Research Advisory Committee

Brian Allman

Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology

Research Interests / Specializations: How the cortex integrates information from more than one sense

Laura Batterink

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding how implicit and explicit memory contribute to language acquisition and related learning mechanisms.

Rachel Birnbaum

Co-Director, Research Institute with Children

Research Interests / Specializations: Intersection of Social Work Ethics and the Law

Roy Eagleson

Professor, Department of Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Biomedical Imaging: 3D visualization for surgical simulation and training

Rishi Ganesan

Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics

Research Interests / Specializations: Improving the long-term cognitive and functional outcomes in critically ill children through the development, validation and implementation of electroencephalography-based monitoring tools

Jessica Grahn

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Research Interests / Specializations: Why do we move to music? How is musical rhythm processed in the brain? How do brain responses to musical rhythm differ from similar types of movement and timing?

Jibran Khokhar

Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology

Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding the mechanisms underlying co-occurring serious mental illness and substance use disorders, using a variety of behavioural, pharmacological and translational neuroimaging techniques

Robyn Klein

Canada Excellence Research Chair - Neurovirology and Neuroimmunology

Research Interests / Specializations: The effects of viral infections and neuroinflammation on memory

Jessica Lammert

Trainee Representative

Research Interests / Specializations: Providing novel insights about the mind, brain, and body by combining biological and computational methods

Steven Laviolette

Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology

Research Interests / Specializations: The interface between neurobiology, psychology and emotion by using an integrative combination of in vivo neuronal electrophysiology and behavioural neuropharmacology, molecular signaling analyses and neurodevelopmental models of drug exposure.

Ravi Menon

Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry

Research Interests / Specializations: Development and application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) techniques, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

Teaching: The intersection of cognitive neuroscience and computer science closing the loop between theory and experiment.

Lyle Muller

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics

Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding the mechanisms of visual processing and memory in the brain.

Leanna Zeyl

Community Representative