UNews - Candace Burke /unews/person/candace-burke en Faculty and student researchers buoyed by NSERC funding /unews/article/faculty-and-student-researchers-buoyed-nserc-funding <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even" property="rnews:articlebody schema:articleBody"> <p>A diverse and comprehensive group of 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge researchers was awarded $1.98 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) this week, part of $558 million in total funding to post-secondary researchers and students, the largest investment in research from NSERC this year.<div class="image-caption-container right" style="width:500px;"><img src="/unews/sites/default/files/NSERC-2018.jpg" title="Projects in chemistry &amp;amp; biochemistry, neuroscience, kinesiology &amp;amp; physical education, mathematics &amp;amp; computer science, environmental science, biology and psychology all received funding support." alt=""><div class="image-caption">Projects in chemistry &amp; biochemistry, neuroscience, kinesiology &amp; physical education, mathematics &amp; computer science, environmental science, biology and psychology all received funding support.</div></div></p><p>In addition, eight graduate students received $336,000 in funding, further broadening the impact of the federal government&rsquo;s investment in research activities at the U of L.</p><p>&ldquo;Canada supports science and our talented researchers. We are delivering on our historic investment in research and in the next generation of scientists. These remarkable researchers and students we are celebrating are working to make the world a better place and to secure a brighter future for all Canadians,&rdquo; says The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport.</p><p>Dr. Erasmus Okine, the 免费福利资源在线看片&rsquo;s vice-president (research) says he is impressed with the breadth of research being funded.</p><p>&ldquo;It speaks to the level of activity we have going on throughout the institution, and the variety of issues our researchers and students are tackling,&rdquo; says Okine. &ldquo;This level of funding is a recognition by NSERC that our people are making a real difference through their research work and will continue to do so.&rdquo;</p><p>Projects in chemistry &amp; biochemistry, neuroscience, kinesiology &amp; physical education, mathematics &amp; computer science, environmental science, biology and psychology all received funding support. Dr. Robert Sutherland&rsquo;s study in the Department of Neuroscience, <em>Hippocampus and memory: A systems level approach</em>, earned $285,000 over five years, the largest award of the funded projects.</p><p>Sutherland describes the hippocampus as being situated at the hub of a set of distributed cortical&nbsp;networks that represent movement and perceptual information. Amnesia is the&nbsp;most prominent effect of&nbsp;damage to or dysfunction of the hippocampus and most&nbsp;forms of human memory disorder involve the hippocampus.</p><p>&ldquo;The current proposal&nbsp;examines, in detail, how the&nbsp;interactions between the hippocampus and other&nbsp;cortical networks establish long-&shy;term memories,&rdquo; says Sutherland, director of the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience. &ldquo;We will discover exactly&nbsp;which types of information depend on the hippocampus and how the hippocampus&nbsp;modifies the functioning of the&nbsp;cortex through long-term interactions.&rdquo;</p><p>Dr. Louise Barrett, Canada Research Chair in Cognition, Evolution and Behaviour and member of the U of L&rsquo;s Department of Psychology, will receive $200,000 over five years (plus an accelerator supplement of $120,000 over three years) for her project, <em>Behavioural Flexibility, Fertility and Social Network Influences in Human and Non-Human Primates</em>.</p><p>In her work, Barrett aims to understand how evolutionary processes influence the behaviour of human and non-human primates.</p><p>&ldquo;More specifically, I am interested in exploring those aspects that we share with other primate species, and those that make us different,&rdquo; she says.</p><p>Other funded researchers include:</p><p>Dr. Matthew Tata, neuroscience; Dr. Steven Mosimann, chemistry &amp; biochemistry; Dr. Marc Roussel, chemistry &amp; biochemistry; Dr. Athanasios Zovoilis, chemistry &amp; biochemistry; Dr. Marc Bomhof, kinesiology &amp; physical education; Dr. John Anvik, mathematics &amp; computer science; Dr. Alexey Popov, mathematics &amp; computer science; Dr. David Euston, neuroscience; Dr. Sergio Pellis, neuroscience; Dr. Stephanus Henzi, psychology; Dr. Cameron Goater, biological sciences; Dr. Majid Mohajerani, neuroscience.</p><p>Graduate students who received funding include:</p><p>Elijah Dueck, chemistry &amp; biochemistry; Lukas Grasse, neuroscience; Samantha Krause, psychology; Kailyn Nelson, environmental science; Candace Burke, neuroscience; Serena Jenkins, neuroscience; Justin Lee, neuroscience; Conner MacNeil, chemistry &amp; biochemistry.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field-group-format group_related_topics field-group-div group-related-topics block-title-body speed-fast effect-none"><h2><span>Related Topics</span></h2><div class="field field-name-opencalais-organization-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/organization/natural-sciences-engineering-research-council-canada" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Natural Sciences &amp; Engineering Research Council of Canada</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/organization/nserc" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">NSERC</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-person-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Person:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/erasmus-okine" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Erasmus Okine</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/robert-sutherland" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Robert Sutherland</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/louise-barrett" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Louise Barrett</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/matthew-tata" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Matthew Tata</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/steven-mosimann" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Steven Mosimann</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/marc-roussel" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Marc Roussel</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/athanasios-zovoilis" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Athanasios Zovoilis</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/marc-bomhof" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Marc Bomhof</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/john-anvik" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">John Anvik</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/alexey-popov" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Alexey Popov</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/david-euston" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">David Euston</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/sergio-pellis" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Sergio Pellis</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a 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skos:prefLabel">Kailyn Nelson</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/candace-burke" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Candace Burke</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/serena-jenkins" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Serena Jenkins</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/justin-lee" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Justin Lee</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/conner-macneil" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Conner MacNeil</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/kirsty-duncan" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Kirsty Duncan</a></div></div></div></div><span property="rnews:name schema:name" content="Faculty and student researchers buoyed by NSERC funding" class="rdf-meta"></span> Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:07:49 +0000 trevor.kenney 9954 at /unews Brenda Milner Lecture Series to feature renowned researcher of mental health and addiction /unews/article/brenda-milner-lecture-series-feature-renowned-researcher-mental-health-and-addiction <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even" property="rnews:articlebody schema:articleBody"> <p>免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge graduate students at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN) are pleased to welcome one of the world&rsquo;s foremost authorities in addiction psychiatry, Dr. Anthony Phillips, as the keynote speaker for the 15th annual Brenda Milner Lecture Series (BMLS), May 10-11.<div class="image-caption-container right" style="width:100px;"><img src="/unews/sites/default/files/bmls_logo_high_quality.png" alt=""></div></p><p>Phillips is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the 免费福利资源在线看片 of British Columbia, as well as the founding director of the UBC Institute of Mental Health and Scientific Director of the Mental Health and Addiction, CIHR Institute of Neurosciences. He will be giving a pair of presentations as part of the BMLS, including a free public talk, <em>The Addicted Brain</em>, on Thursday, May 11, 7 p.m. at the Lethbridge Lodge (Aspen Room).</p><p>Phillips is the latest high profile researcher to take part in the BMLS, a series that began in 2002 and is organized entirely by the neuroscience graduate student body. The talks carry the name of Dr. Brenda Milner, one of the most acclaimed scientists in Canada and also the first guest of the series.</p><p>&ldquo;In the 14 editions that have been organized to date, we were honoured to welcome distinguished guests such as 2014 Nobel Prize recipient Dr. John O&rsquo;Keefe, as well as Dr. Michael&nbsp;Merzenich of the 免费福利资源在线看片 of California and Dr. Miguel&nbsp;Nicolelis, who you may recognize as the lead neuroscientist behind the 2014 FIFA Kick-off event,&rdquo; says Rachel Dombowsky, co-chair of the 2017 BMLS committee. &ldquo;The series was designed to promote scientific literacy and research awareness within the Lethbridge community by offering a public lecture as well as highlighting the quality of research that is taking place at the CCBN. The opportunity to interact with well-established researchers from other parts of the world helps graduate students build relationships and gain exposure to new ways of thinking.&rdquo;</p><p>Phillips&rsquo; research interests cover a wide range of topics in the field of preclinical neuropsychopharmacology and systems neuroscience, more specifically looking at motivation and emotion. His pioneering research, with H.C. Fibiger, laid the foundation for the role of dopamine in the neural control of motivation and memory, with its clinical implications for understanding biological correlates of addiction. He has a long-standing interest in applying knowledge concerning normal brain-behaviour function to understanding the neural bases of mental illness and addiction.</p><p>In addition to his free public lecture, Dr. Phillips will also be presenting an academic lecture, <em>A Role for Synaptic Long-Term Depression in Cognitive Flexibility</em>, on Wednesday, May 10 at 4 p.m. in EP1201.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field-group-format group_related_topics field-group-div group-related-topics block-title-body speed-fast effect-none"><h2><span>Related Topics</span></h2><div class="field field-name-opencalais-industryterm-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">IndustryTerm:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/industry-term/neuroscience" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">neuroscience</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-opencalais-person-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Person:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/brenda-milner" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Brenda Milner</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/candace-burke" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Candace Burke</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/unews/person/rachel-dombowsky" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Rachel Dombowsky</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/unews/person/anthony-phillips" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel">Anthony Phillips</a></div></div></div></div><span property="rnews:name schema:name" content="Brenda Milner Lecture Series to feature renowned researcher of mental health and addiction" class="rdf-meta"></span> Tue, 02 May 2017 21:56:46 +0000 trevor.kenney 8851 at /unews