Summer of 2016

It has been a great summer for the lab. 

• Michelle Tran presented a poster at the conference Human Brain Mapping, and gave a talk at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). She also submitted and defended her Master's thesis "Measuring engagement of the executive control network from 3 months of age".
• Jordynne Ropat began a 5-month visit to Sabine Hunnius's lab the Donder's Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University (Netherlands), funded by a CIHR Michael Smith Foreign Study Scholarship.
• Rhodri Cusack gave talks at McMaster University (Canada), the University of Nottingham (UK), the University of York (UK), the NIHR Hearing Biomedical Research Unit (UK), the Donder's Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Netherlands), the Gordon Research Conference on the Auditory System (USA), Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute (Canada), and the University of Montreal (Canada).
• Patrick Gatutsi joined the lab from Kigali (Rwanda) for a master's in Neuroscience.
• Marcus Lo took a summer internship, to study how the clinical course of preterm babies in the neonatal intensive care affects the development of their brainstem.
• Jody Tomchishen, from the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, took a summer internship to develop ideas on the relationship between infant and adult cognitive neuroscience.
• Mason Kadem and Kristen Paige Turner began Honor's theses.
• Roni Shanoada began as a volunteer in the lab.