
e-mail voting system).
7) April 15, 2009: The new scientific director is announced.
8) September 1, 2009: The new scientific director takes office,
following FRSQ approval.
The winners at the annual vision network meeting
We would like to congratulate the winners for their presentations at the annual meeting of the Vision Network of the FRSQ, held on the 17th October 2008 at the Univesité de Montréal:
The contest of the best PhD student
* Catherine Beaulieu (theses director: Dre Marie Dumont, co-director: Dr Pierre Lachapelle) for her presentation called "Effet de l'histoire lumineuse sur la sensibilité rétinienne et circadienne"
Prices for oral presentations
* Karine Zaniolo (Dr Sylvain Chemtob laboratory ) for her presentation called "Agonistes du récepteur de la ghreline: nouvelle perspective thérapeutique à la rétinopathie du prématuré"
* Olivier Fontaine (Drs Mark Lesk and Elvire Vaucher laboratories de) for his presentation called "Effet vasculaire rétinien du Bévacizumab chez les patients atteints de dégénérescence maculaire néovasculaire liée à l'âge"
* Marie-Ève Laramée (Drs Denis Boire et Gilles Bronchti laboratories) for her presentation called "Effets de la cécité sur les connexions audio-visuelles chez la souris"
Prices for poster presentations
* Isabelle Matteau (Dr Maurice Ptito laboratory) for her presentation called "Activation de la voie visuelle ventrale chez les non-voyants de naissance"
* Vanessa Doyon-Cadieux (Dr Aaron Johnson laboratory) for her presentation called "Eye movement characteristics in viewing natural scenes under normal and low-vision"
* Mariline Pageau ( Dr Dave Saint-Amour laboratory) for her presentation called "Comparaison de la stéréopsie locale et globale chez l'enfant microstrabique"
This meeting was a succes and you are greatly responsible for it.
Thank you for your participation!
To see the abstracts for the presentations given during the meetiong, please click on the following linki: annual meeting
Contest of the best PhD student
PhD students, members of the vision network, having completed their thesis between the 1st June 2008 and 31st May 2009 are admissible to the contest of the best PhD student. This contest will take place on the 17th October 2008 at the annual meeting. Contestants will be accepted until the 1st of October 2008.
The students who want to participate should provide us with an abstract (covering their entire PhD studies) for an oral presentation (in the format of a thesis presentation), their CV and a letter from their thesis director certifying the date of the thesis submission. A price of 1000$ will be given to the winner.
Student recruitment funding
We are happy to annoce "the contest to support student recruitement funding" now open and will be closed on the 17th of October 2008.
We encourage the students to send us applications either by email. You will find below the needed form as well as the requiered documents to complete the application. Please note that the paper version of the applications will not be accepted
For more informations about the contest you can contact us.
Good luck !
Vision Research Network (administration)
Telephone: (514) 412-4227
Fax: (514) 412-4331
E-mail: reseau.vision@mcgill.ca
Form 1
Form 2
Vision Network Annual Meeting
The Vision Network annual meeting will be held October 17th 2008 at the University of Montreal, located at Roger Gaudry pavillon, 2900 Chemin de la Tour. More details will be given in a near future.
Invited speaker: Christian Hamel, MD, PhD
Directeur de recherches à l'INSERM et professeur à l'Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier, CHU Hôpital Saint-Eloi, 34295 Montpellier, France.
Conference: "Génétique des dystrophies héréditaires de la rétine et du nerf optique"
Dr Christian Hamel completed his specialty in Ophthalmology in 1987 (Médaille d’argent, Université Paris XI) and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH between 1987 and 1991 in the departments of Immunopathology & Retinal Molecular Biology. During his fellowship, he discovered that the gene RPE65 is responsible for the isomerization of all-trans-retinol to 11-cis-retinol in the pigment epithelium during phototransduction and also discovered that RPE65 is associated with a few retinal hereditary pathologies. After is fellowship, Dr Hamel accepted a position as a research associate in the laboratory of «Neurobiologie de l’Audition» at the «INSERM» in Montpellier (France), where he became responsible of a team called «Génétique et Thérapie des Cécités Rétiniennes». Thereafter, Dr Hamel completed his doctoral studies (1994) and acquired, two years later, the ability to supervise master and doctoral students. In 2000, he became the research director of the «INSERM» and more recently (2007), became a professor at «Université de Montpellier I» and at the «CHU». Moreover, since 1992, Dr Hamel is a consultant for hereditary retinal disorders in the department of ophthalmology at the «CHU» in Montpellier. He, thus, dedicates one day per week to clinical activities, which allows him to build a bank of patients affected with retinal pathologies including RPE65 retinopathies. In addition, in 2005, he became director of the «Centre National de Référence pour les Maladies Rares-Affections Sensorielles Génétiques» at the «CHU». Finally, in 2003, Dr Hamel became director of the unit «INSERM 583» (Physiopathologie et Thérapie des Déficits Sensoriels et Moteurs) at the «Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier».
Funding announcements
2008-2009
To all members of the Vision Network :
The Vision Health Network is pleased to announce the following funding:
SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE: Those who submit are invited to use the form Research Infrastructure Grants. The participation of another granting agency (partnership) in the funding of the project will be considered highly positive.
The deadline is September 20th, 2008.
PROJECTS IN PARTNERSHIP: The projects should be submitted with the form Projects in Partnership Grants. The participation of another funding agency (partnership) will be regarded highly.
The deadline is September 20th, 2008
PROJECTS IN PARTNERSHIP II: To be admissible, the project must address one of the priorities of the Vision Network and the validity of the partner must be approved by the FRSQ. Projects should be submitted using the form Projects in Partnership Grants.
The deadline is September 20th, 2008
Submission
for the 17th Vision Network Prize
This message is to inform you that the contest for the Vision Network Prize, September 2008 edition will open on July the 15th 2008. It will close on the September the15th 2008
This prize is meant to reward students and post doctoral fellows who published an article in vision health. The applicants can submit their article in the 6 months following the publication date, a maximum of two submissions for the same paper.
Evaluation:
The evaluators will consider the quality of the article as well as the prestige of the journal
Conditions of admissibility:
* The article should be sent in both electronic and paper format to the Vision Research Network.
* A short biography (1 page) and picture of the candidate must be submitted.
Deadline: September the 15th 2008
The required documents should be sent electronically to the secretariat of the network: reseau.vision@mcgill.ca
Good luck to all!
Submission
for the 16th Vision Network Prize
This message is to inform you that the contest for the Vision Network Prize, June 2008 edition is open, starting may the 15th 2008. It will close on the June the15th 2008
This prize is meant to reward students and post doctoral fellows who published an article in vision health. The applicants can submit their article in the 6 months following the publication date, a maximum of two submissions for the same paper.
Evaluation:
The evaluators will consider the quality of the article as well as the prestige of the journal
Conditions of admissibility:
* The article should be sent in both electronic and paper format to the Vision Research Network.
* A short biography (1 page) and picture of the candidate must be submitted.
Deadline: June the 15th 2008
The required documents should be sent electronically to the secretariat of the network: reseau.vision@mcgill.ca
Good luck to all!
Scientic day of the Brain and Perception research axe
You will find attached the annoncement and the program for the upcoming 'journée scientifique' of the Brain and Perception research axe of the Vision Network. This meeting will take place on the 22nd of may 2008, at the École de hautes études comerciales, located at 3000 Côte Sainte Catherine, room 'Protor et Gamble' ( green section).
Program
Funding announcements
2008-2009
To all members of the Vision Network :
The Vision Health Network is pleased to announce the following funding:
SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE: An amount of 100,000.00$ (maximum of 25,000.00 per infrastructure) has been set aside for the support of infrastructure (data bases, tissue banks, etc.), which already exist or are under construction. Those who submit are invited to use the form Research Infrastructure Grants. The participation of another granting agency (partnership) in the funding of the project will be considered highly positive.
The deadline is May 15th, 2008.
PROJECTS IN PARTNERSHIP: An amount of 40,000.00$ has been set aside (20,000.00$ for a clinical research project and 20,000.00$ for fundamental research) in order to support research initiatives that will lead to the creation of new research teams. The projects should be submitted with the form Projects in Partnership Grants. The participation of another funding agency (partnership) will be regarded highly.
The deadline is May 15th, 2008.
PROJECTS IN PARTNERSHIP II: An amount of 80,000.00$ has been set aside for the creation of new partnerships. To be admissible, the project must address one of the priorities of the Vision Network and the validity of the partner must be approved by the FRSQ. Projects should be submitted using the form Projects in Partnership Grants.
The deadline is: Open.
Student recruitment funding
We are happy to annoce "the contest to support student recruitement funding" now open and will be closed on the 30th of April 2008.
We encourage the students to send us applications either by email or by mail. You will find below the needed form as well as the requiered documents to complete the application.
For more informations about the contest you can contact us.
Good luck !
Vision Research Network (administration)
Ophtalmology (room 208)
4060 Ste Catherine West
Montreal, Quebec H3Z 2Z3
Telephone: (514) 412-4227
Fax: (514) 412-4331
E-mail: reseau.vision@mcgill.ca
Form
First "Journée Scientifique" of the GRSV: April 4th 2008
Invited spealer:
Barry Stein PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Conference:"How the brain synthesizes information from different senses to produce adaptive behavior"
The first "Journée Scientifique" of the GRSV will be held together with that of the Optometry school of the université de Montréal on april the 4th 2008.
Below are two version the program of the day.
Short version
Long version
Submission
for the 15th Vision Network Prize
The deadline for submission for
the next Vision Network Prize is March 15
2008. The submitted article must be on a subject
related to vision health and have been published
in the last six months. The candidate must send
the following information to the secretariat:
1. A short biography (1 page)
2. A photography
3. The presneted article, of course!
An article can be presented more than once. The
criteria are the quality of the article as well
as the prestige of the journal it is published
in. All documents should be sent to the secretariat
of the network, in an electronic format, at réseau.vision@mcgill.ca. Do not hesitate
to contact us if you have any questions. The recipient
will receive a bursary of $500.
Projects in partnership
Fundamental project:
Dr Denis Boire
Projet : Mécanismes neuronaux de l’expansion compensatoire des modaliutés sensorielles
Montant : 15 000$
Clinical project:
Dr Vincent Raymond
Projet : Génétique moléculaire de la dégénéresence maculaire liée à l’âge et des autres dégénérescences et dystrophies rétiniennes héréditaires
Montant : 20 000$
Dre Marie-Josée Fredette
Projet : Vision et vieillissement : évaluation d’une nouvelle approche d’aide thérapeutique, la clinique d’enseignement du glaucome au patient, dans le suivi du glaucome chez la population vieillissante.
Montant : 20 000$
Dr John Chen
Projet: An integral Study of the Vascular Model of AMD : A Novel Technique to Assess the Scleral Rigidity and its Implication in the Pathway.
Montant: à déterminer
Projects in partnership II
Dr Vincent Raymond
Projet : Genome-Wide Association Study of Normal Tension Primary Open Angle Galucoma
Montant: 25 000$
Shared infrastructure
Renewals:
Dre Isabelle Brunette
Projet : Banque de données pour la caractérisation fonctionnelle anatomopathologique et chirurgicale de la cornée.
Montant : 25 000$
Dre Lucie Germain
Projet : Banque de tissus oculaires pour la recherche en vision
Montant : 25 000$
Dr Vincent Raymond
Projet: Banque de données cliniques et génétiques des maladies héréditaires de l’œil au Québec
Montant : 25 000$
New application:
Dre Olga Overbury
Projet: Barriers to Vision Rehabilitation services
Montant: 25 000$
Abstract submission for Vision 2008
The Vision 2008 news bulletin is available here. Information regarding abstract submission is available in this document.
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