Blog by BrainWaves
AUTHOR: Bill Simpson, Ph.D
AUTHOR: Bill Simpson, Ph.D
All things must come to an end and graduate school is no exception. At some point during graduate life, you will have to consider life beyond the bench (or clipboard for you clinical scientists out there). There are many possible paths you can follow, all...
AUTHOR: Dr. Ryan Van Lieshout
We are proud to say that our program is comprised of some of the brightest students and most dedicated faculty on the entire campus.
It is not surprising then that we regularly hear of instances where students or faculty go above and beyond the call...
AUTHOR: Christopher Rowley and Shawna Thompson
This past fall, members of the MiNDS program banded together to form an intramural dodgeball team that was cleverly named The Lobotomizers. Despite the team name, headshots were forbidden in game play, but that didn’t stop The Lobotomizers from instil...
AUTHOR: Jasmine Turna
The holiday season may be over and we’re all back at work, but the Students of MiNDS Association (SOMA) would like to invite everyone to take some time out of their busy schedules and join us for the first get together of 2016.
The Winter Social will be hosted on Thursday Febru...
Author: Elyse Rosa
Jonathan Lai was a PhD student in the MiNDS program working with Dr. Jane Foster. Jonathan defended his thesis in the spring of 2015. While working with Dr. Foster, his PhD work focused on neurodevelopmental outcomes in the Fragile X mouse model. Since graduating from the MiNDS pr...
AUTHOR: Bill Simpson
All things must come to an end and graduate school is no exception. At some point during graduate life, you will have to consider life beyond the bench (or clipboard for you clinical scientists out there). There are many possible paths you can follow, all of them with their ...
AUTHOR: Crystal Mahadeo
Q. What first got you interested in the sciences and specifically in animal biology?
A. I first became interested in animal biology because in Alberta (where I grew up) the environment is very prominent; you have huge mountains that contain animals living in extreme environment...
AUTHOR: Elyse Rosa
This year as a part of the MiNDS Outreach Program also known as “Out of our MiNDS”, a new high school co-op program was launched. The purpose of this initiative was to fill a gap in the current high school curriculum, which has few, if any opportunities for high school students to ...
In this month’s Program Corner, we are introduced to the remainder of this year’s incoming class of MiNDS students. As you will see, they are an exciting group of individuals with varied interests both in and outside of the lab. We hope that you enjoy getting to know them as much as we have!
AUTHOR: Justin Balsor
As proud students of McMaster’s Neuroscience Graduate program, it seems fitting that the current issue of Brainwaves should feature a brief account of this year’s annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. With just under 30,000 attendees, the meeting was held at Chica...