Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects

This class comprises research and experimental development in neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects.
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Molecular neuroscience
Cellular neuroscience
Neurogenetics
Animal neurobiology
Behavioural neuroscience of learning and memory
Behavioural neuroscience of reward and motivation
Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks
Neurophysiology
Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects, n.e.c.
 
 
 

Graduate Degree Programs in Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects

Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Animal Biology (PhD)

Applied Animal Biology offers opportunities for advanced study and research leading to a Ph.D. degree in animal physiology, behaviour, welfare, and management of livestock, companion animals, research animals, wildlife species, aquaculture, and on the human-animal relationship. The program is...

Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Genetics (PhD)

The UBC Department of Medical Genetics is an inspiring and productive community of scholars of genetics and genomics. It is an outstanding provider of knowledge, technical expertise, and compassionate care for our patients. Faculty members in the Department of Medical Genetics are at the forefront...

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD)

The Graduate Program in Neuroscience strives to educate and support graduate students as they expand the breadth and depth of their knowledge about the brain through enriching research experiences. The program embraces principles of equity, diversity and inclusion and recognizes and accommodates...

Master of Science in Applied Animal Biology (MSc)

Applied Animal Biology offers opportunities for advanced study and research leading to a M. Sc. degree in animal physiology, behaviour, welfare, and management of livestock, companion animals, research animals, wildlife species, aquaculture, and on the human-animal relationship. The program is...

Master of Science in Medical Genetics (MSc)

The UBC Department of Medical Genetics is an inspiring and productive community of scholars of genetics and genomics; an outstanding provider of knowledge, technical expertise, and compassionate care for our patients. The Department is composed of dozens of faculty members at the forefront of their...

Master of Science in Neuroscience (MSc)

The Graduate Program in Neuroscience strives to educate and support graduate students as they expand the breadth and depth of their knowledge about the brain through enriching research experiences. The program embraces principles of equity, diversity and inclusion and recognizes and accommodates...
 

UBC Researchers conducting research in Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects

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Auld, Vanessa

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Zoology; Cell; Cell Biology; Development; Developmental Genetics; epithelia; Genetics; glia; in vivo imaging; Molecular Genetics; nervous system; Neurogenesis and Gliogenesis; permeability barriers

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Bamji, Shernaz

Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine

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

Black, Alexis

School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Developmental psychology; Behavioural neuroscience of learning and memory

Boyd, Lara

Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

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

Brotto, Lori

Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human reproduction and development sciences; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Clinical psychology; mindfulness; Sexual Dysfunctions; sexual desire; treatment of sexual concerns; women's sexual health; asexuality; digital health interventions

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Cairns, Brian

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); electrophysiology; headache; Neuropharmacology; Oro-Facial Pain; pain; pain mechanisms; peripheral analgesics; sex-related differences; temporomandibular disorders

Cembrowski, Mark Steven

Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Molecular neuroscience; Mathematical modelling and simulation; Mechanisms of memory in the brain; Anxiety; Big Data; Bioinformatics; Cell types; Computation; Fear; Genetics; modeling; Neural circuits; neuroscience; Neuroscience of memory; PTSD; RNAseq

Ciernia, Annie

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Biochemistry; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Autism; Brain development; Epigenetics; Gene-Environment Interactions; Neurodevelopmental disorders

D

Dao Duc, Khanh

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Genomics; Mathematical biology; Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling; combine mathematical,computational and statistical tools to study fundamental biological processes; regulation and determinants of gene expression and translation; Machine Learning for Biological Imaging and Microscopy; Database development and management; Biological and Artificial Neural Networks for geometric representation

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Enns, James

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Behavioural neuroscience of reward and motivation; attention; action kinematics; social perception; perceptual development

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Giaschi, Deborah

Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; amblyopia; reading; dyslexia; motion perception; binocular vision; visual development

Gordon, Michael

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Zoology; Chemosensation; Drosophila; Feeding; Gustation; Neural circuits; Neuronal Systems; neuroscience; Sensory systems; Taste

H

Haas, Kurt

Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine

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

Hayden, Michael

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Genetic medicine; Health counselling; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Diabetes; Disease progression; Drug development; Gene Therapy; Genetic Diseases; Huntington disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurodegenerative disorders

Hodges, Nicola

School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Sport and exercise psychology; Behavioural neuroscience of learning and memory; action anticipation and observation; coaching and motor skill expertise; skill acquisition; Motor learning; observational learning and instruction; sports skill development

K

Kolind, Shannon

Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Medical physics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; brain; Imaging; MRI; medical physics; multiple sclerosis; myelin; Neurological Disease; spinal cord

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Laule, Cornelia

Department of Radiology, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Medical physics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Pathology (except oral pathology); Auto-Immune Diseases; Axons; brain; Central Nervous System Inflammatory Diseases; Cerebral Atrophy; Histology; image analysis; Imaging; Inflammation; magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; multiple sclerosis; myelin; Nervous System Development; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurological diseases; Neuronal Systems; pain; Pathology; Schizophrenia; Spinal Cord Diseases; spinal cord; Spinal cord injury

Leavitt, Blair

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Genetic medicine; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Alzheimer's disease; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Ataxia; Dementia; Experimental Therapeutics; Frontotemporal Dementia; Gene regulation; Gene Silencing and Gene Editing; Gene Therapy; Huntington disease; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; Medical Genetics; Mouse models of disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurogenetics

LeMoult, Joelle

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; depression and psychobiological responses to stress; understanding how depression develops and unfolds across the lifespan

Liu-Ambrose, Teresa

Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Healthy Aging; exercise; Fall prevention; Cognitive Aging; Randomized Controlled Trials; Physical Activity; Mobility; Neuroimaging; Sleep

M

Matsubara, Joanne Aiko

Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Sensory systems, visual; Cellular interactions (including adhesion, matrix and cell wall); Gene and molecular therapy; Cellular neuroscience; neuroscience; vision; cell and development; cell death pathways; innate immune response; eye disease, retinal degenerations; Alzheimer's disease; neurodegeneration

Matthews, Benjamin

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Genomics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Zoology; Aedes aeygpti mosquitoes; Arboviral pathogens; Chikungunya; Comparative Physiology; Dengue fever; Genome of mosquitoes; Yellow fever; Zika

Murphy, Timothy

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Autism; brain imaging; depression; Neuronal Systems; stroke

P

Pollock, Courtney

Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; impact of neurological changes associated with aging, disease and injury on motor control; motor control of walking balance and balance reactions

Puterman, Eli

School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Kinesiology; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Acute exercise; cellular aging; chronic stress; Exercise interventions; Health Psychology; Physical Activity; Physical literacy; Stress physiology; telomeres

R

Ross, Colin

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Care; Genomics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences (except clinical aspects); Biomedical Technologies; Drug Metabolism; Gene Therapy; Gene-based therapeutics; Pharmacogenomics; Precision Medicine; transgenic models

S

Schuetz, Christian

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects

Soma, Kiran

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Zoology; Behavior; Biological Behavior; Endocrinology; Neuroendocrine Diseases; Neuronal Communication and Neurotransmission; Neuronal Systems; neuroscience; stress

Swindale, Nicholas Vaughan

Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bioinformatics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Eye and Visual System Diseases; Neuronal Modeling; Neuronal Systems; Visual System

T

Tang, Xin

Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bioinformatics; Artificial intelligence (AI); Cell biology; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Mathematical biology; Genetics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Cancer; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Explainable and Interpretable Learning, Representation Learning, Knowledge Distillation; Biologically Informed Neural Network, Physically Informed Neural Network; Knowledge Distillation, Biological LLM, Biomedical Image Processing; Computational Cell Biology, Single-cell Biology, Multi-omics, Virtual Cell, Spatial Omics; Brain-Computer Interface, Neuroscience, Brain Mapping; Cancer Genomics, Development, Aging

Todd, Rebecca

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cognitive sciences, n.e.c.; Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Neurosciences, medical and health and physiological aspects, n.e.c.; Human Cognition and Emotion; Neurophenomenology and participatory sensemaking; Dance as a laboratory for interactive cognition; cognition; Emotional learning; Human Neurocognitive processes underlying all of the above; Learning and Memory; Motivation, Emotions and Rewards

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Weber, Alexander

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Central nervous system; Dynamical systems in applications; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Quantitative MRI; Brain Disorders; resting state functional MRI; myelin water imaging; Arterial Spin Labelling; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Fractal based analysis; Concussion; Diagnostic Imaging; Epilepsy; Seizures; Traumatic Brain Injury; open science; Biomedical Engineering

Werker, Janet

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Critical Periods; Language Acquisition; Language Acquisition and Development; Language and Cognitive Processes; Multisensory Processing; Plasticity; Psycholinguistics; Psychology - Biological Aspects; speech perception; Speech and Language Development Disorders

Winstanley, Catharine

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

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

Z

Zhong, Huan

Faculty of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow

Bioinformatics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Computational Biology; Machine Learning
 

Student & Alumni Stories in Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects

Rocio Hollman

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD)

The role of the X-linked intellectual disability gene, ZDHHC9, in brain development

Shalini Iyer

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD)

Identifying sex-specific pharmacological interventions for autism by targeting a distinct neuron type

Andrew Thompson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD)

Promoting Remyelination Using the Palmitoylating Enzyme ZDHHC9

Kodee Bao

Student

Master of Science in Cell and Developmental Biology (MSc)

Understanding the impact of maternal stress on fetal brain development during pregnancy

Brianna Bristow

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD)

Discovery and interpretation of a novel, hybrid cell type in the brain

Sangeetha Kasturi

Student

Master of Science in Neuroscience (MSc)

The Role of Complement Opsonin C1q in the Synaptic Pathology of Schizophrenia

Cal Rosete

Student

Master of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (MSc)

How Early Life Adversity Impacts Depression Symptoms Through Blood Brain Barrier Permeability to Immune Cells

Kidus Achalu

Student

Master of Science in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (MSc)

Proteomic Profiling of Youth Sports-related Concussion

Adrienne Kinman

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD)

Visualizing and manipulating cell-type specific spatial and novelty driven memory in the subiculum
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Kaitlin Sullivan

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD)

Identifying and manipulating neuronal subpopulations participating in fear memory.

Melody Salehzadeh

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD)

Local regulation of glucocorticoids in the nervous and immune systems
Woman wearing blue blazer and dress standing next to the sign of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health

Tetiana Poliakova

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD)

Understanding how reconstitution of cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) expression affects amyloid and cerebrovascular pathologies in mouse models of Alzheimer’s Disease

Christina Whang

Student

Master of Science in Experimental Medicine (MSc)

Muscle fatigue in incomplete spinal cord injury

Wenlin Chen

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD)

Development of a dual allosteric modulator of NMDARs for stroke

Sasha McDowell

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD)

Taste processing in Drosophila melanogaster

Isabella DiBerardino

Student

Master of Science in Neuroscience (MSc)

Establishing valid discrete and continuous reference intervals for BD-Tau and pTau-231 to better understand long-term risks for neurodegeneration (ie. Alzheimer’s Disease) after traumatic brain injury
 

Program Specializations in Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects

Neuroscience
 

Academic Units in Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects

Department of Medical Genetics

Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Neuroscience Program
 
 
French Name
Neurosciences, aspects biologiques et chimiques
French Description
Cette classe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en neurosciences, aspects biologiques et chimiques.
 
 

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