- Lou Beaulieu-Laroche
- Billy Haitian He
- Anna Long Qian
- Makoto Usuike
- Daniel Tran
- Steven Li Fraine
- Craig Stanton
- Joseph Kates Rose
- Elie Haddad
- Vivan Tse
- Hossein Taheri
- Isabel Janmey
- Ali Khodadad-Hossaini
- Camilla Yu
- Connor Dietz
- Doulia Hamad
- Xue-Ying Chua
Lou Beaulieu-Laroche
PhD candidate at MIT
Lou took an electrophysiological approach to studying mechanosensitive ion channels. His work centered on the identification and characterization of the channels underlying our ability to sense mechanical pain. Lou is now pursuing a Ph.D in neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Billy Haitian He
MDCM candidate at McGill
Billy studied the mechanisms underlying pain sensitization in osteoarthritis, with particular focus on the contribution of mechanosensitive ion channels (MSCs) which populate pain-sensing neurons. Using electrophysiology, behavioural testing, and various immunological techniques, he investigated the changes in the properties of MSCs as well as the putative mechanisms that bring about these changes in a mouse model of osteoarthritis.
Anna Long Qian
Undergraduate student
Anna is in her last year of the Honours Physiology undergraduate program. She joined the laboratory in July 2015. Using molecular biology and immunostaining techniques, Anna studied the connectivity of parvalbumin-expressing interneurons in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. She focused on the relationship between parvalbumin-expressing neurons and their post-synaptic targets.
Makoto Usuike
Undergraduate student
Makoto is a student in the Microbiology and Immunology program, and she joined the laboratory in September 2015. Makoto worked on the development of a protocol for the optical clearing of spinal cord tissue.