People
Paul Albert
Professor and Senior Scientist, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- serotonin, dopamine, transcription factors, depression, anxiety, receptors, signalling, methylation, epigenetics, optogenetics, post-stroke depression
Jean-Claude Béïque
Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Regulation of NMDA receptors, Synaptic plasticity, Multiphoton imaging, Molecular psychiatry
Yves Bourgault
Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
- Simulations of large networks of excitable cells; coupling electric activity to blood flow; bi-domain simulation techniques.
Tuan Bui
Assistant Professor, Biology
- Electrophysiological recording and computational modeling of neural circuits involved in motor control and sensory integration at the spinal cord and supraspinal level
Assistant Professor, School of Psychology
- Modeling cognitive processes using artificial neural networks. Associative memories, categorization, classification, feature extraction, invariance.
Simon Chen
Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Two-photon imaging, motor learning, motor cortex
Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
- Structure-function relationships in ligand-gated ion channels, channel engineering
Assistant Professor, School of Psychology
- sleep, memory, cognition, EEG, MRI, EEG-fMRI, motor skills, dreams, intelligence
Assistant professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- machine learning, computational geometry
Bela Joos
Professor, Physics
- excitable cells, voltage gated channels, energetics of action potential generation, damaged neurons and axons, electric fish and electric organ discharge
Bernard Jasmin
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Molecular biology of synaptic development and regulation; neuromuscular diseases.
Bela Joos
Professor, Physics
- excitable cells, voltage gated channels, energetics of action potential generation, damaged neurons and axons, electric fish and electric organ discharge
Michael Jonz
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
- Transduction of sensory stimuli and synaptic transmission. Patch-clamp recording of ion channel activity in oxygen-sensitive chemoreceptors, and retinal neurons.
Diane Lagacé
Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Adult neurogenesis, Stroke Recovery, Animal behaviour, Optogenetics
Victor LeBlanc
Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
- Modeling of spatial patterns of activity in excitable tissue (heart, brain); spiral waves leading to arrhythmias; neural networks coupled via delayed interactions
Jeremie Lefebvre
assistant professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Computational neuroscience, oscillations, brain computer interface
John Lewis
Associate Professor, Biology
- Experimental and theoretical analysis of feedback in neural networks for sensory processing and motor control
André Longtin
Professor of Physics, Physics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Neural Modeling, Neurophysics, Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamics, Nonlinear Time Series Analysis
Len Maler
Distinguished Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Electrophysiology, sensory processing, neural feedback, computational neuroscience
Catherine E. Morris
Senior Scientist, Ottawa Health Research Institutes and Professor, Dept. of Medicine, University of Ottawa
- Bilayer mechanics of voltage-gated ion channel function/dysfunction in neurons. Theoretical analysis of “spandex proteins” in high tension bilayers.
Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Neural Coding, Neural Networks, Electrophysiological Cell Types, Neural Computation, Dendritic Computation
Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Unit, Institute of Mental Health Research, Univesity of Ottawa
- Cortical midline structures, functional, EEG and MRS imaging in psychiatric illness, neurophilosophy
Scientist, Sprott Stem Cell Center, Ottawa Health Research Institutes
- Modeling dynamics and information processing in biochemical network, differential equation models of time-series data, machine learning and data mining algorithms for biological data, noisy biological information processing
Assistant professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- statistical machine learning, image registration, geometric mechanics
Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Ottawa
- Deep brain Stimulation
Andrew Seely
Thoracic Surgery, Ottawa General Hospital; B.Sc. Physics
- Experimental and modeling studies of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome following trauma; complex systems approach to the role of autonomous nervous system in vital organ variability in the Intensive Care Unit
Heidi Sveistrup
Professor, School of Rehabilitation Sciences
- Experiments and modeling of motor system control during development and aging in normal and pathological populations
Assistant professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Stroke recovery,rodent models, motor behaviour, optogenetic mapping, in vivo widefield imaging
Associate Professor, Dept. Psychology, University of Ottawa
- Quantitative analysis of structural and functional connectivity in neuronal networks; computer simulations of developing neuronal circuits.
Katalin Toth
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Synaptic physiology