The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute’s 18th annual Research Day was a great success, with nearly 400 attendees packing the St. Elias Centre to capacity. Designed to highlight and celebrate the outstanding work of trainees and promote scientific interaction, the event featured 138 posters (with 118 competing for prizes) and 16 oral presentations. Drs. Duncan Stewart, and Fraser Scott set the stage with introductory remarks, while Drs. Dana Devine and Alexandre Prat gave the keynote lectures.
Prizes were awarded to the following trainees:
Oral Presentation Competition
1st: Morten Ritso (Rudnicki group) Engraftment of Primary Human Muscle Satellite Cells and Satellite-like Cells Derived from Pluripotent Stem Cells
Co-authors: Carole Doré, Eve C. Tsai, William L. Stanford, Michael A. Rudnicki
2nd: Martin Kang (Thébaud group) Gene Therapy Rescues Respiratory Distress and Improves Survival in a Mouse Model of Surfactant Protein Deficiency
Co-authors: Arul Vadivel, Liqun Xu, Claudia Milazzo, Chanele Cyr-Depauw, Laura van Lieshout, Jakob Domm, Sarah Wootton, Bernard Thébaud
3rd: Iris Perelman (Fergusson group) Patient-Centered Outcomes in the Management of Anemia: A Scoping Review Co-authors: Phillip Staibano, Iris Perelman, Julia Lombardi, Alexandra Davis, Alan Tinmouth, Marc Carrier, Ciara Stevenson, Elianna Saidenberg
Postdoctoral and Clinical Fellow Poster Competition
1st: Uxia Gurriaran-Rodriguez (Rudnicki group) Investigations in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Co-authors: Solomon Fisher, David Datzkiw, Fan Xiao, Adam Smith, Yves de Repentigny, Michael A. Rudnicki
Tie for 2nd place:
2nd: Marie-Claude Sincennes (Rudnicki group) PAX7 function in muscle stem cells is regulated by acetylation
Co-authors: Caroline Brun, Tabitha Rosembert, John Saber, Yoichi Kawabe, Michael Rudnicki
2nd: Caroline Brun (Rudnicki group) Cilia-mediated Hedgehog signaling regulates satellite cell function
Co-authors: Marie-Claude Sincennes, Alex Lin, Peter Feige, Bahareh Hekmatnejad, Emily Freeman, and Michael A. Rudnicki
3rd: Virgilio Cadete (Stewart group) Right ventricular bioenergetics adaptation to pulmonary arterial hypertension in the Sugen5416-chronic hypoxia rat model
Co-authors: Alexanne Cuillerier, Yupu Deng, Katelynn Rowe, Yan Burelle, and Duncan J. Stewart
PhD Student Poster Competition
1st: Peter Feige (Rudnicki group) EGF Stimulates Asymmetric Divisions in Muscle Stem Cells and Enhances Regeneration of Dystrophin-Deficient Muscle
Co-authors: Yu Xin Wang, Caroline E. Brun, Bahareh Hekmatnejad, and Michael A. Rudnicki
2nd: Sean Delaney (Stanford group) Synthetic-lethal genome-wide CRISPR knockout screen reveals known and newly identified vulnerabilities of TSC2-null neural crest cells
Co-authors: Lisa M. Julian, Julien Yockell-Lelievre, Roger Tam, Chandarong Choey, Carole Dore, Molly S. Shoichet and William L. Stanford
3rd: Laura Forrest (Vanderhyden group) GREB1 expression in reproductive tissues and ovarian cancer
Co-authors: Lisa Oliviero, Kendra Hodgkinson, Bojana Djordjevic, Barbara C. Vanderhyden
Master’s and other trainees Poster Competition
1st: Thomas Olender (Brand group) Investigations in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Co-authors: Marjorie Brand
Tie for 2nd place:
2nd: Amin Zahrai (Albert group) Chronic fluoxetine induces serotonin axonal plasticity in recovery from post stroke depression.
Co-authors: Faranak Vahid-Ansari, Paul R. Albert
2nd: Aida Said (Tiberi group) Role of Astrocytic Dopamine D1 Receptors in Post-Stroke Motor Recovery
Co-authors: Annette Gower, Baptiste Lacoste, Mario Tiberi
3rd: Clinton Royce Cunha (Sabourin group) Characterization of SLK-deficient Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts (MEFs)
Co-authors: John Abou-Hamad, Benjamin Pryce, Khalid Al-Zahrani, Cedrik Labrèche, Luc Sabourin
Dr. Goodman Cohen Summer Student Award
Senior Award
Kaitlyn Rourke (Jonathan Angel group) "sCD127 secretion in response to IL-7 may be influenced by a single nucleotide polymorphism
Lubina Nayak (Rodney Breau group) "Does androgen deprivation improve cancer control in high-risk non-metastatic prostate cancer patients undergoing radical prostatectomy? A systematic review and meta-analysis"
Junior Award
Amit Scheer (Michele Ardolino group) "Natural killer cells acquire the checkpoint receptor PD-1 by intercellular transfer from tumour cells"
Research Day Committee and Volunteers:
Dr. Fraser Scott (Chair), Dr. Jay Baltz, Amelia Buchanan, Dr. Paul Albert (In-coming co-chair) Dr. Ketul Chaudhary, Dr. Lauralyn McIntyre (In-coming co-chair), Dr. Marjorie Brand, Dr. Angela Crawley, Dr. Dean Fergusson, Dr. Anouk Fortin, Jennifer Ganton, Dr. Ian Lorimer, Dr. Tim Ramsay, Dr. Luc Sabourin, Dr. Duncan Stewart, Greg Canham, Melanie Genereaux, Wayne Lowe, Natasha Hollywood, Jennifer Valentino, Terri Van Gulik, Jennifer Jean-Louis
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