The School of Psychology would like to welcome Professor Melanie Jay Sekeres.

The School of Psychology would like to welcome Professor Melanie Jay Sekeres.

The Sekeres lab is moving to the School of Psychology at uOttawa, and will be recruiting PhD students for Fall 2020. The lab takes a cross-species approach to understanding how the brain creates episodic memories (memory for the ‘what, where and when’ of an event), and how these memories transform over time. Using mouse models and humans, the research lab investigates the mechanisms underlying memory processing in the healthy brain. The study of the networks of brain regions involved in memory formation, reorganization, and storage (systems consolidation), and the underlying molecular mechanisms and plasticity factors that regulate memory stabilization (synaptic consolidation).