Directors
Mark Brandon
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Sylvain Williams
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Research Staff
Kenneth Dyson
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Dr. Dyson obtained his PhD in Kinesiology from the University of Waterloo studying the effects of physical exercise and simulated micro-gravity on muscle and cerebral blood flow, under the supervision of Dr. Richard Hughson.
Dr. Dyson then proceeded to further his training with postdoctoral positions under Dr. Trevor Drew at the Universite de Montreal, and Dr. Rick Hoge at both the Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM) and the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI). As Research Coordinator, Dr. Dyson is the liaison between faculty, facility, staff, and students, ensuring that proper protocols are enforced to maximize the effectiveness of the research platform. |
Zeeshan Haqqee
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Mr. Haqqee received his BSc. (Honours in Biology & Psychology) and MSc. (Psychology) from McMaster University. There, he studied time-intensity trading ratios in neurons of the inferior colliculus of the big brown bat under the supervision of Dr. Paul Faure. He then studied models of PTSD and TBI using deep-brain stimulation in rodents as a research technician at the Sunnybrook Research Institute under the supervision of Dr. Clement Hamani.
As a research assistant for the platform, Mr. Haqqee performs sterotaxic surgeries and runs behavioural experiments. |
Emmanuel Wilson
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Mr. Wilson is an Engineering Physics graduate from Carleton University working in the Brandon Lab as a Computational Data Scientist. He assists in research by writing code with the goal to automate analysis, facilitate data acquisition, and advance current experimental techniques.
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Thomas Gisiger
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Dr. Gisiger earned a Ph.D in theoretical physics from the Université de Montréal. He moved to the field of theoretical neurobiology and completed a postdoc in the neural network modelling of brain functions under the supervision of J.-P. Changeux and S. Dehaene. He worked for 8 years as a research associate for McGill University and the Center for Research on Brain, Language and Music, acting as a consultant in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, performing data analysis, giving workshops on MRI analysis, and building new analysis tools.
Since April 2019, he has been working for the platform analyzing and interpreting (using the generalized linear model and other tools) the firing characteristics of neurons in freely behaving mice. |
Coralie-Anne Mosser
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Dr. Mosser is interested in understanding the neural basis for perception, cognition, and behaviour. She earned her Masters degree in Neuroscience from Paris-Saclay University and she completed her PhD with Etienne Audinat in the Charpak Lab at Paris Descartes University, investigating the involvement of microglial cells in the maturation and wiring of neocortical networks, with combination of ex vivo electrophysiology, optogenetics, molecular biology and immunohistochemistry approaches. She joined the WIlliams laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in 2019 to participate to the development of the McGill-Mouse-Marmoset (M3) platform. Her current project aims at investigating the memory-linked code for time and reward in CA1 and CA3 areas of the hippocampus.
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