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. […]
Prof. Kiran K. Soma
Professor Core area: Behavioural Neuroscience Kiran K. Soma is a Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and a member of the Psychology Department and Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. Dr. Soma joined the faculty at UBC in 2004. He received his BA from Stanford University, his PhD from the University of […]
Dr. Desiree R. Seib
Désirée completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. In her PhD research with Prof. Ana Martin-Villalba at the German Cancer Research Center, she focused on neural stem cells in the brain and their functions in learning and memory, aging and depressive-like behaviour. She was supported by a Helmholtz Graduate School Fellowship. At UBC, […]
Lily Chen
Lily was an undergraduate student studying the effects of maternal sucrose intake on offspring neurodevelopment. Lily is now in Veterinary Medicine school
Esther Choi
Esther was an undergraduate student pursuing her BSc in Biology, with a minor in Psychology. She worked with Valerie Lo and investigated the relationship between behavioural flexibility and locally-produced testosterone in the mesocorticolimbic system.
Sarah Lim
Sarah was an undergraduate student in the Soma Lab pursuing a BSc in Integrated Sciences, in which she incorporated neurobiology and microbiology. She assisted Melody Salehzadeh in investigating local glucocorticoid production in lymphoid and brain tissue using qPCR and LC-MS/MS.
Emma Lam
Emma is pursuing her BSc in Honours Animal Biology. She assisted Sofia Gray with investigating neurosteroid production and territorial aggression in juvenile song sparrows and developed a method to measure sex steroids in song sparrow adrenal glands, gonads, and other tissues. Emma is currently validating a procedure to measure the activity of steroid synthesizing enzymes in […]