Dr. Ingrid Osswald

post-doctoral fellow

Ingrid K. Osswald earned her undergraduate degree in Applied Biology at the Université Paris XII in France in 1998. She then spent the next three years working as a researcher both in France and Singapore, before joining McGill University in January 2003. She is currently using a combination of techniques to study the role of ionotropic glutamate receptor in the vertebrate retina.

Ingrid's work was initially funded by a doctoral fellowship from the Vision Network as well as by a Faculty of Medicine Internal Studentship from McGill University. She is now the recipient of a Banting & Best Doctoral Research Award from the CIHR. Ingrid’s also received a number of awards, such as the Boehringer Ingelheim Prize for best junior student presentation at our annual Departmental Research Day. Her published papers to date have been highlighted in editorials by Journal of Physiology and Journal of Neuroscience.

Fellowships and Awards:

2008	Boehringer Ingelheim best poster prize, 1st Pharmacology Research Day
2008	Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships ($90,000 for 3 years), Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2007	European Synapse School, PENS Training Center, Bordeaux, France
2007	Summer School in France traveling grant, French Consulate
2007	Doctoral Award ($60,000 for 3 years), Fonds de Recherche Santé Québec (declined)
2007	Travel Award, Vision Network
2007	Boehringer Ingelheim best poster prize, 14th Pharmacology Research Day
2006	Best poster presentation, Annual meeting of the Vision Network
2006	Faculty of Medicine Internal Studentship ($12,000), McGill University
2006	Best oral presentation, Annual meeting of the Vision Network
2005	Doctoral Studentship ($10,000), Vision Network
2005	2nd best oral presentation, Annual meeting of the Retina Axis of Vision Network
2005	Fellowship for research excellence ($2,000) Biomed UQAM
2005	Prix d'Excellence for poster presentation, UQAM Annual Biomedical Conference
2004	Travel Award, Vision Network
1999	Leonardo da Vinci fellowship, Ministry of Education, France
1998	Erasmus fellowship, Ministry of Education, France

Publications:

5. Lebrun-Julien, F., Duplan, L., Pernet, V., Osswald, I.K., Sapieha, P., Bourgeois, P., Dickson, K., Bowie, D., Barker, P.A., and Di Polo, A. (2009). Excitotoxic death of retinal neurons in vivo occurs via a non-cell-autonomous mechanism. J. Neurosci.

4. Osswald I.K., Galan, A., McKinney, R.A., and Bowie, D. (2008). BDNF triggers expression of novel Ca2+ permeable AMPA receptors in the developing retina. FENS abstr,

3. Osswald, I.K., Galan, A., and Bowie, D. (2007). Light triggers expression of philanthotoxin-insensitive Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors in the developing rat retina. J. Physiol. (London)

2. Osswald, I.K., Galan, A., Iuvone, P.M. and Bowie, D. (2005). Eye-opening triggers a developmental switch in AMPA receptors expressed by inhibitory retinal cells. Soc. Neurosci. Abstrs., 714.1

1. Osswald, I.K., Iuvone, P.M. and Bowie, D. (2004). Distribution of Ca2+-permeable AMPA and kainate receptors in the salamander retina. FENS abstr, 2, A083.10