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- Samantha Baglot, PhD Student; supervisor Dr. Matthew Hill
- Project: Long-term effects of inhaled cannabis delivery during pregnancy on immune system functioning and social behaviour in male and female rats
- Jay Devine, PhD Student; supervisor Dr. Benedikt Hallgrimsson
- Project: High-Throughput Discovery of Novel Craniofacial Phenotypes in Development
- Rachel Lacroix, Master’s Student; supervisor Dr. Deborah Kurrasch
- Project: The influence of gene x environment interactions in the development of Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Saif Sikdar, PhD Student; supervisor Dr. Douglas Mahoney
- Project: Role of the microbiome in tumour immune surveillance and oncolytic virus immunotherapy
- Dan Zhang, Master's Student; supervisor Dr. David Hansen
- Project: The Role of the RNA-Induced Silencing Complex (RISC) Component VIG-1 in C. elegans Stem Cell Regulation
- Laura Rojas, Master's Student; supervisor Dr. Gerald Giesbrecht
- Project: Investigating the role of gastrointestinal microbiota as a mediator between mode of delivery and cognitive outcomes in children
- Katherine Silang, Master's Student; supervisor Dr. Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen
- Project: Pregnancy During a Pandemic: Effects of Psychological Distress on Infant Temperament
- Jacqueline Wilson, PhD Student; supervisor Dr. Karen Benzies
- Project: Evaluating strategies for patient and family engagement in the scale and spread of Alberta Family Integrated Care (FICare) in Alberta Neonatal Intensive Care Units
- Krista Wollny, PhD Student; supervisors Dr. Amy Metcalfe and Dr. Deborah McNeil
- Project: Unplanned Extubations: a Preventable Adverse Event in Pediatric Critical Care
- David Aponte, PhD Student; supervisor Dr. Benedikt Hallgrimsson
- Project: Automated Craniofacial Syndrome Diagnosis From Three-Dimensional Facial Imaging
- Lindsay Phillips, PhD Student; supervisor Dr. William Brook
- Project: Analysis of interactions between midline and Mothers-against-decapentaplegic in Drosophila leg development
- Sadman Sakib, PhD Student; supervisor Dr. Ina Dobrinski
- Project: Novel approaches for scalable long-term expansion of germ cells and in vitro spermatogenesis
- Sumedh Bele, PhD Student; supervisor Dr. Maria Santana
- Project: Assessing the Integration of Patient-reported Outcome Measures in Routine Pediatric Clinical Care for Asthma
- Daphne Nakhid, Master's Student; supervisors Dr. Catherine Lebel and Dr. Carly McMorris
- Project: Brain Structure and Internalizing Behaviours in Children and Adolescents with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
- Nikki Stephenson, PhD Student; supervisors Dr. Amy Metcalfe and Dr. Suzanne Tough
- Project: Risk and Protective Factors of Child Development for Children Born too Soon
- Emma Amyot, Master's Student; supervisor Dr. Susan Graham
- Project: Examining Preverbal Infants’ Ability to Categorize Novel Facial Expressions using Labels
- Rachel Dean, Master's Student; supervisor Dr. Carly McMorris
- Project: Cognitive-behavioural correlates of suicide attempts in youth with autism
- Conné Lategan, Master's Student; supervisor Dr. Stephen Freedman
- Project: Association Between Emergency Department Service Satisfaction and Clinical and Demographic Factors in Albertan Children and Youth Presenting With a Mental Health Concerns
- Daniel Lee, Master's Student; supervisor Dr. Carol Huang
- Project: The role of prolactin signaling in beta-cell adaptation to metabolic stress
- Caroline Luszawski, Master's Student; supervisor Dr. Keith Yeates
- Project: Sleep Disturbance and Post-Concussive Symptoms in Pediatric Concussion and Orthopedic Injury
- Laura Mah, Master's Student; supervisor Dr. Douglas Mahoney
- Project: Development of strategies to use oncolytic virus vectored vaccines (OVvac) to boost multitargeting Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cells to treat neuroblastoma (NB) and other pediatric cancers
- Krystel Wittevrongel, Master's Student; supervisors Dr. Jennifer Zwicker and Dr. Keith Yeates
- Project: Epidemiology of Pediatric Concussion in Alberta
- Parker La, PhD Student; supervisor Dr. Ashley Harris
- Project: Advancing Concussion Assessment in Pediatrics (A-CAP): Studying brain metabolites in pediatric concussion
- Arthur Dantas, PhD Student; supervisor Dr. Karl Riabowol
- Project: Epigenetic mechanisms to prevent Rhabdomyosarcoma recurrence
- Fahad Iqbal, PhD Student; supervisor Dr. Naweed Syed
- Project: Brain-Machine Interfacing: High-resolution screening of brain activity patterns in freely behaving animals as a predictor of seizure onset
- Aarti Keijriwal, PhD Student; supervisor Dr. Peng Huang
- Project: Temporal integration of Notch and Hedgehog signaling during spinal cord patterning
- Emily Mercer, PhD Student; supervisor Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta
- Project: Taxonomic and functional gut microbiome diversity involvement in early-life stress physiology development
- Heather Shepherd, PhD Student; supervisors Dr. Amanda Black and Dr. Carolyn Emery
- Project: Development of an enhanced, tailored, and feasible return-to-school strategy for youth who have sustained a concussion
- Dr. Suchit Ahuja, PhD; supervisor Dr. Sarah Childs
- Awarded CSM-ACHRI Fellowship
- Project: Uncovering the role of Foxf2 in brain vascular stability
- Dr. Brae Anne McArthur, PhD; supervisor Dr. Sheri Madigan
- Project: Screen time and poor child development
- Dr. Mohamad-Reza Aghanoori, PhD; supervisor Dr. Guang Yan
- Project: Targeting the Mislocalized CELF2 Protein to Fight a Rare Neurodevelopmental Disorder
- Dr. Manon Defaye, PhD; supervisor Dr. Christophe Altier
- Awarded CSM-ACHRI Fellowship
- Project: Role of TRPV1 colonic neurons in this microbiota-gut-brain axis in chronic visceral pain.
- Dr. Golam Mezbah Uddin, PhD; supervisor Dr. Tim Shutt
- Awarded CSM-ACHRI Fellowship
- Project: Investigating how the ketogenic diet promotes mitochondrial fusion as a novel approach to target autism spectrum disorder
- Dr. Ted Verhey, PhD; supervisor Dr. Sorana Morrissy
- Project: The proteogenomic landscape of pediatric high-grade glioma
- Dr. Marta Vidal-Garcia, PhD; supervisor Dr. Benedikt Hallgrimsson
- Project: A novel approach for understanding the developmental and genetic basis of phenotypic integration
- Dr. Deepika Dogra, PhD; supervisor Dr. Deborah Kurrasch
- Project: A precision medicine approach to modeling a rare pediatric epilepsy
- Dr. Bethany Radford, PhD; supervisor Dr. Myriam Hemberger
- Awarded CSM-ACHRI Fellowship
- Project: Understanding the Origins of Congenital Heart Disease - Defining the Causative Role of the Placenta
- Dr. Nathalia de Lima e Martins Lara, PhD; supervisor Dr. Ina Dobrinsk
- Project: Testicular organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells as a bioassay for modelling testicular development and function in vitro
- Dr. Lin Li, PhD; supervisor Dr. Edwin Wang
- Project: Understanding the mechanism underlying immune cell infiltration in pediatric glioblastoma using combined bioinformatic and experimental approaches
- Dr. Erin Noye Tuplin, PhD; supervisor Dr. Raylene Reimer
- Project: The effects of human milk oligosaccharide supplementation during critical periods of neurodevelopment on obesity susceptibility in adulthood
- Dr. Yiqun Lin, MD, PhD; supervisor Dr. Adam Cheng
- Project: Impact of aerosol box use on patterns of contamination in pediatric healthcare providers and environment during aerosol generating medical procedures in the management of simulated COVID-19 patients: A simulation-based study
- Dr. Katherine Manning, PhD; supervisor Dr. Catherine Lebel
- Project: Linking the development of brain structure and function with the emergence of mental health in adolescence
- Dr. Joanne Park, PhD; supervisor Dr. Kelly Schwartz
- Project: Examining the role of parent and child executive functions as transdiagnostic risk factors for child psychopathology
- Dr. Kiran Todkar, PhD; supervisor Dr. Jeff Biernaskie
- Project: Characterizing immune cell-fibroblast interactions that promote skin regeneration
- Dr. Marcel de Wouw, PhD; supervisor Dr. Gerry Giesbrecht
- Project: What is Bugging our Children? The Role of the Prenatal Stress and the Gut Microbiome in Neurodevelopment and Mental Health Outcomes in Early Life
- Dr. Tatiana Maroilley, PhD; supervisor Dr. Maja Tarailo-Graovac
- Project: Improving detection and interpretation of complex genomic rearrangements to diagnose Canadian Indigenous children affected by a rare disease
- Dr. Qianqian Guo, PhD; supervisor Dr. Jiami Guo
- Project: To investigate the astrocytes-driven mechanisms in ASD
- Dr. Sisu Han, PhD; supervisor Dr. Deborah Kurrasch
- Project: The influence of psilocybin on human neurogenesis
- Dr. Craig Jacobs, PhD; supervisor Dr. Benedikt Hallgrimsson
- Project: Characterising how developmental "tipping points" generate phenotypic variance in birth defects
- Dr. Elnaz Vaghef Mehrabani, PhD; supervisor Dr. Gerry Giesbrecht
- Project: Pre-pregnancy obesity and childhood internalizing problems: Mediating role of prenatal systemic inflammation and moderating role of pre-pregnancy diet
- Dr. Tara Spence, PhD; supervisors Dr. Jillian Parboosingh
- Project: Reanalysis of clinical whole exome sequencing data for evaluation of diagnostic yield and cost-effectiveness
- Dr. Amanda Tyndall, PhD; supervisors Dr. Jillian Parboosingh and Dr. Ryan Lamont
- Project: Rapid Access to Pediatric Diagnoses (RAPiD) Kidomics
- Dr. Kristine Woodward, MD; supervisor Dr. Michael Esser
- Project: Multi-modal monitoring of brain at risk in critically ill children
- Dr. Areefa Alladin-Karan, MD; supervisor Dr. Susan Samuel
- Project: Ig A Nephropathy: Understanding risk of chronic kidney disease progression and outcomes in children and young adults
- Dr. Omar Damji, MD; supervisor Dr. Vincent Grant
- Project: VITAL – Virtual Reality for Intubation Training As a Lifesaving Measure
- Dr. Deepika Dogra, PhD; supervisor Dr. Deborah Kurrasc
- Project: Transcriptomic profiling of brain organoids derived from SCN8A-related epilepsy patients with differential drug response
- Dr. Shirin Moossavi, PhD; supervisor Dr. Marie-Claire Arriet
- Project: Mechanistic insight into microbiome restoration in premature infants using gut-microbiome-on-a-chip
- Dr. Kayla Stone, PhD; supervisor Dr. Frank MacMaster
- Project: The effects of neurostimulation on inhibitory control in youth
- Dr. Michèle Hébert, PhD; supervisor Dr. Jennifer Zwicker
- Project: Reducing fragmentation in care transitions for children with medical complexity by informing health system guidelines and policy
- Dr. Eli Kinney-Lang, PhD; supervisor Dr. Adam Kirton
- Project: Brain Drain: Understanding fatigue in brain-computer interfaces (BCI) for children
- Dr. Brae Anne McArthur, PhD; supervisor Dr. Sheri Madigan
- Project: Screen Use Co-viewing Context and the Associated Impact on Language Learning in Infants
- Dr. Anna MacKinnon, PhD; supervisor Dr. Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen
- Project: Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma: Development and Evaluation of the embrACE Parenting Program
- Dr. Radha Singh, PhD; supervisor Dr. Jennifer Thompson
- Project: Potentiation of adipogenesis by bisphenol-S, a bisphenol-A common substitute: Role of oxidative stress
- Dr. Mohit Jain, MD; supervisor Dr. Aru Narendran
- Project: Pre-clinical studies to identify effective novel therapeutic agents to induce fetal hemoglobin (HbF) for the prevention of severe clinical symptoms in children with sickle cell disease
- Dr. Nathalia de Lima e Martins Lara, PhD; supervisor Dr. Ina Dobrinski
- Project: Bioengineering approaches to support germ cell differentiation in long term culture
- Dr. Michaela Patton, PhD; supervisor Dr. Fiona Schulte
- Project: Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral treatment for chronic pain in adolescent survivors of childhood cancer: A single-arm feasibility study
- Simran Bains; supervisor Dr. Ray W. Turner
- Project: Dosing regime for FMRP-N-tat recovery of function in Fragile X
- Akanksha Bhargava; supervisor Dr. Nadia Luca
- Awarded BME-ACHRI Summer Studentship Awar
- Project: Technology-Based Intervention to Improve Treatment Adherence in Adolescents and Young Adults with Rheumatic Disease
- Nadia DiMarzo; supervisor Dr. Deborah Kurrasch
- Project: Characterizing epileptic phenotypes in Zebrafish slc13a5 mutants
- Allesha Eman; supervisor Dr. Frank MacMaster
- Project: Investigation and comparison of cortical thickness in different regions of the brain in children ages 9-10
- Danae Fell; supervisor Dr. Laura Sycuro
- Project: Fannyhessea vaginae’s internalin: a novel mediator of host-microbe interactions at the vaginal mucosal surface?
- Milan Heck; supervisor Dr. Graham Thompson
- Project: HMGB1 protein as an inflammatory biomarker for acute appendicitis in pediatric patients
- Brianna Henry; supervisor Dr. Fiona Schulte
- Project: Adherence to Follow-Up Care Among Survivors of Pediatric Cancer in Canada
- Brandon Huynh; supervisor Dr. Ina Dobrinski
- Project: Application of iPSC-derived germ cells to enrich the germ cell pool in pig testicular organoids
- Darpal Patel; supervisor Dr. Catherine Lebel
- Project: Relationship between IQ and volume of hippocampal subfields in children with PAE
- Mitali Pradhan; supervisor Dr. Adam Kirton
- Project: Connectivity-based segmentation of the thalamus in perinatal stroke
- Jamie Roeske; supervisor Dr. Richard Wilson
- Project: The SOS of Inflammation: how prostaglandins modulate breathing
- Harshil Shah; supervisor Dr. Kara Murias
- Project: Examining the Association Between Sensorimotor Measurements and Behaviour in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Temoor Tayyab; supervisor Dr. Stephanie L. Borgland
- Project: Identifying targets for treatment of anxiety in anorexia nervosa
- Jerome Timbol; supervisor Dr. Jiami Guo
- Project: Utilizing High-throughput Screening to Identify Morphology and Calcium Functionality of Hypothalamic Primary Cilia
- Pasindu Wickramarachchi; supervisor Dr. Cam Teskey
- Project: Examining the clinical utility of vaporized and edible cannabis products (THC and CBD) for treating seizure-induced changes in emotional behaviour.
- Rylen Williamson; supervisor Dr. Carolyn Emery
- Project: Evaluating Referee Knowledge through Construct Validity and Inter-rater Reliability related to Head Contact Penalty Assessment Policies in Canadian Youth Ice Hockey.
- Brandon Craig, BSc; supervisor Dr. Adam Kirton
- Publication Title: Developmental neuroplasticity of the white matter connectome in children with perinatal stroke
- Authors: Brandon T. Craig, BSc, Alicia Hilderley, PhD, Eli Kinney-Lang, PhD, Xiangyu Long, PhD, Helen L. Carlson, PhD, and Adam Kirton, MD
- Journal: Neurology
- Dr. Anna Funk, PhD; supervisor Dr. Stephen Freedman