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Principle Investigator
Jonathan Britt, PhD
Jonathan Britt started the Britt Lab for Neural Circuits, Motivation, and Reinforcement Learning when he became an Assistant Professor at McGill University in 2014. Earlier in his career, Jon worked as a Research Fellow in the lab of Antonello Bonci at both UCSF (Gallo Center) and the National Institute in Drug Abuse in Baltimore. Jon earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in the lab of Dan McGehee. His introduction to neuroscience research began during his undergraduate studies at Colorado College under the mentorship of Bob Jacobs.
Graduate Students
Christopher Lafferty
Ph.D. Student
Jesse Mendoza
M.Sc. Student
Angela (Kayoung) Yang
M.Sc. Student
Undergraduate Students
Chloe Pronovost-Morgan
PSYC 395 & 498 & PURA Research Projects and then
Med student at McGill
Ashley Jussaume
PSYC 380 Research Project
Chelsea Kalla
COGS 444 Research Project
Camille Bouchard
PSYC 494 Research Project
Sebastian Hunte
COGS 444 Research Project
Shangge Jiang
NSCI 420 Research Project and then
Research Assistant at McGill
Julia Akimoto
PSYC 380 Research Project
Lab Alumni
Karim Bouayad-Gervais
Ph.D. Student (co-supervised with Yogita Chudasama) and then
President of Pillar Science
Debra Bercovici
PSYC 494 Research Project and then
Graduate Student at UBC (Stan Floresco Lab)
Julia Yu
PSYC 380 & 496 Research Projects and then
Graduate Student at UofT (Sheena Josselyn Lab)
Angie (Ye Eun) Lee
Undergraduate Research Assistant and then
Med student at Yonsei University (Korea)
Jane Su
NSCI 420 Research Project and then
Med Student at McMaster University
Sarah Martin
PSYC 450 Research Project and then
Graduate Student at University of Manchester (Forensic Psychology)
Sandy Wong
NSCI 430 Research Project and then
Graduate Student at McGill (Vision Research Lab)
Veronica Le
NSERC USRA Research Project
Jiamin Song
Undergraduate Research Assistant and then
Science Writer at NetEase
Martin Dimitrov
PSYC 396 Research Project
Han Byul Moon
SURA Research Project
Sean J Reed
Ph.D. Student and then
Business Development Liaison at SickKids (Toronto)
Steven (Wen) Zhang
NCSI 420 Research Project and then
Graduate Student at McGill (Jamie Near Lab)
Gabriel Desrosiers-Gregoire
SURA Research Project and then
Graduate Student at McGill (Mallar Chakravarty Lab)
Sze-Yuh (Nina) Wang
COGS 444 Research Project and then Graduate Student at UofT (Yoel Inbar Lab)
Chloe Lau
NSCI 420 Research Project and then
Project Coordinator at Neuroethics Canada (UBC)
Shannon Harrington
COGS 444 Research Project and then
Research Assistant at McGill (Ross Otto Lab)
Sarah London
NSCI 420 Research Project and then
Engineering Student at McGill
Kayla Horowitz
PSYC 496 Research Project
Yasmine Dabbous
COGS 401 Research Project
Dasha Sandra
ARIA Research Project
Sasha Burwell
NSCI 420 Research Project and then
Graduate Student at Duke University (Michael Tadross Lab)
Joyce Quansah
PSYC 395 & ARIA Research Projects and then
Graduate Student at UdeM (Jean Gagnon Lab)
Yang Ge
PSYC 450 Research Project and then
Graduate Student at UBC (Yu Tian Wang Lab)
Louis Huynh
NSCI 420 Research Project and the
Med Student at Queen's University
Rachelle Zipper
PSYC 396 Research Project and then
Med Student at Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Chloe Ahluwalia
PSYC 496 & PURA Research Projects
Michael Cressaty
NSCI 420 Research Project and then
Health Information Specialist at Novus Health
Yu Fei Ma
NSCI 430 Research Project and then
Med Student at McMaster University
Shira Mattuck
PSYC 496 Research Project and then
Behavioral Interventionist at Leap Behavior Consulting
Jessica Chan
COGS 396 Research Project