Boyer Winters, Professor, Principle Investigator
I was first exposed to behavioural neuroscience as an undergraduate student at Dalhousie University while taking Richard Brown’s second-year Hormones and Behaviour course. After completing my undergrad thesis with Richard, I jetted off to Cambridge, UK, to do my PhD on the role of acetylcholine in various learning and memory tasks with Steve Dunnett, Barry Everitt, and Trevor Robbins. After graduation, I stayed in Cambridge to work with Tim Bussey and Lisa Saksida for several more years, studying brain systems involved in object memory and perception. In 2007, I accepted a faculty position at the University of Guelph, where I continue to investigate neural mechanisms of cognition in rodent models.
Heather Collett
PhD candidate assessing the role of GABAergic signalling in object memory and categorization.
Emmylou Hentschke
I am a graduate student studying the role of the septo-hippocampal pathway in spatial working memory using the touchscreen-based TUNL task.
Jiayu Zheng
I’m a graduate student in the Neuroscience and Applied Cognitive Science program. During my undergraduate studies, I volunteered in a few labs and found myself drawn to behavioural neuroscience research, with a particular interest in the neuronal mechanisms underlying learning and memory. My current research focuses on investigating the role of actin dynamics in object memory destabilization.