Welcome to Richard Brown's Lab

Graduate Students

Kyle Roddick
PhD (2012 to present; with Dr. Heather Schellink): Olfactory learning and memory in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.
Funded by Dalhousie University Graduate Scholarship.
MSc (2010 - 2012; with Dr. Heather Schellinck): Evaluation of operant olfactory learning in two mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.
Funded by an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship.
Honours (2010 - 2011; with Dr. Heather Schellinck): The roles of the main and accessory olfactory systems in the maternal behaviour of mice.

William Gendron
PhD (2015 to present): Mechanisms behind weight loss seen in 5xFAD mice model of Alzheimer’s disease.
MSc (2013 - 2015): Longitudinal assessment of metabolism and weight loss in 5xFAD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.
Honours (2012-2013; with Dr. Younis Anini): Alzheimer’s disease and 5xFAD mice: a study of hormonal abnormalities, feeding and metabolism (Leptin, Insulin and Ghrelin).

Jessica Garden
MSc (2021 to present): Using transgenic mice (Nrxn1+/- mouse model of autism spectrum disorder) to study conditioned behaviours and cellular mechanisms of short- and long-term olfactory memory.
Funded by the Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship and the Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine Graduate Studentship for Medical Neuroscience Research.