PhD students helping out on Brain Awareness Day
PhD students at the Brain Health Research Centre are investigating a wide variety of topics, from computer modeling of synaptic plasticity in the brain, to looking for biomarkers in blood that could predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
The BHRC is always looking for enthusiastic and capable PhD students.
Current projects by PhD students
To give an idea of the scope of research going on at the BHRC, here are the current projects by some of our PhD students:
Anita Barzegar Fallah – Department of Pharmacy
Can targetable anti-cancer drug loaded sono-responsive liposomes reduce tumor size in brain?
Emily Brown – Department of Physiology
Mechanosensitivity of TRPV channels: implications for vasopressin neuron activity
Aimee Chu – Department of Anatomy
Effects of secreted amyloid precursor protein-alpha on astrocytes and directly-reprogrammed human neural cultures
Navneet Lal – Department of Physiology
Structural, functional, and cellular investigations of skeletal muscle ageing in the mouse
Ashim Maharjan – Department of Anatomy
Neuromodulation of appetite, food-related attention using median nerve stimulation and odour-autonomic nervous system interactions in healthy human cohorts
Tyson Perez – Department of Surgical Sciences
The effects of infraslow (<0.1Hz) neurofeedback on internalizing symptoms, the triple network, & the autonomic nervous system in adults with internalizing disorders
Nikita Potemkin – Department of Anatomy
Investigating the whole transcriptome in Alzheimer's disease: RNA-Seq analysis of coding and non-coding RNA
Amy Ruddenklau – Department of Physiology
The role of central progesterone signalling in polycystic ovary syndrome
Shivani Sethi – Department of Physiology
Central regulation of the diabetic heart
Lucinda Speers – Department of Psychology
Disrupted theta sequences in the CA1 region of the hippcampus in a maternal immune activation (MIA) model of schizophrenia risk lead to downstream alterations of space and reward processing in the lateral septum
Maddy Williams – Department of Physiology
Lithium may alter plasticity in the mouse olfactory bulb
Yi-Sheng Wong – Department of Psychology
Investigation of mind wandering and its relationship with task switching
Alexander Yang – Department of Anatomy
Detection, prediction and alleviation of cybersickness
