A fundamental challenge within Neuroscience is to understand behaviour through connectomics, a knowledge of molecular and cellular information mapped onto the pathways that connect brain cells together. A central focus for neuroscientists at UBC is the study of brain connections, including their dynamic changes during normal development and learning and how these connections become dysfunctional in neuropsychiatric disease.
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Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Bamji, Shernaz | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical and biomedical engineering; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; neurodevelopmental disease; primary neuronal cultures; synapse biology; transgenic mouse models |
| Boyd, Lara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Learning; Learning and Memory; Motor System; Motor learning; Neurophysiology; Physiology; Plasticity / Neuronal Regeneration; stroke |
| Cembrowski, Mark Steven | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Molecular neuroscience; Mathematical modelling and simulation; Mechanisms of memory in the brain; Anxiety; Big Data; Bioinformatics; Cell types; Computation; CRISPR-Cas9; Fear; Genetics; modeling; Neural circuits; neuroscience; Neuroscience of memory; PTSD; RNAseq |
| Craig, Ann Marie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Excitatory and inhibitory synapses, Synapse development and plasticity, Synapse organizing proteins, Neurotransmitter receptors, Autism and schizophrenia |
| Cripton, Peter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mechanical engineering; Medical and biomedical engineering; biomechanics; Cranio-Encephalic and Spinal Cord Trauma; hip fracture; injury prevention; Mechanical Systems; neurotrauma; Spinal cord injury; spine biomechanics; Trauma / Injuries; Traumatic Brain Injury; Sex Differences in Seat Belt Performance |
| Haas, Kurt | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical and biomedical engineering; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Autism; Brain Circuit Development; Dendritogenesis; Epilepsy; Genetics of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Neurological diseases; Neuronal Communication and Neurotransmission; Neuronal Computation; Neuronal Modeling; Neuronal Systems; Neuronal and Synaptic Activity; Plasticity / Neuronal Regeneration; Synaptic Plasticity |
| Mackenzie, Ian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Alzheimer's Disease |
| MacVicar, Brian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Brain Research, epilepsy, astrocyte, glia, dendrites, synapse, imaging, two photon laser scanning microscopy, neurophysiology, Role of calcium, regulation of neurons, cell death |
| McKeown, Martin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurology; novel treatments for Parkinson's; Video Monitoring Parkinson's; Brain Stimulation; Biomedical Engineering; Machine Learning; fMRI; EEG |
| Murphy, Timothy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Autism; brain imaging; depression; Neuronal Systems; stroke |
| Pavlidis, Paul | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Engineering and technology; genomics; Bioinformatics; cellular and molecular neuroscience; Genetics; disorders of the nervous system; single-cell genomics; Computational Biology; Gene regulation |
| Phillips, Anthony | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Addictions Psychiatry, Basic Neurosciences |
| Raymond, Lynn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Huntington's Disease |
| Rossi, Fabio | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Stem Cell Regenerative Medicine blood, Stem cells, regeneration, gene therapy, control of cell fate |
| Seamans, Jeremy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder and addiction |
| Snutch, Terrance Preston | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical biotechnology, n.e.c.; Brain Disorders; Animal models; genomics; Drug discovery & development |
| Snyder, Jason | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | plasticity, learning, memory, stress, mental health, emotional behaviour |
| Sossi, Vesna | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical Imaging, Brain imaging |
| Stoessl, A Jon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Parkinson's disease |
| Tetzlaff, Wolfram | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neural development and regeneration |
| Vila-Rodriguez, Fidel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Brain stimulation Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Theta-bust stimulation (TBS) Magnetic Seizure Therapy (MST) Depression Psychosis Schizophrenia |
| Wang, Yu Tian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Learning and memory, stroke |
| Winstanley, Catharine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Addiction; Behavioural neuroscience; decision making; Gambling disorder; Impulsivity; Mental Health and Society; Neuronal Systems; Neuropharmacology; Computational neuroscience; Traumatic Brain Injury |
| Woodward, Todd | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cognitive neuropsychiatry and functional neuroimaging |