Trainees
May 17, 2019
Vanier Scholar Hong Lu finds his way in the details
Hong Lu (pictured) is a hospital volunteer, avid pianist, neuroscience graduate student, and Vanier...
New cell modelling tool takes the guesswork out of microglia morphology
Pictured: Elisa York at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. Image credit: Paul...
Trainees
November 2, 2018
Motivation, decision-making, and telling our stories anyway
Pictured: Leili Mortazavi (left) and Sukhbir Kaur (right), research technician in Dr. Catharine Winstanley’s...
Trainees
September 25, 2018
UBC postdoc takes Harvard Medical School appointment to study sleep and Alzheimer’s disease
As anyone who has ever lain awake in the dark hours after going to...
Trainees
August 27, 2018
GPN emphasizes wellbeing, works to improve graduate student experience
The 2017/18 academic year saw major changes to the Graduate Program in Neuroscience (GPN),...
Neuroscience through the ages makes neurohistory fun for everyone
Pictured: an illustration from the comic on Santiago Ramón y Cajal by artist and...
Heather Yong: Plotting a Path from Bench to Bedside
Heather Yong is a Directed Studies student in the Faculty of Medicine at the...
Trainees
November 16, 2017
Brain Bytes offers bite-sized neuroscience to a broad audience
A group of neuroscience students are taking science communication into their own hands, and...
Trainees
September 15, 2017
Troy McDiarmid worms into the intricacies of genetic risk in ASD
To understand how gene mutations affect neurodevelopment and learning in people with Autism Spectrum...
Trainees
August 30, 2017
Graduate Program in Neuroscience finds new leader in Dr. Liisa Galea
Dr. Liisa Galea began her tenure as Director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience...
A swell of salt and water pushes Banting Scholar Dr. Nick Weilinger’s research
“In theory, cerebral edema is a very simple issue; it’s the movement of water...
For Banting Scholar Dr. Brianne Kent, research is all about rhythm
“The great thing about working with both patients and pre-clinical models is that the...