Mightex Travel Awards
Winners
Mightex Travel Awards
Winners

Below is a list of Mightex Travel Awards winners. For details about how these researchers are using Mightex’s market-leading Polygon and OASIS for their research, please click the project titles to access the full descriptions.

   

The Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting (ARVO 2024) 

May 5 – 9, 2024 in Seattle, WA , USA  

Biophysical effects of focused and defocused image stimuli on dopaminergic amacrine cells and AII amacrine cells in the mouse retina

 

Dr. So Chung Him & Prof. Pan Feng

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

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Society for Neuroscience (SFN 2023)

12-15 November, 2023, Washington D.C., USA 

Relating cerebellar glutamatergic dysfunction and age effects on behavioral phenotype in Shank3△e4-22 mutant mice

Rajaram Kshetri & Prof. Ben Richardson

Southern Illinois University, USA

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The 27th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2023) 

15-19 October, 2023, Katowice, Poland  

Single-cell isolation using the optoelectronic microrobot

 

Dr. Mohamed Elsayed & Prof. Aaron Wheeler

University of Toronto, Canada

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Society for Neuroscience (SFN 2019)

19-23 October, 2019, Chicago, USA 

Reclusive Chandeliers: Dentate Axo-axonic Cells are Functionally Isolated Early After Status Epilepticus

Dr. Archana Proddutur & Prof. Viji Santhakumar

University of California Riverside, USA

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23rd Internation Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Science (μTAS 2019)

27-31 October, 2019, Basel, Switzerland 

Optoelectronic tweezers based on patterned illumination for cell and micro-robotic manipulation

Dr. Shuailong Zhang & Prof. Aaron Wheeler

University of Toronto, Canada

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Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting (CAN 2019)

22-25 May, 2019, Toronto, Canada 

Optogenetically Eliciting Precisely-Timed Action Potentials in Cerebellar Purkinje Cell Axons

Dr. Kim Gruver & Prof. Alanna J Watt

McGill University, USA

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Dr. Azam Asgarihafshejani & Prof. Jean-Claude Lacaille

University of Montreal, Canada

 

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The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB-EMBO-2018)

12-15 December, 2018, San Diego, USA 

Spatial control of microtubule dynamics at the subcellular scale by patterned illumination

Dr. Jeffrey van Haren & Prof. Torsten Wittmann

UCSF, USA

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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS 2018)

7-11 July, 2018, Berlin, Germany 

Towards a microcircuit-based understanding of multiplexed spike code in the neocortex

Dr. Matthew Tran & Prof. Blake Richards

University of Toronto, Canada 

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