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 alters information processing. Her work with Prof. Bagot was supported by a Science Undergraduate Research Award.
As a MSc student in Neuroscience, Megan used a wheel running task to study the motivation to exercise in rats, and was particularly interested in how this behaviour is regulated by local sex steroids in the brain and other hormones. She developed an ultrasensitive method for measuring multiple estrogens using LC-MS/MS that is optimized for use in rats and mice. She is currently a PhD student at McGill University.