Author: Mike Wong

Assessing intracortical myelin in the living human brain using myelinated cortical thickness.

AUTHORS: Rowley CD, Bazin PL, Tardif CL, Sehmbi M, Hashim E, Zaharieva N, Minuzzi L, Frey BN, Bock NA

SUMMARY: Christopher Rowley

Myelin is typically associated with white matter in the brain,...

AUTHOR: Dr. Kathryn Murphy

As a graduate student in a research focused program the thesis is the ultimate goal.  Even before your first day in grad school everyone knows they will be embarking on the thesis journey. A journey that starts by picking a program and mentor and envisioning a beautif...

AUTHOR: Ritesh Daya and Anthony Nazarov   

Anthony Nazarov was a student in Dr. McKinnon's lab and recently graduated from the MiNDS program with a successful defense and fruitful PhD career. He tells us about his thesis defense: his preparation, his experience and some mighty words of advice.

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: 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...

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 ...

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: Crystal Mahadeo

I have been exposed to a wide variety of opportunities to share neuroscience with the community, including a unique chance to guide a budding scientist through McMaster’s Out of our MiNDS outreach program. Out of our MiNDS is run by MiNDS students and takes basic and cutting e...

AUTHORS: Siu C, Balsor J, Jones D, Murphy K

Summary: Caitlin Siu

Dear Students and Colleagues,

   

Welcome to the first issue of  Brain Waves: the Newsletter of the Neuroscience gradaute program (aka MiNDS).  My name is Ryan Van Lieshout and I am the Associate Director of MiNDS. A number of very talented young people from our program and...