In the Ludmer Centre, ‘bridge individuals’ are pivotal to advancing transdisciplinary big-data research approaches. These unique individuals bridge or serve as liaisons between diverse neuroscience fields and computer sciences to create the neuroinformatics infrastructure propelling innovative brain research. Dr Lindsay Lewis is one of these rare bridge individuals. She is also an example of how […]
What do conditions such as stress, diabetes, and mental illnesses have in common? The answer, one in which Dr Patricia Pelufo Silveira excels, is the search for a shared origin story. Dr Silveira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University, a researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and a Primary […]
Women researchers remain significantly underrepresented in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering and math. The lack of women across the STEM pipeline—from undergraduate and graduate students to postdocs and tenure-track professors—make it unlikely that gender parity among tenured STEM professors will be achievable in the next decade. In the USA and Canada, mathematics is the exception, […]