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.
Siobhon-Elora Weber
PhD candidate investigating the effects of early life enrichment on multisensory integration functions in Alzheimer’s disease model mice.
Emily Minard
I am a PhD student interested in the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie the ability for our memories to change. Using rodent models, my research specifically investigates how AMPA receptors and their transient exchange from calcium-impermeable to calcium-permeable receptors in perirhinal cortex are involved in the modification of object memories.