Scholarship Program
New investigators and faculty are essential for the future of any field of scientific inquiry. NCM has historically encouraged meeting participation by graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. The scholarship program is designed to provide partial support for them to participate in the meeting and is open to student and post-doc members in good standing. Our goal is to support ten individuals with a scholarship of $700-$1000 each, depending upon our funding status.
Application Guidelines
Scholarship applications associated with accepted Team (Multi-Author) Submissions are considered top priority, as are accepted individual oral presentations. These applications are to accompany Team (Multi-Author) submissions or individual oral presentation submissions by the November 30, 2017 deadline. Scholarship applications can also accompany individual poster applications by the same deadline of November 30, 2017. Secondary considerations entail preference to students who are nearing the end of their thesis research, and post-docs nearing the end of their training. Successful recipients are required to present a talk or poster during the meeting.
*Please note that previous winners are not eligible for future scholarship opportunities.
Application Deadlines
Scholarship Applications – Now Closed
Applications Open: October 30, 2017
Applications accompanying Team/Individual Oral Presentations Closes: November 30, 2017
Applications accompanying Poster Submissions Closes: November 30, 2017
Recipients Announced: January 10, 2018
How to Apply
Applicants must be members in good standing and submit an abstract through the normal abstract submission process (any format). A one page (maximum) personal statement and a one page (maximum) letter of recommendation from the applicant’s Advisor, must accompany the abstract as supplemental information. The Applicant’s personal statement must include an outline of:
- Your current year and status as a student or post-doc, and
- Your future goals and career direction.
- Please include an up to date CV with your application
The Advisor’s letter of recommendation must include:
- The student/fellow’s aptitude and interest in the field of neural control of movement, and
- The student/fellow’s current status in the Ph.D. program
Individual Submission Applications
Detailed instructions are noted within the Abstract Submission Form. To apply with an individual submission, you will be required to upload your personal statement and letter COMBINED in PDF format at the end of the submission form. Please ensure to name the PDF document using the format “FirstName_LastName_Scholarship.”
Team Submission Applications
If you are part of a team submission and wish to apply for a scholarship, please email your application and supporting documents here: [email-obfuscate email=”bcorneil@uwo.ca” link_title=”Submit Team Scholarship Application”]
Please ensure to name the PDF document using the format:
“FirstName_LastName_Scholarship”
2017 Scholarship Winners
Sharlene Flesher, University of Pittsburgh: Robert Gaunt
Juan Gallego, Northwestern University: Lee Miller
Robert Hardwick, Johns Hopkins University: Adrian Haith
Li-Ann Leow, University of Queensland: Timothy Carroll
Diana Mitchell, McGill University: Kathleen Cullen
Emily Oby, University of Pittsburgh: Aaron Batista
Matthew Perich, Northwestern University: Lee Miller
Shreya Saxena, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Munther Dahleh
Menno Veldman, University of Groningen, Tibor Hortobagyi
Johanna Wagner, University of California, San Diego Scott Makeig
2016 Scholarship Winners
ANDREW LONG, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Amy Bastian
JONATHAN MICHAELS, Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH – Mentor: Hans Scherberger
PAVAN RAMDYA, Caltech – Mentor: Michael Dickinson
CHIARA BOZZACCHI, Istituto Italiano Tecnologia – Mentor: Fulvio Domini / Eli Brenner
SHLOMI HAAR, Ben Gurion University – Mentor: Ilan Dinstein, Opher Donchin
LIN CHIN-HSUAN, Imperial College London – Mentor: Aldo Faisal
DIMITRIS VOUDOURIS, Justus-Liebig University Giessen – Mentor: Katja Fiehler
FRANCESCA LUNARDINI, Politecnico di Milano – Mentor: Alessandra Pedrocchi / Terry Sanger
REMI BARROIS, CognAc G – Mentor: Pierre-Paul Vidal
2015 Scholarship Winners
GUY AVRAHAM BEN-GURION, University of the Negev – Mentor: Ilana Nisky
ANOUK DE BROUWER, Radboud University – Mentor: Nijmegen Jeroen Smeets
TRAVIS DEWOLF, University of Waterloo – Mentor: Chris Eliasmith
IMAN HAJI-ABOLHASSANI, McGill U – Mentor: Henrietta L. Galiana
DAVID HERZFELD, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Reza Shadmehr
FIRAS MAWASE, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Lior Shmuelof
JENNIFER SEMRAU, University of Calgary – Mentor: Sean Dukelow
ATSUSHI TAKAGI, Imperial College London – Mentor: Etienne Burdet
2014 Scholarship Winners
JEROME CARRIOT, McGill University – Mentor: Kathleen Cullen
PATRICK FORBES, Delft University of Technology – Mentor: Frans CT. van der Helm
KARA HAWKINS, York University – Mentor: Lauren E. Sergio
UDAY JAGADISAN, University of Pittsburgh – Mentor: Neeraj Gandhi
GUY LEVY, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Mentor: Benny Hochner
RYAN MOREHEAD, University of California, Berkeley – Mentor: Rich Ivry
TAFADZWA SIBINDI, Erasmus MC – Mentor: Maarten Frens
SHEENA WATERS, University College London – Mentor: Jorn Deidrichsen
BRAM ZANDBELT, Vanderbilt University – Mentor: Jeffrey D. Schall
2013 Scholarship Winners
LEONI OOSTWOOD, MOVE Research Institute Amsterdam – Mentor: Jeroen Smeets
KRISTIN MUSSELMAN, John Hopkins School of Medicine – Mentor: Amy Bastian
SEBASTIAN TELGEN, University College London – Mentor: Jörn Diedrichsen
SAHANA KUKKE, National Institutes of Health – Mentor: Diane Damiano
DAVID SUSSILLO, Stanford University – Mentor: Krishna Shenoy
NOHAM WOLPE, University of Cambridge – Mentor: Dr James Rowe
2012 Scholarship Winners
GABRIEL DIAZ, University of Texas, Austin – Mentor: Mary Hayhoe
RAED JOUNDI, Oxford University – Mentor: Dr. Ned Jenkinson
JOSEPH O’DOHERTY, University of California, San Francisco – Mentor: Philip N. Sabes
DAVID THURA, University of Montreal – Mentor: Paul E. Cisek
AARON WONG, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine – Mentor: Mark Shelhamer
2011 Scholarship Winners
JAMES BONAIUTO, California Institute of Technology – Mentor: Richard Andersen
JORDAN BRAYANOV, Harvard University – Mentor: Maurice Smith
JESSICA BROOKS, McGill University – Mentor: Mentor: Kathleen Cullen
GAVIN BUCKINGHAM, University of Western Ontario – Mentor: Melvyn Goodale
GABRIELA CANTARERO, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Pablo Celnik
CLAUDIA CASELLATO, Politecnico di Milano – Mentor: Giancarlo Ferrigno
TANUJ GULATI, Drexel University College of Medicine – Mentor: Simon Giszter
HELEN HUANG, University of Colorado at Boulder – Mentor: Alaa A. Ahmed
MATTHEW KAUFMAN, Stanford University – Mentor: Krishna Shenoy
TRISHA KESAR, University of Delaware – Mentor: Darcy Reisman, Stuart Binder-Macleod
FEMKE MAIJ, VU University Amsterdam – Mentor: Jeroen Smeets
LAURA MALONE, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Amy Bastien
ALEJANDRO MELENDEZ-CALDERON, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine – Mentor: Etienne Burdet
JEAN-JACQUES ORBAN DE XIVRY, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine – Mentor: Reza Shadmehr
MURIEL PANOUILLERES, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon – Mentor: Denis Pelisson
MYRTHE PLAISIER, VU University in Amsterdam – Mentor: Jeroen Smeets
JINSOOK ROH, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University – Mentor: William Rymer, Randall Beer, Eric Perreault
BRITNE SHABBOTT, Columbia University Medical Center – Mentor: Pietro Mazzoni
NATELA SHANIDZE, University of Michigan – Mentor: Michael King
MICHELE TAGLIABUE, Université Paris Descartes – Mentor: Joseph McIntyre
JORDAN TAYLOR, University of California, Berkeley – Mentor: Richard Ivry
EVANGELOS THEODOROU, University of Southern California Francisco – Mentor: Valero-Cuevas
PAUL WANDA, Washington University in St. Louis – Mentor: Kurt Thoroughman
2010 Scholarship Winners
AVI BARLIYA, Weizmann Institute of Science – Mentor: Tamar Flash
IAN GM CAMERON, Queen’s University – Mentor: Douglas P Munoz
MARCO DAVARE, Sobell Dept – Mentor: Roger Lemon
JOSEPH M GALEA, Johns Hopkins – Mentor: Pablo Celnik
ATIYEH GHOREYSHI, McGill University – Mentor: Henrietta L Galiana
VALERIYA GRITSENKO, Université de Montréal – Mentor: John Kalaska
ALEX PASTOR-BERNIER, University of Oslo – Mentor: Paul E Cisek
MYRTHE PLAISIER, Universiteit Utrecht – Mentor: Astrid ML Kappers
JENNIFER A SEMRAU, Washington University – Mentor: Kurt A Thoroughman
GARY C SING, Harvard University – Mentor: Maurice A Smith
MADHUSUDHAN VENKADESAN, Harvard University – Mentor: Daniel E Lieberman
SCOTT J YOUNG, University of Southern California – Mentor: Terence D Sanger
2009 Scholarship Winners
JOYCE DITS, Erasmus MC – Mentor: Hans van der Steen
MARINA DOBREVA, Univ. of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry – Mentor: William O’Neill
SHINICHI FURUYA, Kwansei Gakuin University – Mentor: Hiroshi Kinoshita
ATIYEH GHOREYSHI, McGill University – Mentor: Henrietta Galiana
SARAH HEMMINGER, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Reza Shadmehr
HEIKO HOFFMANN, University of Southern California – Mentor: Stefan Schaal
DONGSUNG HUH, University of California San Diego – Mentor: Emanuel Todorov
DANIEL LUDVIG, McGill University – Mentor: Robert Kearney
JAMIE LUKOS, Arizona State University – Mentor: Marco Santello
2008 Scholarship Winners
CHITRA BALASUBRAMANIAN, University of Florida – Mentor: Steve Kautz
PIERRE-MICHEL BERNIER, Marseille Universite – Mentor: Jean Blouin Aix
HANNAH BLOCK, Johns Hopkins University – Mentor: Amy Bastian
MASSIMO CENCIARINI, University of Pittsburg- Mentor: Patrick Loughlin / Mark Redfern
ENRICO CHIOVETTO, Italian Institute of Technology – Mentor: Thierry Pozzo
MEGAN CONRAD, Marquette University – Mentor: Brian Schmit
CINZIA DE LUCA, University of Chieti-Pescara – Mentor: Silvia Comani
KRYSTAL DETWEILER, Iowa State University – Mentor: Vlastislav Bracha
KALPANA DOKKA, Temple University – Mentor: Emily Keshner
GERMÁN GÁLVEZ, University of Granada – Mentor: Chris Dijkerman
DARCY GRIFFIN, University of Kansas – Mentor: Paul Cheney
CLAIRE HONEYCUTT, Georgia Institute of Technology – Mentor: Richard Nichols
TAMAR MAKIN, Hebrew University of Jerlem- Mentor: Alessandro Frane
YAEL NIV, Princeton University – Mentor: Jonathan Cohen
ANDREW PRUSZYNSKI, Queen’s University – Mentor: Steven Scott
LIOR SHMUELOF, Hebrew University – Mentor: Ehud Zohary
OLIVIER WHITE, Bangor University – Mentor: Joern Diedrichsen
CHRIS MCNEIL, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute – Mentor: Simon Gandevia
MATTHEW MOSCONI, University of Illinois – Mentor: Chicago John Sweeney
JAMES REBESCO, Northwestern University – Mentor: Lee Miller
JOO-HYUN SONG, The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute – Mentor: Robert McPeek
IAN STEVENSON, Northwestern University – Mentor: Konrad Kording
AARON SUMINSKI, University of Chicago – Nicholas Hatsopoulos
AIDAN THOMPSON, York University – Denise Henriques