Faculty Members and Areas of Research

Craig Brown, PhD (Calgary)

Stroke neuroanatomy, fluorescence imaging

Robert Burke, PhD (Alberta)

Cellular signalling and neural specification, developmental biology

Daniel Bub, PhD (Rochester)

Cognitive neuropsychology, brain injury

Robert Chow, PhD (New York University)

Neuronal cell type diversity, retinal development

Brian Christie, PhD (Otago)

Learning and memory, synaptic plasticity, neurogenesis

Kerry Delaney, PhD (Princeton)

Synaptic transmission and plasticity, neurodevelopmental disease

Clay Holroyd, PhD (Illinois)

Neurobiological mechanisms of cognitive control

D. Stephen Lindsay, PhD (Princeton)

Memory and cognition, eyewitness memory, children’s memory

Michael Masson, PhD (Colorado)

Memory and cognition, cognitive skill development, computational modeling

Patrick Nahirney, PhD (UBC)

Neuroanatomy, synaptic ultrastructure electron microscopy, live cell imaging

Raad Nashmi, PhD (Toronto)

Neurotransmision molecular mechanism of addiction

Louise Page, PhD (Univ. of Victoria)

Evolutionary developmental biology of gastropod molluscs , functional morphology of marine invertebrates

Ronald Skelton, PhD (UBC)

Cognitive neuroscience, spatial navigation, brain injury

Leigh Anne Swayne, PhD (Calgary)

Neurogenesis and the bioelectric control of new neurons in healthy and injured/diseased brain, ion channels as therapeutic targets for brain repair

Jim Tanaka, PhD (Oregon)

Visual object and face recognition

John Taylor, PhD (Simon Fraser Univ.)

Comparative genomics, gene and gene duplication

Stephanie Willerth, PhD (Washington)

Tissue engineered scaffolds for promoting stem cell differentiation, novel drug delivery systems, and analysis of stem cell differentiation using next generation sequencing

E. Paul Zehr, PhD (Alberta)

Neuromuscular plasticity and motor recovery after injury

Associated Faculty

C.A. Elizabeth Brimacombe PhD (Iowa State)

Eyewitness testimony, social cognition

Mauricio A. Garcia-Barrera PhD, (Univ. of Georgia)

Clinical neuropsychology

David F. Hultsch, PhD Syracuse)

Life-span development

Kimberly A. Kerns, PhD (Chicago Medical School)

Pediatric neuropsychology, clinical psychology, attention and memory disorders

Catherine A. Mateer, PhD (Univ. of Western Ontario)

Clinical neuropsychology, neuropsychological and cognitive rehabilitation, traumatic brain injury

Stuart MacDonald PhD (Univ. of Victoria)

Life-span development

Ulrich Mueller, PhD (Temple)

Development of  self-regulation, executive function, social development in infancy and early childhood

J. Don Read PhD (Kansas State)

Memory and cognition

Nancy Sherwood PhD (California-Berkeley)

Neuropeptides in the control of reproduction and growth; evolution of neuropeptides, mainly in fish