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Jillianne Code
I am a Canadian researcher, educator, and learning scientist specializing in learner agency, postdigital education, and the ethical design and impact of digital and immersive learning technologies. As the Director of the ALIVE Research Lab at the University of British Columbia, I study how learner agency is shaped within and...
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Jinan Saboune
Jinan Saboune is a Ph.D. student in the Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Laboratory (CHARlab) at McGill University. Her research looks at the neurovascular changes that occur during a very critical phase in a woman’s life: peri-menopause. As women age and transition into menopause, they lose most of their estrogen...
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Joanne Weinberg
Dr. Joanne Weinberg is a Professor Emerita and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She is a member of the Brain Research Center, and an Associate Member of the Department of Psychology and the Child and Family Research Institute....
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Jocelien Olivier
Prof. Olivier, a behavioral developmental neuroscientist, studies how depression and antidepressant treatment during pregnancy affect mothers and offspring. She secured a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship and two NARSAD grants to establish a research line on pregnancy-related adversity. As chair of the GELIFES research institute board she advocates diversity. She is a...
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Jodi Pawluski
Jodi Pawluski is a behavioral neuroscientist and a therapist. For over a decade her research has focused on the neuroscience of motherhood and the effects of maternal mental illness and antidepressant medications on the mother and offspring. One key theme that has come from her research experience is that effective treatment...
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Jodie Gawryluk
Jodie Gawryluk is a clinical neuropsychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Division of Medical Sciences at University of Victoria. She is also the Director at the Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health. Her research combines neuropsychology and neuroimaging to better understand healthy brain aging and risks...
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Jodie Hughes
Jodie is a first year PhD student at the University of Roehampton. She is currently studying disparities in the care of Endometriosis patients by comparing sample groups, under the supervision of Dr Astrid Hauge-Evans and Dr Patrick Brady. She graduated in 2019 with a Master of Science. Her aim is...
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Jody Xu
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Joelle LeMoult
Dr. Joelle LeMoult is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. She is the Director of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Laboratory, a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Women’s Health Research Institute,...
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Jolie (Wanlin) Wu
Jolie is a Master’s student in the Rosin Laboratory at UBC, where she explores changes in gene expression in the developing fetal hypothalamus in response to maternal sleep disruptions during pregnancy. Her research aims to investigate how prenatal maternal sleep disruption alters the development of different regions and cell types...
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Jonathan Lieberman
Jonathan Lieberman is currently a PhD student in the Neuroscience program at McMaster University. His research focuses on studying the neural mechanisms of PTSD including the effect of sex as a biological variable and exploring the use of real-time fMRI neurofeedback as a therapeutic intervention.
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Jordyn M. Cox
Jordyn is a first-year Master’s student in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine awarded a CIHR CGS-M award at the University of Alberta. Working under the supervision of Dr.Taniya Nagpal, Jordyn is passionate about understanding health stigma from lived experiences in pregnancy especially among marginalized populations such as women of colour....
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