Lab News & Updates
Recent happenings, achievements, and announcements from our lab
Ryan Huang Receives NSERC Doctoral Award
Congratulations to PhD student Ryan Huang for receiving the prestigious NSERC doctoral award (PGS-D) for 2026–2029, as well as the Faculty of Medicine Graduate Fellowship.
AwardMackey-Glass & CAMBAM Student Awards
Congratulations to Adrian Yehia for receiving the Mackey-Glass Undergraduate Award (2026), and to Yifan Zhao for receiving the CAMBAM Undergraduate Fellowship (2026).
AwardNew Publication in Immunology and Cell Biology
Louis Richez and Dr. Khadra published a new study titled "The Geometry of pMHC-Coated Nanoparticles and T Cell Receptor Clusters Governs the Sensitivity-Specificity Trade-off in T Cell Response: A Modeling Investigation" in Immunology and Cell Biology.
PublicationNew Publication in Journal of Computational Neuroscience
Nils Koch, Yifan Zhao, and Dr. Khadra published a new study titled "Dendritic Interaction of Timescales in Afterdepolarization Potentials and Nonmonotonic Spike-Adding" in the Journal of Computational Neuroscience.
PublicationInvited Talk at Brandeis University
Dr. Khadra delivered an invited seminar titled "Intrinsic Dynamics Under Synaptic Bombardment: Mechanisms of Burst Firing and Spiking Heterogeneity In Vivo" at the Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University, USA.
ConferenceJonas Lehnert and Amin Akhshi Defend PhDs
A big congratulations to Jonas Lehnert and Amin Akhshi for successfully defending their Ph.D. theses! Jonas is joining the University of Ottawa and Amin is joining the University of Calgary for their postdoctoral fellowships.
AwardTrainee Presentations at Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meeting
Lab trainees Nils Koch, Amin Akhshi, and Louis Richez delivered talks on their respective neural excitability and stochastic modeling research at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meetings in Montreal.
ConferenceUndergraduate Summer Research Awards
Congratulations to Yifan Zhao for winning the Mackey-Glass Undergraduate Award, and to Maeve Albert for receiving the Institut des sciences mathématiques Undergraduate Summer Research Award for 2025.
AwardNew Paper in iScience on Electrosensory Coding
In collaboration with the Chacron and Bashivan labs, our latest manuscript "Burst Firing Optimizes Invariant Coding of Natural Communication Signals by Electrosensory Neural Populations" has been published in iScience.
PublicationNature Publication on Ca2+-Permeable AMPA Receptors
Our collaborative work with Dr. Bowie's lab titled "GluA2-Containing AMPA Receptors form a Continuum of Ca2+-Permeable Channels" has been published in Nature.
PublicationAction Potentials Contribution to EEG in PLoS Comp Bio
Niklas Brake and Dr. Khadra published a new paper titled "Contributions of Action Potentials to Scalp EEG: Theory and Biophysical Simulations" in PLoS Computational Biology.
PublicationXinyue Ma Wins Open Science Prize
Congratulations to PhD student Xinyue Ma for receiving the Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) and the Neuro-Irv & Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prize.
AwardDr. Niklas Brake Defends PhD & Wins Postdoc Fellowship
Congratulations to Niklas Brake for defending his Ph.D. thesis! Niklas was also awarded the Canada Brain Star Award and an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2025.
AwardTalk at Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) in Seoul
Dr. Khadra delivered a talk titled "Deciphering the Dynamics of Evoked and Spontaneous Calcium Transients in Oligodendrocytes" at the Annual SMB Meeting in Seoul, South Korea.
ConferenceNSERC Discovery Grant Awarded
Our lab has been awarded a new Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to support our ongoing research in quantitative bioscience.
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