Sjöström lab news
  • 7 Mar 2018 - Congratulations to Hovy wong for being awarded a Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives Postdoctoral Fellowship.
  • 25 Feb 2018 - Congratulations to Amanda McFarlan for being awarded a Canadian Association for Neuroscience Travel Award.
  • 24 Jan 2018 - Prof Sjöström renewed his CIHR Project Grant titled "Unconventional NMDA Receptor Signalling in Neocortical Plasticity".
  • 17 Jan 2018 - Congratulations to Amanda McFarlan for being awarded an RI-MUHC Studentship.
  • 13 Dec 2017 - Prof Sjöström was awarded the Oxford-Brain@McGill-ZNZ Partnership Fund for a pilot project with Drs Abhishek Banerjee and Fritjof Helmchen at University of Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 25 Aug 2017 - Prof Sjöström was awarded the Healthy Brains Healthy Lives Visiting Fellow Award.
  • 31 July 2017 - Congratulations to Christina Chou for getting a Faculty of Medicine Studentship.
  • 18 July 2017 - Congratulations to Amrit Sampalli for being awarded the highest level of the Knowledge First Financial Graduate Scholarship.
  • 11 May 2017 - Congratulations to Amrit Sampalli for being accepted to the Doctor of Medicine Program in The University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine.
  • 20 Apr 2017 - Prof Sjöström renewed his NSERC Discovery Grant titled "Synapse-type-specific plasticity in neocortical microcircuits" and was also awarded the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement.
  • 4 Apr 2017 - Congratulations to Amrit Sampalli for getting the Faculty of Medicine NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award during the Summer 2017 period.
  • 10 Feb 2017 - Prof Sjöström was featured in an interview titled "Pushing the Frontiers of Synaptic Neuroscience" published at the Frontiers Blog.
  • 21 July 2016 - Congratulations to Jennifer Brock for the Max Stern Award.
  • 21 July 2016 - Congratulations to Jennifer Brock for obtaining an IPN Entrance Award.
  • 14 July 2016 - Congratulations to Sally Siying Li for being awarded the The Brain@McGill Prize for Neuroscience Undergraduate Research 2016 for first place for the essay Presynaptic NMDA receptor control of spontaneous and evoked activity.
  • 1 July 2016 - Prof Sjöström was granted tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor.
  • 12 May 2016 - Congratulations to Amanda McFarlan for getting an IPN Entrance Award.
  • 14 March 2016 - Congratulations to Adamo Mancino for getting the Faculty of Medicine NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award during the Summer 2016 period.
  • 8 Aug 2014 - Congratulations to Txomin Lalanne for getting the RI MUHC Studentship.
  • 2012 - Congratulations to To Carla Kalkhoven for getting the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD studentship.
  • 2012 - Congratulations to To Carla Kalkhoven for being awarded the McGill University Alma Mater studentship.
  • Aug 2012 - Congratulations to Txomin Lalanne for getting the RI MUHC Scholarship.