Carmen Choo
Carmen is a biochemistry student interested in learning about neuroimmunology. She is assisting Hitasha Bajaj in exploring the relation between early-life stress and glucocorticoid regulation in the brain. Carmen is also optimizing an immunohistochemistry protocol for fresh frozen tissue.
Cameron Kelsey
Cam studied the role of testosterone in behavioural flexibility.
Karnvir Dhillon
Karnvir completed his BSc in Chemistry, Biology, and Earth and Ocean Sciences in April 2022. He is looking to pursue a graduate program next year related to medicine or immunology. Karnvir worked to understand how to use the LC-MS/MS technique with Dr. Asmita Poudel.
Alexanne Hall
Alex is an undergraduate student majoring in Behavioural Neuroscience. She is assisting Megan by examining how various steroids, mainly estrogens, affect the motivation to exercise in rats.
Marwa Idrissi
Marwa is a 4th year undergraduate student pursuing an honours in Animal Biology, and a minor in Psychology. She is working alongside Michelle for her honours project which looks at the effect of maternal sucrose consumption on maternal serum and amniotic fluid.
Jérôme P. Plumier
In 2022, Jérôme received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the Université de Liège in Belgium, where he had worked with Prof. Charlotte Cornil on canary singing behaviour and reproductive physiology. As a PhD student in Neuroscience at UBC, Jérôme studies the relationship between steroids, fatty acids, and aggressive behaviours in song sparrows. He has […]
Megan Q. Liu
Megan completed her BSc in Neuroscience at McGill University in 2020. During her undergraduate degree, Megan worked with Prof. Nahum Sonenberg to investigate the relationship between global protein translation and depressive-like behaviors in mice. She also worked with Prof. Rosemary Bagot to study how chronic stress changes the inputs received by the nucleus accumbens and […]
Minseon M. Jung
Minseon (Michelle) completed her BSc in Biology at UBC in 2021. During her undergraduate studies, Michelle worked with Profs. Shernaz Bamji and Tim O’Connor to screen the functions of gene variants associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder. As a MSc student, Michelle investigated how maternal sucrose intake during pregnancy alone affects the fetal brain with a […]
Melody Salehzadeh
Melody completed her BSc in Combined Major in Science at UBC in 2017. As an undergraduate, Melody received the Quinn Research Assistantship and the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. She received travel awards to present at the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology conference. As an MSc student in UBC Zoology, Melody focused on local glucocorticoid production in immune tissues, particularly the […]
Dr. Asmita Poudel
Asmita completed a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy at Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in India, where she received a full scholarship from the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India. For her Ph.D., she worked with Profs. Anas El-Aneed and Ildiko Badea at the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan. […]