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 […]
Eashan Halbe
Eashan was an undergraduate student in the Soma Lab pursuing his BSc in Biology. He has an interest in the intersection between immunology and endocrinology and studied local glucocorticoid production in lymphocyte populations.
Ruolan Wu
Ruolan received her B.Sc. in Anatomy and Cell Biology from McGill University (2019). She was a research assistant in the Soma Lab and worked on steroid profiling in human baby teeth as a potential new tool to measure early-life stress. Ruolan is currently an embryologist at Olive Fertility Centre.
Hitasha Bajaj
Hitasha completed her BSc in Behavioural Neuroscience with a Minor in Law and Society at UBC in 2022. As an undergraduate, she recieved the Science Undergraduate Research Experience Award and Quinn Research Assistantship. She also received the Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience. Hitasha is co-supervised by Drs. Kiran Soma and Annie […]
Michael Li
Michael was a BSc student who is interested in neuroscience and immunology. He was working with Melody Salehzadeh and examining regulation of immunosteroid synthesis using qPCR and LC-MS/MS. Michael is in UBC Medical school.