The Krembil Research Day is a long standing event held at the University Health Network and this year marks its 19th 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. Amit Etkin at the event who spoke about "A ‘Circuits-First’ Approach to Mental Illness".
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: Dr. Scott Rich
Supervisor: Dr. Frances Skinner
Talk Title: Modeling Implicates Inhibitory Network Bistability as an Underpinning of Seizure Initiation
Graduate Student Category:
First Place: Kevin Siyue Chen
Supervisor: Dr. Lorraine Kalia
Talk Title: Evaluating Efficacy of Small Molecules Predicted by Artificial Intelligence to Reduce α-Synuclein Oligomers
First Place (Tie): Kramay Patel
Supervisor: Dr. Taufik Valiante
Talk Title: Volitional Control of Individual Neurons in the Human Mesial Temporal Lobe Using Intracranial Neurofeedback
Second Place: Dario Ferri
Supervisor: Dr. Joan Wither
Talk Title: Interferon-Alpha Disrupts DNA-Specific B Cell Tolerance in 3H9 Mice
POSTER COMPETITION
Postodoctoral Fellow Category:
First Place: Dr. Amanda Ali
Supervisor: Dr. Mohit Kapoor
Poster Title: Using Next Generation Sequencing to Identify Known and Novel Circulating Micrornas in Knee Osteoarthritis
Second Place: Dr. David Groppe
Supervisor: Dr. Taufik Valiante
Poster Title: Time Series Artifact Correction Via Recurrent Neural Networks
Third Place: Dr. Marjan Rafiee
Supervisor: Dr. Taufik Valiante
Poster Title: The Rhyme and Rhythm of Music in Epilepsy
Graduate Student Category:
First Place: Jonathon Chio
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Fehlings
Poster Title: Drug Repurposing: High Dose Human Immunoglobulin G for Treatment of Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
Second Place: Carolina Muñoz-Grajales
Supervisor: Dr. Joan Wither
Poster Title: Presence of Microparticle Containing Immune Complexes in Asymptomatic ANA+ Individuals Despite the Absence of Inflammation
Second Place (Tie): Shirley Zhang
Supervisor: Dr. Suneil Kalia
Poster Title: BCL-2 Associated Athanogene 5 Phosphorylation Regulates Mitochondrial Quality Control Following Mitochondrial Stress
Elevator Pitch Category:
People's Choice Award: Alexandra Chatzikalymniou
Supervisor: Dr. Frances Skinner
Talk Title: Towards a Cellular-Based Understanding of Theta/Gamma Rhythms and Their Cross-Frequency Coupling in the Hippocampus
This year we were pleased to announce two new awards:
LAB150 Innovation Award:
Recipient: Brian Wu
Supervisor: Dr. Mohit Kapoor
Talk Title: Ephrin B2 Signaling in the Development of Pulmonary Fibrosis
‘Spotlight’ Staff Recognition Award:
Recipient: Frank Vidic, Coordinator, Research Laboratory Services-Lab Operations
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all of our presenters that participated in Research Day!
Please click here for highlights of the event.
We thank Mr. Jim Leech and Ms. Deb Barrett for their generous donation that supported the event.