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Poster Locations

Name

Eligibility

Title of Abstract

Institution

Location

Alam, Mohammad Ashraful

Eligible

Socio-economic Impacts of BSE disease on rural communities  in the Canadian Prairie Provinces: A Probit  Analysis

U of Manitoba

SOCIAL / FIELD - 1

Alier, Kwai Abel

Eligible

Beta-amyloid (Abeta) activation of mouse basal forebrain neurons is mediated by prion proteins

University of Alberta

BIOLOGY - 1

Anderson, Colin

Eligible

New Media and Scientific Communication

University of Manitoba

SOCIAL / FIELD - 2

APRI

Not Eligible

 

 

HOST - 1

Arsenault, Ryan

Eligible

Prion Signaling in Human Neuronal Cells

U of Saskatchewan

BIOLOGY - 2

Arslan, Pharhad Eli

Eligible

A Novel Approach to Solubilization of Alzheimer Amyloid Peptide

Ontario Cancer Institute

BIOLOGY - 3

Baral, Pravas Kumar

Eligible

Structural studies on therapeutic antibodies for prion diseases.

U of Alberta

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 1

Beaudoin, Simon

Eligible

Inhibition of the assembly of RNA granules by PrP mutants

U of Sherbrooke

BIOLOGY - 4

Bertram, Lisa

Not Eligible

Pathogenesis and Bioassay: A PrioNet Canada Research Platform

University of British Columbia

PLATFORM - 1

Bjorndahl, Trent

Not Eligible

Conversion of the Syrian hamster prion protein (ShPrPs) to beta oligomer (shPrPB) and fibril (shPrPsc) forms under physiological pH conditions.

University of Alberta

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 2

Boese, Amrit S.

Eligible

Differential regulation of miRNA in CA1 hippocampus and granular layer of the cerebellum during RML Scrapie Prion pathogenesis

University of Manitoba

BIOLOGY - 5

Browning, Shawn

Not Eligible

Abrogation of complex glycosylation selectively inhibits infection of cultured cells by prion strains

Scripps Research Institute

BIOLOGY - 6

Browning, Shawn

Eligible

Selection of drug-resistant variants from cloned prion populations

Scripps Research Institute

BIOLOGY - 7

Bujold, Adina

Not Eligible

Making use of zebrafish to gain insight into the PrPC interactome

University of Alberta

BIOLOGY - 8

Caetano, Fabiana

Eligible

The Prion Protein ligand, Stress Inducible Protein 1, interacts with proteins that participate in the SUMOylation pathway and is SUMOylated

U of Western Ontario

BIOLOGY - 9

Chatterjee, Subhrangsu

Eligible

Urea Unfolding Studies of Bovine, Syrian Hamster and Rabbit Prion Proteins

University of Alberta

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 3

Chiu, Angie

Eligible

Understanding the Importance of Caribou in the Diets of Households in Northern Canada

University of Alberta

SOCIAL / FIELD - 3

Coulthart, Michael

Not Eligible

A novel coding mutation in human PRNP and its potential implications for protein structure

Public Health Agency of Canada

BIOLOGY - 10

Cullis-Hill, David

Not Eligible

Synthesis and trafficking heparan sulphate by prion protein guides neurite outgrowth and synaptic stability

SYLVAN SCIENTIFIC LTD

BIOLOGY - 11

Cullis-Hill, David

Not Eligible

High purity heparan sulfate fractionation from N2a PrPsc+ cell line: Preliminary data using PMCA demonstrates prion misfolding (PrPsc) activity of the high-purity heparan sulfate fraction

SYLVAN SCIENTIFIC LTD

BIOLOGY - 12

Curtis, Angelique

Eligible

Mule Deer Contact Rate and Types: Implications for CWD Transmission

U of Saskatchewan

SOCIAL / FIELD - 4

Dorosh, Lyudmyla

Eligible

Temperature driven unfolding of human prion protein: thermodynamics and microscopic solvation

University of Alberta

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 4

Duque-Velasquez, Camilo

Eligible

Effect of cuprizone on PrPSc accumulation during prion infection

University of Alberta

BIOLOGY - 13

Epp, Stephan

Not Eligible

From ‘CWD Defeated’ to ‘National Crisis’:  Media Coverage of Chronic Wasting Disease in Western Canada

University of Manitoba

SOCIAL / FIELD - 5

Feehan, Christopher

Eligible

Single molecule investigation of prion protein structural transitions important in disease

UBC

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 5

Fennel, Kipp

Eligible

A Country Food Program’s impact on Food Security : A Success Story from of Nelson House

U of Manitoba

SOCIAL / FIELD - 6

Fuentealba, Carmen

Not Eligible

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Surveillance in deer and moose harvested by First Nations Community hunters in Alberta: an inter laboratory prion research study

University of Calgary

SOCIAL / FIELD - 7

Gadotti, Vinicius

Eligible

Is there a role of cellular prion protein in pain and depression? 

University of Calgary

BIOLOGY - 14

Gendoo, Deena

Eligible

Analysis of conformational encoding in sequences from prions, amyloid-forming proteins, and protein databases

McGill University

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 6

Grad, Leslie

Not Eligible

Prion-like propagation of SOD1 misfolding in vitro

UBC

BIOLOGY - 15

Guest, Will

Eligible

Insights into the Structure of PrPSc and the Mechanism of Prion Misfolding

UBC

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 7

Gulrukh, Asfia

Eligible

Country foods and children’s food security in Northern Manitoba

U of Manitoba

SOCIAL / FIELD - 8

Gulrukh, Asfia

Eligible

Food insecurity in Brochet community: How difficult it is to have healthy food on the table?

U of Manitoba

SOCIAL / FIELD - 9

Gushue, Shantel

Eligible

MiRNAs expressed by microglia in the regulation of a prion-induced immune response

U of Manitoba

BIOLOGY - 16

Harrington, Noel

Not Eligible

Prion protein codon 132 genotype of captive elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) influences susceptibility to chronic wasting disease

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

BIOLOGY - 17

Kaatz, Martin

Eligible

Optimizing Sensitive Detection Methods for Disease Associated Prion Protiens in CWD infected Elk

Canadian Food Inspection Agency Lethbridge Laboratory

BIOLOGY - 18

Kaiser, Darcy

Eligible

PrP and APP interactions in vivo

University of Alberta

BIOLOGY - 19

Kang, Sang Gyun

Eligible

In Vivo Application of Dual siRNAs Targeting Hamster PrPC to Assess Therapeutic Potential of RNAi

University of Alberta

BIOLOGY -20

Karyakina, Nataliya

Not Eligible

Prion Diseases and Prionopathies in Belarus. BSE preventive and control strategies.

University of Ottawa

SOCIAL / FIELD - 10

Khan, Qasim

Eligible

Misfolding of Particular PrP Species and Susceptibility to Prion Infection

University of Toronto

BIOLOGY - 21

Knox, David

Not Eligible

Appraisal of a non-PrP Biomarker of BSE

Public Health Agency of Canada

BIOLOGY - 22

Krohn, Regina

Eligible

Investigation of PrPC function on the cell surface of phagocytes using Atomic Force Microscopy

University of Calgary

BIOLOGY - 23

Kumar, Manish

Eligible

Exhaustive assessment of the evolution of the vertebrate prion protein gene family

McGill University

BIOLOGY - 24

Lamoureux, Lise

Not Eligible

Plasma proteome changes of TSE-infected mice by different prefractionation methods

Public Health Agency of Canada

BIOLOGY - 25

Lau, Agnes

Eligible

In vitro copper-binding modes of PrPC and in vivo properties of binding mode mutants

U Alberta

BIOLOGY - 26

Leighton, Ted

Not Eligible

PrioNet Canada's CWD Tissue Bank Platform

University of Saskatchewan

PLATFORM - 2

Lo, Andy

Eligible

Biomarker Discovery in CWD-Infected Elk by Mass Spectrometry

University of Alberta

BIOLOGY - 27

Mackay, Ryder

Eligible

Targeting PrP to subcellular compartments to enhance detection of protein-protein interactions

University of Toronto

BIOLOGY - 28

Majer, Anna

Eligible

Investigating the effects of CREB-induced microRNAs on neurodegeneration in prion disease

U of Manitoba

BIOLOGY - 29

Markon, Marie-Pierre

Eligible

Dimensions of BSE Risk Appraisals Related to Worry and Coping in the Canadian Public

U of Ottawa

SOCIAL / FIELD - 11

Martin, Gary

Eligible

A Functional Role for Cellular Prion Protein in the Enteric Nervous System

University of Calgary

BIOLOGY - 30

Matsumoto, Tomomi

Eligible

Association Mapping of Genetic Risk Factors for Chronic Wasting Disease in Wild Deer

U of Alberta

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 8

Mays, Charles

Eligible

Stimulating Propagation of PrPSC

University of Kentucky

BIOLOGY - 31

Mitakidis, Jason

Eligible

Characterization of Structural and Binding Properties of the Prion

University of Toronto

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY -9

Motzkus, Dirk

Not Eligible

Upregulation of miRNAs in the brain of BSE-infected macaques

German Primate Centre

BIOLOGY - 32

Murdoch, Brenda

Eligible

Prion gene regulatory-domain polymorphisms associated with incidence of classical BSE in European Holstein cattle

University of Alberta

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 10

Muringai, Violet

Eligible

Consumers’ Recall of Media Coverage of Food Safety Issues : Was BSE an Issue?

University of Alberta

SOCIAL / FIELD - 12

Myae, Aye

Eligible

Consumers’ beliefs and perceptions about traceability systems for food safety: A comparison of Canada (English), Canada (French) and Japan

U of Alberta

SOCIAL / FIELD - 13

Nikolic, Ana

Eligible

Effect of Lipid Bilayers on Prion Peptide Self-Organization and Toxicity

University of Toronto

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 11

Okoroma, Emeka

Eligible

Enzymatic degradation of prion: examples with scrapie-infected brain homogenate and isolated PrPsc fibril

Middlesex University

BIOLOGY - 33

Perez-Pineiro, Rolando

Eligible

Does the prion protein fixate, transport or utilize thiamine?

University of Alberta

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 12

Price, Luke

Eligible

Incomplete Proteolytic Degradation of 263K Scrapie by Feather-degrading Anaerobic Bacterial Consortia

University of Alberta

BIOLOGY - 34

Price, Luke

Eligible

Ozone Inactivation of 263k Scrapie

University of Alberta

BIOLOGY - 35

PrioNet Canada

Not Eligible

 

 

HOST - 2

Pushie, Jake

Eligible

Visualizing the Influence of the Prion Protein on Copper, Iron and Zinc Levels in the Brain

U of Saskatchewan

BIOLOGY - 36

Pushie, Jake

Not Eligible

CIHR Training Grant in Health Research Using Synchrotron Techniques

U of Saskatchewan

BIOLOGY - 37

Rainville, Anne and Swerdfeger, Emily

Eligible

A critical survey of economic diversification options as coping strategies in future prion challenges

University of Calgary

SOCIAL / FIELD - 14

Roostaee, Alireza

Eligible

In vitro aggregation and amplification of prion based on its controlled dimerization

University of Sherbrooke

BIOLOGY - 38

Saleem, Fozia

Eligible

Characterizing the Intermediate States of Prion Protein (PrPC) Conversion to the b-rich Isoform (PrPSc) Under Mildly Denaturing Conditions Using Urea and Salt

U Alberta

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 13

Schmädicke, Ann-Christin

Eligible

A cell culture based model to simulate PrPSc infection in non-human primates

German Primate Centre

BIOLOGY - 39

Shott, Rory

Eligible

Detection of Signaling Pathways of Dysregulated by Cytoplasmic PrP Mutants

U Alberta

BIOLOGY - 40

Silva, Christopher

Not Eligible

Mass spectrometry:  A tool for assessing the role of methionine in the formation of hamster-adapted prions

United States Department of Agriculture

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 14

Simon, Sharon

Not Eligible

Systemic surveys of an expanded inventory of TSE associated biomarkers

Public Health Agency of Canada

BIOLOGY - 41

Simonetti, Karen

Not Eligible

Structural characterization of b-oligomers formed by ShaPrP(90-231)F198S

The Hospital for Sick Children

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 15

Sinelnikov, Igor

Eligible

Biomarkers of disease state in Alzheimer’s Disease model mice: A tool for understanding neurodegenerative amyloidoses

U Alberta

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 16

Soares, Iaci

Eligible

The Prion Ligand Stress Inducible Protein1 is modulated by SUMO proteins

Robarts Research Institute

BIOLOGY - 42

Sobsey, Constance

Not Eligible

Using Metabolomics Approaches to Identify Novel Biomarkers for Preclinical Diagnosis and Monitoring of Prion Diseases in Elk

University of Alberta

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 17

Soutyrine, Andrei

Not Eligible

Detection of PVDF membrane-captured PrPCWD in Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) blood by sPMCA

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

BIOLOGY - 43

Speare, Jonathan

Eligible

GPI Anchoring Facilitates Propagation and Spread of Misfolded Sup35 Protein Aggregates in Mammalian Cells

NIAID NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories

BIOLOGY - 44

Stobart, Michael

Eligible

Identification of Gene Targets Essential to Prion Neurotoxicity by Screening a shRNAmir Library

University of Manitoba

BIOLOGY - 45

Sweeting, Braden

Eligible

Single amino acid changes in rabbit PrPC affect the structure of the β2-α2 loop and the formation of a β-state associated with prion disease susceptibility

University of Toronto

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 18

Vanderperre, Benoit

Eligible

Endoplasmic reticulum stress and proteasome inhibition enhance the expression of AltPrP, a novel peptide encoded by Prnp

U of Sherbrooke

BIOLOGY - 46

Waheed, Aiza

Eligible

Prion Diseases and Laboratory Safety: A structured assessment of prion risk perception in Canadian medical laboratories

BC Centre for Disease Control

SOCIAL / FIELD - 15

Walsh, Patrick

Eligible

Structural Characterization and Dynamic Behaviour of non-fibrillar amyloid oligomers of the Peptide PrP(106-126)

Hospital for Sick Children / University of Toronto

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 19

Wang, Nan (Helen)

Not Eligible

Microwave-assisted Acid Hydrolysis Combined with Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry for Prion Structure Characterization

University of Alberta

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 20

Wang, Zheng

Not Eligible

Investigation of two suspected clusters of Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in Ontario, Canada, 2002-2005

Public Health  Agency of Canada

BIOLOGY - 47

Watts, Joel

Eligible

Decreased levels of Shadoo are a specific indicator of protease-resistant PrPSc in prion disease

U of California San Francisco

BIOLOGY - 48

Wohlgemuth, Serene

Not Eligible

The PrioNet Transgenic Platform Facility at the University of Alberta Prion Centre

University of Alberta

PLATFORM - 3

Yau, Jason

Eligible

Biophysical Characterization of Fibrilloidogenic Fragments of Human Prion Protein

Hospital for Sick Children/University of Toronto

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 21

Zhou, JianJun

Eligible

New Methods for the Assessment of Protein Structure Quality: Application to Prion Structures Deposited in the PDB

University of Alberta

STRUCTURE / CHEMISTRY - 22