Currently Recruiting
This page was last updated on 2024-12-03.
The IPN office was notified that the following P.I.s may be recruiting IPN graduate students for the 2025-26 academic year. While the following list is created to help you, it is not comprehensive and you should also browse through our to contact any P.I.s whose research interests you.
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| Dr. Alyson Fournier | alyson.fournier [at] mcgill.ca | Research in molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying axon degeneration and regeneration | |
| Dr. Maxime Montembeault | maxime.montembeaul [at] mcgill.ca | /psychiatry/maxime-montembeault |
Our team uses digital cognitive markers and multimodal neuroimaging to investigate linguistic and socio-emotional changes and their brain correlates in aging and neurodegenerative diseases.
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| Dr. Danilo Bzdok | danilo.bzdok [at] mcgill.ca | /neuro/danilo-bzdok-md-phd | Looking for PhD students with skills and interest in programing, quantitative pattern-learning analysis, and brain imaging. |
| Dr. Boris Bernhardt | boris.bernhardt [at] mcgill.ca | Looking for PhD students with skills and interest in programing, network analysis, and neuroimaging. | |
| Dr. Reza Sharif Naeini | reza.sharif [at] mcgill.ca | We are looking for motivated trainees to undertake an ambitious project examining the molecular bases of mechanosensing (touch, pain). The project will involve electrophysiological recordings from human neurons, calcium imaging, and behavioural assays of somatosensation. | |
| Dr. Artur Kania | artur.kania [at] ircm.qc.ca | Development and function of somatosensory circuits, modelling of human neurodevelopmental disorders | |
| Dr. Jonathan Britt | jonathan.britt [at] mcgill.ca | /brittlab/ | Ìý |
| Dr. Alanna Watt | alanna.watt [at] mcgill.ca | We have several exciting projects studying basic cerebellar function and animal models of ataxia. | |
| Dr. Tomoko Ohyama | tomoko.ohyama [at] mcgill.ca | Neural circuit underlying the action selectin, nociception | |
| Dr. Stuart Trenholm | stuart.trenholm [at] mcgill.ca | Programming skills an asset. | |
| Dr. Nancy Braverman | nancy.braverman [at] mcgill.ca |
Recruiting a graduate student to assist in retinal gene therapy project, CNS therapy and clinical natural history study for peroxisome disorders. |
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| Dr. Pia Wintermark | pia.wintermark [at] mcgill.ca | Recruiting motivated PhD and MSc students for research projects related to basic research in neonatal neuroscience and high-resolution neonatal brain imaging research. | |
| Dr. Donald Van Meyel | donald.vanmeyel [at] mcgill.ca | /crn/research/vanmeyel | Research themes in my lab currently focus on molecular and cellular mechanisms controlling differentiation of glial cells during development, dendrite morphogenesis, and movement and bioavailability of ions and neuroactive chemical messengers in the brain. We study how these mechanisms influence motor and sensory behaviours and sleep-wake cycles. |
| Dr. David Stellwagen | david.stellwagen [at] mcgill.ca | /crn/research/stellwagen |
TNF mediated synaptic plasticity in behaviour and disease |
| Dr. Masha Prager-Khoutorsky | masha.prager-khoutorsky [at] mcgill.ca | Ìý | |
| Dr. Arkady Khoutorsky | arkady.khoutorsky [at] mcgill.ca |
To study molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying chronic pain in animal models. |
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| Dr. Arjun Krishnaswamy | arjun.krishnaswamy [at] mcgill.ca | Lab's research is focused on the assembly and function of neural circuits. We study these two general phenomena in the interconnected circuits of the retina, thalamus, cortex. | |
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Dr. Suresh Krishna |
suresh.krishna [at] mcgill.ca | TBD. | |
| Dr. Pablo Rusjan | pablo.rusjan [at] mcgill.ca | Positron Emission Tomography Quantification | |
| Dr. Mahsa Dadar | Brain Imaging in Aging, Cerebrovascular, and Neurodegenerative Disorders | ||
| Dr. Yashar Zeighami | yashar.zeighami [at] mcgill.ca | Our team investigates the brain alterations that occur during the lifespan in health and disease. The primary goal of our research is to further our understanding of healthy brain aging and the underlying mechanisms that cause deviation from this trajectory in neurodegenerative disorders. Creating a comprehensive multi-scale model of structural and functional brain alterations across the lifespan using multimodal brain MRIs Investigating the link between observed MRI changes in post-mortem samples and the underlying cellular alterations, with translational applications for in vivo datasets Identifying the genetic and environmental risk factors that cause deviation from the normative brain-behaviour trajectories, to develop diagnostic and prognostic models. | |
| Dr. Jeremy Van Raamsdonk | jeremy.vanraamsdonk [at] mcgill.ca | Aging, Biological Resilience and Neurodegenerative Disease | |
| Dr. Adil Harroud | /neuro/adil-harroud-md | The genetic determinants of MRI phenotypes in multiple sclerosis (MS). This project will interrogate the genetic determinants of MRI endophenotypes in a unique cohort of thousands of people with MS who underwent whole genome genotyping. The genes identified will be evaluated as potential therapeutic targets. | |
| Dr. Claire-Dominique Walker | claire-dominique.walker [at] mcgill.ca | Effect of early life stress on brain neurodevelopment and circadian organization | |
| Dr. Jean-François Cloutier | jf.cloutier [at] mcgill.ca | neural circuit assembly and function in neurotypical and neuroatypical brains | |
| Dr. Majid Mohajerani | majid.mohajerani [at] mcgill.ca | physiological and computational basis of cognition, with particular focus on memory and memory disorders | |
| Dr. Marie-Hélène Boudrias | mh.boudrias [at] mcgill.ca | /spot/marie-helene-boudrias | The effects of long COVID on the autonomic nervous system |
| Dr. Derek Bowie | derek.bowie [at] mcgill.ca | Neurophysiological mechanisms and treatment of autism and intellectual disability | |
| Dr. Per Jesper Sjöström | jesper.sjostrom [at] mcgill.ca | Neocortical plasticity and connectivity | |
| Dr. Wayne Sossin | wayne.sossin [at] mcgill.ca | Mechanisms for translational regulation in neurons | |
| Dr. Anouk Lamontagne | anouk.lamontagne [at] mcgill.ca | Modulation of brain activation during complex locomotor tasks performed in a virtual environment | |
| Dr. Alain Ptito | alain.ptito [at] mcgill.ca | /neurology-neurosurgery/alain-ptito-phd | traumatic brain injury and concussion diagnosis and prognosis using functional MRI |
| Dr. Delphine Raucher-Chéné | delphine.raucher-chene [at] mcgill.ca | Digital social cognitive assessment for severe mental illness | |
| Dr. David Rudko | david.rudko [at] mcgill.ca | /bbme/david-rudko | Ultra-High Field Brain MRI Methods Development |
| Dr. Corina Nagy | corina.nagy [at] mcgill.ca | Single-cell omics and sex differences in the brain | |
| Dr. Romina Mizrahi | romina.mizrahi [at] mcgill.ca | /romina-mizrahi-cats-lab/ | Endocannabinoid system in psychosis, psychosis risk, depression and suicide |
| Dr. Wei-Hsiang Huang | wei-hsiang.huang [at] mcgill.ca | disease model to dissect molecular and cellular neurobiology of autism. Looking for a Ph.D. student with strong molecular neuroscience or electrophysiology neuroscience background | |
| Dr. Aparna Suvrathan | aparna.suvrathan [at] mcgill.ca | suvrathanlab.org | Cerebellar synaptic heterogeneity and learning |
| Dr. Marc Roig | marc.roigpull [at] mcgill.ca | Exercise to improve sleep in Parkinson's Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial | |
| Dr. Linda Booij | linda.booij [at] mcgill.ca | neurodevelopment of eating disorders | |
| Dr. Jon Sakata | jon.sakata [at] mcgill.ca | Neural basis of motor learning and performance | |
| Dr. Ed Ruthazer | edward.ruthazer [at] mcgill.ca | In vivo imaging of visual system development | |
| Dr. Guillaume Sébir | guillaume.sebire [at] mcgill.ca | Role of maternal immune activation in perinatal brain injuries | |
| Dr. Ana Velly | ana.velly [at] mcgill.ca | /dentistry/ana-miriam-velly |
1) Opioid and cancer, and 2) managment of pain after shoulder arthroscopy-pilot RCT
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| Dr. Yasser Iturria-Medina | yasser.iturriamedina [at] mcgill.ca | Personalized Multilevel Brain Computational Modeling of Neurodegeneration | |
| Dr. Jerome Fortin | jerome.fortin [at] mcgill.ca | /neuro/jerome-fortin-phd | Discovering how brain tumors arise, progress, and could be treated |
| Dr. Nicolas Tritsch | nicolas.tritsch [at] mail.mcgill.ca |
Neuromodulation of brain circuits controlling movement
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| Dr. Gerhard Multhaup | gerhard.multhaup [at] mcgill.ca |
• Understanding the biology of APP, APLPs, Aβ and secretases at the molecular level in health and disease
• Key mechanistic insights regarding the pharmacological and enzymatical modulation of Aβ generation
• Development of anti-amyloid and diagnostic approaches
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| Dr. Madeleine Sharp | madeleine.sharp [at] mcgill.ca | 1) cognitive mechanisms of aberrant decision-making in Parkinson's 2) mapping the cognitive phenotype of Parkinson's disease |
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| Dr. R. Nathan Spreng | nathan.spreng [at] mcgill.ca | Decision-making; multi-modal data integration (cognition, sMRI, fMRI, MEG, iEEG, PET, fluid biomakers) | |
| Dr. Sam Audrain | samantha.audrain [at] mcgill.ca |
fMRI of memory systems in the healthy brain and in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy
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| Dr. Jean-Francois Poulin | j-francois.poulin [at] mcgill.ca | Ìý | |
| Dr. Sarah Woolley | sarah.woolley [at] mcgill.ca | We have projects focused on neuromodulation of auditory learning, recognition, and preference as well as on sensorimotor aspects of flight in zebra finches. | |
| Dr. Marie Brossard-Racine | Ìý | ||
| Dr. Yang Zhou | /neuro/yang-zhou-phd | Genetic engineering in model organisms for biological and translational research of neurodevelopmental disorders | |
| Dr. Katie Lavigne | /psychiatry/katie-lavigne | (1) Layer fMRI & predictive coding in psychosis; (2) Schizophrenia Canadian Neuroimaging Database (SCanD) | |
| Dr. Maiya Geddes | /geddeslab/ | Aging, translational neuroscience, Alzheimer's disease, dementia prevention, motivation, functional MRI
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| Dr. Pouya Bashivan | pouya.bashivan [at] mcgill.ca | models of visual attention | |
| Dr. Paul Masset | /psychology/paul-masset | Distributed computations underlying cognition including Ìýdopamine-based distributed reinforcement learning. High-throughput ephys in rodents performing complex behavioral tasks and computational models/NeuroAI. | |
| Dr. Alexander Barnett | alexander.barnett [at] mcgill.ca | Ìý | |
| Dr. Jerome Fortin | jerome.fortin [at] mcgill.ca | Ìý | Discovering how brain tumors arise, progress, and could be treated |
| Dr. Stephanie Zandee | stephanie.zandee [at] mcgill.ca | /ludmercentre/our-people/principal-investigators/stephanie-zandee | Understanding Multiple Sclerosis lesion pathology at a single cell level |
| Guillaume Sebire, MD, PhD | guillaume.sebire [at] mcgill.ca | Role of placental inflammation in the pathophysiology of neurodevelopmental diseases such as autism and cerebral palsy | |
| Dr. Christine Tardif | christine.tardif [at] mcgill.ca | Mapping brain microstructure and connectivity of individuals with autism spectrum disorders | |
| Dr. Alex Baldwin | alexander.baldwin [at] mcgill.ca | Human visual function in disorders of vision, with application to digital tools and interventions |