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Awards & Publications

AWARDS

 

Paul Wiseman

 

2005 Biophysical society’s “Young Fluorescence Investigator Award”.
The award honours an investigator who has applied fluorescence microscopy to biological research in a novel way.

 

Benedict Hebert

 

NSERC PGS-B scholarship (2003-2005)
McGill Major Fellowship (2005-2006)
SRAA (Student Research Achievement Award) – Poster competition at the 49th Biophysical Meeting (2005), best poster in biological fluorescence subgroup.

 

David Kolin

 

NSERC CGSM scholarship (2004-2005, Master level)
NSERC CGSD scholarship (2005-2008, Doctorate level)

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Submitted

 

Dufour P., Piché M., De Koninck Y. & McCarthy N., Two-photon excited fluorescence microscopy with high depth of field using an axicon.  (Submitted to Optics Letters).

 

Godin, A.G., Costantino, S., Olave, J., Sieghart, W., De Koninck, Y. & Wiseman, P.W. Image histogram analysis; a novel approach for unbiased measurement of labeled protein densities and clustering (Submitted to Biophys. J.).

 

Smith, B.A., De Koninck, P., Grütter, P.H. & De Koninck, Y. Mechanical properties of dendritic spines studied using atomic force microscopy. (Submitted to PNAS).

 

In Press

 

Bachir, A.I., Durisic, N., Hebert, B., Grütter, P.H. & Wiseman, P.W. Image Correlation Spectroscopy Studies of Blinking Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Dots.Appl. Phys. Lett. In press.

 

Bayer, K-U, LeBel, E., McDonald, G.L., O’Leary, H., Schulman, H. & De Koninck, P. Regulated reversible and persistent binding of CaMKII to postsynaptic sites and NR2B. J. Neurosci. In press.

 

Costantino, S., Heinze, K.G., Martinez, O.E., De Koninck, P.& Wiseman, P.W. Two-photon fluorescent micro-lithography for live cell imaging. Microscopy Research and Technique. In press.

 

Coull, J.A.M., Beggs, S., Boudreau, D., Boivin, D., Tsuda, M., Inoue, K., Gravel, C., Salter, M.W. & De Koninck Y. (2005) BDNF from microglia mediates the shift in neuronal anion gradient that underlies neuropathic pain. Nature. In press.

 

Davidovic, L, Tremblay, S., Gravel, M., De Koninck, P. & Khandjian, E. Le syndrome du X Fragile et ses 1001 ARNm débousolés. Médecine et Sciences. In press.

 

Dufour P., McCarthy N. & De Koninck Y.,Imaging of biological tissues: overview of optical configurations for linear and two-photon microscopy. Physics in Canada. In press.

 

Kolin D.L., Costantino S. & Wiseman P.W., Sampling Effects, Noise, and Photobleaching in Temporal Image Correlation Spectroscopy. Biophys. J.In press. (BIOPHYSJ/2005/072322).

 

Thibault, C., Koubassov, V., De Koninck, P., Chin, S.L. & De Koninck, Y. Destruction of polymer growth substrates for cell cultures in two photon microscopy. J. Microscopy. In press.

 

2005

 

Cordero-Erausquin M., Boudreau D., Coull J.A.M., Rolland M. & De Koninck Y. (2005) Differential maturation of GABA action and anion reversal potential in spinal lamina I neurons; impact of chloride extrusion capacity. J Neurosci. 25(42):9613-23.

 

Costantino S., Comeau J.W.D., Kolin D.L. & Wiseman P.W. (2005) Accuracy and Dynamic Range of Spatial Image Correlation and Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy. Biophys. J. 89, 1251–1260.

 

Costantino S., Heinze K.G., Martínez O.E., De Koninck P. & Wiseman P.W. (2005) Two-photon fluorescent microlithography for live-cell imaging. Microscopy Research and Technique 68(5):272-276.

 

Hebert B., Hulme S.E. & Wiseman P.W. (2005) Membrane protein dynamics measured by two-photon ring correlation spectroscopy: theory and application to living cells. Proceedings of SPIE 5700:109-117.

 

Hebert B., Costantino S. & Wiseman P.W. (2005)Spatio temporal image correlation spectroscopy (STICS): Theory, verification and application to protein velocity mapping in living CHO cells. Biophys J. 88:3601-3614.

 

Hudmon A., LeBel E., Roy H., Sik A., Schulman H., Waxham N & De Koninck P. (2005) A mechanism for CaMKII clustering at synaptic and non-synaptic sites based on self-association. J. Neurosci. 25:6971-6983.

 

Smith, B.A., Tolloczko, B., Martin, J.G. & Grütter, P.H. (2005)Probing the viscoelastic behavior of cultured airway smooth muscle cells with atomic force microscopy: stiffening induced by contractile agonist. Biophys J. 88(4):2994-3007.

 

Thibaud, C., Koubassov, V., De Koninck, P., Chin, S.L. & De Koninck, Y. (2005) Destruction of polymer growth substrates for cell cultures in two-photon microscopy. J Microsc. 220(Pt 2):120-7.

 

2004

 

Wiseman, P.W., Brown, C.M., Webb, D.J., Hebert, B., Johnson, N.L., Squier, J.A., Ellisman, M.H. & Horwitz, A.R. (2004)  Spatial mapping of integrin interactions and dynamics during cell migration by Image Correlation Microscopy, J. Cell Sci. 117:5521-5534.  (Selected for journal cover; Comment in Nature Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 5:953).

 

2003

 

Coull, J.A.M., Boudreau D., Bachand K., Prescott, S.A., Nault, F., Sík, A., De Koninck, P. & De Koninck, Y. (2003) Transsynaptic shift in anion gradient in spinal lamina I neurons as a mechanism of neuropathic pain, Nature 424:938-942 (Comment in Nat. Med. 9:1110, 2003).

 

Laniel, J.M., Ménard, J.-M., Turcotte, K., Villeneuve, A., Vallée, R,. Lopez, C. & Richardson, K.. (2003) Refractive index measurements of planar chalcogenide thin films, J. Non Crystalline Solid., 328:183-191.

 

Proulx, A., Ménard, J.-M., Hô, N., Vallée, R. & Paré, C. (2003) Intensity and polarization dependences of the supercontinuum generation in birefringent and highly nonlinear microstructured fibers, Opt. Express 11:3338-3345.