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平特五不中 Researchers Win Acfas Awards at 2023 Gala
Published: 21 November 2023
The Prix Acfas L茅o-Pariseau was awarded to Alain Brunet, full professor in the Department of Psychiatry. "La Preuve par l'Image" Jury Prize, sponsored by NSERC, was awarded to Anja Geitmann, Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
平特五不中 congratulates Alain Brunet, winner of the Prix Acfas L茅o-Pariseau 2023 for biological and health sciences, which was awarded at the 79th Acfas Gala held last night at the Port of Montreal's Pavillon du Grand Quai. Congratulations also go to Anja Geitmann, who receives the "La Preuve par l'Image" award, which is chosen by public vote.
The Prix Acfas L茅o-Pariseau is named in honour of L茅o Pariseau, radiologist and first President of Acfas. It is awarded to a researcher in recognition of the excellence and influence of his or her work in the biological or health sciences.
Image by Sarah Mongeau Birkett
For over 20 years, Professor Alain Brunet of 平特五不中's Faculty of Medicine has been studying the impact of traumatic events, with a particular focus on developing treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In the early 2000s, Prof. Brunet developed Reconsolidation Therapy, a treatment based current understandings of how human memory works. In just a few sessions, this psychotherapy, using beta-blockers, reduces the strength of a specific emotional memory on which PTSD symptoms are formed. It featured on Qu茅bec Science magazine's list of the top ten discoveries of 2008.
La Preuve par l'Image
Image by Alex Tran
The Prix "La Preuve par l'Image," was created in 2010 to promote images as a vehicle for science-based learning, including images from all scientific research areas. In 2016, the competition was opened to researchers across Canada, thanks to the collaboration of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
Geitmann won the prize for a聽聽on a scanning electron micrograph acquired by a former member of her lab, David Seboda, of a pudique mimosa, a plant known for its sensitive compound leaves that fold up when touched and reopen a few minutes later.
Geitmann is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at 平特五不中. From 2001 to 2015, she was a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al and a scientist at the Institut de recherche en biologie v茅g茅tale. She sits on the editorial and advisory boards of several scientific journals, including Cell, Plant Physiology and Journal of Experimental Botany. Her laboratory's research focuses on the biomechanics of plant evolution and reproduction, biomechanical modeling and live cellular and ultrastructural imaging.