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Sydney Ku
Sydney graduated from Colby College in the spring of 2021 with a B.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Neuroscience. While at Colby, Sydney worked in the Glenn Lab, a behavioral neuroscience rat lab, as a research assistant and later conducted a senior thesis examining psychomotor stimulant sensitization as a...
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Sydney Penner
Sydney works as a Research Assistant at the Work Wellness Institute. She has a BA in psychology from Simon Fraser University. Her focus was in the critical analysis of research methods and theoretical models in biopsychology. In her degree, she studied the the fields of psychopharmacology, behavioral endocrinology, and health...
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Tabitha Craig
Tabitha Craig is a PhD student in the Cerebrovascular Health, Exercise, and Environmental Research Sciences (CHEERS) Laboratory at the University of Victoria. Her research focus is on the impact of sex hormones on cerebrovascular endothelial function and arterial stiffness in response to environmental and physiological stressors. Twitter: @Tab_craig2
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Tamara Bodnar
Dr. Tamara Bodnar is a Research Associate in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at The University of British Columbia (UBC), supervised by Dr. Joanne Weinberg. Her research examines the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure and other early-life environmental manipulations on immune function across development. Her research involves animal...
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Tania Pereira
I am currently researching the effects of oral contraceptives on autonomic function, specifically investigating physiological responses to reflex activations in healthy women (chemoreflex, mechanoreflex and metaboreflex). I am also investigating the effects of the menstrual cycle and sex differences.
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Taniya Nagpal
Taniya Nagpal is an Assistant Professor at The University of Alberta with the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport and Recreation. She completed her PhD from the University of Western Ontario with the Exercise and Pregnancy Lab and Exercise and Health Psychology Lab. Her dissertation work included developing and testing strategies to...
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Tarrah Ethier
Tarrah is a PhD Student in Translational Medicine (Department of Medicine) at Queen’s University. She works in the Ormiston Lab and focuses her studies on understanding the mechanisms behind the sex paradox in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, a deadly disease that implicates the cardiovascular, pulmonary and immune systems. She previously explored...
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Teal Eich
Teal S. Eich, PhD, is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research explores age-related changes to executive function. She is particularly interested in the neural mechanisms supporting cognitive inhibition, and understanding how morphological changes to neuroanatomy affect the ability to successfully inhibit information across different levels (during response, when selectively attending to...
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Teresa Liu-Ambrose
Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose, PhD, PT, is a Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, and Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity, Mobility, and Cognitive Health. She is the Research Director of the Vancouver General Hospital Falls Prevention Clinic (www.fallsclinic.ca) and Director of the Aging, Mobility, and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (https://cogmob.rehab.med.ubc.ca)....
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Tess Carswell
Tess is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at the University of Victoria. She works in the Orthopaedic Technologies & Biomechanics Lab under the supervision of Dr. Josh Giles. Her work investigates sex differences in people with lower limb amputations for the consideration of prosthesis design optimization using musculoskeletal modelling....
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Tessa Woodside
My name is Tessa Woodside, and I am an undergraduate student going into my third year of life sciences at Queens University! I am spending my second summer as a research trainee working with Drs. Sandra Dumanski and Sofia Ahmed in their lab at the University of Calgary, with the...
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Thalia Field
Dr. Thalia Field is a stroke neurologist and clinician-researcher with a focus on clinical trials. She has a particular interest in process improvement in clinical trials, which includes optimizing strategies for participant recruitment and retention, investigating strategies for efficient use of resources, and selecting outcomes that are of relevance to...
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