Neuroscience

The Neuroscience Collaborative Specialization offers an opportunity for graduate students engaged neuroscience research to enhance their departmental degree program with additional multidisciplinary experience. This unique study combination provides students with the best possible foundation for academic careers in neuroscience and related areas. The Collaborative Specialization in Neuroscience includes participation from core faculty members in the following departments: Animal Biosciences, Biomedical Sciences, Clinical Studies, Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, Integrative Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Pathobiology, Philosophy, Population Medicine and Psychology. Students wishing to pursue a Master's or PhD degree with the designation Neuroscience must enter the Collaborative Specialization in Neuroscience through a participating department.

Administrative Staff

Director and Graduate Program Coordinator
Jasmin Lalonde (3460 Science Complex, Ext. 54706)
jlalon07@uoguelph.ca
Graduate Program Assistant
Laura Faris (4481 Science Complex, Ext. 53815)
cbsmcbgrad@uoguelph.ca
College Representatives
Craig Bailey (OVC)
Jasmin Lalonde (CBS)
Boyer Winters (CSAHS)

Graduate Faculty

This list may include Regular Graduate Faculty, Associated Graduate Faculty and/or Graduate Faculty from other universities.

Naseem Al-Aidroos
B.Sc. Waterloo, MA, PhD Toronto - Associate Professor
Graduate Faculty

Sarah Alderman
BA, PhD Guelph - Assistant Professor
Graduate Faculty

Melanie Alpaugh
B.Sc., M.Sc. Guelph, PhD Toronto - Assistant Professor
Graduate Faculty

Craig D. Bailey
B.Sc., PhD Queen's - Associate Professor
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Andrew J. Bendall
B.Sc. Australian National, PhD Macquarie - Associate Professor
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Leah Bent
B.Sc., M.Sc. Guelph, PhD British Columbia - Professor
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Nicholas J. Bernier
B.Sc. McGill, Diploma Aquaculture Malaspina College, M.Sc. British Columbia, PhD Ottawa - Professor
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Elena Choleris
B.Sc., PhD Parma (Italy) - Professor
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Nuria Daviu
BA, M.Sc., PhD Autonomous University Barcelona - Assistant Professor
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Donald Dedrick
BA, MA Carleton, PhD Toronto - Associate Professor and Chair
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Giannina Descalzi
BA Guelph, M.Sc., PhD Toronto - Assistant Professor
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Mark J. Fenske
B.Sc. Lethbridge, MA, PhD Waterloo - Professor
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Christopher Fiacconi
B.Sc. Western, PhD McMaster - Assistant Professor
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Andreas Heyland
B.Sc., M.Sc. Zurich, PhD Florida - Professor
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Fiona James
B.Sc. Toronto, M.Sc. Western, DVM, D.V.Sc. Guelph, Dipl. ACVIM - Associate Professor
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Nina Jones
B.Sc. Guelph, PhD Toronto - Professor
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Bettina E. Kalisch
B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD Queen's - Associate Professor
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Frederic Laberge
B.Sc., M.Sc. Laval, PhD Manitoba - Associate Professor
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Jasmin Lalonde
BA Ottawa, MA, PhD McGill - Assistant Professor
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Francesco Leri
BA, MA, PhD McGill - Professor
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Ray Lu
B.Sc. Wuhan (China), M.Sc. Beijing Medical, PhD Saskatchewan - Associate Professor
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David W. L. Ma
B.Sc., PhD Alberta - Professor
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Neil J. MacLusky
B.Sc. Leeds, PhD London - Retired Faculty, Biomedical Sciences, University of Guelph
Associated Graduate Faculty

Georgia Mason
BA, PhD Cambridge - Professor
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Daniel V. Meegan
BA SUNY Albany, PhD McMaster - Associate Professor
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Robert T. Mullen
B.Sc., PhD Alberta - Professor
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Jennifer Murray
B.Sc. Nebraska-Kearney, MA, PhD Nebraska-Lincoln - Assistant Professor
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Lee E. Niel
B.Sc. Simon Fraser, PhD British Columbia - Associate Professor
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Samantha Payne
B.Sc., M.Sc. Guelph, PhD Toronto - Assistant Professor
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Melissa Perreault
B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD McMaster - Associate Professor
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Geoffrey A. Power
BKin, M.Sc. Memorial, PhD Western - Associate Professor
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Scott Ryan
B.Sc. Memorial, PhD Ottawa - Associate Professor, University of Calgary
Associated Graduate Faculty

Tarek M. Saleh
B.Sc., PhD Western - Professor and Chair
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Shaun Sanders
B.Sc., PhD British Columbia - Assistant Professor
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Angela Scott
B.Sc. Saskatchewan, PhD British Columbia - Assistant Professor
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Rebecca Shapiro
B.Sc. McGill, PhD Toronto - Associate Professor
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John Z. Srbely
B.Sc. Laurentian, DC Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, PhD Guelph - Associate Professor
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Ian Tobias
B.Sc., PhD Western Ontario - Assistant Professor
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Lana M. Trick
B.Sc. Calgary, MA, PhD Western - Professor
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Lori A. Vallis
B.Sc., MA Ottawa, PhD Waterloo - Professor
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Terry Van Raay
B.Sc. Windsor, M.Sc. Guelph, PhD Utah - Associate Professor
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Boyer D. Winters
BA Dalhousie, PhD Cambridge - Professor
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John L. Zettel
BS Waterloo, M.Sc., PhD Toronto - Associate Professor
Graduate Faculty

Admission Requirements

Students in the collaborative specialization in Neuroscience must meet the admission requirements of the participating department in which they are enrolled. The application process has two stages: first, application to the primary program of interest, identifying interest in the collaborative specialization as a secondary focus. If the student is admitted to the primary program, the second stage is then admission to the collaborative specialization.

Program Requirements

MA/MSc/MBS Requirements

The collaborative specialization in Neuroscience enables students engaged in neuroscience research to combine their departmental degree program with a multidisciplinary specialization in the field of neuroscience.

Students in the MA/MSc/MBS collaborative specialization must complete NEUR*6000 Principles of Neuroscience and a major project/paper or thesis in the field of Neuroscience. Further, student must register for NEUR*6100 Seminar in Neuroscience each term that they are in the collaborative specialization. In NEUR*6100 Seminar in Neuroscience, students and faculty will meet once a month to discuss issues/hear talks/present research in neuroscience.

Requirements of this collaborative specialization may also serve as elective requirements in the student’s home program.

Doctoral Requirements

If a student enters the PhD collaborative specialization in Neuroscience at the doctoral level, students must complete NEUR*6000 Principles of Neuroscience, or show evidence of course equivalence in prior training. Students must be engaged in neuroscience dissertation research. During each term of their program of studies, doctoral students must enroll in NEUR*6100 Seminar in Neuroscience. The seminar will meet monthly. Students must take their qualifying exams within five semesters of entering the program, as required by University graduate policies. One member on the qualifying exam committee must be a core member of the collaborative specialization in Neuroscience outside the student’s home department or a faculty member from another university approved by graduate studies. As well one member of the student’s advisory committee must be a core member of the neuroscience collaborative specialization outside the student’s home department or a faculty member from another university approved by graduate studies.

Requirements of this collaborative specialization may also serve as elective requirements in the student’s home program.

Courses

NEUR*6000 Principles of Neuroscience Unspecified [0.50]

This course is designed to ensure that graduate students with diverse neuroscience backgrounds registered in the collaborative specialization in Neuroscience are exposed to the fundamentals in all areas of neuroscience.

Department(s): Department of Biomedical Sciences

Location(s): Guelph

NEUR*6100 Seminar in Neuroscience Unspecified [0.00]

This course will expose graduate students to some of the major theories, issues and methodologies driving research in neuroscience. Students will learn to critically evaluate presentations by researchers in this field as well as to communicate the results of their own research.

Department(s): Department of Psychology