This handout is designed to introduce and illustrate the research happening within the LSI Research Groups.
Read More Lab research: Specification of neuronal identity during Drosophila nervous system development.
Read More Lab research: The molecular interactions between glia and neurons that occuring during development of the nervous system of Drosophila. The development of permeability barriers in polarized epithelia and glia.
Read More Lab research: Molecular mechanisms underlying synapse formation, maintenance and elimination. Role of cell adhesion molecules at the synapse.
Read More Michael Gordon Gordon Lab Web Page Our brains are composed of billions of neurons, wired together in neural circuits that process information from the environment and produce behaviours. My lab is interested in the organization, function, and development of these circuits. We study this problem in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, an organism with […]
Read More Lab Research: Role of dystroglycan, a protein associated with several forms of muscular dystrophy, in the central nervous system. Molecular mechanisms underlying the dystroglycan-mediated targeting and polarization of proteins in glial cells.
Read More Lab research: Gap Junctions in Neural Development and Disease.
Read More Lab research: Molecular mechanisms of neuronal outgrowth, guidance and directed growth. Remodeling of the cytoskeleton during neurite outgrowth.
Read More Lab research: Control of neuronal cell death and differentiation during embryonic neurogenesis and regeneration.
Read More Lab research:Sex and stress sensitive pathways in the brain
Read More Lab research: Mechanisms underlying the effects of early life experiences on brain and biological development, ie. issues of fetal or neonatal programming.
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Our Mission:
The mission of the Neuroscience Research Group is to understand how the nervous system develops and functions and how it is modified by injury, disease, genetics and environmental factors.
The LSI research group includes investigators that study different levels of neural organization:
- molecular/cellular
- systems/circuit
- behavioral/cognitive
This promotes highly collaborative and multi-faceted approaches to solving significant challenging problems in the neuroscience field.
Together, we train a new generation of neuroscientists in state-of-the-art techniques and technologies, and prepare them for careers in both basic and clinical neuroscience research.
Members of the Neuroscience Research Group are also affiliated with the Brain Research Centre (BRC), a group of over 100 neuroscience investigators from different departments and faculties throughout British Columbia. The BRC provides a wealth of scientific expertise and the opportunity for collaborations.
Specific Processes and Diseases Studies by Members of the Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Group:
- Neural Development: Allan, Auld, Bamji, Gordon, Moukhles, Naus, O’Connor, Roskams
- Neural Control of Behaviour: Allan, Bamji, Gordon, Weinberg, Viau
- Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Disease including:
- Schizophrenia: Allan, Bamji, O’Connor
- Alzheimer’s Disease: Allan, Bamji
- Stress: Weinberg, Viau
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Weinberg
- Brain tumors: Naus
- Nervous system homeostasis: Auld, Moukhles
- Neuroprotection and Repair of the Nervous System: Auld,O’Connor, Roskams, Naus