Email: tliu2@research.baycrest.org

I received my bachelor degree in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science from the University of Toronto. Throughout my undergraduate years, I received a wide range of training from computational neuroscience to social cognitive neuroscience. My interdisciplinary experience collectively contributed to my current research interest as a graduate student of the lab, which is to computationally model the semantic and episodic memory networks. I am currently working on a project to map out the temporal evolution of cortical semantic networks during incidental learning.

Email: asamson@research.baycrest.org

My main research focus is to address the multifaceted nature of neurodegenerative diseases, specifically Alzheimer’s disease. For my Master’s I am exploring key factors related to Alzheimer’s disease pathology through analyses of those diagnosed with the disease, those in progressive stages of the disease, and healthy individuals 55 years and older. For my PhD, I plan to expand on my Master’s research and look at the relationship between structural and functional brain connectivity, in the same sample population, in an attempt to better understand Alzheimer’s disease. I am hoping to generate well-established risk profiles that will aid in stratification for clinical research of Alzheimer’s disease and to utilize these outcomes as a platform for further investigation of neurodegenerative diseases using The Virtual Brain.

The aim of my research as an MA student at Simon Fraser University and a member of the McIntosh Lab is to explore the spatial-temporal changes of brain networks that support the process of healthy aging.

I graduated from Western University with a Bachelor of Medical Sciences (Honours) in Microbiology & Immunology and a major in Computer Science. I develop software and manage data for researchers in and outside of the lab. As a proponent of open and FAIR science, I frequently run tutorials on high-performance computing, data management, and open-source scientific software tools.