The Krembil Research Day is a long standing event held at the University Health Network and this year marks its 18th year. A sincere thank you to everyone who attended to make the event another success. This day could not have been made possible without the hard work and dedication of members of the Trainee Affairs Committee led by Dr. Mary Pat McAndrews, as well as the Krembil Administrative Team.
This year we had the privilege of hosting Dr. Samer Hattar at the event who spoke about "On Light and Mood".
Trainees and staff presented oral and poster presentations as well as three-minute elevator pitches in our three areas of interest: brain & spine, arthritis, and eye. We wish to congratulate the following award recipients at this year's event:
ORAL COMPETITION
Postdoctoral fellow Category:
First Place: Serene Wong
Supervisor: Dr. Igor Jurisica
Talk Title: Learning from Temporal Relationships
Second Place: John Griffiths
Supervisor: Dr. Jeremie Lefebvre
Talk Title: Influence of Cortical Network Topology and Delay Structure on EEG rhythms in a Whole-Brain Connectome-Based Thalamocortical Neural Mass Model
Graduate Student Category:
First Place: Helal Endisha
Supervisor: Dr. Mohit Kapoor
Talk Title: MicroRNA-34a: Role in the Development of Osteoarthritis During Obesity
Second Place: James Saravanamuttu
Supervisor: Dr. Robert Chen
Talk Title: Motor Cortical Circuit Interactions in Parkinson's Disease
Third Place: Alex Laliberte
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Fehlings
Talk Title: Expression of MicroRNA-21 in Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury is Associated With Inflammation and Poor Motor Function
POSTER COMPETITION
Postodoctoral Fellow Category:
First Place: Dr. Akihiro Nakamura
Supervisor: Dr. Mohit Kapoor
Poster Title: Inhibition of MicroRNA-181A-5P Attenuates Osteoarthritis in Knee and Facet Joints
Second Place: Dr. Poulami Datta
Supervisor: Dr. Mohit Kapoor
Poster Title: High-Fat Diet-Induced or Surgically-Induced Acceleration of Osteoarthritis (OA) is Attenuated by Inhibition of Autotaxin
Second Place (Tie): Dr. Arturo Ortin-Martinez
Supervisor: Dr. Valerie Wallace
Poster Title: Material Transfer Occurs Between Donor and Recipient Photoreceptors Following Transplanatation into Both Intact and Degenerative Murine Retinas
Graduate Student Category:
First Place: Ahmed Elsehemy
Supervisor: Dr. Valerie Wallace
Poster Title: Norrin Signaling is Protumorigenic in GBM Progression
Second Place: Jonathon Chio
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Fehlings
Poster Title: Drug Repurposing: High Dose Human Immunologlobulin G For Treatment of Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
Second Place (Tie): Christine Snidal
Supervisor: Dr. Elise Stanley
Poster Title: Evidence for Synaptic Vesicle Binding by the C-Terminal of the Presynaptic CAV2.1 Calcium Channel
Elevator Pitch Category:
People's Choice Award: Gerard O'Leary
Supervisor: Dr. Taufik Valiante
Talk Title: Machine Learning Based Responsive Brain Stimulation Device: An Epilepsy Clinical Trial
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all of our presenters that participated in Research Day!