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Current Trainees

The $1.65 million six year NSERC CREATE Biological Information Processing (BIP) program ended March 31, 2018, and is no longer funding trainees.

Master's Trainees:

Cecilia Badenhorst
Email: cecilia.badenhorst@uleth.ca
Mentor: Aaron Gruber
Sean Lacoursiere
Email: sean.lacoursiere@uleth.ca
Mentor: Robert Sutherland

Doctoral Trainees:

Navvab Afrashteh
E-mail: navvab.afrashteh@uleth.ca
Mentor: Majid Mohajerani
Aubrey Demchuk
E-mail: aubrey.demchuk@uleth.ca
Mentor: Bruce McNaughton
Saeedeh Hashemniayetorshizi
Email: saeedeh@uleth.ca
Mentors: Aaron Gruber and David Euston
Victorita Ivan
Email: victorita.ivan@uleth.ca
Mentor: Aaron Gruber
Kartik Iyer
Email: kartik.iyer@uleth.ca
Mentor: David Euston
Javad Karimi Abadchi
E-mail: javad.karimiabadchi@uleth.ca
Mentor: Majid Mohajerani
J. Quinn Lee
Email: justin.lee@uleth.ca
Mentors: Robert Sutherland and Robert McDonald
Shweta Soni
Email: shweta.soni@uleth.ca
Mentor: Matthew Tata
Rajat Thapa
E-mail: rajat.thapa@uleth.ca
Mentor: Aaron Gruber

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Area of Study: Decision Making

About Raj Thapa (BSc ’12), Current PhD Student:

Originally from Nepal, Raj Thapa completed a year of undergraduate studies in the U.S. then transferred to the University of Lethbridge to complete his Bachelor of Science in neuroscience.

“The world-renowned neuroscience faculty at the CCBN is what brought me to the U of L, and the department's excellence in research training is what has kept me here for grad studies. The U of L's neuroscience program allowed me to jump right into research. The focus is on learning through independently leading a research project. The program is helping me gather tools in terms of methods, data analysis techniques and creative and critical thinking necessary to pursue the questions I hope to answer someday.”

Postdoctoral Trainees:

Edgar Bermudez Contreras
Email: edgar.bermudez@uleth.ca
Mentor: Bruce McNaughton
Samsoon Inayat
Email: samson.inayat@uleth.ca
Mentors: Majid Mohajerani and Bruce McNaughton
Michael Kyweriga
Email: mkyweriga@gmail.com
Mentors: Majid Mohajerani
Keiko McCreary
Email: keiko.mccreary2@imap.uleth.ca
Mentor: Robert Sutherland

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